Category: Anthropology

  • Circe Sturm takes a bold and original approach to one of the most highly charged and important issues in the United States today: race and national identity. Focusing on the Oklahoma Cherokee, she examines how Cherokee identity is socially and politically constructed, and how that process is embedded in ideas of blood, color, and race.

  • The Racially-Mixed People of the Ramapos: Undoing the Jackson White Legends American Anthropologist Volume 74, Number 5 (October 1972) pages 1276-1285 DOI: 10.1525/aa.1972.74.5.02a00190 Daniel Collins North Carolina State University A review of the literature fails to validate the Jackson White legends which traditionally have accounted for the presence of a racially mixed collectivity in the…

  • One of the most remarkable results of the arrival of Europeans in the New World may often be taken for granted: the emergence of the mestizo component in Latin American societies. The racial mixing that occurred in the Hispanic New World is the subject of this important study, which draws on a wide variety of…

  • Variability in Race Hybrids American Anthropologist Volume 40, Issue 4 (October-December 1938) pages 680–697 DOI: 10.1525/aa.1938.40.4.02a00090 Wilson D. Wallis In his revised edition of The Mind of Primitive Man, Professor Boas warns against assuming “on the basis of a low variability that a type is pure, for we know that some mixed types are remarkably…

  • Deconstructing Jaco: Genetic Heritage of an Afrikaner Annals of Human Genetics Volume 71, Issue 5 (September 2007) pages 674–688 DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-1809.2007.00363.x J. M. Greeff, Professor of Genetics University of Pretoria It is often assumed that Afrikaners stem from a small number of Dutch immigrants. As a result they should be genetically homogeneous, show founder effects…

  • Pure mixed blood: The multiple identities of Amerasians in South Korea Indiana University February 2007 256 pages Publication Number: AAT 3253643 Sue-Je Lee Gage, Assistant Professor of Anthropology Ithaca University Submitted to the faculty of the University Graduate School in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree Doctor of Philosophy in the Department of …

  • Biracialism in American Society: A Comparative View American Anthropologist Volume 57, Issue 6 (December 1955) pages 1253–1263 DOI: 10.1525/aa.1955.57.6.02a00150 Ruth Landes Our culture exercises certain values forcefully through our interracial arrangements, principally Negro and white. Comparison with other white-governed societies receiving Negroes reveals the uniqueness in American developments, above all in the operations of Negro…

  • Loudoun Square: A Community Survey-I (An Aspect of Race Relations in English Society) The Sociological Review Volume a34, Issue 1-2 (January 1942) pages 12–33 DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-954X.1942.tb02744.x K. L. Little Recent research in North America has brought more clearly to light certain facets of urban and contemporary social life, more particularly in the shape of the…

  • Race and Genomics. Old Wine in New Bottles? Documents from a Transdisciplinary Discussion NTM Zeitschrift für Geschichte der Wissenschaften, Technik und Medizin Volume 16, Number 3 (August 2008) pages 363-386 DOI 10.1007/S00048-008-0301-6 Staffan Müller-Wille ESRC Centre for Genomics in Society University of Exeter Hans-Jörg Rheinberger Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte Berlin, Germany From July 25 to 29,…

  • Studied in race crossing VI. The Indian remnants in Eastern Cuba Genetica Volume 27, Number 1 (1954) pages 65-96 DOI: 10.1007/BF01664155 R. Ruggles Gates Department of Anthropology Harvard University A preliminary account was given at the 30th International Americanist Congress, Cambridge, England, August, 1952. Received for publication July 27, 1953 This paper is in one…