Mixed Race Studies

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  • The pitfalls of tracing your ancestry

    The pitfalls of tracing your ancestry Nature News Nature Magazine 2008-11-13 Brendan Maher Charmaine Royal of the Duke Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy explains the limitations of genetic testing. Ancestry testing is genetics’ most direct and sometimes tempestuous interaction with personal identity. An estimated half-a-million Americans will purchase genetic tests from companies this year…

  • Transcultural Transformation: African American and Native American Relations

    Transcultural Transformation: African American and Native American Relations University of Nebraska November 2009 139 pages Barbara S. Tracy A DISSERTATION Presented to the Faculty of The Graduate College at the University of Nebraska In Partial Fulfillment of Requirements For the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy The intersected lives of African Americans and Native Americans result…

  • Blonde Beauties and Black Booties: Racial Hierarchies in Brazil

    Blonde Beauties and Black Booties: Racial Hierarchies in Brazil Ms. Magazine Blog 2010-06-11 Erica Williams, Assistant Professor of Anthropology Spelman College, Atlanta, Georgia Model scouts strategically target towns in Southern Brazil to “find the right genetic cocktail of German and Italian ancestry, perhaps with some Russian or other Slavic blood thrown in,” explains Alexei Barrionuevo…

  • The tan from Ipanema: Freyre, Morenidade, and the cult of the body in Rio De Janeiro

    The tan from Ipanema: Freyre, Morenidade, and the cult of the body in Rio De Janeiro Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies October 2009 Natasha Pravaz, Associate Professor of Art Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada She says she has brown skin, and a feverish body And inside the chest, love of Brazil…

  • Q&A with Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. About Black Experience in Latin America

    Q&A with Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. About Black Experience in Latin America Black in Latin America Public Broadcasting Service April 2011 Gates discusses his new project in this interview from the PBS site. First, could you talk a little bit about this project? I conceived of this as a trilogy of documentary series that…

  • The Effects of Race Intermingling

    Defining race in this sense of elementary species we have to consider our problem: What are the results of race intermingling, or miscegenation?

  • Ambiguities of Race: Science on the Reproductive Frontier of Australia and the Pacific Between the Wars

    Ambiguities of Race: Science on the Reproductive Frontier of Australia and the Pacific Between the Wars Australian Historical Studies Volume 40, Issue 2, 2009 pages 143-160 DOI: 10.1080/10314610902849302 Warwick Anderson, Professor of History University of Sydney The attitudes of Australian biologists, anthropologists, and historians toward race mixing in the early-twentieth century should be viewed in…

  • Children of Colonialism: Anglo-Indians in a Postcolonial World

    Children of Colonialism: Anglo-Indians in a Postcolonial World Berg Publishers (an imprint of Macmillan) October 2001 272 pages 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-85973-531-2, ISBN10: 1-85973-531-2 Paperback ISBN: 978-1-85973-632-6, ISBN10: 1-85973-632-7 Lionel Caplan, Emeritus Professor and Professorial Research Associate School of Oriental and African Studies University of London Among the legacies of…

  • The Racial Basis of Civilization: A Critique of the Nordic Doctrine

    The pernicious propaganda relating to the Nordic doctrine before, during, and since the war is the excuse for this book. From the closing years of the last century to the outbreak of the Great War there was in Germany a rising tide of adulation of the blond dolichocephal as the embodiment of all that was…

  • Craniometric Study of the Cape Coloured Population

    Craniometric Study of the Cape Coloured Population Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa Volume 33, Issue 1 (1951) pages 29-51 DOI: 10.1080/00359195109519876 J. A. Keena Department of Anatomy University of Cape Town (With Plate XI and three Text-figures.) (Read November 16, 1949.) The Cape Coloured people inhabit Cape Town, the Cape Peninsula and…