Category: Anthropology

  • Racial mixture in Great Britain: some anthropological characteristics of the Anglo-negroid cross (A Preliminary Report) Eugenics Review Volume 33, Number 4 (January 1942) pages 112-120 K. L. Little The Duckworth Laboratory University Museum of Ethnology, Cambridge With the exception of a large number of family studies secured by Miss R. M. Fleming, little anthropological attention…

  • Africa’s Latin Quarter The Walrus July 2008 (Escape: Summer 2008) Stephen Henighan Despite bleak poverty, Mozambique’s multi-ethnic literary culture thrives In downtown Maputo, the monument to the origins of apartheid is just off Karl Marx Street. Maputo, with its manageable proportions, dreamy views over Delagoa Bay, and cosmopolitan restaurant scene, is one of Africa’s most…

  • For the first time, blacks outnumber whites in Brazil Miami Herald 2011-05-24 Taylor Barnes, Special to the Miami Herald Brazilians are no longer reluctant to admit being black or ‘pardo,’ experts said. RIO DE JANEIRO—In the past decade, famously mixed-race Brazilians either became prouder of their African roots, savvier with public policies benefiting people of…

  • Walking in Two Worlds: Mixed-Blood Indian Women Seeking Their Path Caxton Press 2006 264 pages 6 x 9 Paper ISBN: 0-87004-450-8 Nancy M. Peterson Nancy M. Peterson tells the stories of mixed-blood women who, steeped in the tradition of their Indian mothers but forced into the world of their white fathers, fought to find their…

  • Profit, Power, & Privilege: The Racial Politics of Ancestry   American Anthropological Association Meetings November 18, 2000 San Francisco, California Lee D. Baker, Professor of Cultural Anthropology and African and African American Studies Duke University In March of this year each of you received your decennial census, and you were confronted, once again, by those…

  • The Afro-Mexican presence in Guadalajara at the dawn of independence Purdue University December 2010 85 pages Publication Number: AAT 1490649 ISBN: 9781124557854 Beau D. J. Gaitors A Thesis Submitted to the Faculty of Purdue University by Beau D. J. Gaitors In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts Scholars often…

  • From the Curse of Ham to the Curse of Nature The British Journal for the History of Science Volume 40, Issue 3 (2007) pages 367-388 DOI: 10.1017/S0007087407009788 Robert Kenny, ARC Research Fellow The Australian Centre, School of Historical Studies La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia This paper examines the debate engendered in ethnological and anthropological circles…

  • Splitting the Difference: Exploring the Experiences of Identity and Community Among Biracial and Bisexual People in Nova Scotia Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia April 2011 82 pages Samantha Loppie Submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts The term ‘bicultural’ has been gaining acknowledgment in sociological and psycho-social research…

  • Toward a Racial Abyss: Eugenics, Wickliffe Draper, and the Origins of the Pioneer Fund Journal of History of the Behavioral Sciences Volume 38, Issue 3, (Summer 2002) pages 259–283 DOI: 10:1002/jhbs.10063 Michael G. Kenny, Professor of Sociology and Anthropology Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia The Pioneer Fund was created in 1937 “to conduct or…

  • Between Race and Nation: The Plains Metis and the Canada-United States Border University of Wisconsin, Madison May 2009 419 pages Publication Number: AAT 3384469 ISBN: 9781109476347 Michel Hogue, Assistant Professor of History Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada Submitted to the Graduate School of the University of Wisconsin-Madison in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the…