Mixed Race Studies

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  • PBS series explores black culture in Latin America

    PBS series explores black culture in Latin America 2011-04-18 Jennifer Kay Associated Press MIAMI—On a street in a seaside city in Brazil, four men describe themselves to Henry Louis Gates Jr. as black. Flabbergasted, the Harvard scholar insists they compare their skin tones with his. In a jumble, their forearms form a mocha spectrum. Oh,…

  • Brazil’s census offers recognition at last to descendants of runaway slaves

    Brazil’s census offers recognition at last to descendants of runaway slaves The Guardian 2010-08-25 Tom Phillip Interviewers plan to reach 190m people, including the long-ignored Kalunga, by motorbike, plane, canoe and donkey When Jorge Moreira de Oliveira’s great-great-great-great-great-grandfather arrived in Brazil in the 18th century he was counted off the slave-ship, branded and dispatched to…

  • Race and Multiraciality in Brazil and the United States: Converging Paths? [Review: Johnson]

    Race and Multiraciality in Brazil and the United States: Converging Paths? [Review: Johnson] American Anthropologist Volume 110, Issue 1 (March 2008) pp. 79–80 ISSN 0002-7294; online ISSN 1548-1433 DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-1433.2008.00013.x Amanda Walker Johnson, Assistant Professor of Anthropology University of Massachusetts, Amherst Race and Multiraciality in Brazil and the United States: Converging Paths? G. Reginald Daniel.…

  • A Geographic Analysis of White-Negro-Indian Racial Mixtures in Eastern United States

    A Geographic Analysis of White-Negro-Indian Racial Mixtures in Eastern United States Annals of the Association of American Geographers Volume 43, Number 2 (June 1953) pages 138-155 Edward T. Price Los Angeles State College A Strange product of the mingling of races which followed the British entry into North America survives in the presence of a…

  • Being and Belonging: Space and Identity in Cape Town

    Being and Belonging: Space and Identity in Cape Town Anthropology and Humanism Volume 28, Issue 1 (June 2003) pages 61–84 DOI: 10.1525/ahu.2003.28.1.61 Shannon M. Jackson, Associate Professor of Anthropology University of Missouri, Kansas City The post-apartheid transition has led to changes in the shape and meaning of urban space in South Africa. Cape Town is…

  • Mixed Blood: An analytical look at methods of classifying race

    Mixed Blood: An analytical look at methods of classifying race Psyhcology Today 1995-11-01 Jefferson M. Fish, Professor Emeritus of Psychology St. John’s University, New York, New York An analytical look at methods of classifying race. Race is an immutable biological given, right? So how come the author’s daughter can change her race just by getting…

  • “Mulata, Hija de Negro y India”: Afro-Indigenous Mulatos in Early Colonial Mexico

    “Mulata, Hija de Negro y India”: Afro-Indigenous Mulatos in Early Colonial Mexico Journal of Social History Volume 44, Number 3 (Spring 2011) pages 889-914 E-ISSN: 1527-1897; Print ISSN: 0022-4529 DOI: 10.1353/jsh.2011.0007 Robert C. Schwaller, Lecturer of History University of North Carolinia, Charlotte Since the fifteenth century, the term “mulato” has been used to describe individuals…

  • Anthropological Studies of Children

    Anthropological Studies of Children Eugenics Review Volume 18, Number 4 (January 1927) pages 294-301 Rachel M. Fleming Some ten years ago, with the guidance and help of Professor Fleure, of the Department of Geography and Anthropology, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, I began to study race type in women, and from the study of divergent-race characteristics…

  • A study of the intelligence of Anglo-Chinese children

    A study of the intelligence of Anglo-Chinese children Eugenics Review Volume 30, Number 2 (July 1938) pages 109-119 P. C. Hu Department of Psychology University College, London I. OBJECT OF THE INQUIRY The present investigation was carried out with the object of determining the general intellectual level of Anglo-Chinese children, and of dscovering what differences,…

  • Mulattoes: The Next Generation?

    I do not believe that any Mulatto race can be maintained beyond the third or fourth generation by Mulattos merely; they must intermarry with the pure races or perish. Robert Knox, The Races of Men, London, 1850.