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  • On the Phenomena of Hybridity in the Genus Homo

    On the Phenomena of Hybridity in the Genus Homo Published for the Anthropological Society, by Longman, Green, Longman, & Roberts (London) 1864 144 pages Scan Date/Time: 2007-12-04 21:43:57 Dr. Paul Broca 1824-1880, Secretary General Anthropological Society of Paris (Also Honorary Fellow, Anthropological Society of London) Edited by C. Carter Blake, F.G.S., F.A.S.L, Honorary Secretary, Antrhopological…

  • The Melungeons: A Mixed-Blood Strain of the Southern Appalachians

    The Melungeons: A Mixed-Blood Strain of the Southern Appalachians Geographical Review Volume 41, Number 2 (April, 1951) pages 256-271 Edward T. Price, Professor Emeritus of Geography University of Oregon In the native vocabulary of East Tennessee and adjacent parts of neighboring states the word “Melungeon” is widely used. To some people it is only a…

  • Reconstructing Racial Identity and the African Past in the Dominican Republic

    Reconstructing Racial Identity and the African Past in the Dominican Republic University Press of Florida 2009-07-05 176 pages 6 x 9 Cloth: ISBN 13: 978-0-8130-3374-7, ISBN 10: 0-8130-3374-8 Paper: ISBN 13: 978-0-8130-3675-5, ISBN 10: 0-8130-3675-5 Kimberly Eison Simmons, Associate Professor Anthropology & African American Studies University of South Carolina In Latin America and the Caribbean,…

  • Navigating the Racial Terrain: Blackness and Mixedness in the United States and the Dominican Republic

    In this article, I draw on the experiences of students who participated in the Council on International Educational Exchange (CIEE) Program in Spanish Language and Caribbean Studies, in Santiago, Dominican Republic, from 2000 to 2004, to situate the seemingly conflicting racial projects of the Dominican Republic and the United States.

  • Black, White, Light, and Bright: A Narrative of Creole Color

    Black, White, Light, and Bright: A Narrative of Creole Color Past Narratives/Narratives Past Graduate Conference Stanford University, Stanford, California 2001-02-16 through 2001-02-18 20 pages Christopher N. Matthews, Associate Professor of Anthropology Hofstra University Much of the world of life is made real through the symbolic application of color, shade, hue, and other features of visual…

  • The Mestizos of South Carolina

    The Mestizos of South Carolina The American Journal of Sociology Volume 51, Number 1 (July 1945) pages 34-41 Brewton Berry There are several communities of white-Indian-Negro hybrids in South Carolina, the members of which do not fit into the biracial caste system upon which the state’s whole social structure is built. Similar groups are found…

  • The Guineas of West Virginia

    The Guineas of West Virginia Ohio State University 1952 139 pages John P. Burnell, Jr. A Thesis Presented in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirments for the Degree Master of Arts. Table of Contents Introduction Methodology Geographical and Social Setting History and Origin Who Is A Guinea? Social Participation Attitudes and Beliefs Summary and Conclusions Bibliography…

  • The Creolisation of London Kinship: Mixed African-Caribbean and White British Extended Families, 1950-2003

    The Creolisation of London Kinship: Mixed African-Caribbean and White British Extended Families, 1950-2003 Amsterdam University Press November 2010 282 pages Paperback ISBN: 978 90 8964 235 6 Elaine Bauer, Fellow at the Young Foundation; Associate Fellow at the Institute for the Study of the Americas, University of London In the last 50 years, the United…

  • Termination’s Legacy: The Discarded Indians of Utah

    Termination’s Legacy: The Discarded Indians of Utah University of Nebraska Press 2002 311 pages Illus., maps Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-8032-3201-3; Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8032-2251-9 R. Warren Metcalf, Associate Professor of United States History University of Oklahoma Termination’s Legacy describes how the federal policy of termination irrevocably affected the lives of a group of mixed-blood Ute Indians who…

  • Some anthropological characteristics of hybrid populations

    Some anthropological characteristics of hybrid populations The Eugenics Review Volume 30, Number 1 (April 1938) pages 21-31 J. C. Trevor, Leonard Darwin Research Fellow It should be explained that “hybrid” is used here in its restricted zoological sense, viz. as relating to intraspecific rather than to interspecific crosses. The adjective “mixed,” though convenient, can be…