Category: Anthropology

  • We Know Who We Are: Metis Identity in a Montana Community University of Oklahoma Press 2006 304 pages 6″ x 9″ Illustrations: 8 b&w illus., 5 tables Hardcover ISBN: 9780806137056 Martha Harroun Foster, Associate Professor of History Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro They know who they are. Of predominantly Chippewa, Cree, French, and Scottish descent,…

  • The Rise and Decline of Hybrid (Metis) Societies on the Frontier of Western Canada and Southern Africa The Canadian Journal of Native Studies Volume 3, Number 1 (1983) (Special Issue on the Metis) ISSN  0715-3244 Alvin Kienetz A comparison of the development of the Metis in Canada and similar peoples in Southern Africa reveals some…

  • Nowhere People Penguin Books Australia January 2005 300 pages Paperback ISBN-13:9780143001911 Henry Reynolds, Emeritus Associate Professor of History and Politics James Cook University, Australia ‘That’s how at six at night on 11 May 1928 I stopped being a Yanyuwa child and became a nowhere person… Motherless, cultureless and stuck in a government institution because my…

  • Thoroughly Modern Mulatta: Rethinking “Old World” Stereotypes in a “New World” Setting Biography Volume 28, Number 1 (Winter 2005) pages 104-116 E-ISSN: 1529-1456, Print ISSN: 0162-4962 DOI: 10.1353/bio.2005.0034 Maureen Perkins, Associate Professor of Sociology Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia This paper examines the role of racial stereotypes in the life narratives of several women of…

  • The “Melting Pot” A Myth The Journal of Heridity Volume 8, Number 3 (March 1917) pages 99-105 Study of Members of Oldest American Families Shows that the Type is Still Very Diverse—No Amalgamation Going on to Produce a Strictly American Sub-Type—Characteristics of the Old American Stock America as “The Melting Pot” of peoples is a…

  • The Mulatto Problem The Journal of Heredity Volume 16, Number 8 (August 1925) pages 281-286 Ernest Dodge Washington, D. C. The numerous races and subraces of mankind could hardly have maintained their distinct existence to so late a date in history save for the geographical barrier generally found between different stocks. The only other bulwarks against…

  • The Chinese in the Caribbean [Book Reveiw] Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal Volume 3, Issue 1 (Spring 2005) 8 paragraphs ISSN 1547-7150 Kathryn Morris Andrew R. Wilson, Editor. The Chinese in the Caribbean. Princeton: Markus Wiener, 2004, xxiii+230 pp. The Hakka are a migratory people. We move outwards on the tides of history. Most of…

  • Transgressing Boundaries: A History of the Mixed Descent Families of Maitapapa, Taieri, 1830-1940 University of Canterbury, New Zealand 2004 393 pages Angela Wanhalla, Lecturer in History University of Otago, New Zealand A thesis submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in History at the University of Canterbury This thesis…

  • American Triracial Isolates: Their Status and Pertinence to Genetic Research Eugenics Quarterly Volume 4, Issue 4 (December 1957) pages 187-196 (Curteousy of The Melungeon Heritage Assoication) Calvin L. Beale (1923-2008) United States Department of Agriculture In the 1950 Census of Population, 50,000 American Indians are listed as living in states east of the Mississippi River.…

  • Telling Our Own Stories: Lumbee History and the Federal Acknowledgment Process The American Indian Quarterly Volume 33, Number 4, Fall 2009 pages 499-522 E-ISSN: 1534-1828, Print ISSN: 0095-182X Malinda Maynor Lowery, Assistant Professor of History University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Being part of and writing about the Lumbee community means that history always emerges…