Category: United States

  • Self-Reported Race and Genetic Admixture The New England Journal of Medicine Number 354, Number 4 (2006-01-26) pages 431-422 DOI: 10.1056/NEJMc052515 Moumita Sinha, M.Stat. Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio Emma K. Larkin, M.H.S. Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio Robert C. Elston, Ph.D. Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio Susan Redline, M.D., M.P.H. Case Western…

  • Comparing Genetic Ancestry and Self-Described Race in African Americans Born in the United States and in Africa Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention Volume 17, Issue 6 (June 2008) pages 1329-1338 DOI: 10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-07-2505 Rona Yaeger Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center Alexa Avila-Bront Department of Medicine College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University Kazeem Abdul Herbert…

  • Lansing has highest percentage of people who identify as multiple-race black Lansing State Journal 2011-11-18 Matthew Miller Gianni Risper has a black mother, a white biological father (as opposed to the father who raised him, his mother’s husband) and a way of describing himself that isn’t found on any Census form: Italian-Caribbean-American. “Race is becoming…

  • The Measurement of Negro “Passing” American Journal of Sociology Volume 52, Number 1 (July, 1946) pages 18-22 John H. Burma Older and popular methods of estimating the number of Negroes who pass over into the white group are no longer to be credited. Considerable misconception exists concerning passing itself, which is more frequently temporary and…

  • Patterns of gene flow between Negroes and whites in the US Journal of Biosocial Science Volume 8, Issue 4 (1976) pages 309-333 DOI: 10.1017/S002193200001083X K. F. Dyer Department of Genetics University of Adelaide, South Australia A review of the pattern and magnitude of negro–white mating in the US is presented from the time of the…

  • This unique three-part novel assumes that, regardless of what Americans learn in school, the Southeast was not a barren wilderness when the English arrived at Jamestown. It was full of Native Americans, other Europeans, and Africans who were there for various reasons.

  • One ‘Speck’ of Imperfection—Invisible blackness and the one-drop rule: An interdisciplinary approach to examining Plessy v. Ferguson and Jane Doe v. State of Louisiana Indiana University 2008 371 pages Publication Number: AAT 3315914 ISBN: 9780549675372 Erica Faye Cooper Submitted to the faculty of the University Graduate School in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the…

  • Race—Social or Biological? International Socialist Review Volume 21, Number 1 (Winter 1960) pages 26-27 David Dreiser Caste, Class & Race, by Oliver Cromwell Cox  Monthly Review Press, New York. 1959. 600 pp. This penetrating and scholarly work originally appeared in 1948 and it is a well-deserved recognition of the author and a happy occasion for…

  • Crossing Lines: Praxis in Mixed Race/Space Studies: Proposal Deadline Crossing Lines: Praxis in Mixed Race/Space Studies 2012-03-16 throught 2012-03-17 University of California, Berkeley Co-Sponsored by the UC Berkeley Center for Race and Gender and Ethnic Studies Department Call for Proposals – Deadline: 2012-01-15 In traditional Ethnic Studies, mixed race scholarship has often been marginalized, misappropriated,…

  • Show me your CDIB: Blood Quantum and Indian Identity among Indian People of Oklahoma American Behavioral Scientist Volume 47, Number 3 (November 2003) pages 267-282 DOI: 10.1177/0002764203256187 James F. Hamill, Emeritus Professor of Anthropology Miami University, Oxford, Ohio Discourse concerning the legitimacy of claims of Indian identity characterize much of the debate in Indian country…