Category: United States

  • Comparative studies of full and mixed blood North Dakota Indians Psychological Monographs Volume 50, Number 5 (1938) pages 116-129 DOI: 10.1037/h0093522 C. W. Telford The early comparative studies of Indian-white mixtures in America uniformly reported superior mental test performances of mixed as compared with full blood Indians. The tests used in these investigations were principally…

  • Test performance of full and mixed-blood North Dakota Indians Journal of Comparative Psychology Volume 14, Number 1 (August 1932) pages 123-145 DOI: 10.1037/h0069966 C. W. Telford 225 Indian pupils scattered through the kindergarten to the sixth grade, inclusive, were given the Goodenough intelligence test. The average IQ of the Indian children was 88, as compared with…

  • Professor Daniel J. Sharfstein to be Featured Guest on Mixed Chicks Chat Mixed Chicks Chat (The only live weekly show about being racially and culturally mixed. Also, founders of the Mixed Roots Film & Literary Festival) Hosted by Fanshen Cox, Heidi W. Durrow and Jennifer Frappier Website: TalkShoe™ (Keywords: Mixed Chicks) Episode: #230 – Professor…

  • Obama’s Racial Identity Is His Call Poynter. 2008-12-16 Tom Huang, Sunday & Enterprise Editor The Dallas Morning News Also Ethics and Diversity Fellow at The Poynter Institute Not long ago, I sat on a journalism panel in which the question of “What are you?” came up… …I thought about the “What are you?” question when…

  • Barack Obama in Hawai’i and Indonesia: The Making of a Global President ABC-CLIO Praeger September 2011 276 pages 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-313-38533-9 Electronic ISBN: 978-0-313-38534-6 Dinesh Sharma, Senior Fellow Institute for International and Cross-Cultural Research St. Francis College, New York Distinguishing itself from the mass of political biographies of Barack Obama,…

  • Bynum: The Long Shadow of the Civil War (2010) The Civil War Monitor: A New Look at America’s Greatest Conflict 2011-10-19 Laura Hepp Bradshaw Carnegie Mellon University The Long Shadow of the Civil War: Southern Dissent and Its Legacies by Victoria E. Bynum. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2010. Cloth, ISBN: 0807833819. “Few…

  • New Photo Essay: (1)ne Drop (1)ne Drop 2011-09-26 Yaba Blay Comments by Steven F. Riley: In keeping with the non-commercial aspect of this site, I have modified the fundraising press release to provide informational content about the book project. There is howerver, a short fundraising request at the end of the video. PHILADELPHIA, PA – Africana Studies scholar Yaba Blay, Ph.D., and award-winning…

  • Revolution, Romanticism, and the Afro-Creole Protest Tradition in Louisiana Lousiana State University Press 2004-10-30 344 pages 6.00 x 9.00 inches / 8 halftones, 3 maps ISBN-10: 0807130265; ISBN-13: 978-0807130261 Caryn Cossé Bell, Professor of History University of Massachusetts, Lowell Jules and Frances Landry Award With the Federal occupation of New Orleans in 1862, Afro-Creole leaders…

  • Mixed But Not Divided: Multi-ethnic populations redefine racial lines City on a Hill Press: A Student-Run Newspaper University of California, Santa Cruz 2011-10-20 Chelsea Hawkins When I was six or seven years old, I would spend my Saturday afternoons at the local Korean Baptist Church. A pink textbook opened in front of me, oversized hangul…

  • Tracing Trails of Blood on Ice: Commemorating “The Great Escape” in 1861-62 of Indians and Blacks into Kansas Negro History Bulletin Jaunary-December 2001 Willard B. Johnson My heart raced and emotions surged before I consciously grasped the meaning of what I was reading in that footnote. Reading all the footnotes had become routine for me,…