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  • Germany’s ‘Brown Babies’: The Difficult Identities of Post-War Black Children of GIs

    For many of the now-adult children of white German women and African-American GIs, adopted by families in the United States after World War II, the search for the truth has been difficult. Online communities are helping.

  • The Cosmic Race in Texas: Racial Fusion, White Supremacy, and Civil Rights Politics

    The Cosmic Race in Texas: Racial Fusion, White Supremacy, and Civil Rights Politics The Journal of American History Volume 98, Issue 2 (September 2011) pages 404-419 DOI: 10.1093/jahist/jar338 Benjamin H. Johnson, Associate Professor of Global Studies and History University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee In the early twentieth century, a number of Latin American intellectuals embraced racial fusion…

  • The “Common Sense” of Race

    The “Common Sense” of Race Southern California Law Review Volume 83, Number 3 (March 2010) pages 441-452 Neil Gotanda, Professor of Law Western State University College of Law, Fullerton California In What Blood Won’t Tell: A History of Race on Trial in America, Ariela J. Gross provides a compelling and nuanced account of race in…

  • Race in North America: Origin and Evolution of a Worldview (Fourth Edition)

    Race in North America: Origin and Evolution of a Worldview (Fourth Edition) Westview Press July 2011 400 pages Trade paperback ISBN: 9780813345543 Audrey Smedley, Professor Emerita of Anthropology and African American Studies Virginia Commonwealth University Brian D. Smedley, Vice President and Director Health Policy Institute Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies In a sweeping…

  • The Economics of Identity and the Endogeneity of Race

    The Economics of Identity and the Endogeneity of Race National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper 9962 September 2003 Howard Bodenhorn, Professor of Economics Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina Christopher S. Ruebeck, Associate Professor of Economics Lafayette University, Easton, Pennsylvania Economic and social theorists have modeled race and ethnicity as a form of personal identity…

  • Colourism and African-American Wealth: Evidence from the Nineteenth-Century South

    Colourism and African-American Wealth: Evidence from the Nineteenth-Century South Journal of Population Economics Volume 20, Number 3 (July 2007) pages 599-620 DOI: 10.1007/s00148-006-0111-x Howard Bodenhorn, Professor of Economics Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina Christopher S. Ruebeck, Associate Professor of Economics Lafayette University, Easton, Pennsylvania Black is not always black. Subtle distinctions in skin tone translate…

  • Acting White or Acting Black: Mixed-Race Adolescents’ Identity and Behavior

    Acting White or Acting Black: Mixed-Race Adolescents’ Identity and Behavior The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy Volume 9, Issue 1 (2009) 44 pages DOI: 10.2202/1935-1682.1688 Christopher S. Ruebeck, Associate Professor of Economics Lafayette College, Easton, Pennsylvania Susan L. Averett, Charles A. Dana Professor of Economics Lafayette College, Easton, Pennsylvania Howard N. Bodenhorn, Professor…

  • Race Mixture in Hawaii

    Race Mixture in Hawaii Journal of Heredity Volume 10, Issue 1 (1919) pages 41-47 Vaughan MacCaughey College of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii THE CHINESE The   Hawaiian Islands   arc remarkable for the diversity of  races represented and for the varied conjugal race-mingling which has taken place in this tiny island world during the past hundred and fifty…

  • What Are You? Mixed-Heritage Brooklyn

    What Are You? Mixed-Heritage Brooklyn Brooklyn Historical Society 128 Pierrepont Street Brooklyn, New York 2011-09-26, 19:00 EDT (Local Time) All events are held at BHS and are free with museum admission ($6 adults, $4 students/teachers/seniors, free for children under 12) unless otherwise noted. Admission is always free for BHS members. Participate in this discussion at…

  • Race, Blood, and What the Alligator Knows: A Review of What Blood Won’t Tell

    Race, Blood, and What the Alligator Knows: A Review of What Blood Won’t Tell Southern California Law Review Volume 83, Number 3 (March 2010) pages 425-440 Jason A. Gillmer, Associate Professor of Law Texas Wesleyan School of Law From the opening pages of Ariela J. Gross’s What Blood Won’t Tell: A History of Race on…