Category: United States

  • Impurely Raced // Purely Erased: Toward a Rhetorical Theory of (Bi)Racial Passing University of Southern California May 2009 348 pages Marcia Alesan Dawkins, Visiting Scholar Brown University Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (COMMUNICATION) This dissertation…

  • Black or White? The New York Times 2011-05-14 Daniel J. Sharfstein, Professor of Law Vanderbilt University Daniel J. Sharfstein is the author of “The Invisible Line: Three American Families and the Secret Journey from Black to White.” In February 1861, just weeks after Louisiana seceded from the Union, Randall Lee Gibson enlisted as a private…

  • Hawaii is older, more racially mixed, census shows Honolulu Star Advertiser 2011-05-19 Michael Tsai According to the U.S. Census Bureau’s latest demographic profile of the state, Hawaii is looking a little older, a tad whiter, perhaps a bit lonelier. The bureau is scheduled to release today detailed demographic information collected last year in Hawaii and…

  • Reconceptualizing the Measurement of Multiracial Status for Health Research in the United States Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race Volume 8, Issue 1 (2011) (Special Issue: Racial Inequality and Health) pages 25-36 DOI: 10.1017/S1742058X11000038 Meghan Woo, Senior Analyst Abt Associates Inc. S. Bryn Austina, Director of Fellowship Research Training in the Division of…

  • The campaign for racial purity and the erosion of paternalism in Virginia, 1922-1930: “nominally white, biologically mixed, and legally Negro”. The Journal of Southern History Volume 68, Number 1 (February 2002) pages 65-106 J. Douglas Smith In September 1922 John Powell, a Richmond native and world-renowned pianist and composer, and Earnest Sevier Cox, a self-proclaimed…

  • Mildred Loving The Economist 2008-05-15 Mildred Loving, law-changer, died on May 2nd, aged 68 The loved each other. That must have been why they decided to get their marriage certificate framed and to hang it up in the bedroom of their house. There was little else in the bedroom, save the bed. Certainly nothing worth…

  • Loving Indian Style: Maintaining Racial Caste and Tribal Sovereignty Through Sexual Assimilation Wisconsin Law Review Volume 2007, Number 2 (2007-01-12) pages 410-461 Carla D. Pratt, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Educational Equity; Nancy J. LaMont Faculty Scholar and Professor of Law Pennsylvania State University I. Introduction When the United States Supreme Court struck down…

  • ‘The offspring of infidelity’: Polygenesis and the defense of slavery Emory University 2008 506 pages Publication Number: AAT 3332327 ISBN: 9780549849544 Christopher Luse, Instructional Assistant Professor of History University of Mississippi This dissertation examines an internal debate within the antebellum South over the nature of slavery and race. Focusing on the printed materials of the…

  • Negro History, Part X: Miscegenation in America Ebony Magazine October 1962 pages 94-104 (Digitized by Google) Lerone Bennett, Jr., Executive Editor The material in this chapter on miscegenation during the slavery period is based largely on James Hugo Johnston’s doctorial dissertation at the University of Chicago, Race Relations in Virginia and Miscegenation in the South,…

  • Toward a Racial Abyss: Eugenics, Wickliffe Draper, and the Origins of the Pioneer Fund Journal of History of the Behavioral Sciences Volume 38, Issue 3, (Summer 2002) pages 259–283 DOI: 10:1002/jhbs.10063 Michael G. Kenny, Professor of Sociology and Anthropology Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia The Pioneer Fund was created in 1937 “to conduct or…