Mixed Race Studies

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  • The Spectacle of the Races: Scientists, Institutions, and the Race Question in Brazil, 1870-1930

    The Spectacle of the Races: Scientists, Institutions, and the Race Question in Brazil, 1870-1930 Hill and Wang (an imprint of MacMillan) September 1999 224 pages 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches ISBN: 978-0-8090-8789-1, ISBN10: 0-8090-8789-8 Lilia Moritz Schwarcz, Professor of Sociology University of São Paulo, Brazil Translated by Leland Guyer, Professor of Hispanic Studies Macalester…

  • Gender Differences in Ancestral Contribution and Admixture in Venezuelan Populations

    Gender Differences in Ancestral Contribution and Admixture in Venezuelan Populations Human Biology Volume 83, Number 3 (June 2011) pages 345-361 E-ISSN: 1534-6617 Print ISSN: 0018-7143 D. Castro De Guerra Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas C. Figuera Perez Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas M. H. Izaguirre Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas E. Arroyo Barahona Universidad Central…

  • How medicine is advancing beyond race

    How medicine is advancing beyond race CNN.com 2011-07-08 Elizabeth Landau, CNN.com Health Writer/Producer (CNN)—No matter what race you consider yourself to be, you have a unique genetic makeup. That’s why, as technology improves and researchers explore new implications of the human genome, medicine is going to become more individually tailored in a model called personalized…

  • The New Face of America: How the Emerging Multiracial, Multiethnic Majority is Changing the United States

    The New Face of America: How the Emerging Multiracial, Multiethnic Majority is Changing the United States Praeger Publishers May 2013 195 pages 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-313-38569-8 eBook ISBN: 978-0-313-38570-4 Eric J. Bailey, Professor of Anthropology and Public Health East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina This unique and important book investigates what…

  • Virginia’s Attempt to Adjust the Color Problem

    Virginia’s Attempt to Adjust the Color Problem The American Journal of Public Health Volume 15, Number 2 (1925) pages 111-115 W. A. Plecker, M.D., Fellow A.P.H.A. State Registrar of Vital Statistics, Richmond, Virginia Read at the joint session of the Public Health Administration and Vital Statistics Sections of the American Public Health Association at the…

  • A Health Survey of the Seminole Indians

    A Health Survey of the Seminole Indians Yale Journal Biology and Medicine Volume 6, Number 2 (December 1933) pages 155–177 H. Hamlin Among the numerous tribes of Indians living in Oklahoma the Seminoles offer some interesting phenomena for study which may contribute information on the subject of race mixture and its relationship to environment and…

  • The Mixing of Races and Social Decay

    The Mixing of Races and Social Decay Eugenics Review Volume 41, Number 1 (April 1949) pages 11–16 The Right Rev. E. W. Barnes, Sc.D., F.R.S. (1874-1953) Biship of Birmingham, England I have chosen to address you on a subject of great importance. With regard to it strong differences of opinion exist. As we consider various…

  • Sterility Among Hybrids

    Turning now to human beings I would begin by stating that the mulatto is not so fertile as the pure black or pure white types. Statistics show that where the coloured population of the United States has the largest number of mulattoes, the birth rate is much lower than where the coloured population is pure…

  • From the Curse of Ham to the Curse of Nature

    From the Curse of Ham to the Curse of Nature The British Journal for the History of Science Volume 40, Issue 3 (2007) pages 367-388 DOI: 10.1017/S0007087407009788 Robert Kenny, ARC Research Fellow The Australian Centre, School of Historical Studies La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia This paper examines the debate engendered in ethnological and anthropological circles…

  • Reconceptualizing the Measurement of Multiracial Status for Health Research in the United States

    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…