Mixed Race Studies

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  • Without Impediment: Crossing Racial Boundaries in Colonial Mexico

    Without Impediment: Crossing Racial Boundaries in Colonial Mexico The Americas Volume 67, Number 4 (April 2011) E-ISSN: 1533-6247; Print ISSN: 0003-1615 Jake Federick, Assistant Professor of History Lawrence University, Appleton, Wisconsin On April 18, 1773, in the town of Teziutlán in the eastern mountains of Mexico, Captain don Raphael Padres participated in the baptism of…

  • Blacks in Mexico: A Forgotten Minority

    Blacks in Mexico: A Forgotten Minority Time Magazine 2009-09-15 Alexis Okeowo The first town of freed African slaves in the Americas is not exactly where you would expect to find it—and it isn’t exactly what you’d expect to find either. First, it’s not in the United States. Yanga, on Mexico’s Gulf Coast, is a sleepy…

  • Mixed Blood: An analytical look at methods of classifying race

    Mixed Blood: An analytical look at methods of classifying race Psyhcology Today 1995-11-01 Jefferson M. Fish, Professor Emeritus of Psychology St. John’s University, New York, New York An analytical look at methods of classifying race. Race is an immutable biological given, right? So how come the author’s daughter can change her race just by getting…

  • “Mulata, Hija de Negro y India”: Afro-Indigenous Mulatos in Early Colonial Mexico

    “Mulata, Hija de Negro y India”: Afro-Indigenous Mulatos in Early Colonial Mexico Journal of Social History Volume 44, Number 3 (Spring 2011) pages 889-914 E-ISSN: 1527-1897; Print ISSN: 0022-4529 DOI: 10.1353/jsh.2011.0007 Robert C. Schwaller, Lecturer of History University of North Carolinia, Charlotte Since the fifteenth century, the term “mulato” has been used to describe individuals…

  • Study of HLA antigens of the Martinican population

    Study of HLA antigens of the Martinican population Tissue Antigens Volume 26, Issue 1 (July 1985) pages 1–11 DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-0039.1985.tb00928.x Nicole Monplaisir Blood Transfusion Center of Martinique Ignez Valette Blood Transfusion Center of Martinique Virginia Lepage Groupe de Recherches d’Immunogenetique de la Transplatation Humaine, INSERM – U 93, Paris, France Veronique Dijon Blood Transfusion Center…

  • Shades of Difference: Why Skin Color Matters

    Shades of Difference: Why Skin Color Matters Stanford University Press 2009 312 pages 11 tables, 15 figures, 16 illustrations Cloth ISBN: 9780804759984 Paper ISBN: 9780804759991 E-book ISBN: 9780804770996 Edited by: Evelyn Nakano Glenn, Professor of Asian American Studies University of California, Berkeley Shades of Difference addresses the widespread but little studied phenomenon of colorism—the preference…

  • Comparative racisms: What anti-racists can learn from Latin America

    Comparative racisms: What anti-racists can learn from Latin America Ethnicities Volume 11, Number 1 (2011-03-31) pages 32-58 DOI: 10.1177/1468796810388699 Jonathan Warren, Chair of the Center for Brazilian Studies; Associate Professor of International Studies University of Washington Christina A. Sue, Assistant Professor of Sociology University of Colorado, Boulder There has been extensive debate about the putative…

  • Zoë, or The Quadroon’s Triumph: A Tale for the Times (Volume II)

    We must now return to Santa Cruz and give a hasty sketch of the fortunes of George Carlan and his wife, during the twelve years absence of their daughter in Denmark.

  • Zoë, or The Quadroon’s Triumph: A Tale for the Times (Volume I)

    The story of Zoë Carlan, a young colored girl, of the little Danish island of Santa Cruz, is a pathetic illustration of the false position into which a refined and educated nature may be thrown, by the fierce prejudices of caste and color.

  • Segregated Miscegenation: On the Treatment of Racial Hybridity in the North American and Latin American Literary Traditions

    Segregated Miscegenation: On the Treatment of Racial Hybridity in the North American and Latin American Literary Traditions Routledge 2003-02-28 Pages: 144 Trim Size: 6 x 9 Hardback ISBN: 978-0-415-94349-9 Carlos Hiraldo, Professor of English LaGuardia Community College, City University of New York Through the comparative study of literatures from the United States and Latin America,…