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  • A Critical Discussion of the “Mulatto Hypothesis”

    A Critical Discussion of the “Mulatto Hypothesis” The Journal of Negro Education Volume 3, Number 3, The Physical and Mental Abilities of the American Negro (July, 1934) pages 389-402 Melville J. Herskovits (1895-1963) The Two “Mulatto Hypotheses” What is the “mulatto hypothesis?” The phrase may be used to indicate a point of view concerning the…

  • American Chiaroscuro: The Status and Definition of Mulattoes in the British Colonies

    American Chiaroscuro: The Status and Definition of Mulattoes in the British Colonies The William and Mary Quarterly Third Series, Volume 19, Number 2 (April, 1962) pages 183-200 Winthrop D. Jordan (1931-2007) The word mulatto is not frequently used in the United States. Americans generally reserve it for biological contexts, because for social purposes a mulatto…

  • Race mixture: a social or a biological problem?

    Race mixture: a social or a biological problem? The Eugenics Review Volume 41, Number 2 (July 1949) pages 81-85 A. Dickinson The ideas of the layman on race are curiously distorted. Race is commonly identified with a given language or culture, with a group living in a common habitat or possessing a single characteristic feature…

  • The color of Black: Professor explores racial identity in college students

    The color of Black: Professor explores racial identity in college students Scope: Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education Stanford University 2011-10-10 Barbara McKenna There are lots of different ways to be Black and to have a strong Black identity,” says Camille Charles. But, she adds, research and social definitions of Black identity don’t generally…

  • Black, yellow, (honorary) white or just plain South African?: Chinese South Africans, identity and affirmative action

    Black, yellow, (honorary) white or just plain South African?: Chinese South Africans, identity and affirmative action Transformation: Critical Perspectives on Southern Africa Number 77 (2011) pages 107-121 DOI: 10.1353/trn.2011.0043 Yoon Jung Park, Senior Researcher in the Centre for Sociological Research Humanities Research Village University of Johannesburg On 18 June 2008, while the country was still…

  • A Matter Of Honour: Being Chinese in South Africa

    The South African-born Chinese community is a tiny one, consisting of 10,000 to 12,000 members in a population of approximately 45 million. Throughout much of the history of this most race-conscious country, the community has been ignored or neglected, and officially classed along with Coloureds (people of mixed race) or with Indians in that particularly…

  • Reflections: An Anthology of African-American Philosophy, 1st Edition

    Reflections: An Anthology of African-American Philosophy, 1st Edition Cengage Learning 2000 464 pages Paperback ISBN-10: 0534573932  ISBN-13: 9780534573935 Edited by: James Montmarquet, Professor of Philosophy Tennessee State University William Hardy, Associate Professor of Philosophy and Religion Tennessee State University This anthology provides the instructor with a sufficient quantity, breadth, and diversity of materials to be…

  • When the Mirror Speaks: The Poetics and Problematics of Psychic Performance for métisse Women in Bristol

    When the Mirror Speaks: The Poetics and Problematics of Psychic Performance for métisse Women in Bristol Jayne O. Ifekwunigwe, Visiting Associate Professor of African and African American Studies Duke University Chapter in: Ethnicity, Gender and Social Change Macmillan 1999 pages 206-222 ISBN-10: 0312217633; ISBN-13: 978-0312217631 Edited by: Rohit Barot, Harriet Bradley, and Steve Fenton Note…

  • Obama, Blackness, and Postethnic America

    Obama, Blackness, and Postethnic America The Chronicle of Higher Education 2008-02-29 David A. Hollinger, Preston Hotchkis Professor of American History University of California, Berkeley The Obama candidacy challenges our notions of identity politics In their support for Hillary Rodham Clinton over Barack Obama, prominent black leaders have made it clear that black skin color itself…

  • Black Is a Multiracial Country

    Black Is a Multiracial Country The Atlantic 2011-02-15 Ta-Nehisi Coates, Senior Editor Tami [Tamara Winfrey Harris] finds out she’s 30 percent white. This changes nothing: So, now, after discovering that I am 70 percent sub-Saharan African with cultural ties to Balanta and Fula peoples in Guinea-Bissau, the Mende people in Sierra Leone, and the Mandinka people…