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  • Marriage, Class and Colour in Nineteenth-Century Cuba

    Marriage, Class and Colour in Nineteenth-Century Cuba Cambridge University Press (available in the United States at University of Michigan Press here.) August 1974 224 pages 216 x 140 mm Paperback ISBN: 9780521098465 Verena Martinez-Alier (a.k.a. Verena Stolcke), Professor Emeritus of Social Anthropology Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona An analysis of marriage patterns in nineteenth-century Cuba, a society…

  • The Wormiest of Cans: who gets to be “mixed race”?

    The Wormiest of Cans: who gets to be “mixed race”? Racialicious 2011-07-12 Thea Lim A few days ago on Facebook I watched two community activists have a throwdown over the phrase “mixed race.” It began when Activist X posted a link to this article about the Mixed Roots Film and Literary Festival and noted with…

  • 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…

  • Rebuilding the Tower of Babel

    Rebuilding the Tower of Babel Pelican Publishing Company, New Orleans 1957 24 pages Source: Digital Collections of the University of Southern Mississippi Libraries USM Identifier: mus-mcc030 Stuart O. Landry From the McCain (William D.) Pamphlet Collection; In this pamphlet, Landry asserts that integrationists are trying to reunite the races that God separated in the Old…

  • “You Can’t Put People In One Category Without Any Shades of Gray:” A Study of Native American, Black, Asian, Latino/a and White Multiracial Identity

    “You Can’t Put People In One Category Without Any Shades of Gray:” A Study of Native American, Black, Asian, Latino/a and White Multiracial Identity Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia May 2011 180 pages Melissa Faye Burgess Thesis submitted to the faculty of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in partial fulfillment…

  • Converging Spectres of an Other Within: Race and Gender in Prewar Afro-German History

    Converging Spectres of an Other Within: Race and Gender in Prewar Afro-German History Callaloo Volume 26, Number 2 (Spring 2003) pages 322-341 DOI: 10.1353/cal.2003.0036 Tina Campt, Professor of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies and Director of the Africana Studies Program Barnard College This article examines two of the earliest historical contexts in which Germans articulated…

  • Mental Conflicts of Eurasian Adolescents

    Mental Conflicts of Eurasian Adolescents The Journal of Social Psychology Volume 5, Issue 3 (August 1934) pages 402-408 ISSN: 0022-4545 (Print), 1940-1183 (Online) DOI: 10.1080/00224545.1934.9921608 Linden B. Jenkins The article presents information on mental conflicts of Eurasian adolescents. In the early colonizing days when only young unmarried men were sent out there seemed to be…

  • Race and Making America in Brazil: How Brazilian Return Migrants Negotiate Race in the US and Brazil

    Race and Making America in Brazil: How Brazilian Return Migrants Negotiate Race in the US and Brazil University of Michigan 2011 314 pages Tiffany Denise Joseph Dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (Sociology) in The University of Michigan This dissertation explores how US immigration influenced the…

  • Race Remixed… Reconsidered

    This lame and utterly boring series has yet to even reach the already low, low bar set in the mid-1990s regarding this topic by Time and Newsweek. Beyond the drippingly bathetic nature of the reporting throughout the series, there is never more than a sentence or two given over to the fact that there is…

  • 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…