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  • Race or mongrel: a brief history of the rise and fall of the ancient races of earth: a theory that the fall of nations is due to intermarriage with alien stocks: a demonstration that a nation’s strength is due to racial purity: a prophecy that America will sink to early decay unless immigration is rigorously restricted

    Race or mongrel: a brief history of the rise and fall of the ancient races of earth: a theory that the fall of nations is due to intermarriage with alien stocks: a demonstration that a nation’s strength is due to racial purity: a prophecy that America will sink to early decay unless immigration is rigorously…

  • The Mestizos of South Carolina

    The Mestizos of South Carolina The American Journal of Sociology Volume 51, Number 1 (July 1945) pages 34-41 Brewton Berry There are several communities of white-Indian-Negro hybrids in South Carolina, the members of which do not fit into the biracial caste system upon which the state’s whole social structure is built. Similar groups are found…

  • The Guineas of West Virginia

    The Guineas of West Virginia Ohio State University 1952 139 pages John P. Burnell, Jr. A Thesis Presented in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirments for the Degree Master of Arts. Table of Contents Introduction Methodology Geographical and Social Setting History and Origin Who Is A Guinea? Social Participation Attitudes and Beliefs Summary and Conclusions Bibliography…

  • Black and White and Married in the Deep South: A Shifting Image

    Black and White and Married in the Deep South: A Shifting Image The New York Times 2011-03-19 Susan Saulny, National Correspondent HATTIESBURG, Miss. — For generations here in the deepest South, there had been a great taboo: publicly crossing the color line for love. Less than 45 years ago, marriage between blacks and whites was…

  • Hybrid Hotties: Intersections of Gender and Race in Multiracial Bodies

    Hybrid Hotties: Intersections of Gender and Race in Multiracial Bodies Rhode Island School of Design 55 Angel Street, MET Room A Providence, Rhode Island Monday, 2011-03-21, 19:00-20:30 EDT (Local Time) (free and open to the public) Information: 401-277-4957 Ulli K. Ryder, Ph.D., Visiting Scholar Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America Brown…

  • Does Multiracial Matter? A Study of Racial Disparities in Self-Rated Health

    Does Multiracial Matter? A Study of Racial Disparities in Self-Rated Health Demography Volume 48, Number 1 pages 127-152 DOI: 10.1007/s13524-010-0005-0 Jenifer L. Bratter, Associate Professor of Sociology Rice University Bridget K. Gorman, Associate Professor of Sociology Rice University How do self-identified multiracial adults fit into documented patterns of racial health disparities? We assess whether the…

  • Redefining Race and Ethnicity in the US

    Redefining Race and Ethnicity in the US Voice of America 2011-03-14 Todd Grosshans The number of young Americans with mixed race and ethnicity is rising real fast in the United States. Many are going to college helping to bridge racial and ethnic divides on campuses nationwide. VOA’s Todd Grosshans takes a closer look on the…

  • The Creolisation of London Kinship: Mixed African-Caribbean and White British Extended Families, 1950-2003

    The Creolisation of London Kinship: Mixed African-Caribbean and White British Extended Families, 1950-2003 Amsterdam University Press November 2010 282 pages Paperback ISBN: 978 90 8964 235 6 Elaine Bauer, Fellow at the Young Foundation; Associate Fellow at the Institute for the Study of the Americas, University of London In the last 50 years, the United…

  • Love in black and white

    Love in black and white Electronic Precinct University of Liverpool August 1998 Muriel Fletcher and Margaret Todd, (second and third from left, middle row) with students and staff of the School of Social Science 1926-27 Source: University of Liverpool Two students who graduated from this University in 1927 play important roles in the film ‘Love…

  • Race and Mixed Race (LS 355)

    Race and Mixed Race (LS 355) University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Fall 2011 Explores the history of racial classification in the U.S. with special attention to the census and the role of the state more generally in defining race. Emphasis on how race-mixing has been understood in American culture, and on the current literature on “multiracials”…