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  • Negro History, Part X: Miscegenation in America

    Negro History, Part X: Miscegenation in America Ebony Magazine October 1962 pages 94-104 (Digitized by Google) Lerone Bennett, Jr., Executive Editor The material in this chapter on miscegenation during the slavery period is based largely on James Hugo Johnston’s doctorial dissertation at the University of Chicago, Race Relations in Virginia and Miscegenation in the South,…

  • Eugenic Feminisms in Late Nineteenth-Century America

    Eugenic Feminisms in Late Nineteenth-Century America Genders: Presenting Innovative Work In the Arts, Ahumanities and Social Theories Number 31 (2000) 98 paragraphs Stephanie Athey, Associate Professor of English Lasell College, Newton, Massachusetts Reading Race in Victoria Woodhull, Frances Willard, Anna Julia Cooper and Ida B. Wells  This essay examines the American intersections of eugenic discourse…

  • A Transnational Temperance Discourse? William Wells Brown, Creole Civilization, and Temperate Manners

    A Transnational Temperance Discourse? William Wells Brown, Creole Civilization, and Temperate Manners The Journal of Transnational American Studies Volume 3, Issue 1 (2011) Article 16 27 pages Carole Lynn Stewart, Assistant Professor of English University of Maryland, Baltimore County In the nineteenth century, temperance movements provided the occasion for a transnational discourse. These conversations possessed…

  • Racial Crossings: Race, Intermarriage, and the Victorian British Empire

    Racial Crossings: Race, Intermarriage, and the Victorian British Empire Oxford University Press May 2011 320 pages Hardback ISBN13: 9780199604159; ISBN10: 0199604150 Damon Ieremia Salesa, Associate Professor of History, American Culture, and Asian/Pacific Islander Studies University of Michigan The Victorians were fascinated with intersections between different races. Whether in sexual or domestic partnerships, in interracial children,…

  • Between Race and Nation: The Plains Metis and the Canada-United States Border

    Between Race and Nation: The Plains Metis and the Canada-United States Border University of Wisconsin, Madison May 2009 419 pages Publication Number: AAT 3384469 ISBN: 9781109476347 Michel Hogue, Assistant Professor of History Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada Submitted to the Graduate School of the University of Wisconsin-Madison in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the…

  • Breaking the Black-White Binary

    Breaking the Black-White Binary Fathom: the source for online learning Columbia University 2002 Gary Okihiro, Professor of International and Public Affairs Columbia University Where do Asians fall in the American construct of race? According to Gary Okihiro, the director of Columbia University’s Center for Race and Ethnicity, the position of Asians has had to be…

  • Five Myths About Multiracial People in the U.S.

    Five Myths About Multiracial People in the U.S. About.com: Race Relations 2011-04-09 Nadra Kareem Nittle When Barack Obama set his sights on the presidency, newspapers suddenly began devoting a lot more ink to the multiracial identity. Media outlets from Time Magazine and the New York Times to the British-based Guardian and BBC News pondered the…

  • Y-STR diversity and ethnic admixture in White and Mulatto Brazilian population samples

    Y-STR diversity and ethnic admixture in White and Mulatto Brazilian population samples Genetics and Molecular Biology (Former title: Brazilian Journal of Genetics) Volume 29, Number 4 (São Paulo  2006) pages 605-607 DOI: 10.1590/S1415-47572006000400004 ISSN 1415-4757 Luzitano Brandão Ferreira Departamento de Genética, Faculdade de Medicina de Ribeirão Preto Universidade de São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brazil…

  • Speaking About Southern Unionists… and Mixed-Race People: A Report and an Announcement

    Speaking About Southern Unionists… and Mixed-Race People: A Report and an Announcement Renegade South: histories of unconventional southerners 2011-05-07 Victoria E. Bynum, Emeritus Professor of History Texas State University, San Marcos I just returned from a wonderful visit to Leiden University in the Netherlands, where I spoke generally about Civil War Southern Unionists and specifically…

  • New Guinea: Racial Identity and Inclusion in the Stockbridge and Brothertown Indian Communities of New York

    New Guinea: Racial Identity and Inclusion in the Stockbridge and Brothertown Indian Communities of New York New York History Volume 90, Number 3 (Summer 2009) 23 paragraphs Christopher Geherin In 1818 the Stockbridge Indians initiated a series of land sales to the state of New York in order to finance the relocation of the tribe…