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  • The American Negro and Race Blending

    The American Negro and Race Blending The Sociological Review Volume a2, Issue 4 (October 1909) pages 349–360 DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-954X.1909.tb01972.x Frances Hoggan The problem of the colour population of America is many-sided. Perhaps the most vital question to be considered is that of the amalgamation of the races: how far it has reached or may reach,…

  • The Social Adjustment of Chinese Immigrants in Liverpool

    The Social Adjustment of Chinese Immigrants in Liverpool The Sociological Review Volume 3, Issue 1 (July 1955) pages 65-75 DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-954X.1955.tb01045.x Maurice Broody Some of the most urgent social problems of a cosmopolitan seaport city like Liverpool are problems of adjustment between ethnic minorities and the indigenous society into which they have migrated. This adjustment…

  • The curious case of Barack Obama: A postracial black man in a racialized world

    The curious case of Barack Obama: A postracial black man in a racialized world University of Houston, Clear Lake July 2009 180 pages Publication Number: AAT 1471005 ISBN: 9781109355192 Joel G. Carter THESIS Presented to the Faculty of The University of Houston Clear Lake In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree MASTER OF…

  • The Past and the Present Condition, and the Destiny, of the Colored Race

    The Past and the Present Condition, and the Destiny, of the Colored Race Henry Highland Garnet Edited by Paul Royster University of Nebraska, Lincoln Steam press of J. C. Kneeland and Co. 1848 31 pages The text of this electronic edition is based on the original published at Troy, New York, in 1848. It was…

  • The Fear of Colonial Miscegenation in the British Colonies of Southeast Asia

    Between 1820 and 1923, European and American travelogue writers in the Southeast Asian British Colonies looked down upon Europeans participating in miscegenation with local women. They felt that it was a “barbaric” institution, and if Europeans participated in miscegenation, they were destroying the racial hierarchy that had been established during colonialism.

  • Transcultural Transformation: African American and Native American Relations

    Transcultural Transformation: African American and Native American Relations University of Nebraska November 2009 139 pages Barbara S. Tracy A DISSERTATION Presented to the Faculty of The Graduate College at the University of Nebraska In Partial Fulfillment of Requirements For the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy The intersected lives of African Americans and Native Americans result…

  • Summer Blend Book Club Wraps Up

    Summer Blend Book Club Wraps Up Tell Me More National Public Radio 2011-08-25 Michel Martin, Host This series began in June with the help of Heidi Durrow, author and co-founder of the “Mixed Roots Film & Literary Festival.” All summer long, Tell Me More has been covering books about the multicultural experience in America. Durrow…

  • The Eastmans and the Luhans: Interracial Marriage between White Women and Native American Men, 1875-1935

    The Eastmans and the Luhans: Interracial Marriage between White Women and Native American Men, 1875-1935 Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies Volume 23, Number 3 (2002) pages 29-54 DOI: 10.1353/fro.2003.0009 Margaret D. Jacobs, Professor of History & Director, Women’s and Gender Studies University of Nebraska, Lincoln At a lavish wedding and reception in New York…

  • Mixed-Bloods, Mestizas, and Pintos: Race, Gender, and Claims to Whiteness in Helen Hunt Jackson’s Ramona and María Amparo Ruiz de Burton’s Who Would Have Thought It?

    Mixed-Bloods, Mestizas, and Pintos: Race, Gender, and Claims to Whiteness in Helen Hunt Jackson’s Ramona and María Amparo Ruiz de Burton’s Who Would Have Thought It? Western American Literature Volume 36, Number 3 (Fall 2001) pages 212-231 Margaret D. Jacobs, Professor of History & Director, Women’s and Gender Studies University of Nebraska, Lincoln Since the…

  • Scales of Whiteness and Racial Mixing: Challenging and Confirming Racial Categories

    Scales of Whiteness and Racial Mixing: Challenging and Confirming Racial Categories The Geographical Bulletin Gamma Theta Upsilon – The International Geographic Honor Socieety Volume 50-2, November 2009 pages 93-110 Serin D. Houston Department of Geography Syracuse University This paper examines personal and public portrayals of the self and family articulated by heterosexual mixed-race households living…