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  • Finding, and correcting, my mistakes Sociology Volume 39, Number 3 (July 2005) pages 483–499 DOI: 10.1177/0038038505052488 Michael Banton, Emeritus Professor of Sociology Univeristy of Bristol Mistakes are inherent in the process of research but can illuminate it. Some of the author’s mistakes have been false assumptions shared with others of his generation. His early work…

  • We must now return to Santa Cruz and give a hasty sketch of the fortunes of George Carlan and his wife, during the twelve years absence of their daughter in Denmark.

  • The story of Zoë Carlan, a young colored girl, of the little Danish island of Santa Cruz, is a pathetic illustration of the false position into which a refined and educated nature may be thrown, by the fierce prejudices of caste and color.

  • “Abominable Mixture”: Toward the Repudiation of Anglo-Indian Intermarriage in Seventeenth-Century Virginia The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography Volume 95, Number 2 (April, 1987) pages 157-192 David D. Smits, Professor of History The College of New Jersey Students of Amerindian-white relations have long ascribed to the English colonists an aversion to race mixing, especially through…

  • On the Phenomena of Hybridity in the Genus Homo Published for the Anthropological Society, by Longman, Green, Longman, & Roberts (London) 1864 144 pages Scan Date/Time: 2007-12-04 21:43:57 Dr. Paul Broca 1824-1880, Secretary General Anthropological Society of Paris (Also Honorary Fellow, Anthropological Society of London) Edited by C. Carter Blake, F.G.S., F.A.S.L, Honorary Secretary, Antrhopological…

  • Segregated Miscegenation: On the Treatment of Racial Hybridity in the North American and Latin American Literary Traditions Routledge 2003-02-28 Pages: 144 Trim Size: 6 x 9 Hardback ISBN: 978-0-415-94349-9 Carlos Hiraldo, Professor of English LaGuardia Community College, City University of New York Through the comparative study of literatures from the United States and Latin America,…

  • Brackish Bayou Blood: Weaving Mixed-Blood Indian-Creole Identity Outside the Written Record American Indian Culture and Research Journal Volume 32, Number 2 (2008) Special Issue: Indigenous Locations Post-Katrina: Beyond Invisibility and Disaster Online Date: 2008-08-22 pages 93-108 ISSN: 0161-6463 L. Rain Cranford-Gomez As a child on the Gulf of Mexico, evacuation to higher ground for floods,…

  • The Melungeons: A Mixed-Blood Strain of the Southern Appalachians Geographical Review Volume 41, Number 2 (April, 1951) pages 256-271 Edward T. Price, Professor Emeritus of Geography University of Oregon In the native vocabulary of East Tennessee and adjacent parts of neighboring states the word “Melungeon” is widely used. To some people it is only a…

  • The Vertical and Horizontal Dimensions of the Word Race Ethnicities Volume 10, Number 1 (March 2010) pages 127-140 DOI: 10.1177/1468796809354529 Michael Banton, Emeritus Professor of Sociology Univeristy of Bristol The word race has been used both to classify humans and to account for differences between those assigned to the resulting classes or taxa. The two…

  • A belief in Eugenics was widespread in the early half of the last centenary and amongst its prominent believers were George Bernard Shaw, Winston Churchill and Adolf Hitler. This iniquitous social philosophy supposed that Northern Europeans were superior in civilization to such races as Indians. Anglo Indians who were of mixed blood were considered, even…