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  • Political issues involving the right of so-called ‘superior’ races to preserve privileges denied to other races on account of their so-called ‘inferiority’ are tending to darken counsel in the study of racial biology. Another form of political effort is a desire to demonstrate separateness of physical type, so that a subject race may claim autonomy.…

  • (Paper read at the ninth meeting, 1930, at he the International Federation of Eugenic Organizations.)

  • Hierarchies of whiteness in the geographies of empire: Thomas Thistlewood and the Barrets of Jamaica New West Indian Guide / Nieuwe West-Indische Gids Volume 80, Numbers 1&2 (2006) pages 5-43 DOI: 10.1163/13822373-90002486 Cecilla A. Green, Associate Professor, Sociology Maxwell School of Syracuse University Shows how a racial solidarity between whites in colonial Jamaica during slavery…

  • Social Status, Race, and the Timing of Marriage in Cuba’s First Constitutional Era, 1902-1940 Journal of Family History Volume 36, Number 1 (December 2010) pages 52-71 DOI: 10.1177/0363199010389546 Enid Lynette Logan, Associate Professor of Sociology University of Minnesota, Minneapolis This article examines the practice of marriage among whites, mestizos, blacks, Cubans, and Spaniards during the…

  • Half-Caste [Book Review] The Eugenics Review Volume 29, Number 2 (July 1937) pages 141-142 Reviewed by Michael Fielding Dover, Cedric. Half-Caste. London, 1937. Secker & Warburg. Pp. 324. Price 1os. 6d. This book is dedicated to a member of the Council of the Eugenics Society. So if we are a bad lot, as bad as…

  • Reggae superstar Bob Marley suffered due to his mixed-race background

  • The Mulatto Millennium: Rethinking blackness in a multiracial world Utne Reader September/October 1998 Danzy Senna, from the book Half and Half Strange to wake up and realize you’re in style. That’s what happened to me just the other morning. It was the first day of the new millennium, and I woke to find that mulattos…

  • A tale of two scholars: The Darwin debate at Harvard Harvard Gazette 2007-05-19 Louis Agassiz was a scientist with a blind spot—he rejected the theory of evolution Few people have left a more indelible imprint on Harvard than Louis Agassiz. An ambitious institution-builder and fundraiser as well as one of the most renowned scientists of…

  • Existing in a Third World: The unique biracial educational experience California State University, Long Beach December 2007 90 pages Publication Number: AAT 1451152 ISBN: 9780549405887 Ashley Benjamin A Thesis Presented to the Department of Educational Psychology, Administration, and Counseling California State University, Long Beach In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Master of…

  • Obamafiction for Children: Imagining the Forty-Fourth U.S. President Children’s Literature Association Quarterly Volume 35, Number 4 (Winter 2010) E-ISSN: 1553-1201 Print ISSN: 0885-0429 pages 334-356 Philip Nel, Professor of English Kansas State University In a column published five days after the 2008 election, journalist Jason Whitlock said of the president-elect’s life: “His is a tale…