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  • The Eurasian in Shanghai

    The Eurasian in Shanghai The American Journal of Sociology Volume 41, Number 5 (March, 1936) pages 642-648 Herbert Day Lamson Although hybrid offspring tend to form an intermediary group of cultural contact between the native and the alien in societies where they are found, the Eurasian in Shanghai finds himself discriminated against by both parent-stocks.…

  • But Think of the Kids: Catholic Interracialists and the Great American Taboo of Race Mixing

    But Think of the Kids: Catholic Interracialists and the Great American Taboo of Race Mixing U.S. Catholic Historian Volume 16, Number 3 Sources of Social Reform, Part One (Summer, 1998) pages 67-93 David W. Southern, Cotton Professor of History Westminster College, Fulton Missouri After requesting church funds for the Catholic Interracial Council of New York…

  • ‘Mixed Race’ Children in British Society: Some Theoretical Considerations

    ‘Mixed Race’ Children in British Society: Some Theoretical Considerations The British Journal of Sociology Volume 35, Number 1 (March, 1984) pages 42-61 Anne Wilson A study of the racial identity of British ‘mixed race’ children raises a number of theoretical issues about the racial categorization system of Britain; in particular, the validity of the assumption…

  • “White Negroes” in Segregated Mississippi: Miscegenation, Racial Identity, and the Law

    “White Negroes” in Segregated Mississippi: Miscegenation, Racial Identity, and the Law The Journal of Southern History Volume 64, Number 2 (May, 1998) pages 247-276 Victoria E. Bynum, Emeritus Professor of History Texas State University, San Marcos Not until David L. Cohn returned to his native Mississippi after an absence of two decades did he understand the…

  • The Octoroon: Early History of the Drama of Miscegenation

    The Octoroon: Early History of the Drama of Miscegenation The Journal of Negro Education Volume 20, Number 4 (Autumn, 1951) pages 547-557 Sidney Kaplan, Instructor In English University of Massachusetts From the moment of its birth the American democracy has appeared to some of its best champions as the perfect subject for Aristotelian tragedy. Could…

  • Miscegenation

    Miscegenation Anthropological Review Volume 2, Number 5 (May, 1864) pages 116-121 During the last two months there have come reports to Europe of the remarkable form of insanity which is just now affecting the people of Federal America.  We should not have thought it worth while to take any notice of the publication of the…

  • Miscegenation: the theory of the blending of the races, applied to the American white man and negro.

    The Wilson Anti-Slavery Collection is a collection of 19th-century anti-slavery pamphlets received in 1923 from the executors of Henry Joseph Wilson (1833-1914), the distinguished Liberal Member of Parliament for Sheffield.

  • Pinturas de Casta: Mexican Caste Paintings, a Foucauldian Reading

    Pinturas de Casta: Mexican Caste Paintings, a Foucauldian Reading New Readings School of Modern Languages, Cardiff University Volume 10 (July 2009) page 1-17 Nasheli Jiménez del Val Cardiff University This article looks at the genre of casta painting developed in colonial Mexico during the eighteenth century. The genre consists of a series of paintings representing…

  • Casta Paintings: Inventing Race Through Art

    Mexican Art Genre Reveals 18th-Century Attitudes on Racial Mixing

  • I’ve got a Story to Tell: Critical Race Theory, Whiteness and Narrative Constructions of Racial and Ethnic Census Categories

    I’ve got a Story to Tell: Critical Race Theory, Whiteness and Narrative Constructions of Racial and Ethnic Census Categories Bowling Green State University December 2010 245 pages Candice J. LeFlore-Muñoz A Dissertation Submitted to the Graduate College of Bowling Green State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy This…