Category: Media Archive

  • Blood groups of Whites, Negroes and Mulattoes from the State of Maranhão, Brazil American Journal of Physical Anthropology Volume 6, Issue 4 (December 1948) pages 423–428 DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.1330060412 E. M. da Silva Department of Hematology Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Within the Brazilian “melting pot” the intensity and variation of the racial mixture…

  • Studies in Melanin Pigmentation of the Skin of Racial Crosses in Port Moresby Oceania Volume 33, Number. 4 (June, 1963) pages 287-292 R. J. Walsh New South Wales Red Cross Blood Transfusion Service, Sydney, Australia A. V. G. Price Department of Public Health, Territory of Papua and New Guinea The colour of the skin in…

  • The Physical Form of Mississippi Negroes American Journal of Physical Anthropology Volume 16, Issue 2 (October/December 1931) pages 193–201 DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.1330160213 Melville J. Herskovits (1895-1963), Professor of Anthropology and African Studies Northwestern University Vivian K. Cameron Harriet Smith During the years 1923 to 1927, research was carried on in an attempt to investigate the physical…

  • Categorization of humans in biomedical research: genes, race and disease Genome Biology 2002 Volume 3, Number 7 2002-07-01 Print ISSN 1465-6906; Online ISSN 1465-6914 DOI: 10.1186/gb-2002-3-7-comment2007 Neil Risch Department of Genetics Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California Esteban Burchard Department of Medicine University of California, San Francisco, California Elad Ziv Department of Medicine University…

  • Mixed: A Mixed Heritage Daily Bruin University of California, Los Angeles 2010-11-09 Nicholas Greitzer America has always been considered a melting pot – a melting pot of ideas, of ethnicities, of religions, of experiences and of people. In the 2000 census, for example, this miscegenation resulted in more than 6.8 million Americans self-identifying as multiracial.…

  • Rachel Knight: Slave, White Man’s Mistress and Mother to a Movement Johnathon Odell: Discovering Our Stories 2010-09-20 John Odell Rachel’s Children I can’t help but think of the Old Testament Abraham when I hear stories about Newt Knight. Both men sired children by a wife and a slave. In Newt’s case it was Serena and…

  • Race remains hot topic despite Obama presidency USA Today 2010-10-17 Shannon Mullen, Asbury Press The election of the first black president in U.S. history was supposed to usher in a post-racial era in America. But a series of controversies since then, from the White House “Beer Summit” to the conflicts between the tea party and…

  • Cast From Their Ancestral Home, Creoles Worry About Culture’s Future New York Times 2005-10-11 Susan Saulny, National Correspondent NATCHITOCHES PARISH, La., Oct. 9 – It is peaceful here on the Cane River, beyond the fluffy tops of high cotton and towering magnolia trees, but it is not home. For the New Orleans Creoles living in…

  • Adopted Territory: Transnational Korean Adoptees and the Politics of Belonging Duke University Press November 2010 320 pages 15 photographs, 4 tables Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8223-4683-8 Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8223-4695-1 Eleana J. Kim, Assistant Professor of Anthropology University of Rochester Since the end of the Korean War, an estimated 200,000 children from South Korea have been adopted into…

  • Because the Numbers Matter: Transforming Postsecondary Education Data on Student Race and Ethnicity to Meet the Challenges of a Changing Nation Educational Policy Volume 18, Number 5 (November 2004) pages 752-783 DOI: 10.1177/0895904804269941 Kristen A. Renn, Associate Professor of Higher, Adult, and Lifelong Education Michigan State University Christina J. Lunceford, Professor of Education California State…