Category: Media Archive

  • Profiles: Samuel Hickson – The Change Agent State University of New York, Brockport 2010-10-28 BS in Sociology, ’10 “My understanding of what is important in life began with my family, who taught me about cultural diversity and having respect for people who are different from me.” Samuel Hickson, a former McNair student, studied the processes…

  • It’s Not Easy Being Green: Stress and Invalidation in Identity Formation of Culturally-Complex or Mixed-Race Individuals Texas A&M University May 2008 159 pages Samaria Dalia Roberts Perez Submitted to the Office of Graduate Studies of Texas A&M University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Communications This is…

  • Hybrids and History. The Role of Race and Ethnic Crossing in Individual and National Achievement The Quarterly Review of Biology Volume 26, Number 4 (December, 1951) pages 331-347 George D. Snell (1903-1996) Roscoe B. Jackson Memorial Laboratory, Bar Harbor, Maine It is curious to reflect that almost the requisite three or four hundred years have…

  • ‘Such fine families’: photography and race in the work of Caroline Bond Day Visual Studies Volume 21, Issue 2 (October 2006) pages 106-132 DOI: 10.1080/14725860600944971 Heidi Ardizzone, Assistant Professor of American Studies University of Notre Dame This article examines a collection of family photographs published in an unusual 1932 anthropological study of ‘Negro-White families’. In…

  • Dr. Susan Straight to be Featured Guest on Mixed Chicks Chat Mixed Chicks Chat (The only live weekly show about being racially and culturally mixed. Also, founders of the Mixed Roots Film & Literary Festival) Hosted by Fanshen Cox and Heidi W. Durrow Website: TalkShoe™ (Keywords: Mixed Chicks) Episode: #180-Susan Straight When: Tuesday, 2010-11-09, 22:00Z…

  • Heredity of Skin Color in Negro-White Crosses Carnegie Institution of Washington 1913 106 pages Number 188, Paper Number 20 of the Station for experimental evolution at Cold Spring Harbor, New York Charles B. Davenport (1866-1944), Director Eugenics Record Office, Carnegie Department of Genetics, and Biological Laboratory Cold Spring Harbor, New York Table of Contents A.…

  • “Slippin’ Into Darkness”: The (Re)Biologization of Race Journal of Asian American Studies Volume 13, Number 3 (October 2010) pages 343-358 E-ISSN: 1096-8598 Print ISSN: 1097-2129 Michael Omi, Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies University of California, Berkeley While the dominant mantra in humanities and the social sciences is that “race is a social construction, not a…

  • Beyond Color-blind Universalism: Asians in a “Postracial America” Journal of Asian American Studies Volume 13, Number 3 (October 2010) pages 327-342 E-ISSN: 1096-8598; Print ISSN: 1097-2129 Linda Trinh Võ, Associate Professor Department of Asian American Studies School of Humanities University of California, Irvine Beyond the symbolism of President Barack Hussein Obama’s election is the unseen…

  • Selling eugenics: the case of Sweden Notes & Records of the Royal Society Volume 64, Number 4 pages 379-400 DOI: 10.1098/rsnr.2010.0009 Maria Björkman Department of Thematic Studies, Technology and Social Change Linköping University Sven Widmalm Department of Thematic Studies, Technology and Social Change Linköping University This paper traces the early (1910s to 1920s) development of…

  • African Ancestry of the White American Population The Ohio Journal of Science Volume 58, Number 3 (May 1958) pages 155-160 Robert P. Stuckert Departments of Sociology and Anthropology Ohio State University, Columbus Defining a racial group generally poses a problem to social scientists. A definition of a race has yet to be proposed that is…