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  • Fadeout for a Culture That’s Neither Indian Nor British The New York Times 2010-08-14 Mian Ridge CALCUTTA — Entering the crumbling mansion of the Lawrence D’Souza Old Age Home here is a visit to a vanishing world. Breakfast tea from a cup and saucer, Agatha Christie murder mysteries and Mills & Boon romances, a weekly…

  • Society, politics, agriculture, and mixed-race unions in a coastal Georgia planter community

  • The Social Position of White and “Half-Caste” Women in Colored Groupings in Britain American Sociological Review Volume 16, Number 6 (December 1951) pages 796-802 Sydney F. Collins University of Edinburgh Sociological studies of colored minority groups in Britain have so far been undertaken only on a limited scale. But the ever-widening interest being shown in…

  • Blinded By the Light; But Now I See Western New England Law Review Western New England College Volume 20, Issue 2 (1998) pages 491-504 Leonard M. Baynes, Professor of Law and Inaugural Director of The Ronald H. Brown Center for Civil Rights and Economic Development St. Johns University Introduction In the United States, interracial discrimination…

  • Red and Black – A Divided Seminole Nation: Davis v. U.S. Kansas Journal of Law & Public Policy University of Kansas School of Law Volume 14, Number 3 (Spring 2006) pages 607-638 Joyce A. McCray Pearson, Director, Law Library and Associate Professor of Law University of Kansas One of the longest unwritten chapters in the history…

  • A white knight meets his half-black half-brother in battle. A black hero marries a white woman. A slave mother kills her child by a rapist-master. A white-looking person of partly African ancestry passes for white. A master and a slave change places for a single night. An interracial marriage turns sour. The birth of a…

  • Building the “Blue” Race: Miscegenation, Mysticism, and the Language of Cognitive Evolution in Jean Toomer’s “The Blue Meridian” Texas Studies in Literature and Language Volume 46, Number 2, Summer 2004 pages 149-180 E-ISSN: 1534-7303 Print ISSN: 0040-4691 DOI: 10.1353/tsl.2004.0008 Stephanie L. Hawkins, Assistant Professor of English University of North Texas Toomer’s vision of psychological evolution…

  • Biological and Social Consequences of Race-Crossing American Journal of Physical Anthropology Volume 9, Issue 2 (April/June 1926) pages 145–156 DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.1330090212 W. E. Castle (1867-1962) Bussey Institution, Harvard University What constitute the essential differences between human races seems to be a question difficult for anthropologists to agree upon but from a biologist’s point of view…

  • …The Korean word for a bi or multiracial person, despite the composition of their mixture, is honhyeol (in), which literally translates into impure blood. There has been a “pride” instilled in Koreans for their “ethnic homogeneity” which has resulted in “fear and distrust of outsiders” (The Economist, 2006). The connotation for Korea, which bases its…

  • Institutions, Inculcation, and Black Racial Identity: Pigmentocracy vs. the Rule of Hypodescent Social Identities Volume 14, Issue 5 (September 2008) pages 567-585 DOI: 10.1080/13504630802343390 Richard T. Middleton IV, Associate Professor of Political Science University of Missouri, St. Louis This research paper investigates the effect political institutions have on black racial identity. In particular, I study…