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  • A Reappraisal of the Constitutionality of Miscegenation Statutes

    A Reappraisal of the Constitutionality of Miscegenation Statutes Cornell Law Quarterly Volume 42, Issue 2 (Winter 1957) pages 208-222 Andrew D. Weinberger, LL.B., D. HUM, Member of the New York Bar, New York City & Visiting Professor of Law Nationzal University of Mexico Today [in 1957], 21 States of the Union by statute forbid marriages…

  • Half + Half: Writers on Growing Up Biracial and Bicultural

    Half + Half: Writers on Growing Up Biracial and Bicultural Pantheon an imprint of Random House 1998-06-09 288 pages ISBN: 978-0-375-70011-8 (0-375-70011-0) Edited by Claudine C. O’Hearn As we approach the twenty-first century, biracialism and biculturalism are becoming increasingly common.  Skin color and place of birth are no longer reliable signifiers of one’s identity or…

  • Multiracial Matrix: The Role of Race Ideology in the Enforcement of Anti-Discrimination Laws, a United States – Latin America Comparison

    Multiracial Matrix: The Role of Race Ideology in the Enforcement of Anti-Discrimination Laws, a United States – Latin America Comparison Cornell Law Review Volume 87, Number 5 (July 2002) Cornell University Law School Tanya Katerí Hernández, Professor of Law Fordham University This Article examines the role of race ideology in the enforcement of antidiscrimination laws.  Professor…

  • African Americans and National Identities in Central America

    African Americans and National Identities in Central America Rina Cáceres, Professor of Diaspora Studies Program at the Centro de Investigationes Historicas de America Central Universidad de Costa Rica Lowell Gudmundson, Professor of Latin American Studies and History Mount Holyoke University Mauricio Meléndez An interdisciplinary, multinational research program to reconceptualize and document, both visually and textually,…

  • Racial Boundary Formation at the Dawn of Jim Crow: The Determinants and Effects of Black/Mulatto Occupational Differences in the United States, 1880 (Working Paper)

    Racial Boundary Formation at the Dawn of Jim Crow: The Determinants and Effects of Black/Mulatto Occupational Differences in the United States, 1880 (Working Paper) 33 pages Updated 2008-07-03 Aaron Gullickson, Assistant Professor of Sociology University of Oregon Much of the literature within sociology regarding mixed-race populations focuses on contemporary issues and dynamics, often overlooking a…

  • Race and the Cherokee Nation: Sovereignty in the Nineteenth Century

    “Race and the Cherokee Nation” examines how leaders of the Cherokee Nation fostered a racial ideology through the regulation of interracial marriage. By defining and policing interracial sex, nineteenth-century Cherokee lawmakers preserved political sovereignty, delineated Cherokee identity, and established a social hierarchy.

  • Legislating Women’s Sexuality: Cherokee Marriage Laws in the Nineteenth Century

    Legislating Women’s Sexuality: Cherokee Marriage Laws in the Nineteenth Century Journal of Social History Volume 38, Number 2, Winter 2004 E-ISSN: 1527-1897 Print ISSN: 0022-4529 DOI: 10.1353/jsh.2004.0144 Fay A. Yarbrough, Associate Professor of History University of Oklahoma During the first half of the nineteenth century, the Cherokee Nation passed many laws to regulate marriage and…

  • The Rule of Racialization: Class, Identity, Governance

    The Rule of Racialization: Class, Identity, Governance Temple University Press November 2002 256 pages Cloth EAN: 978-1-56639-981-4, ISBN: 1-56639-981-5 Paper: EAN: 978-1-56639-982-1, ISBN: 1-56639-982-3 Steve Martinot, Adjunct Professor San Francisco State University A significant re-writing of the history of class formation in the US An important history of the way class formed in the US,…

  • Racial Categories in Medical Practice: How Useful Are They?

    Is it good medical practice for physicians to “eyeball” a patient’s race when assessing their medical status or even to ask them to identify their race?

  • Multiracial Recognition in the 2000 Census: A Personal Perpective

    Multiracial Recognition in the 2000 Census: A Personal Perpective Perspectives Winter 2003 pages 48-58 Ikeita Cantú Hinojosa, JD, MSW National Women’s Law Center, Washington, D.C The census classification scheme chosen for race and ethnicity has become a prominent social fact in its own right and involves serious political and cultural consequences beyond its explicit policy…