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  • Racial Politics in Contemporary Brazil

    Racial Politics in Contemporary Brazil Duke University Press 1999 232 pages 9 tables Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8223-2272-6 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8223-2252-8 Edited by Michael Hanchard, Professor of Political Science and African American Studies Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland Bringing together U.S. and Brazilian scholars, as well as Afro-Brazilian political activists, Racial Politics in Contemporary Brazil represents a…

  • Race Mixture and Physical Disharmonies

    Race Mixture and Physical Disharmonies Science Magazine Volume 71, Number 1850 (1930-06-13) pages 603-606 DOI: 10.1126/science.71.1850.603 W. E. Castle (1867-1962) Bussey Institution, Harvard Professor H. S. Jennings in his recent book on “The Biological Basis of Human Nature” devotes a chapter to the subject of race mixture and its consequences. Considering first the purely physical…

  • Race, Ethnicity and Football: Persisting Debates and Emergent Issues

    Race, Ethnicity and Football: Persisting Debates and Emergent Issues Routledge 2011-03-29 288 pages Hardback ISBN: 978-0-415-88205-7 Edited by: Daniel Burdsey, Senior Lecturer of Sociology Chelsea School of Sport University of Brighton As the first edited collection dedicated specifically to race, ethnicity and British football, this book brings together a range of academics, comprising both established…

  • Trans-American Modernisms: Racial Passing, Travel Writing, and Cultural Fantasies of Latin America

    Trans-American Modernisms: Racial Passing, Travel Writing, and Cultural Fantasies of Latin America University of Southern California August 2009 311 pages Ruth Blandón Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (ENGLISH) In my historical examination of the literary…

  • My Confederate Kinfolk: A Twenty-First Century Freedwoman Discovers Her Roots

    My Confederate Kinfolk: A Twenty-First Century Freedwoman Discovers Her Roots Basic Civitas Books 2007-01-02 352 pages Paperback ISBN: 9780465015740; ISBN-10: 0465015743 Thulani Davis Starting from a photograph and writings left by her grandmother, acclaimed African-American novelist Thulani Davis goes looking for the “white folk” in her family, a Scots-Irish family of cotton planters unknown to…

  • Hypodescent: A history of the crystallization of the one-drop rule in the United States, 1880-1940

    Hypodescent: A history of the crystallization of the one-drop rule in the United States, 1880-1940 Princeton University September 2011 383 pages Publication Number: AAT 3480237 ISBN: 9781124939179 Scott Leon Washington A DISSERTATION PRESENTED TO THE FACULTY OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITY IN CANDIDACY FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY RECOMMENDED FOR ACCEPTANCE BY THE DEPARTMENT OF…

  • Psychology Major Publishes Analysis of Racial Dynamics in the Wizarding World

    Psychology Major Publishes Analysis of Racial Dynamics in the Wizarding World James Madison University, Harrisonburg, Virginia Department of Psychology 2011-10-20 Jordan Pye When a fan asked her about the political allegories in her book series, Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling said, “I wanted Harry to leave our world and find exactly the same problems in…

  • Results of Inbreeding on Norfolk Island

    Results of Inbreeding on Norfolk Island Science  Magazine Volume 65, Number 1693 (1927-06-10) page x DOI: 10.1126/science.65.1693.0x-s Providing the original stock is sound, inbreeding among human beings results in no deterioration, physical or mental. Nor does mixture of widely differing races produce an inferior type.  Such are the conclusions of Dr. Harry L. Shapiro, ethnologist…

  • Race as a Social Construct in Head and Neck Cancer Outcomes

    Race as a Social Construct in Head and Neck Cancer Outcomes Otolaryngology—Head Neck Surgery Volume 144, Number 3 (March 2011) pages 381-389 DOI: 10.1177/0194599810393884 Maria J. Worsham, PhD Department of Otolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, Michigan George Divine, PhD Biostatistics and Research Epidemiology Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, Michigan Rick A.…

  • Living the Multiracial Experience: Shifting Racial Expressions, Resisting Race, and Seeking Community

    Living the Multiracial Experience: Shifting Racial Expressions, Resisting Race, and Seeking Community Qualitative Social Work Volume 11, Number 1 (January 2012) pages 42-60 DOI: 10.1177/1473325010375646 Kelly Faye Jackson, Assistant Professor of Social Work Arizona State University The growing presence and visibility of mixed race persons in the US demands that social workers critically examine and…