Month: February 2010

  • The Cosmic Race by José Vasconcelos: “La Raza Cósmica” and Issues of Racial Diversity and Purity suite101.com 2010-01-26 Melanie Zoltan, Adjunct Professor of History Bay Path College In “The Cosmic Race” (“La Raza Cósmica” in Spanish), José Vasconcelos argues that racial diversity and interbreeding will produce one superior race. Is it code for purity? While…

  • Engineering American society: the lesson of eugenics Nature Reviews Genetics Volume 1, November 2000 pages 153-158 David Micklos DNA Learning Centre Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, New York Elof Carlson, Professor Emeritus State University of New York, Stony Brook We stand at the threshold of a new century, with the whole human genome stretched out before…

  • Watson [Program] Will Allow Reid to Study Issues Multi-Racial People Face Davidson University Davidson, North Carolina 2007-04-02 Rachel Andoga “When I went abroad to Strasbourg, France, I remember meeting everybody in my program on the plane, and this one girl said to me, ‘So, can we just get this out of the way—what are you?’”…

  • …Between 1913 and 1948–the latter date the abrogation of California’s law prohibiting racial intermarriage–80 percent of the Asian Indian men in California married Hispanic women.  To this day, several thousand of the children and grandchildren of these Punjabi-Hispanic marriages, which involved vows between Muslims and Catholics or Hindus and Catholics, can be found in Imperial…

  • Free at Last: The secret of Esie Mae Washington Williams is out, but she still doesn’t have full control over her story Bloomington Herald-Times 2004-02-14 Courtesy of: Black Film Center/Archive Indiana University Audrey T. McCluskey, Director Neal-Marshall Black Culture Center Indiana University After 78 years of harboring a less than well-kept secret, Essie Mae Washington-Williams…

  • A new paradigm of race: Visit to Brazil prompts the question: Can mixing everyone up solve the race problem? Bloomington Herald-Times 2004-08-29 Courtesy of: Black Film Center/Archive Indiana University Audrey T. McCluskey, Director Neal-Marshall Black Culture Center Indiana University If Tiger Woods lived in Brazil he would not have had to coin the word “Cablanasian”…

  • Prejudice inspires filmmaker to discover Afro-German roots Indiana Daily Student Indiana University 2010-01-24 Abby Liebenthal, Staff Reporter “It all started with a public threat on my life.” Within the first few minutes of Mo Asumang’s documentary “Roots Germania,” students, faculty and Bloomington residents became part of a search for the director’s identity… …Asumang said the…

  • Coloring the Caribbean: Agostino Brunias and the Painting of Race in the British West Indies, 1765-1800 Mia L. Bagneris, Doctoral Candidate in the Department of African and African American Studies Harvard University This dissertation explores interracial themes in the work of Agostino Brunias, a little known but fascinating Italian artist who painted for British patrons…

  • Reconstruction, Segregation, and Miscegenation: Interracial Marriage and the Law in the Lower South, 1865-1900 American Nineteenth Century History Volume 6, Issue 1 March 2005 pages 57-76 DOI: 10.1080/14664650500121827 Peter Wallenstein, Professor of History Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University On the eve of Congressional Reconstruction, all seven states of the Lower South had laws against…

  • Tell the Court I Love My Wife: Race, Marriage, and Law: An American History Palgrave Macmillan 2002 336 pages 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 inches, 16-page b/w photo insert ISBN: 978-1-4039-6408-3, ISBN10: 1-4039-6408-4 Peter Wallenstein, Professor of History Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University The first in-depth history of miscegenation law in the United States,…