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Month: February 2010

  • 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…

  • Nooksack Tribe member explores multiracial culture

    Nooksack Tribe member explores multiracial culture The Bellingham Herald 2009-09-28 Dean Kahn Louie Gong grew up eating American Indian bread for breakfast and Chinese dinners cooked on a camp stove. In the evening, his Chinese and native relatives got together for mah-jongg. Gong’s mother was of French and Scottish descent. His father was half Chinese,…

  • ‘Multiracial Identity’ documentary film and discussion

    ‘Multiracial Identity’ documentary film and discussion Portland State University 228 Smith Union Wednesday, 2010-03-03, from 18:30-21:00 PST (Local Time) This new documentary explores the social and political impact of adding a Multiracial Category (the fastest growing demographic in America) as a stand-alone racial group on the US Census. Different racial and cultural groups see multiracialism…

  • Multiracial Politics or the Politics of Being Multiracial?: Racial Theory, Civic Engagement, and Political Participation in a Contemporary Society

    Multiracial Politics or the Politics of Being Multiracial?: Racial Theory, Civic Engagement, and Political Participation in a Contemporary Society Jungmiwha Bullock University of Southern California This dissertation is an interdisciplinary, multi-method, and multi-site project that investigates where race as a social construction and outdated biological explanations of race contradict in the twenty-first century, using grassroots…

  • The Cosmic Race / La Raza Cósmica

    The Cosmic Race / La Raza Cósmica Johns Hopkins University Press 1997 (originally published in 1925) 160 pages Paperback: 9780801856556 José Vasconcelos translated, with an introduction, by Didier T. Jaén afterword by Joseba Gabilondo “The days of the pure whites, the victors of today, are as numbered as were the days of their predecessors. Having…