Month: September 2010

  • The Impact of the Media on Biracial Identity Formation University of North Texas December 2007 93 pages OCLC: 227035319 |  ARK: ark:/67531/metadc5185 Alicia Edison Thesis Prepared for the Degree of Master of Science Biracial individuals undergo a developmental process that is different than monoracial individuals. Not only do they have to develop a strong and…

  • Gender, Work and Fears of a ‘Hybrid Race’ in 1920s New Zealand Gender & History Volume 19, Issue 3 (November 2007) pages 501–518 DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0424.2007.00495.x Barbara Brookes, Professor of History Otago University, New Zealand The 1929 New Zealand Committee of Inquiry into the Employment of Māori on Market Gardens affords insight into the ways in…

  • Righteous Fathers, Vulnerable Old Men and Degraded Creatures: Southern Justices on Miscegenation in the Antebellum Will Contest Tulsa Law Review Volume 40 (2005) pages 699- Bernie D. Jones, Associate Professor of Law Suffolk University Although scholars have long addressed the role of legislators and local elites in policing the color line between black and white,…

  • What’s in a Name? Mixed-Race Families and Resistance to Racial Codification in Eighteenth-Century France French Historical Studies Volume 33, Number 3 (2010) Pages 357-385 DOI: 10.1215/00161071-2010-002 Jennifer L. Palmer, Collegiate Assistant Professor of History University of Chicago The Saint-Domingue planter Aimé-Benjamin Fleuriau did not simply leave colonialism behind when he returned to his hometown La…

  • It’s a wonderful, mixed-up world The Daily Telegraph 2009-11-01 Aarathi Prasad There are now more mixed-race children than ever before—and that is something for us all to celebate, says the scientist Aarathi Prasad Just two weeks ago in Louisiana, an American Justice of the Peace made international news for refusing to issue marriage licences to…

  • Variability and Racial Mixture The American Naturalist Volume 61, Number 672 (Jan. – Feb., 1927) paages 68-81 Melville J. Herskovits (1895-1963), Professor of Anthropology and African Studies Northwestern University [Read a biographical memoir by Joseph C. Greenberg here.] [From Northwestern University: In 1948, Herskovits founded the Program of African Studies (PAS) at Northwestern, the first…

  • Soul Search The Post Cork, Ireland 2010-09-05 Nadine O’Regan When poet and novelist Jackie Kay started the search for her birth parents, she didn’t realise how traumatic a journey it would be, though she doesn’t regret doing it. Jackie Kay met her birth father for the first time in a hotel room in Abuja, Nigeria,…

  • Mentality of Racial Hybrids American Journal of Sociology Volume 36, Number 4 (January 1931) pages 534-551 DOI: 10.1086/215474 Robert E. Park (1864-1944), Professor of Sociology University of Chicago Racial hybrids are one of the natural and inevitable results of migration and the consequent mingling of divergent racial stocks.  The motives bringing peoples of divergent races…

  • Race and Marriage American Journal of Sociology Volume 15, Number 4 (January 1910) pages 433-453 DOI: 10.1086/211800 Ulysses G. Weatherly (1865-1940), Associate Professor of History, Economics and Sociology Indiana University The aversion exhibited by most animals to pairing with individuals of another species has been attributed by Westermarck to the selective power of hereditary instinct.  those…

  • The Problem of the Marginal Man American Journal of Sociology Volume 41, Number 1 (July 1935) Pages 1-12 DOI: 10.1086/217001 Everett V. Stonequist (1901-1979), Professor of Sociology Skidmore College The marginal man arises in a bi-cultural or multi-cultural situation.  The natural desire of the mixed-blood is to advance toward the group occupying the higher status.  He…