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Month: November 2010

  • “The Horrid Alternative”: Miscegenation and Madness in the Frontier Romance

    “The Horrid Alternative”: Miscegenation and Madness in the Frontier Romance Journal of American & Comparative Cultures Volume 24, Issue 3 (Fall/Winter 2001) Pages: 137-151 DOI: 10.1111/j.1537-4726.2001.2403_137.x Harry J. Brown, Assistant Professor of English DePauw University In a speech delivered to a gathering of Delaware and Mohican Indians, Thomas Jefferson foresaw the destiny of the United…

  • Some Refelctions on Eugenics and Religion

    Some Refelctions on Eugenics and Religion Eugenics Review Volume 18, Number 1 (April 1926) pages 7-14 The Right Rev. E. W. Barnes, ScD., Hon. D.D., F.R.S. (1874-1953) Bishop of Birmingham, England The Galton Lecture delivered before the Eugenics Education Society at their Meeting in London on Tuesday, February 16th, 1926. Eugenics is the science of…

  • Hope, Fear, Shame, Frustration: Continuity and Change in the Expression of Coloured Identity in White Supremacist South Africa, 1910-1994

    Hope, Fear, Shame, Frustration: Continuity and Change in the Expression of  Coloured Identity in White Supremacist South Africa, 1910-1994 Journal of Southern African Studies Volume 32, Number 3 (September, 2006) pages 467-487 Mohamed Adhikari, Associate Professor of Historical Studies, University of Cape Town This article seeks to explain the basic impulses behind coloured exclusivity in…

  • The “Sabines”: A Study of Racial Hybrids in a Louisiana Coastal Parish

    The “Sabines”: A Study of Racial Hybrids in a Louisiana Coastal Parish Social Forces Volume 29, Number 2 (December, 1950) pages 148-154 Vernon J. Parenton Roland J. Pellegrin Read before the thirteenth annual meeting of the Southern Sociological Society, Biloxi, Mississippi, April 15, 1950. Historically, the position of the racial and  cultural  hybrid in rural American…

  • Chinese Interracial Families

    Chinese Interracial Families Undergraduate Research Journal Indiana University, South Bend 1998 Lin Liu, Honors Freshman Research Seminar Participant In an increasingly multi-cultural America, the Chinese population as well as the number of Chinese interracial families has risen significantly among all other nationalities. Since the 1940’s, the Chinese population has soared. There have been many contributing…

  • The Eurasian in Shanghai

    The Eurasian in Shanghai The American Journal of Sociology Volume 41, Number 5 (March, 1936) pages 642-648 Herbert Day Lamson Although hybrid offspring tend to form an intermediary group of cultural contact between the native and the alien in societies where they are found, the Eurasian in Shanghai finds himself discriminated against by both parent-stocks.…

  • But Think of the Kids: Catholic Interracialists and the Great American Taboo of Race Mixing

    But Think of the Kids: Catholic Interracialists and the Great American Taboo of Race Mixing U.S. Catholic Historian Volume 16, Number 3 Sources of Social Reform, Part One (Summer, 1998) pages 67-93 David W. Southern, Cotton Professor of History Westminster College, Fulton Missouri After requesting church funds for the Catholic Interracial Council of New York…

  • ‘Mixed Race’ Children in British Society: Some Theoretical Considerations

    ‘Mixed Race’ Children in British Society: Some Theoretical Considerations The British Journal of Sociology Volume 35, Number 1 (March, 1984) pages 42-61 Anne Wilson A study of the racial identity of British ‘mixed race’ children raises a number of theoretical issues about the racial categorization system of Britain; in particular, the validity of the assumption…

  • “White Negroes” in Segregated Mississippi: Miscegenation, Racial Identity, and the Law

    “White Negroes” in Segregated Mississippi: Miscegenation, Racial Identity, and the Law The Journal of Southern History Volume 64, Number 2 (May, 1998) pages 247-276 Victoria E. Bynum, Emeritus Professor of History Texas State University, San Marcos Not until David L. Cohn returned to his native Mississippi after an absence of two decades did he understand the…

  • The Octoroon: Early History of the Drama of Miscegenation

    The Octoroon: Early History of the Drama of Miscegenation The Journal of Negro Education Volume 20, Number 4 (Autumn, 1951) pages 547-557 Sidney Kaplan, Instructor In English University of Massachusetts From the moment of its birth the American democracy has appeared to some of its best champions as the perfect subject for Aristotelian tragedy. Could…