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Month: November 2010

  • “Death by Misadventure”: Teaching Transgression in/through Larsen’s “Passing”

    “Death by Misadventure”: Teaching Transgression in/through Larsen’s “Passing” College Literature Volume 37, Number 4, Fall 2010 pages 120-144 E-ISSN: 1542-4286 Print ISSN: 0093-3139 DOI: 10.1353/lit.2010.0013 Jessica Labbé, Assistant Professor of English and Director of Writing Across the Curriculum Greensboro College, Greensboro, North Carolina This article provides college literature teachers with a detailed historical, theoretical, and…

  • “Slippin’ Into Darkness”: The (Re)Biologization of Race

    “Slippin’ Into Darkness”: The (Re)Biologization of Race Journal of Asian American Studies Volume 13, Number 3 (October 2010) pages 343-358 E-ISSN: 1096-8598 Print ISSN: 1097-2129 Michael Omi, Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies University of California, Berkeley While the dominant mantra in humanities and the social sciences is that “race is a social construction, not a…

  • Beyond Color-blind Universalism: Asians in a “Postracial America”

    Beyond Color-blind Universalism: Asians in a “Postracial America” Journal of Asian American Studies Volume 13, Number 3 (October 2010) pages 327-342 E-ISSN: 1096-8598; Print ISSN: 1097-2129 Linda Trinh Võ, Associate Professor Department of Asian American Studies School of Humanities University of California, Irvine Beyond the symbolism of President Barack Hussein Obama’s election is the unseen…

  • Selling eugenics: the case of Sweden

    Selling eugenics: the case of Sweden Notes & Records of the Royal Society Volume 64, Number 4 pages 379-400 DOI: 10.1098/rsnr.2010.0009 Maria Björkman Department of Thematic Studies, Technology and Social Change Linköping University Sven Widmalm Department of Thematic Studies, Technology and Social Change Linköping University This paper traces the early (1910s to 1920s) development of…

  • African Ancestry of the White American Population

    African Ancestry of the White American Population The Ohio Journal of Science Volume 58, Number 3 (May 1958) pages 155-160 Robert P. Stuckert Departments of Sociology and Anthropology Ohio State University, Columbus Defining a racial group generally poses a problem to social scientists. A definition of a race has yet to be proposed that is…

  • Ethnic identity of biracial individuals with one Asian parent

    Ethnic identity of biracial individuals with one Asian parent California State University, Long Beach 2006 66 pages Publication Number: AAT 1437924 ISBN: 9780542893049 Christina A. Nguyen A Thesis Presented to the Department of Social Work, California State University, Long Beach In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Master of Social Work The purpose…

  • What Obama Isn’t: Black Like Me on Race

    What Obama Isn’t: Black Like Me on Race New York Daily News 2006-11-02 Stanley Crouch If Barack Obama makes it all the way to becoming the Democratic nominee for President in 2008, a feat he says he may attempt, a much more complex understanding of the difference between color and ethnic identity will be upon…

  • Trends in Mate Selection in a Tri-Racial Isolate

    Trends in Mate Selection in a Tri-Racial Isolate Social Forces Volume 37, Number 3 (March 1959) pages 215-221 Thomas J. Harte Catholic University of America Read before the twenty-first annual meeting of the Southern Sociological Society in Asheville, North Carolina, April 11, 1958. The “Brandywine” population of Southern Maryland is a tri-racial hybrid group which…

  • The Variability of Hybrid Populations

    The Variability of Hybrid Populations American Journal of Physical Anthropology Volume 16, Issue 3 (January/March 1932) pages 283–307 DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.1330160312 K. Wagner Department of Anatomy University of Oslo On the assumption of mendelian inheritance it should be expected that hybrid populations, apart from the first generation of crossing, must show an increased variability as compared…

  • The Pocahontas Exception: The Exemption of American Indian Ancestry from Racial Purity Law

    The Pocahontas Exception: The Exemption of American Indian Ancestry from Racial Purity Law bepress Legal Series Working Paper 1572 2006-08-18 47 pages Kevin N. Maillard, Associate Professor of Law Syracuse University “The Pocahontas Exception” confronts the legal existence and cultural fascination with the eponymous “Indian Grandmother.” Laws existed in many states that prohibited marriage between…