Day: November 2, 2010

  • 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…

  • Factors in the Microevolution of a Triracial Isolate American Journal of Human Genetics Volume 18, Number 1 (January 1966) pages 26-38 W. S. Pollitzer Department of Anatomy University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill R. M. Menegaz-Bock Genetics Training Committe University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill J. C. Herion Department of Medicine University of North Carolina,…

  • Re-imagining mixed race: Explorations of multiracial discourse in Canada York University December 2008 190 pages ISBN: 9780494517864 Publication Number: AAT NR51786 Leanne Taylor A Dissertation submitted to the Faculty of graduate Studies in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy This dissertation analyses discourses of racial mixture, with particular focus…

  • Interview: Whiteness Redux borderlands: e-journal Volume 3, Number 2 (2004) Mike Hill, Associate Professor of English and Women’s Studies State University of New York, Albany Damien W. Riggs University of Adelaide, South Australia 1. Damien: As a research area that is rapidly growing within ‘Western nations’, how would you understand whiteness studies as both creating…