Mixed Race Studies

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Day: November 27, 2010

  • 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…