Day: November 28, 2010

  • Vikings Possibly Carried Native American to Europe Discovery News 2010-11-17 Medieval texts suggest the Vikings arrived in the New World more than 1,000 years ago. THE GIST DNA analysis reveals that four families in Iceland possess genes typically found in Native Americans or East Asians. Genealogical evidence revealed that these families shared a distant ancestor…

  • Graduate Student Profile: Chelsea Guillermo-Wann (Education) UCLA Graduate Quarterly University of California, Los Angeles Fall 2010 pages 6-7 Growing up in Santa Barbara, Chelsea Guillermo-Wann started “developing concepts of white and brown” while she was still in grade school, concepts that gave her a different understanding of her white mother and brown father—his heritage both…

  • “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 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 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 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 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…