Month: January 2011

  • “A Whole New Race”: Chinese Cubans and Hybrid Identities in Cristina García’s Monkey Hunting Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal Volume 7, Issues 1 & 2 (Fall 2009) 14 paragraphs ISSN 1547-7150 Ann Marie Alfonso-Forero, Dissertation Editor Graduate School, University of Miami More so than its predecessors Dreaming in Cuban and The Agüero Sisters, Cristina García’s…

  • Skin Color of Mulattoes Journal of Heridity Volume 5, Number 12 (December 1914) pages 556-558 Charles B. Davenport, Director Department of Experimental Evolution (Carnegie Institution of Washington) Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island, New York Apparently Four Factors Involved—Segregation in Second Generation—Skin Pigment Developed After Birth—No Correlation Between Color of Skin and Curliness of Hair in…

  • The Chinese in the Caribbean [Book Reveiw] Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal Volume 3, Issue 1 (Spring 2005) 8 paragraphs ISSN 1547-7150 Kathryn Morris Andrew R. Wilson, Editor. The Chinese in the Caribbean. Princeton: Markus Wiener, 2004, xxiii+230 pp. The Hakka are a migratory people. We move outwards on the tides of history. Most of…

  • Hybrid Types of the Human Race: Racial Mixture as a Cause of Conspicuous Morphological Changes of the Facial-type The Journal of Heredity Volume 12, Number 6 (June 1921) pages 274-280 Herman Lundborg (1868-1943) Race-Biological Institution, Uppsala, Sweden It has been possible for recent hereditary research to show that some racial qualities are inherited according to Mendel’s…

  • Why Barack Obama Is Black: A Cognitive Account of Hypodescent Psychological Science Volume 22, Number 1 (January 2011) pages 29-33 DOI: 10.1177/0956797610390383 Jamin Halberstadt, Associate Professor of Psychology University of Otago Steven J. Sherman, Chancellor’s Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences Indiana University, Bloomington Jeffrey W. Sherman, Professor of Psychology University of California, Davis We…

  • Another Woolly-Hair Mutation in Man The Journal of Heredity Volume 25, Number 9 (September 1934) pages 337-340 C. Ph. Schokking Rotterdam, Holland A Dutch peasant family living near Leiden carries a dominant gene for a type of woolly hair characteristic of the Negro races. This is not to be explained as due to race crossing…

  • The Skin Color of Children from White By Near-White Marriages The Journal of Heredity Volume 38, Number 8 (August 1947) pages 233-234 Curt Stern (1902-1981), Professor of Zoology and Genetics [Read a biographical memoir by James V. Neel here.] University of California, Berkeley It is well known that the inheritance of color differences in negro-white crosses…

  • Arnold K. Ho & Dr. Jim Sidanius to be Featured Guests on Mixed Chicks Chat Mixed Chicks Chat (The only live weekly show about being racially and culturally mixed. Also, founders of the Mixed Roots Film & Literary Festival) Hosted by Fanshen Cox and Heidi W. Durrow Website: TalkShoe™ (Keywords: Mixed Chicks) Episode: #188 – Arnold…

  • Immigration, Intermarriage, and the Challenges of Measuring Racial/Ethnic Identities American Journal of Public Health Volume 90, Number 11 (November 2000) pages 1735-1737 DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.90.11.1735 Mary C. Waters, M. E. Zukerman Professor of Sociology Harvard University This commentary reviews recent demographic trends in immigration and intermarriage that contribute to the complexity of measuring race and ethnicity.…

  • New Challenges in Measuring Race in the United States 2010 National Conference on Health Statistics Omni Shorem Hotel, Washington, D.C. 2010-08-17 46 pages/slides Reynolds Farley, Research Professor Emeritus University of Michigan Population Studies Center at the Institute for Social Research The Multiracial Movement of the 1990s [page/slide 2] After Census 1990, a small social movement…