Month: April 2011

  • The Morbid Proclivities and Retrogressive Tendencies in the Offspring of Mulattoes The Journal of the American Medical Association Volume 20, Number 1 (1893-01-07) pages 1-2 DOI: 10.1001/jama.1893.02420280009001 W. A. Dixon, M.D. Read in the Section of Diseases of Children, at the Forty-third Annual Meeting of the American Medical Association, held at Detroit, Mich., June 7,…

  • Lest we forget: the children they left behind: the life experience of adults born to black GIs and British women during the Second World War The University of Melbourne 1999 177 pages Janet Baker An estimated 22,000 children were born in England during the Second World War as a result of relationships between British women…

  • Playful ambiguities: racial and literary hybridity in the novels of Brian Castro University of Melbourne Université Toulouse-le Mirail 2010 Marilyne Brun PhD thesis, Arts – School of Culture and Communication, The University of Melbourne and Université Toulouse-le Mirail. This thesis studies eight of the nine novels of Brian Castro, a contemporary Australian writer born in…

  • Perhaps the strongest reason to recognize multiethnicity is that self-definition ought to be encouraged. The individual and collective right of ethnic self-identification has been recognized and exercised by other racial and ethnic advocates as they redefined themselves with new terms like Chicano, Xicano, Latino, Asian American, Black, African American, or Native American. Multiethnic people are…

  • Drawing on extensive anthropological fieldwork, Peter Wade shows how the concept of “blackness” and discrimination are deeply embedded in different social levels and contexts—from region to neighborhood, and from politics and economics to housing, marriage, music, and personal identity.

  • The influence of racial admixture in Egypt Eugenics Review Volume 7, Number 3 (October 1915) pages 168-183 G. Elliot Smith, Professor of Anatomy University of Manchester I suppose it is inevitable in these days that one trained in biological ways of thought should approach the problems of anthropology with the idea of evolution as his…

  • Where Do We Come From? Discover 2003-05-01 Kathleen McGowan Photography by Katy Grannan A new generation of DNA genealogists stand ready to unearth our ancestors. We may not like what they find. Brent Kennedy’s 19th-century ancestors stare out from his photo albums with dark eyes, high cheekbones, olive skin, and thick black hair—a genetic riddle…

  • Book explores racial identification The Post and Courier Charleston, South Carolina 2011-04-24 Karen Spain, legal writer based in Nashville The Invisible Line: Three American Families and the Secret Journey From Black to White. By Daniel J. Sharfstein. Penguin. 416 pages. Meticulously researched and beautifully written, “The Invisible Line” is a fascinating history of how three…

  • The Triracial Experience in a Poor Appalachian Community: How Social Identity Shapes the School Lives of Rural Minorities Ohio University June 2005 176 pages Stephanie Diane Starcher A dissertation presented to the faculty of the College of Education of Ohio University In partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree Doctor of Education This study…

  • Biohistorical approaches to “race” in the United States: Biological distances among African Americans, European Americans, and their ancestors† American Journal of Physical Anthropology Special Issue: Race Reconciled: How Biological Anthropologists View Human Variation Volume 139, Issue 1 (May 2009) pages 58-67 DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.20961 Heather J.H. Edgar, Research Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Curator of Human…