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Month: April 2011

  • How race becomes biology: Embodiment of social inequality

    How race becomes biology: Embodiment of social inequality American Journal of Physical Anthropology Special Issue: Race Reconciled: How Biological Anthropologists View Human Variation Volume 139, Issue 1 (May 2009) pages 47–57 DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.20983 Clarence C. Gravlee, Associate Professor of Anthropology University of Florida, Gainesville The current debate over racial inequalities in health is arguably the…

  • Growing Up Mixed, Blended In The New American Family

    Growing Up Mixed, Blended In The New American Family National Public Radio Tell Me More 2011-03-29 Michel Martin, Host New census figures show that the number of mixed-race Americans has grown by nearly 50 percent in the last ten years. And that rise in number is most pronounced in the South. Census data also reveals…

  • More Iowans identifying as mixed race

    More Iowans identifying as mixed race The Daily Iowan The Independent Daily Newspaper for the University of Iowa Since 1868 2011-04-19 Alison Sullivan Photo: Christy Aumer/The Daily IowanSophomore Tevin Robbins poses in the window of the second floor at the Afro-American Cultural Center on April 5. Robbins is currently majoring in psychology but has switched…

  • The Octoroon: A Play, In Four Acts

    The Octoroon: A Play, In Four Acts First Performed at the Winter Garden Theatre New York, New York December, 1859 Dion Boucicault, ESQ (1820-1890) Text from James A. Cannavino Library, Marist University, Poughkeepsie, New York Characters Original Cast GEORGE PEYTON (Mrs. Peyton’s Nephew, educated in Europe, and just returned home) Mr. A. H. Davenport.        JACOB…

  • NHUM3031 Passing: (Re)Constructing Identity

    NHUM3031 Passing: (Re)Constructing Identity The New School Fall 2009 Tracyann Williams, Instructor Passing: (Re)Constructing Identity: “Passing,” a term traditionally used to describe fair-skinned Blacks posing as whites, is, in fact, part of a broader cultural phenomenon that has its origins in the pursuit of “the American Dream.” For the sake of economic comforts, racially, ethnically,…

  • “A Being of a New World:” The Ambiguity of Mixed Blood in Pauline Johnson’s “My Mother”

    “A Being of a New World:” The Ambiguity of Mixed Blood in Pauline Johnson’s “My Mother” MELUS Volume 27, Number 3, Native American Literature (Autumn, 2002) pages 43-56 Margo Lukens, Associate Professor of English University of Maine Studying mixed-blood/Métis history reveals that an overwhelming number of unions between Europeans and Native people happened between a…

  • Race and Multiraciality in Brazil and the United States: Converging Paths?

    Although both Brazil and the United States inherited European norms that accorded whites privileged status relative to all other racial groups, the development of their societies followed different trajectories in defining white/black relations. In Brazil pervasive miscegenation and the lack of formal legal barriers to racial equality gave the appearance of its being a “racial…

  • Note on the Skin-Colour of the Crosses Between Negro and White

    Note on the Skin-Colour of the Crosses Between Negro and White Biometrika Volume 6, Number 4 (March 1909) pages 348-353 DOI: 10.1093/biomet/6.4.348 Karl Pearson (1857-1936), F.R.S. Those who feel compelled at present to hold their final judgment with regard to Mendelism in suspense, who do not think the statistical proof of its generality by any…

  • The Slave Trader, the White Slave, and the Politics of Racial Determination in the 1850s

    The Slave Trader, the White Slave, and the Politics of Racial Determination in the 1850s Journal of American History Volume 87, Issue 1 (June 2000) pages 43-56 DOI: 10.2307/2567914 Walter Johnson, Winthrop Professor of History and Professor of African and African American Studies Harvard University In January of 1857 Jane Morrison was sold in the…

  • “Quadroon” Balls in the Spanish Period

    “Quadroon” Balls in the Spanish Period Louisiana History: The Journal of the Louisiana Historical Association Volume 14, Number 3 (Summer, 1973) pages 310-315 Translated and Edited by Ronald R. Morazan, Assistant Professor of History Southern University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana With the influx of free blacks into Spanish Louisiana from the island of Santo Domingo, the…