Day: April 26, 2011

  • 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…

  • 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 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 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 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…