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Day: June 21, 2011

  • Sterility Among Hybrids

    Turning now to human beings I would begin by stating that the mulatto is not so fertile as the pure black or pure white types. Statistics show that where the coloured population of the United States has the largest number of mulattoes, the birth rate is much lower than where the coloured population is pure…

  • The study of racial mixture in the British Commonwealth: Some anthropological preliminaries

    The study of racial mixture in the British Commonwealth: Some anthropological preliminaries Eugenics Review Volume 32, Number 4 (January 1941) pages 114-120 K. L. Little The Duckworth Laboratory University Museum of Ethnology, Cambridge In a recently published and noteworthy symposium entitled “Race Relations and the Race Problem,” eleven prominent American writers reviewed the sociological implications…

  • Racial mixture in Great Britain: some anthropological characteristics of the Anglo-negroid cross (A Preliminary Report)

    Racial mixture in Great Britain: some anthropological characteristics of the Anglo-negroid cross (A Preliminary Report) Eugenics Review Volume 33, Number 4 (January 1942) pages 112-120 K. L. Little The Duckworth Laboratory University Museum of Ethnology, Cambridge With the exception of a large number of family studies secured by Miss R. M. Fleming, little anthropological attention…

  • Half-Hearted Loving

    Half-Hearted Loving The Faculty Lounge: Conversations about law, culture, and academia 2011-06-13 Kevin Maillard, Associate Professor of Law Syracuse University Yesterday, June 12, marked the annual celebration of Loving Day.  This event commemorated the 1967 Supreme Court case of Loving v. Virginia, which invalidated the state’s Racial Integrity Act that prohibited interracial marriages.  Notably, Virginia’s…

  • Multiracial students and the evolution of affirmative action

    Multiracial students and the evolution of affirmative action Harvard Law & Policy Review 2011-06-17 Jay Willis Reduced to its elements, affirmative action is a relatively straightforward concept.  Colleges and universities consider an applicant’s racial and ethnic background to ensure that they enroll sufficient numbers of students from traditionally underrepresented groups. But schools are now grappling…

  • School of Cultural Inquiry Seminar Series – Narrating the Nowhere People: FB Vickers’ The Mirage and “Half-Caste” Aboriginals

    School of Cultural Inquiry Seminar Series – Narrating the Nowhere People: FB Vickers’ The Mirage and “Half-Caste” Aboriginals Australian National University A. D. Hope Conference Room (Building 14) 2011-06-06, 16:16-17:30 (Local TIme) Rich Pascal, Visiting Fellow School of Cultural Inquiry Australian National University By the turn of the Twentieth Century, and increasingly in the decades…