Mixed Race Studies

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Month: December 2011

  • Results of Inbreeding on Norfolk Island

    Results of Inbreeding on Norfolk Island Science  Magazine Volume 65, Number 1693 (1927-06-10) page x DOI: 10.1126/science.65.1693.0x-s Providing the original stock is sound, inbreeding among human beings results in no deterioration, physical or mental. Nor does mixture of widely differing races produce an inferior type.  Such are the conclusions of Dr. Harry L. Shapiro, ethnologist…

  • Race as a Social Construct in Head and Neck Cancer Outcomes

    Race as a Social Construct in Head and Neck Cancer Outcomes Otolaryngology—Head Neck Surgery Volume 144, Number 3 (March 2011) pages 381-389 DOI: 10.1177/0194599810393884 Maria J. Worsham, PhD Department of Otolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, Michigan George Divine, PhD Biostatistics and Research Epidemiology Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, Michigan Rick A.…

  • Call for Proposals: Escaping to Destinations South: The Underground Railroad, Cultural Identity, and Freedom Along the Southern Borderlands

    Call for Proposals: Escaping to Destinations South: The Underground Railroad, Cultural Identity, and Freedom Along the Southern Borderlands National Park Service Network to Freedom 2012-06-20 through 2012-06-24 St. Augustine, Florida Call for proposal deadline is Sunday, 2012-01-15, 23:59 PST (Local Time). The 2012 Conference theme is the resistance to slavery through escape and flight to…

  • Living the Multiracial Experience: Shifting Racial Expressions, Resisting Race, and Seeking Community

    Living the Multiracial Experience: Shifting Racial Expressions, Resisting Race, and Seeking Community Qualitative Social Work Volume 11, Number 1 (January 2012) pages 42-60 DOI: 10.1177/1473325010375646 Kelly Faye Jackson, Assistant Professor of Social Work Arizona State University The growing presence and visibility of mixed race persons in the US demands that social workers critically examine and…

  • The Herndons: An Atlanta Family

    The Herndons: An Atlanta Family University of Georgia Press 2002-06-21 272 pages 8 x 10 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8203-2309-1 Carole Merritt, Director The Herndon Home, Atlanta, Georgia A compelling portrait of one of Atlanta’s most prominent African American families Born a slave and reared a sharecropper, Alonzo Herndon (1858-1927) was destined to drudgery in the red…

  • African American Community Building in Atlanta: A Guide to the Study of Race in America

    African American Community Building in Atlanta: A Guide to the Study of Race in America Southern Spaces An interdisciplinary journal about regions, places, and cultures of the U.S. South and their global connections 2004-03-17 Carole Merritt, Director The Herndon Home, Atlanta, Georgia The development of the African American community in Atlanta is a fruitful subject…

  • Race Problems in America

    Race Problems in America Science Magazine Volume 29, Number 752 (1909-05-28) pages 839-849 DOI: 10.1126/science.29.752.839 Franz Boas The development of the American nation through amalgamation of diverse European nationalities and the ever-increasing heterogeneity of the component elements of four people have called attention to the anthropological and biological problems involved in this process. I propose…

  • Letter to the Editor: Alleged Extinction of Mulatto

    Letter to the Editor: Alleged Extinction of Mulatto Science Magazine Volume 20, Number 517 (1892-12-30) page 375 DOI: 10.1126/science.ns-20.517.375 A few months since an article appeared in a medical journal affirming that the pure mulatto colonies of southern Ohio were dying out after the fourth generation. Can any reader point me to the article in…

  • …and when he reaches manhood, he invades the nigger quarters, to place himself in the endearing relation of paternity to half niggers.

    The Slavery Democracy prates and chaters about ‘negro equality, ‘Black Republicans,’ and ‘nigger stealing,’ to use its classic phrase and improved orthography. It has or affects to have, a great horror of ‘niggers.’ And any one who advocates the principles of human Freedom, as they were enunciated and laid down in enduring forms by the…

  • Escaping to Destinations South: The Underground Railroad, Cultural Identity, and Freedom Along the Southern Borderlands

    Escaping to Destinations South: The Underground Railroad, Cultural Identity, and Freedom Along the Southern Borderlands National Park Service Network to Freedom 2012-06-20 through 2012-06-24 St. Augustine, Florida The Network to Freedom has joined with local partners to present an annual UGRR [Underground Railroad] conference beginning in 2007. These conferences bring together a mix of grass…