Month: December 2011

  • “Miss Eurafrica”: Men, Women’s Sexuality, and Métis Identity in Late Colonial French Africa, 1945-1960 Journal of the History of Sexuality Volume 20, Number 3, September 2011 pages 568-593 Rachel Jean-Baptiste, Assistant Professor of African History University of Chicago The 1960 issue of the magazine L’Eurafricain (The Eurafrican) featured a cover photo of a woman announced…

  • Color Differentiation in the American Systems of Slavery The Journal of Interdisciplinary History Volume 3, Number 3 (Winter, 1973) pages 509-541 Donald L. Horowitz, James B. Duke Professor of Law and Political Science Duke University In the comparative study of race relations, the evolution of group identity constitutes a central process. Although group boundaries tend…

  • Black Pluralism in Post Loving America Chapter in: Loving vs. Virginia in a Post-Racial World: Rethinking Race, Sex, and Marriage Cambridge University Press May 2012 300 pages Hardback ISBN-13: 9780521198585 Paperback ISBN-13: 9780521147989 Edited by Kevin Noble Maillard, Associate Professor of Law Syracuse University Rose Cuison Villazor, Associate Professor of Law Hofstra University Chapter Author…

  •  Her “Nig”: Returning the Gaze of Nella Larsen’s “Passing” Modern Language Studies Volume 32, Number 2 (Autumn, 2002) pages 109-138 Lori Harrison-Kahan, Full-time Adjunct Faculty in English Boston College In a scene from Nella Larsen’s 1929 novel, Passing, a white man, John Bellew, enters his Chicago hotel room to find his wife, Clare, taking tea…

  • Study: Multiracial groups and social position, segregation in America The JHU Gazette Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore Maryland 2011-12-19 Amy Lunday, Homewood The American social hierarchy places people of mixed-race ancestry below whites but above blacks, while additional social stratifications along color lines are simultaneously taking place within the nation’s multiracial groups, according to a Johns…

  • Islands and autochthons: Coloureds, space and belonging in Rhodesia and Zimbabwe (Part 1) Journal of Social Archaeology Volume 4, Number 3 (October 2004) pages 405-426 DOI: 10.1177/1469605304046423 Julia Katherine Seirlis Department of Anthropology University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa This article, the first in a two-part series, examines the ramifications of the complex relationships between race…

  • Power, Perception, and Interracial Sex: Former Slaves Recall a Multiracial South The Journal of Southern History Volume 71, Number 3 (August, 2005) pages 559-588 Fay A. Yarbrough, Associate Professor of History University of Oklahoma My father’s name wuz Robert Stewart. He wuz a white man. My mother wuz named Ann. She wuz part Indian. Her…

  • The Hybrid and the Social Process Phylon (1940-1956) Volume 6, Number 4 (4th Quarter, 1945) pages 327-336 Jitsuichi Masuoka An intermixture of blood is an invariable outcome of human migration, contact, and association. To this statement there seems to be no historical exception. Races and peoples, however much they may be physically and culturally dissimilar,…

  • A Pedigree Study of Amerindian Crosses in Canada The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland Volume 58, (July – December, 1928) pages 511-532 R. Ruggles Gates Department of Anthropology Harvard University This paper is an attempt to apply genetical methods to the study of inter-racial crossing. In the anthropological studies…

  • When It Counts—More On Obama and the Census InterfaithFamiliy.com 2010-05-03 Ruth Abrams Elizabeth Chang wrote in an op-ed in the Washington Post last week, “Why Obama should not have checked ‘black’ on his census form,” Although I knew Obama self-identifies as African American, I was disappointed when I read that that’s what he checked on…