Day: December 8, 2011

  • Lansing has highest percentage of people who identify as multiple-race black Lansing State Journal 2011-11-18 Matthew Miller Gianni Risper has a black mother, a white biological father (as opposed to the father who raised him, his mother’s husband) and a way of describing himself that isn’t found on any Census form: Italian-Caribbean-American. “Race is becoming…

  • Mixed-race Koreans urge identity rethink The Korea Herald 2011-12-07 Kirsty Taylor Things have come a long way since the 1970s when mixed-race Koreans here were spat upon and beaten up for being different. The kids of that time, whose fathers were often foreign soldiers who first came here during the Korean War, used to find…

  • Dominican Republic Country Profile BBC News 2011-12-06 Once ruled by Spain, the Dominican Republic shares the island of Hispaniola with Haiti, a former French colony. OVERVIEW… …The Dominican Republic is inhabited mostly by people of mixed European and African origins. Western influence is seen in the colonial buildings of the capital, Santo Domingo, as well…

  • The Measurement of Negro “Passing” American Journal of Sociology Volume 52, Number 1 (July, 1946) pages 18-22 John H. Burma Older and popular methods of estimating the number of Negroes who pass over into the white group are no longer to be credited. Considerable misconception exists concerning passing itself, which is more frequently temporary and…

  • Patterns of gene flow between Negroes and whites in the US Journal of Biosocial Science Volume 8, Issue 4 (1976) pages 309-333 DOI: 10.1017/S002193200001083X K. F. Dyer Department of Genetics University of Adelaide, South Australia A review of the pattern and magnitude of negro–white mating in the US is presented from the time of the…