Day: December 20, 2011

  • 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…

  • To the whites, all Africans who were not of pure blood were gens de couleur [people of color]. Among themselves, however, there were jealous and fiercely-guarded distinctions: “griffes, briques, mulattoes, quadroons, octoroons, each term meaning one degree’s further transfiguration toward the Caucasian standard of physical perfection.”1 Alice Dunbar-Nelson, “People of Color in Lousiana: Part I,”…