Day: December 30, 2011

  • My Confederate Kinfolk: A Twenty-First Century Freedwoman Discovers Her Roots Basic Civitas Books 2007-01-02 352 pages Paperback ISBN: 9780465015740; ISBN-10: 0465015743 Thulani Davis Starting from a photograph and writings left by her grandmother, acclaimed African-American novelist Thulani Davis goes looking for the “white folk” in her family, a Scots-Irish family of cotton planters unknown to…

  • Hypodescent: A history of the crystallization of the one-drop rule in the United States, 1880-1940 Princeton University September 2011 383 pages Publication Number: AAT 3480237 ISBN: 9781124939179 Scott Leon Washington A DISSERTATION PRESENTED TO THE FACULTY OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITY IN CANDIDACY FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY RECOMMENDED FOR ACCEPTANCE BY THE DEPARTMENT OF…

  • Psychology Major Publishes Analysis of Racial Dynamics in the Wizarding World James Madison University, Harrisonburg, Virginia Department of Psychology 2011-10-20 Jordan Pye When a fan asked her about the political allegories in her book series, Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling said, “I wanted Harry to leave our world and find exactly the same problems in…

  • 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…