Month: January 2012

  • Color and Cultural Identity BlogTalkRadio Bruce Hurwitz Presents 2012-01-12, 18:00Z (13:00 EST, 10:00 PST) Bruce Hurwitz, Host Marcia Alesan Dawkins, Visiting Scholar Brown University Ph.D. Forum introduces listeners to doctoral and post-doctoral students and their cutting-edge research in the arts, sciences, or humanities. As part of our Ph.D. Forum, I will be joined by Marcia…

  • What Does the Brazilian Census Tell Us About Race? Psychology Today 2011-12-06 Jefferson Fish, Ph.D. Problems with Brazilian and U.S. census data on race. In 2010 I posted a six-part series on the U. S. census and race (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6). In it I pointed out numerous changes in race categories and…

  • It’s dual-race for 1 in 6 babies of mixed parentage The Straits Times Singapore 2012-01-11 Amanda Tan One in six newborn babies of mixed parentage was registered as having a double-barrelled race last year after a new policy kicked in allowing parents to do so. This full-year figure, released for the first time to The…

  • On the Commixture of the Races of Man as Affecting the Progress of Civilisation Transactions of the Ethnological Society of London Volume 3 (1865) pages 98-122 John Crawfurd (1783-1868) AFRICA I continue in this paper the subject of the Commixture of Races, beginning my illustrations with the continent of Africa. The narrow strip of land…

  • A Note on the Possibility of Analysing Race Mixtures Into Their Original Elements by the Mendelian Formula The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland Volume 41, (January-June, 1911) page 179-199 John Brownlee (1868-1927) Anthropology has thrown much light on the problem of race. What is still wanting, however, is a…

  • “African and Cherokee by Choice”: Race and Resistance under Legalized Segregation American Indian Quarterly Volume 22, Numbers 1/2 (Winter – Spring, 1998) pages 203-229 Laura L. Lovett, Associate Professor of History University of Massachusetts, Amherst Zora Neale Hurston once boasted that she was “the only Negro in the United States whose grandfather on the mother’s…

  • The American Negro Science Magazine Volume 69, Number 1787 (1929-03-29) pages 337-341 DOI: 10.1126/science.69.1787.337 Robert J. Terry (1871-1966), Professor of Anatomy [See: The Robert J. Terry Anatomical Skeletal Collection] Washington University Medical School, St. Louis Under the comprehensive title chosen, it is my intention to discuss a single problem fundamental to studies of the colored…

  • Multiplicity within Singularity: Racial Categorization and Recognizing “Mixed Race” in Singapore Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs Volume 30, Number 3 (2011) pages 95-131 ISSN: 1868-4882 (online), ISSN: 1868-1034 Zarine L. Rocha, Research Scholar Department of Sociology National University of Singapore “Race” and racial categories play a significant role in everyday life and state organization…

  • Jackie Kay wins Scottish Book of the Year The Edinburgh Reporter 2011-08-26 Creative Scotland is delighted to announce that award winning poet and author, Jackie Kay, has been awarded the 2011 Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust Book of the Year, in partnership with Creative Scotland, for her autobiography Red Dust Road. Jackie Kay received her £30,000…

  • Multiracial identity development: developmental correlates and themes among multiracial adults Ohio State University 1997 111 pages Jessica Lyn Adams A Dissertation  Presented in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for The Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Graduate School of the Ohio State University This study examined some of the common experiences that have been…