Month: January 2012

  • The meaning and measurement of race in the U.S. census: Glimpses into the future Demography Volume 37, Number 3 (August 2000) pages 381-393 DOI: 10.2307/2648049 Charles Hirschman, Boeing International Professor of Sociology and Professor of Public Affaris University of Washington Richard Alba, Distinguished Professor (Emeritus) of Sociology Co-Director of The Center for the Elimination of…

  • The New Peoples: Being and Becoming Métis in North America University of Manitoba Press October 1985 306 pages 30 b&w illustrations, notes, index Paper ISBN: 9780887556173 Edited by Jacqueline Peterson, Professor Emerita of History Washington State University Jennifer S. H. Brown, Professor Emerita of History University of Winnipeg The New Peoples is the first major…

  • Ethnogenesis and Ethnohistory of the Seminole Maroons Journal of World History Volume 4, Number 2 (Fall 1993) pages 287-305 Kevin Mulroy, Associate University Librarian University of California, Los Angeles At what historic moment and by what means does a ‘people’ spring into being?” ask Jacqueline Peterson and Jennifer Brown in their introduction to the 1985…

  • “IndiVisible” Discusses African–Native American Lives Newsdsesk: Newsroom of the Smithsonian Institution 2012-01-06 “IndiVisible: African–Native American Lives in the Americas,” a 20-panel display that outlines the seldom-viewed history and complex lives of people of dual African American and Native American ancestry, will open at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian in New York, the…

  • Situating mixed-race households in neighborhood contexts University of Georgia May 2007 Margaret Anne Hudson Census 2000 counted approximately 1.7 million White/Latino mixed-race/multiethnic households in the US. Unfortunately, most research is limited to similar statistical accounting. Very little research moves beyond frequency counts to describe racial and ethnic identities in White/Latino households or the relationships of…

  • ENLT 252 Mestizas, Halfies, and Others University of Virginia Fall 2008 How does your family background affect the way that the way that you see yourself?  How others in the United States see you?  In this class we will investigate novels, short stories, and poems that foreground the multicultural and intercultural make-up of the United…

  • The New Racial Dialogue: Arriving at Whiteness in the Age of Obama Journal of African American Studies Volume 13, Number 2 (June 2009) (“Joy Unspeakable: The First African American President”) pages 184-186 DOI: 10.1007/s12111-008-9077-y David H. Roane My essay issues a challenge for whites to see the blackness of President-Elect Obama as a reflection of…

  • AMST 349: Race Across the Americas Emory University Seminar exploring the social construction of race comparatively and transnationally, especially the status of the descendants of enslaved Africans and mixed-race individuals in the Caribbean and Latin America.

  • 335. Comparative Studies in Racial and cultural Identities St. Lawrence University, Canton, New York Cultural Encounters Courses  This is a senior seminar designed to fulfill the goals of the Cultural Encounters program: to prompt students to synthesize and re-evaluate their academic study of cultures, their experiential learning off campus and their own social locations and…

  • Marriages between African and Native Americans produced many children Louisiana Weekly 2012-01-02 (Healthy Living News) —Native Americans with African ancestry produced more children than ‘full bloods’ in the early 1900s, despite the odds being against them, a new study demonstrates. Research by Michael Logan, Ph.D., of the University of Tennessee shows that increased fertility occurred…