Tag: American Anthropologist

  • The Coe Ridge Colony: A Racial Island Disappears American Anthropologist Volume 74, Issue 3 (June 1972) pages 710–719 DOI: 10.1525/aa.1972.74.3.02a00350 Lynwood Montell Western Kentucky University The ninety year history of a racial isolate in the Kentucky–Tennessee border is examined. Peopled by a mixed population of Whites, Blacks, and, occasionally, Indians, the community received notoriety as…

  • The Physical Anthropology and Genetics of Marginal People of the Southeastern United States American Anthropologist Volume 74, Issue 3 (June 1972) pages 719–734 DOI: 10.1525/aa.1972.74.3.02a00360 William S. Pollitzer University of North Carolina Admixture of White, Negro, and Indian peoples of the Southeastern United States from colonial days on has led to some unique populations isolated…

  • The American Isolates American Anthropologist Volume 74, Issue 3 (June 1972) pages 693–694 DOI: 10.1525/aa.1972.74.3.02a00320 B. Eugene Griessman Auburn University More than 200 American isolates have been identified historically in at least eighteen of the eastern states of the United States. Their total population has been estimated at 75,000. Those who populate these communities commonly…

  • On Mixed-Racial Isolates American Anthropologist Volume 76, Issue 2 (June 1974) pages 343–344 DOI: 10.1525/aa.1974.76.2.02a00190 G. Harry Stopp, Jr. Louisiana State University In recent articles on American isolates (American Anthropologist 74: 693-7 34) Beale, and Dane and Griessman predicted change for “mixed-racial” communities in the United States stemming from the recent civil rights legislation. They…

  • An Overview of the Phenomenon of Mixed Racial Isolates in the United States American Anthropologist Volume 74, Issue 3 (June 1972) pages 704–710 DOI: 10.1525/aa.1972.74.3.02a00340 Calvin L. Beale Economic Research Service U.S. Department of Agriculture The subject of the paper is population groups of real or alleged tri-racial origin—Indian, White, and Negro. There is a…

  • Race as a mechanism of social stratification and as a form of human identity is a recent concept in human history. Historical records show that neither the idea nor ideologies associated with race existed before the seventeenth century.

  • Variablity in Race Hybrids American Anthropologist Volume 40, Issue 4 (October-December 1938) pages 680–697 DOI: 10.1525/aa.1938.40.4.02a00090 Wilson D. Wallis (1886-1970) In his revised edition of The Mind of Primitive Man [Read here], Professor [Franz] Boas warns against assuming “on the basis of a low variability that a type is pure, for we know that some mixed…

  • Review: “Black Gal Swing”: Color, Class, and Category in Globalized Culture [Review of works by Jayne O. Ifekwunigwe, Arthur K. Spears, and Rainier Spencer] American Anthropologist Volume 103, Issue 1 (March 2001) pages 208-211 DOI: 10.1525/aa.2001.103.1.208 Fred J. Hay, Professor and Librarian of the W.L. Eury Appalachian Collection Library Appalachian State University Scattered Belongings: Cultural Paradoxes…