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  • The Anglo-Indian Community

    The Anglo-Indian Community American Journal of Sociology Volume 40, Number 2 (September, 1934) pages 165-179 Elmer L. Hedin Halcyon, California Of the several half-caste croups in Asia, the largest and most self-conscious is the Anglo-Indian Community. It numbers perhaps two hundred thousand persons who maintain themselves precariously on the outskirts of British-Indian officialdom, employed for…

  • The Measurement of Negro “Passing”

    The Measurement of Negro “Passing” American Journal of Sociology Volume 52, Number 1 (July, 1946) pages 18-22 John H. Burma Older and popular methods of estimating the number of Negroes who pass over into the white group are no longer to be credited. Considerable misconception exists concerning passing itself, which is more frequently temporary and…

  • The Hybrid in Hawaii as a Marginal Man

    The Hybrid in Hawaii as a Marginal Man American Journal of Sociology Volume 39, Number 4 (January 1934) pages 459-468 William C. Smith William Jewell College Several factors conspire to make the hybrid in Hawaii occupy a position markedly different from that of the mixed-blood in other areas. The relative absence of race prejudice on the…

  • Mentality of Racial Hybrids

    Mentality of Racial Hybrids American Journal of Sociology Volume 36, Number 4 (January 1931) pages 534-551 DOI: 10.1086/215474 Robert E. Park (1864-1944), Professor of Sociology University of Chicago Racial hybrids are one of the natural and inevitable results of migration and the consequent mingling of divergent racial stocks.  The motives bringing peoples of divergent races…

  • Race and Marriage

    Race and Marriage American Journal of Sociology Volume 15, Number 4 (January 1910) pages 433-453 DOI: 10.1086/211800 Ulysses G. Weatherly (1865-1940), Associate Professor of History, Economics and Sociology Indiana University The aversion exhibited by most animals to pairing with individuals of another species has been attributed by Westermarck to the selective power of hereditary instinct.  those…

  • The Problem of the Marginal Man

    The Problem of the Marginal Man American Journal of Sociology Volume 41, Number 1 (July 1935) Pages 1-12 DOI: 10.1086/217001 Everett V. Stonequist (1901-1979), Professor of Sociology Skidmore College The marginal man arises in a bi-cultural or multi-cultural situation.  The natural desire of the mixed-blood is to advance toward the group occupying the higher status.  He…

  • University Racial Quotas in Brazil…

    At the federal university in Brazil’s capital city, Brasília, a special committee was constituted in 2004 to evaluate the application file photographs of self-classified negros (read “blacks” or “Afro-Brazilians”) applying to the university via a new racial quota system. An anthropologist, a sociologist, a student representative, and three negro movement actors make up that committee,…

  • Unmixing for Race Making in Brazil

    This article analyzes race-targeted policy in Brazil as both a political stake and a powerful instrument in an unfolding classificatory struggle over the definition of racial boundaries.

  • The Race Construct and Public Opinion: Understanding Brazilian Beliefs about Racial Inequality and Their Determinants

    The Race Construct and Public Opinion: Understanding Brazilian Beliefs about Racial Inequality and Their Determinants The American Journal of Sociology Volume 108, Number 2 (September 2002) pages 406–39 Stanley R. Bailey, Associate Professor of Sociology University of California, Irvine Researchers hold that the racial democracy ideology fosters a rejection of discrimination-based explanations for racial inequality,…

  • Under and Beyond Constraints: Resource Allocation to Young Children from Biracial Families

    Under and Beyond Constraints: Resource Allocation to Young Children from Biracial Families American Journal of Sociology Volume 112, Number 4 (January 2007) pages 1044–1094 ISSN: 0002-9602/2007/11204-0003 DOI: 10.1086/508793 Simon Cheng, Associate Professor of Sociology University of Connecticut Brian Powell, Rudy Professor of Sociology Indiana University Using data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Kindergarten Class…