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Tag: American Anthropologist
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One of the more tragic aspects of the racial worldview has been the seeming dilemma of people whose parents are identifiably of different “races.” Historically, “race” was grounded in the myth of biologically separate, exclusive, and distinct populations. No social ingredient in our race ideology allowed for an identity of “mixed-races.” Indeed over the past…
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The Species Problem: Nineteenth-Century Concepts of Racial Inferiority in the Origin of Man Controversy American Anthropologist Volume 72, Issue 6 (December 1970) pages 1319–1329 DOI: 10.1525/aa.1970.72.6.02a00060 John S. Haller, Jr., Emeritus Professor of History Southern Illinois University, Carbondale The species problem and its implications in the origin of man controversy had grown in importance in…
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There are no three primary races, no three major groups. The idea of three primary races stems from nineteenth-century typology; it is totally misleading to put the black-skinned people of the world together-to put the Australian in the same grouping with the inhabitants of Africa. And there are certainly at least three independent origins of…
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The Racially-Mixed People of the Ramapos: Undoing the Jackson White Legends American Anthropologist Volume 74, Number 5 (October 1972) pages 1276-1285 DOI: 10.1525/aa.1972.74.5.02a00190 Daniel Collins North Carolina State University A review of the literature fails to validate the Jackson White legends which traditionally have accounted for the presence of a racially mixed collectivity in the…
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Variability 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 In his revised edition of The Mind of Primitive Man, Professor Boas warns against assuming “on the basis of a low variability that a type is pure, for we know that some mixed types are remarkably…
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Biracialism in American Society: A Comparative View American Anthropologist Volume 57, Issue 6 (December 1955) pages 1253–1263 DOI: 10.1525/aa.1955.57.6.02a00150 Ruth Landes Our culture exercises certain values forcefully through our interracial arrangements, principally Negro and white. Comparison with other white-governed societies receiving Negroes reveals the uniqueness in American developments, above all in the operations of Negro…
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Mestizaje and Law Making in Indigenous Identity Formation in Northeastern Brazil: “After the Conflict Came the History” American Anthropologist Volume 106, Issue 4 (December 2004) pages 663–674 DOI: 10.1525/aa.2004.106.4.663 Jan Hoffman French, Assistant Professor of Anthropology University of Richmond In this article, I explore issues of authenticity, legal discourse, and local requirements of belonging by…