Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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- You were either Black or white. To claim whiteness as a mixed child was to deny and hide Blackness. Our families understood that the world we were growing into would seek to denigrate this part of us and we would need a community that was made up, always and already, of all shades of Blackness.
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Tag: Charles B. Davenport
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The Galton Society for the Study of the Origin and Evolution of Man (1918–1935) The Embryo Project Encyclopedia 2021-06-03 Aliya R. Hoff, Ph.D. Candidate in Anthropology Arizona State University Charles Benedict Davenport, Madison Grant, and Henry Fairfield Osborn founded the Galton Society for the Study of the Origin and Evolution of Man, or the Galton…
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When Racism Was a Science The New York Times 2014-10-13 Joshua A. Krisch ‘Haunted Files: The Eugenics Record Office’ Recreates a Dark Time in a Laboratory’s Past An old stucco house stands atop a grassy hill overlooking the Long Island Sound. Less than a mile down the road, the renowned Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory bustles…
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Not only physical but also mental and temperamental incompatibilities may be a consequence of hybridization. For example, one often sees in mulattoes an ambition and push combined with intellectual inadequacy which makes the unhappy hybrid dissatisfied with his lot and a nuisance to others. To sum up, then, miscegenation commonly spells disharmony—disharmony of physical, mental and…
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Notes on physical anthropology of Australian aborigines and black-white hybrids American Journal of Physical Anthropology Volume 8, Issue 1 (January/March 1925) pages 73–94 DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.1330080105 Charles B. Davenport, Director Department of Experimental Evolution (Carnegie Institution of Washington) Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island, New York Introduction In September 1914, after the meetings of the British Association…
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A Race about Race: Race, Inter-Race and Post-Race in the Study of Human Genetics Afterimage: The Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism Volume 30, Number 2 (September/October 2002) Paul Vanouse, Associate Professor of Visual Studies The State University of New York, Buffalo In 1929, Charles B. Davenport, Director of the Biological Laboratory at Cold…
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Skin Color of Mulattoes Journal of Heridity Volume 5, Number 12 (December 1914) pages 556-558 Charles B. Davenport, Director Department of Experimental Evolution (Carnegie Institution of Washington) Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island, New York Apparently Four Factors Involved—Segregation in Second Generation—Skin Pigment Developed After Birth—No Correlation Between Color of Skin and Curliness of Hair in…
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The Skin Color of Children from White By Near-White Marriages The Journal of Heredity Volume 38, Number 8 (August 1947) pages 233-234 Curt Stern (1902-1981), Professor of Zoology and Genetics [Read a biographical memoir by James V. Neel here.] University of California, Berkeley It is well known that the inheritance of color differences in negro-white crosses…