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  • The “Passing” Question

    The “Passing” Question Phylon (1940-1956) Volume 9, Number 4 (4th Quarter 1948) pages 336-340 Wm. M. Kephart, Professor of Sociology University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia How many Negroes are ‘passing‘ every year in the United  States?” “What percentage of the White population possesses some Negro blood?” “In time, will all the Negroes ‘pass’?” “What proportion of…

  • The Tragic Mulatto Theme in Six Works of Langston Hughes

    The Tragic Mulatto Theme in Six Works of Langston Hughes Phylon (1940-1956) Volume 16, Number 2 (2nd Qtr., 1955) pages 195-204 Arthur P. Davis (1904-1996) The Weary Blues (1925), the first publication of Langston Hughes, contained a provocative twelve-line poem entitled “Cross,” which dealt with the tragic mulatto theme. Two years later when Mr. Hughes brought…

  • President Alexandre Pétion: Founder of Agrarian Democracy in Haiti and Pioneer of Pan-Americanism

    President Alexandre Pétion: Founder of Agrarian Democracy in Haiti and Pioneer of Pan-Americanism Phylon (1940-1956) Volume 2, Number 3 (Third Quarter, 1941) pages 205-213 Dantès Bellegarde (1877-1966) [Biography in French] The history of Haiti is dominated by four great men who fought and worked for its independence: Toussaint Louverture, Dessalines, Christophe and Pétion. Toussaint is the…

  • The Hybrid and the Social Process

    The Hybrid and the Social Process Phylon (1940-1956) Volume 6, Number 4 (4th Quarter, 1945) pages 327-336 Jitsuichi Masuoka An intermixture of blood is an invariable outcome of human migration, contact, and association. To this statement there seems to be no historical exception. Races and peoples, however much they may be physically and culturally dissimilar,…

  • Social Origins of the Brandywine Population

    Social Origins of the Brandywine Population Phylon (1960-) Vollume 24, Number 4 (4th Qtr., 1963) pages 369-378 Thomas J. Harte Catholic University of America ALL RACIAL ISOLATES present problems of unknown or mysterious origins. [C. A.] Weslager notes the lack of specific information for the Nanticokes of Delaware and for the Moors as well.  There…

  • The Sociological Relevance of the Concept of Half-Caste in British Society

    The Sociological Relevance of the Concept of Half-Caste in British Society Phylon (1960-) Volume 36, Number 3 (3rd Quarter, 1975) pages 309-320 G. Llewellyn Watson, Assistant Professor of Sociology University of Prince Edward Island Great Britain has a long tradition of social class distinctions and relations. Indeed, the early British railways of the nineteenth century…