Mixed Race Studies

Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.

Tag: The Journal of Negro Education

A Critical Discussion of the “Mulatto Hypothesis”

2012-02-10

A Critical Discussion of the “Mulatto Hypothesis” The Journal of Negro Education Volume 3, Number 3, The Physical and Mental Abilities of the American Negro (July, 1934) pages 389-402 Melville J. Herskovits (1895-1963) The Two “Mulatto Hypotheses” What is the “mulatto hypothesis?” The phrase may be used to indicate a point of view concerning the…
Intelligence of Negroes of Mixed Blood in Canada

2011-12-03

Intelligence of Negroes of Mixed Blood in Canada The Journal of Negro Education Volume 10, Number 4 (October, 1941) pages 650-652 H. A. Tanser Miscegenation, as between the White and Negro races, presents an interesting field for study. Herskovits, Hooton, Peterson and Lanier, and others have attempted to investigate such so-called racial differences as those…
The Octoroon: Early History of the Drama of Miscegenation

2010-11-27

The Octoroon: Early History of the Drama of Miscegenation The Journal of Negro Education Volume 20, Number 4 (Autumn, 1951) pages 547-557 Sidney Kaplan, Instructor In English University of Massachusetts From the moment of its birth the American democracy has appeared to some of its best champions as the perfect subject for Aristotelian tragedy. Could…