Tag: Winthrop Jordan

  • Winthrop Jordan, one of the most honored of US historians, wrote about racial mixing a generation before there was a field of mixed race studies. At the time of his death, he left an unfinished manuscript: “Historical Origins of the One-Drop Racial Rule in the United States.” For this inaugural issue of the JCMRS, Jordan’s…

  • The JCMRS inaugural issue will be released on Summer, 2013 Journal of Critical Mixed Race Studies c/o Department of Sociology SSMS Room 3005 University of California, Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, California  93106-9430 E-Mail: socjcmrs@soc.ucsb.edu 2012-10-10 The Journal of Critical Mixed Race Studies (JCMRS) is a peer-reviewed online journal dedicated to developing the field of Critical Mixed…

  • American Chiaroscuro: The Status and Definition of Mulattoes in the British Colonies The William and Mary Quarterly Third Series, Volume 19, Number 2 (April, 1962) pages 183-200 Winthrop D. Jordan (1931-2007) The word mulatto is not frequently used in the United States. Americans generally reserve it for biological contexts, because for social purposes a mulatto…

  • Neither White Nor Black: The Mulatto Character in American Fiction New York University Press 1978 280 pages ISBN-10: 0814709966; ISBN-13: 978-0814709962 9 x 6 x 1 inches This book is out of print. Judith R. Berzon The mulatto character has captured the imagination of American novelist in every period of our literature.  For American writers, the…