{"id":10329,"date":"2010-11-29T19:49:13","date_gmt":"2010-11-29T19:49:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=10329"},"modified":"2011-01-09T01:32:41","modified_gmt":"2011-01-09T01:32:41","slug":"the-american-isolates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=10329","title":{"rendered":"The American Isolates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1525\/aa.1972.74.3.02a00320\" target=\"_blank\">The American Isolates<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/journal\/10.1111\/(ISSN)1548-1433\" target=\"_blank\">American Anthropologist<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1111\/aman.1972.74.issue-3\/issuetoc\" target=\"_blank\">Volume 74, Issue 3<\/a> (June 1972)<br \/>\npages 693\u2013694<br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1525\/aa.1972.74.3.02a00320\" target=\"_blank\">10.1525\/aa.1972.74.3.02a00320<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>B. Eugene Griessman<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Auburn University<\/em><\/p>\n<p>More than 200 American <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=7933\" target=\"_blank\">isolates<\/a> have been identified historically in at least eighteen of the eastern states of the United States. Their total population has been estimated at 75,000. Those who populate these communities commonly bear unflattering local names-Red Bones, Brass Ankles, Issues-although they themselves usually want to be known as Indians or as Whites.<\/p>\n<p>They are an obscure people in American life and many of them would prefer to remain unnoticed because they are keepers of secrets. Some of them, or their children, or distant relatives, have crossed racial boundaries so that it would not do for them to receive much attention. Scholars for the most part have granted them their wish. \u201cAs a sizeable native minority,\u201d William Harlan Gilbert, Jr., wrote twenty-six years ago, \u201cthey deserve more attention than the meager investigations which sociologists and anthropologists have hitherto made of their problems\u201d (1946:438-447).<\/p>\n<p>This state of affairs has been remedied partially by a few scholars who have studied these populations over a period of years. Some of their findings were presented for the first time at the Annual Meeting of the Southern Anthropological Society in 1970. And now with this issue of the <em>American Anthropologist<\/em> several articles will provide the basis for a wider knowledge of the enclaves&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1525\/aa.1972.74.3.02a00320\/pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The American Isolates American Anthropologist Volume 74, Issue 3 (June 1972) pages 693\u2013694 DOI: 10.1525\/aa.1972.74.3.02a00320 B. Eugene Griessman Auburn University More than 200 American isolates have been identified historically in at least eighteen of the eastern states of the United States. Their total population has been estimated at 75,000. Those who populate these communities commonly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1649,12,5113,20],"tags":[3473,4550,4552,4551],"class_list":["post-10329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-articles","category-triracial","category-usa","tag-american-anthropologist","tag-b-eugene-griessman","tag-w-h-gilbert","tag-william-harlan-gilbert"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10329\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}