{"id":9900,"date":"2010-11-02T18:55:17","date_gmt":"2010-11-02T18:55:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=9900"},"modified":"2013-06-15T20:57:18","modified_gmt":"2013-06-15T20:57:18","slug":"factors-in-the-microevolution-of-a-triracial-isolate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=9900","title":{"rendered":"Factors in the Microevolution of a Triracial Isolate"},"content":{"rendered":"

Factors in the Microevolution of a Triracial Isolate<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

American Journal of Human Genetics
\nVolume 18, Number 1 (January 1966)
\npages 26-38<\/p>\n

W. S. Pollitzer<\/strong>
\nDepartment of Anatomy
\nUniversity of North Carolina, Chapel Hill<\/em><\/p>\n

R. M. Menegaz-Bock
\n<\/strong>Genetics Training Committe
\nUniversity of North Carolina, Chapel Hill<\/em><\/p>\n

J. C. Herion
\n<\/strong>Department of Medicine
\nUniversity of North Carolina, Chapel Hill<\/em><\/p>\n

Triracial Isolates<\/a> today attract the attention of the anthropologist, the geneticist, and the medical scientist as questions arise concerning the origin of such isolates, their history, social status, breeding structure, and inherited pathological conditions. This paper describes the physical, serological, and clinical characteristics of a hybrid population in northeastern North Carolina<\/a> (Witkop et al., 1960; Menegaz-Bock, 1962), its racial composition, and the cultural and biological factors in its evolution.<\/p>\n

History<\/strong><\/p>\n

The population can be traced at least as far back as the American Revolution<\/a>. The most common surname in this region today is the same as that of two brothers, said to be descended from Cherokee Indians<\/a> and whites, who fought in that war. The census of 1790 for the county in which the majority of this population now live lists this name only under the designation \u201call other free persons;\u201d four of seven other surnames frequent in this population are listed as \u201cfree white,\u201d while three are listed under both of these headings. Many of these names, well-known in the isolate today, can be traced through the census reports of the nineteenth century. In 1800, ten are listed, mostly under \u201cfree persons of color,\u201d and the census of 1810 lists six of these as \u201cother free persons except Indians not taxed.\u201d By 1820, most of these names appear in the column \u201cfree Negro.\u201d Eleven surnames common in the current population are listed in the census of 1830 as \u201cfree colored persons,\u201d and most of these are listed under the same heading again in 1840. The census of 1850, designating free inhabitants as \u201cwhite,\u201d \u201cblack,\u201d and \u201cmulatto<\/a>,\u201d registers a dozen of these family names as \u201cmulattoes\u201d and half of these also as \u201cwhite.\u201d In 1860, the census for the western district of the county listed 13 of the common names as free inhabitants, either white, black, or mulatto. In the 1870 census for the township where most of the population now lives, five of seven last names common in the group include mulattoes. The census of 1880 contains ten names common in the township now, and all but two of these are to be found under \u201cmulatto.\u201d The census of 1890 was destroyed, and names are not released for the censuses from 1900 on…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Factors in the Microevolution of a Triracial Isolate American Journal of Human Genetics Volume 18, Number 1 (January 1966) pages 26-38 W. S. Pollitzer Department of Anatomy University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill R. M. Menegaz-Bock Genetics Training Committe University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill J. C. Herion Department of Medicine University of North Carolina, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1649,12,2039,459,8,3015,5113,20],"tags":[4324,4327,879,4326,4325],"class_list":["post-9900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-articles","category-health-medicine","category-history","category-media-archive","category-native-americans","category-triracial","category-usa","tag-american-journal-of-human-genetics","tag-j-c-herion","tag-north-carolina","tag-r-m-menegaz-bock","tag-w-s-pollitzer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9900","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=9900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9900\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}