Inter-American Literary Dialogues: Mixing Race, Mixing Culture

Anna Brickhouse; Monika Kaup; Debra J. Rosenthal

doi:10.2307/29741944

Renee C. Romano, Race Mixing: Black-White Marriage in Postwar America

The Journal of African American History ◽

10.1086/jaahv93n1p119 ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 93 (1) ◽

pp. 119-121

Author(s):

Amadu Jacky Kaba

Keyword(s):

Postwar America ◽

Race Mixing

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Blood Is Thicker than Water: Policing Donor Insemination and the Reproduction of Whiteness

Hypatia ◽

10.1111/j.1527-2001.2007.tb00986.x ◽

2007 ◽

Vol 22 (2) ◽

pp. 143-161 ◽

Cited By ~ 32

Author(s):

Seline Szkupinski Quiroga

Keyword(s):

General Level ◽

Donor Insemination ◽

Parents And Children ◽

Race Mixing

On the most general level, this essay addresses the ways race is deployed in biomedical solutions to infertility. Szkupinski Quiroga begins with general assertions about fertility technology. She then explores how fertility technology reinforces biological links between parents and children and argues that most options reflect and privilege white kinship patterns and fears about race mixing. She illustrates these observations with interviews she has collected.

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The Mestizos of Kisar: An insular racial laboratory in the Malay Archipelago

Journal of Southeast Asian Studies ◽

10.1017/s0022463418000358 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 49 (3) ◽

pp. 445-463

Author(s):

Hans Pols ◽

Warwick Anderson

Keyword(s):

Nineteenth Century ◽

Mixed Race ◽

East Timor ◽

Late Nineteenth Century ◽

East Indies ◽

Malay Archipelago ◽

Late Nineteenth ◽

Dutch East Indies ◽

Race Mixing

In the 1920s and 1930s, the Mestizos of Kisar, a dry, almost barren island in the Dutch East Indies off the coast of East Timor, were a model for the study of race mixing or human hybridity. Discovered in the late nineteenth century, these ‘anomalous blondes’ of Dutch and Kisarese ancestry became subjects of intense scrutiny by physical anthropologists. As a German specialist in tropical medicine in search of a convenient empire after 1918, Ernst Rodenwaldt favourably evaluated the physique and mentality of the isolated, fair Mestizos in the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia). Back in Germany in the 1930s, as professor of hygiene at Heidelberg, his views on race hardened to accord with Nazi doctrine. Yet after the war, Rodenwaldt successfully cited his earlier appreciation of mixed-race peoples in the eastern Malay Archipelago as grounds for rehabilitation. Once a celebrated case study in human hybridity, the Mestizos of Kisar were erased from anthropological discussion in the 1950s, when race mixing ceased to be a biological issue and became instead a sociological interest. Still, Rodenwaldt's work continues to exert some limited influence in the eastern parts of the archipelago and among the Kisarese diaspora, indicating the penetrance and resilience of colonial racialisation projects.

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