The Study of Racialism

I've seen some anthropology websites that work very hard to prove that Sicilians have absolutely no African ancestry. How can they say that when they were ruled by the Moors who may have been North Af ...

I don't want anyone to take this the wrong way but imo, I think people label according to phenotype. Mr. Obama has always been labeled as an African-American because he looks it.

"Obama has ch ...

I think skin color has nothing to do with attractiveness. You can be dark and still be pretty or good-looking. Example: Blair Underwood. This guy is hot!

http://remote.lohudblogs.com/files/2007/10/ ...

[quote="Powell"][quote]August 11, 2008
Still, being a mix was never an issue; most of my peers were too.

I had a similar experience growing up in Puerto Rico. Race was not such an issue ...

From the genetic studies I've seen, African-Americans are anywhere from 20-25% European.

She certainly got the best of all her ancestries. Very pretty girl. I don't know if she looks like Halle Berry though. She seems lighter in skin tone. Nevertheless any comparison to Halle Berry is fla ...

Dragon Horse, this issue has provoked considerable debate on a website called anthroscape. It seems strange that this issue is being brought up after Obama has won the presidency. It seems to me that ...

Dragon Horse, this issue has provoked considerable debate on a website called anthroscape. It seems strange that this issue is being brought up after Obama has won the presidency. It seems to me that ...

Good article. The only thing they don't mention is the y-dna haplogroups that are characteristic of Arabs and Jews. My maternal grandfather has the y-dna characteristic of North Africa and associated ...

I think your making a mountain out of a molehill. I don't care what people classify themselves racially is all I said. When I say I don't care, I mean to say that it is not important to me, that's all ...

If we must refer to race then biracial is how we should refer to Obama. I think when people refer to him as Black; it's because they are looking at his phenotype or color. Some biracials can pass as W ...

If we must refer to race then biracial is how we should refer to Obama. I think when people refer to him as Black; it's because they are looking at his phenotype or color. Some biracials can pass as W ...

From the views they express, it would seem that they are somewhat prejudiced towards people who are not white. I thought they would be more liberal. But I guess a handful of Europeans is not represent ...

My experience of Europeans is entirely based on certain forums on the Internet. From the views they express, it would seem that they are somewhat prejudiced towards people who are not white. I thought ...

If you want to find out for lack of better terms, what your ethnic make up is, what is the best test to get? I'm seriously thinking about doing it. I'm a student and don't have a lot of money but I th ...

I have had several updates with DNATribes. This one includes 2 new markers(Penta D and E):
My Actual DNA Tribes Analysis Results - Native Match Strong/Strongest and Respective MLIs were: Only lowest ...

If you want to find out for lack of better terms, what your ethnic make up is, what is the best test to get? I'm seriously thinking about doing it. I'm a student and don't have a lot of money but I th ...

Mr. Sweet thank you for very much for the information. The racial profiling I was referring to was indeed that case(Derrick Todd Lee) but I didn't know this info was inadmissible as evidence. And also ...

[quote="Dragon Horse"]You mean as in hair color, eye color, skin coloring (to a certain %) The answer is yes if they are testing for those genes and you kno what the genes mean...what varia ...

Are autosomal tests utterly useless for making predictions about physical appearance? If the answer is yes, why are forensics using them to infer the "race" of a criminal?