Mixed Race Studies

Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.

Tag: Penn State Press

Race and Multiraciality in Brazil and the United States: Converging Paths?

2011-04-25

Although both Brazil and the United States inherited European norms that accorded whites privileged status relative to all other racial groups, the development of their societies followed different trajectories in defining white/black relations. In Brazil pervasive miscegenation and the lack of formal legal barriers to racial equality gave the appearance of its being a “racial…
Who Is Black? One Nation’s Definition

2009-10-17

Who Is Black? One Nation’s Definition Penn State Press 2001 (Originally published in 1992) 232 pages 6 x 9 ISBN 978-0-271-02172-0 F. James Davis, Professor Emeritus of Sociology Illinois State University Winner of the 1992 Outstanding Book on the Subject of Human Rights from the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Human Rights in…
Notes of a White Black Woman: Race, Color, Community

2009-10-17

Notes of a White Black Woman: Race, Color, Community Penn State Press 1995 206 pages 6 x 9 cloth: ISBN 978-0-271-01430-2 paper: ISBN 978-0-271-02124-9 Judy Scales-Trent, Floyd H. & Hilda L. Hurst Faculty Scholar, Professor Emerita State Univerisity of New York at Buffalo Law School “I remember one time in particular, after the cab I…