Mixed Race Studies

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  • Race and the Genetic Revolution: Science, Myth, and Culture

    Race and the Genetic Revolution: Science, Myth, and Culture Columbia University Press September 2011 304 pages 1 illus; 4 tables Paper ISBN: 978-0-231-15697-4 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-231-15696-7 Edited by: Sheldon Krimsky, Professor of Urban & Environmental Policy & Planning; Adjunct Professor of Public Health and Family Medicine Tufts School of Medicine Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts Kathleen…

  • Afro Latinos: everywhere, yet invisible

    Afro Latinos: everywhere, yet invisible Our Weekly 2011-10-06 Cynthia Griffin Struggles with self-image, assimilation mirror Black American experience Last year, during a discussion on increasing the number of African Americans in Major League Baseball, Angel’s centerfielder Torii Hunter in a USA Today interview called the dark-skinned Latino baseball players “imposters” and said they are not…

  • Racist Tendencies Common in Too Many Tribes

    Racist Tendencies Common in Too Many Tribes Indian Country Today Media Network 2012-05-23 Cedric Sunray, MOWA Band of Choctaw Indians Alabama, USA Last month’s racially motivated killings in Oklahoma, perpetrated by Cherokee Indian Jake England and his white roommate against members of North Tulsa’s black community, once again bring to light the prejudicial tendencies held…

  • Reframing Transracial Adoption: Adopted Koreans, White Parents, and the Politics of Kinship

    Reframing Transracial Adoption: Adopted Koreans, White Parents, and the Politics of Kinship Temple University Press May 2012 230 pages 6 x 9 Paper ISBN: 978-1-43990-184-7 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-43990-183-0 eBook ISBN: 978-1-43990-185-4 Kristi Brian, Lecturer in Women’s and Gender Studies and Anthropology and Director of Diversity Education and Training College of Charleston, Charleston, South Carolina Until…

  • Black Power, White Blood: The Life and Times of Johnny Spain (With a New Epilogue by the Author)

    A struggle to transcend race and find justice

  • Brazilian Miscegenation: Disease as Social Metaphor

    Brazilian Miscegenation: Disease as Social Metaphor 2012 Congress of the Latin American Studies Association San Francisco, California May 23-26, 2012 23 pages Okezi T. Otovo, Assistant Professor of History University of Vermont Brazilian medicine of the 19th and early 20th centuries had a peculiar cultural relationship to disease. Certain debates consistently recurred as disease experts…

  • Representing the Race: The Creation of the Civil Rights Lawyer

    Representing the Race: The Creation of the Civil Rights Lawyer Harvard University Press April 2012 352 pages 6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches; 20 halftones Hardcover ISBN: 9780674046870 Kenneth W. Mack, Professor of Law Harvard University ” Representing the Race tells the story of an enduring paradox of American race relations, through the prism of a collective…

  • Feeling Is Believing: Why Obama’s Hair Matters

    Feeling Is Believing: Why Obama’s Hair Matters Racialicious 2012-05-30 Danielle Fuentes Morgan It’s a question President Obama has undoubtedly been asked before. It’s almost a universal African American experience, except this time it was asked under different circumstances and for a different reason. “Can I touch your hair?” The photo of this moment, three-years-old at…

  • Cape Verdean identity in a land of Black and White

    Cape Verdean identity in a land of Black and White Ethnicities Volume 12, Number 3 pages 354-379 DOI: 10.1177/1468796811419599 Gene A. Fisher, Professor Emerita of Sociology University of Massachusetts, Amherst Suzanne Model, Professor Emerita of Sociology University of Massachusetts, Amherst Cape Verde is an island group off the African coast with a history of slavery.…

  • Jared Sexton, Amalgamation Schemes: Antiblackness and the Critique of Multiracialism [Comer Review]

    Jared Sexton, Amalgamation Schemes: Antiblackness and the Critique of Multiracialism [Comer Review] Black Diaspora Review Volume 3, Number 1 (2012) pages 52-53 Nandi Comer Indiana University, Bloomington Amalgamation Schemes: Antiblackness and the Critique of Multiracialism. By Jared Sexton. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2008. 345 pp. “It’s proud to be able to say that… The…