Mixed Race Studies

Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.

recent posts

about

Author: Steven

  • Answer Formats in British Census and Survey Ethnicity Questions: Does Open Response Better Capture ‘Superdiversity’?

    Answer Formats in British Census and Survey Ethnicity Questions: Does Open Response Better Capture ‘Superdiversity’? Sociology Volume 46, Number 2 (April 2012) pages 354-364 DOI: 10.1177/0038038511419195 Peter J. Aspinall, Reader in Population Health at the Centre for Health Services Studies University of Kent, UK During a period of unprecedented ethnicity data collection in Britain, an…

  • Racial Divides in a Multicultural America

    Racial Divides in a Multicultural America The American Prospect 2011-01-31 Jamelle Bouie In The New York Times, Susan Saulny writes about the apparent malleability of race in an increasingly multicultural America. To that end, she profiles a group of students in the Multiracial and Biracial Student Association at the University of Maryland:   Many young…

  • Miscegenation Ball

    Miscegenation Ball The Atlantic 2011-02-01 Ta-Nehisi Coates, Senior Editor Reporters should stop writing these beiging of America stories, and listen to Jamelle Boiue: The great majority of intermarriages take place between Hispanics, Asians and whites. If there is a great population of multiracial people, it’s almost certain that they will be some combination of Hispanic…

  • Making Güeras: Selling white identities on late-night Mexican television

    Making Güeras: Selling white identities on late-night Mexican television Gender, Place and Culture Volume 12, Number 1 (March 2005) pages 71–93 DOI: 10.1080/09663690500082984 Jamie Winders, Associate Professor of Geography Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York John Paul Jones III, Professor of Geography and Development University of Arizona, Tucson Michael James Higgins (1946-2011), Professor Emeritus of Anthropology…

  • Race in South Africa: Still an issue

    Race in South Africa: Still an issue The Economist 2012-02-04 Mixed-race citizens remain uneasy about black rule If Barack Obama lived in South Africa, he might be called a coloured. Under apartheid, the government decided to which of four racial categories a South African belonged—black, coloured, Indian/Asian or white—depending mostly on looks. The same categorisation…

  • Art Review: A Life of Marital Bliss (Segregation Laws Aside)

    Art Review: A Life of Marital Bliss (Segregation Laws Aside) The New York Times 2012-01-26 Martha Schwendener What’s the difference between a political activist and a political hero? It’s often a matter of intention versus accident. Within the civil rights movement Rosa Parks is seen as an activist: She trained at the Highlander Folk School…

  • Race Remixed?

    The 2000 U.S. Census was the first in modern times allowing respondents to check off more than one box for the mandatory race question. In 2010, the number of people checking more than one box grew enormously.

  • Are there ‘Mestizos’ in the Arab World? A Comparative Survey of Classification Categories and Kinship Systems

    Are there ‘Mestizos’ in the Arab World? A Comparative Survey of Classification Categories and Kinship Systems Middle Eastern Studies Volume 48, Issue 1 (January 2012) pages 125-138 DOI: 10.1080/00263206.2011.643301 Josep Lluís Mateo Dieste, Professor of Social Anthropology Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona Terminology devoted to miscegenation and inter-ethnic relationships is extremely problematic, and this article shows…

  • African and American

    African and American Science Magazine Volume 17, Number 418 (1891-02-06) page 78 DOI: 10.1126/science.ns-17.418.78 At a meeting of the Canadian Institute, Toronto, Jan. 24, Mr. D. R. Keys, M.A., read on behalf of Mr. A. F. Chamberlain, M.A., fellow in Clark University, Worcester, Mass., a valuable and interesting paper entitled “African and American: the Contact…

  • Firman/Furman Family

    Firman/Furman Family Tracing the Black Presence in Nineteenth-Century Westmorland, New Brunswick Mount Allison University, Sackville, New Brunswick, Canada 2011 Jennifer Harris, Associate Professor of English Mount Allison University The Furman family, consisting of parents John and Susan L. with their son Ralph, is buried in St. Mark’s Anglican Cemetery, Mount Whatley, as is daughter Mary…