Mixed Race Studies

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  • Family Histories of ‘Passing’ from Black to White Documented in Book

    Family Histories of ‘Passing’ from Black to White Documented in Book Diverse: Issues in Higher Education 2011-09-06 Katti Gray In the summer of 1993, as American-born Daniel Sharfstein registered Blacks to cast their first ballot in race-riven South Africa, he volunteered alongside a South African woman, who professed to be as authentically African as any…

  • He’s All and None—But Let’s Give It a Rest

    I say let him [Barack Obama] do his best to run the country, like any President, and the rest of us can do him a favor by not constantly debating how black he is or isn’t. Enough already. He’s the President, for Christ’s sake. Let him do his job. David A. Hollinger, “Chats: Is Obama…

  • Culture: The face in the mirror is mestizo

    Culture: The face in the mirror is mestizo San Antonio Current San Antonia, Texas 2006-02-22 Elaine Wolff, Current Editor Plaza de Armas A two-day roundtable takes a big eraser to identity lines “I’m looking for the mestizo eye, the mestizo subjunctive, the mestizo soul,” says author John Phillip Santos as we wander through Retratos: 2,000…

  • Fatal Invention: Race and Science

    Fatal Invention: Race and Science The Brian Lehrer Show WNYC Monday, 2011-08-15 Brian Lehrer, Host Dorothy Roberts, George A. Weiss University Professor of Law and Sociology; Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Professor of Civil Rights University of Pennsylvania Dorothy Roberts, Kirkland & Ellis professor and faculty fellow at the Institute for Policy Research…

  • Multifaceted Identity of Interethnic Young People: Chameleon Identities [Review: DaCosta]

    Multifaceted Identity of Interethnic Young People: Chameleon Identities [Review: DaCosta] Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews Volume 40, Number 5 (September 2011) pages 571-572 DOI: 10.1177/0094306111419111i Kimberly McClain DaCosta, Associate Professor Gallatin School of Individualized Study, New York University Multifaceted Identity of Interethnic Young People: Chameleon Identities, by Sultana Choudhry. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2010. 219…

  • Whoa, We Have a Black President

    Whoa, We Have a Black President Zócalo: Public Square 2011-09-08 Randall Kennedy Assesses Obama’s Triumphs—and Shortcomings—In Erasing the Color Line Randall Kennedy, Harvard professor of law and author of The Persistence of the Color Line: Racial Politics and the Obama Presidency, had an assignment: to answer whether or not Obama has been erasing the color…

  • The Concept of Post-Racial: How Its Easy Dismissal Obscures Important Questions

    The Concept of Post-Racial: How Its Easy Dismissal Obscures Important Questions Dædalus Volume 140, Issue 1 (Winter 2011 – Race in the Age of Obama, volume 1) pages 174–182 DOI: 10.1162/DAED_a_00069 David A. Hollinger, Preston Hotchkis Professor of American History University of California, Berkeley Nearly all of today’s confident dismissals of the notion of a…

  • Colloquium – Mónica Moreno Figueroa on “Naming Ourselves: Recognising Racism and Mestizaje in Mexico”

    Colloquium – Mónica Moreno Figueroa on “Naming Ourselves: Recognising Racism and Mestizaje in Mexico” Auditorium of King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center New York University 53 Washington Square South New York, New York Monday, 2011-09-12, 18:00-20:00 EDT (Local Time) Mónica Moreno Figueroa, Lecturer in Sociology Newcastle University Discussant: Frances Negrón-Muntaner Hosted by the Center…

  • Getting Back to Basics: Re-Reading NYT’s “Race Remixed”

    Getting Back to Basics: Re-Reading NYT’s “Race Remixed” Nuñez Daughter 2011-02-15 Kismet Nuñez A few weeks ago, @TrickAmaka sent me a New York Times piece by Susan Saulny on the high numbers of adults who identify as mixed-race as of the 2010 census.  In what was apparently the first in a series titled “Race Remixed,”…

  • Race Card: The New York Times Realizes Mixed People Exist

    Race Card: The New York Times Realizes Mixed People Exist Bitch Media 2011-01-31 Nadra Kareem Nittle Breaking news: the New York Times has discovered mixed people. Did you know that the number of racially mixed families in the US is growing? Or how about that some mixed kids feel pressured to choose one race? And…