Mixed Race Studies

Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.

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American Identity in the Age of Obama

2011-03-21

American Identity in the Age of Obama Northeastern University Amilcar Cabral Center in the John D. O’Bryant African American Institute Boston, Massachusetts Friday, 2011-03-25, 08:30-15:30 EDT (Local Time) The election of Barack Obama as the 44th president of the United States has opened a new chapter in the country’s long and often tortured history of…
Media Advisory — Census Bureau to Hold Webinar Prior to Release of Center of Population and First Two 2010 Census Briefs

2011-03-21

Media Advisory — Census Bureau to Hold Webinar Prior to Release of Center of Population and First Two 2010 Census Briefs 2011-03-22, 18:00Z (14:00 EDT) Karen Humes, Assistant Division Chief Special Population Statistics, Population Division Nicholas A. Jones, Chief, Racial Statistics Branch Population Division Roberto R. Ramirez, Chief, Ethnicity and Ancestry Branch Population Division The…
Census serves up racial buffet in Silicon Valley

2011-03-21

Census serves up racial buffet in Silicon Valley Silicon Valley Mercury News 2011-03-20 Joe Rodriguez Who are you? What are you? Sara Phillips, a 20-year-old computer science student from Hawaii at Santa Clara University, just may have the new look of the 21st century. When her 2010 Census form arrived last year, she gazed at…
Fear and Desire: Regional Aesthetics and Colonial Desire in Kate Chopin’s Portrayals of the Tragic Mulatta Stereotype

2011-03-21

Fear and Desire: Regional Aesthetics and Colonial Desire in Kate Chopin’s Portrayals of the Tragic Mulatta Stereotype The Southern Literary Journal Volume 43, Number 1 (Fall 2010) pages 1-22 E-ISSN: 1534-1461 Print ISSN: 0038-4291 Dagmar Pegues The interrogation of the category of race in Kate Chopin’s fiction represents an essential dimension of regional aesthetics, and…
Identifying with Multiple Races: A Social Movement that Succeeded but Failed?

2011-03-21

Identifying with Multiple Races: A Social Movement that Succeeded but Failed? PSC Research Report (Report No. 01-491) The Population Studies Center (PSC) at the University of Michigan 2004 33 pages Reynolds Farley, Research Professor Emeritus University of Michigan Population Studies Center at the Institute for Social Research Prior to the 1960s, civil rights organizations sought…
Race or mongrel: a brief history of the rise and fall of the ancient races of earth: a theory that the fall of nations is due to intermarriage with alien stocks: a demonstration that a nation’s strength is due to racial purity: a prophecy that America will sink to early decay unless immigration is rigorously restricted

2011-03-21

Race or mongrel: a brief history of the rise and fall of the ancient races of earth: a theory that the fall of nations is due to intermarriage with alien stocks: a demonstration that a nation’s strength is due to racial purity: a prophecy that America will sink to early decay unless immigration is rigorously…
The Mestizos of South Carolina

2011-03-20

The Mestizos of South Carolina The American Journal of Sociology Volume 51, Number 1 (July 1945) pages 34-41 Brewton Berry There are several communities of white-Indian-Negro hybrids in South Carolina, the members of which do not fit into the biracial caste system upon which the state’s whole social structure is built. Similar groups are found…
Meridians: Mapping Metaphors of Mixed Race Indentity

2011-03-20

Meridians: Mapping Metaphors of Mixed Race Indentity University of Florida August 2004 238 pages Shane Willow Trudell A dissertation presented to the Graduate School of the University of Florida in partial fulfullment of the requirements for the degree Doctor of Philosophy Although mixed race identity traditionally has been equated with conflict, the conflict is not…
The Guineas of West Virginia

2011-03-20

The Guineas of West Virginia Ohio State University 1952 139 pages John P. Burnell, Jr. A Thesis Presented in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirments for the Degree Master of Arts. Table of Contents Introduction Methodology Geographical and Social Setting History and Origin Who Is A Guinea? Social Participation Attitudes and Beliefs Summary and Conclusions Bibliography…
Black and White and Married in the Deep South: A Shifting Image

2011-03-20

Black and White and Married in the Deep South: A Shifting Image The New York Times 2011-03-19 Susan Saulny, National Correspondent HATTIESBURG, Miss. — For generations here in the deepest South, there had been a great taboo: publicly crossing the color line for love. Less than 45 years ago, marriage between blacks and whites was…

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