Mixed Race Studies

Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.

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  • Double-barrelled race system to start on Saturday

    Double-barrelled race system to start on Saturday Today Online 2010-12-31 Zul Othman SINGAPORE – From Saturday, the Immigration and Checkpoints Authority (ICA) will implement the registration of dual heritage options for children with parents of different races. This means these children will be able to share dual heritages on their identity cards (ICs), by way…

  • Challenges for ‘Mixed-Race’ Events

    I think balancing personal experience and personal stories with an understanding of our past and also scholarly work and research… finding a balance between those.  Because that we find that people who are really interested in the emotional/personal stories tend to not have a lot of background information.  And then we find vice-versa, that the…

  • Applying Self-Discrepancy Theory to Biracial Identity and Adjustment: A Proposed Study

    Applying Self-Discrepancy Theory to Biracial Identity and Adjustment: A Proposed Study Social-Personality Brown Bag Series University of California, Davis Location: Young 166 2010-11-08, 12:10-13:30 PST (Local Time) Lauren Berger Research suggests that biracials may have poorer mental health than monoracials and a recent meta-analysis (Shih & Sanchez, 2005) cites a lack of research testing potential…

  • Rhetoric and Silence in Barack Obama’s “Dreams from My Father”

    Rhetoric and Silence in Barack Obama’s “Dreams from My Father” Cultural Logic: An Electronic Journal of Marxist Theory and Practice 2009 46 pages ISSN: 1097-3087 Barbara Clare Foley, Professor of English Rutgers University, Newark, New Jersey When Barack Obama’s Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance first appeared in 1995, it was…

  • Choosing Race: Multiracial Ancestry and Identification

    Choosing Race: Multiracial Ancestry and Identification Social Science Research Volume 40, Issue 2 (March 2011) pages 498–512 DOI: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2010.12.010 Aaron Gullickson, Assistant Professor of Sociology University of Oregon Ann Morning, Assistant Professor of Sociology New York University Social scientists have become increasingly interested in the racial identification choices of multiracial individuals, partly as a result…

  • The Lives of Jean Toomer: A Hunger for Wholeness

    The Lives of Jean Toomer: A Hunger for Wholeness Louisiana State University Press 1987 448 pages 6×9 Paper ISBN-13: 978-0-8071-1548-0 Cynthia Earl Kerman, Emeritus Professor of English Villa Julie College in Stevenson, Maryland Richard Eldridge Jean Toomer (1894–1967) arrived on the American literary scene in 1923 with the publication of Cane, a small, emotional book…

  • University of Vermont study examines biracial identity

    University of Vermont study examines biracial identity Burlington Free Press 2010-12-28 Tim Johnson, Free Press Staff Writer Even though he was born of a white mother and an African father, Barack Obama is commonly referred to as the first black president. That’s a sign, sociologists say, that America’s “one-drop rule”—a vestige of the United States’…

  • Scholars Say Chronicler of Black Life Passed for White

    Scholars Say Chronicler of Black Life Passed for White New York Times 2010-12-26 Felicia R. Lee Renown came to Jean Toomer with his 1923 book “Cane,” which mingled fiction, drama and poetry in a formally audacious effort to portray the complexity of black lives. But the racially mixed Toomer’s confounding efforts to defy being stuck…

  • Cane

    A masterpiece of the Harlem Renaissance and a canonical work in both the American and the African American literary traditions, “Cane” is now available in a revised and expanded Norton Critical Edition.

  • The Cajuns of Southern Alabama: Morphology and Serology

    The Cajuns of Southern Alabama: Morphology and Serology American Journal of Physical Anthropology Volume 47, Issue 1 (July 1977) pages 1-6 DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.1330470103 William S. Pollitzer University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Kadambari K. Namboodiri University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill William H. Coleman University of Alabama, Huntsville Wayne H. Finley University of Alabama, Birmingham…