Mixed Race Studies

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  • Interview: Whiteness Redux

    Interview: Whiteness Redux borderlands: e-journal Volume 3, Number 2 (2004) Mike Hill, Associate Professor of English and Women’s Studies State University of New York, Albany Damien W. Riggs University of Adelaide, South Australia 1. Damien: As a research area that is rapidly growing within ‘Western nations’, how would you understand whiteness studies as both creating…

  • Turning Aboriginal—Historical Bents

    Turning Aboriginal—Historical Bents borderlands: e-journal Volume 7, Number 2 (2008) pages 1-19 Regina Ganter, Associate Professor, School of Humanities Griffith University, Queensland, Australia Under the pressures of binary identity politics the search for Aboriginal identity among people of mixed descent has become a Russian roulette that may end up with a public hanging where those…

  • The threat of offspring of interracial unions…

    The offspring of interracial unions were threatening to whites primarily because they blurred the lines between what many of them understood to be a naturally superior white race and a naturally inferior black race. As long as there was a clear distinction between the two racial categories—in other words, as long as the two categories…

  • Making Race: The Role of Free Blacks in the Development of New Orleans’ Three-Caste Society, 1791-1812

    Making Race: The Role of Free Blacks in the Development of New Orleans’ Three-Caste Society, 1791-1812 University of Texas, Austin May 2007 219 pages Kenneth Randolph Aslakson, Assistant Professor of History Union College, Schenectady, New York Dissertation Presented to the Faculty of the Graduate School of The University of Texas at Austin in Partial Fulfillment…

  • Is the Design for Our Cultural Programs Ethical?

    The designs for cultural programs on most campuses seem to imply that students possess mono-cultural identities. However, with the increase in bi-racial and multi-racial students on campus, it is time for student affairs leaders to question the design for these programs.

  • The importance of being “other”: A natural experiment about lived race over time

    The importance of being “other”: A natural experiment about lived race over time Social Science Research Volume 36, Issue 1 (March 2007) pages 159-174 DOI: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2005.11.002 J. Scott Brown, Associate Professor of Gerontology, Scripps Research Fellow Miami University, Oxford, Ohio Steven Hitlin, Assistant Professor of Sociology University of Iowa Glen H. Elder, Jr., Research Professor…

  • Our Changing Identities

    Our Changing Identities The New Black Magazine 2010-10-18 Adam K. Raymond On forms asking their racial or ethnic backgrounds, young people of multi-racial origin give different answers at different times. As a teenager, Cameron Clark, whose mother is white and father is black, always checked “African-American” on forms that asked about his race. “I needed…

  • Multiethnicity and Multiethnic Families: Development, Identity, and Resilience

    Multiethnicity and Multiethnic Families: Development, Identity, and Resilience Xlibris 2010 384 pages ISBN 13 Softcover: 978-1-4500-1231-7 ISBN 13 Hardcover: 978-1-4500-1232-4 ISBN 13 Ebook: 978-1-4500-0340-7 Edited By: Hamilton McCubbin, Krystal Ontai, Lisa Kehl, Laurie McCubbin, Ida Strom, Heidi Hart, Barbara DeBaryshe, Marika Ripke and Jon Matsuoka Guided by the increasing number of interracial marriages, cross-cultural adoptions…

  • Addressing Issues of Biracial Asian Americans

    Addressing Issues of Biracial Asian Americans Reflections on Shattered Windows: Promises and Prospects for Asian American Studies Washington State University Press 1988 Chapter 15, pages 111-116 Edited by: G. Y. Okihiro, S. Hune, A. A. Hansen, and J. M. Liu Stephen L. Murphy-Shigematsu Revising the Asian American Studies curriculum One of the more dramatic changes…

  • Sniffing Elephant Bones: The Poetics of Race in the Art of Ellen Gallagher

    Sniffing Elephant Bones: The Poetics of Race in the Art of Ellen Gallagher Callaloo Volume 19, Number 2, Spring 1996 E-ISSN: 1080-6512 Print ISSN: 0161-2492 pages 337-339 DOI: 10.1353/cal.1996.0074 Judith Wilson, Former Assistant Professor of African American Studies, Assistant Professor of Art History and Assistant Professor of Visual Studies University of California, Irvine What she…