Mixed Race Studies

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  • Book Review: Dispatches from the Color Line: The Press and Multiracial America

    Book Review: Dispatches from the Color Line: The Press and Multiracial America Hot Topics in Journalism and Mass Communication 2010-05-19 Queenie A. Byars, Assistant Professor of Journalism and Mass Communication University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Dispatches from the Color Line: The Press and Multiracial America. Catherine R. Squires. Albany, NY: State University of New…

  • Not-Black by Default

    Not-Black by Default The Nation Diary of a Mad Law Professor 2010-04-21 Patricia J. Williams, James L. Dohr Professor of Law Columbia University Most people who appear phenotypically “black” don’t play around when the government asks them to report their race. Last week, Melissa Harris-Lacewell wrote an insightful column, “Black by Choice,” about President Obama’s…

  • America’s Mixed-Race Kids Examine Their Identity

    America’s Mixed-Race Kids Examine Their Identity Voice of America News 2010-05-05 Faiza Elmasry Washington, DC Photographs celebrate richness and beauty of multiracial society At least seven million Americans identify themselves as belonging to more than one race, and interest is rapidly growing in issues of multi-racial identity. In his new book, “Mixed: [Portraits of Multiracial…

  • At last! It’s cool to be mixed race (which is handy because I’m African, American, Jewish, Geordie, Irish, Scottish and Hungarian)

    At last! It’s cool to be mixed race (which is handy because I’m African, American, Jewish, Geordie, Irish, Scottish and Hungarian) The Daily Mail (United Kingdom) 2010-04-25 Oona King, Head of Diversity Channel 4 Comment by Steven F. Riley It should be noted that scientists have determined that there is more genetic variation within so-called…

  • The Multiracial Sheep IS the White Supremacist Fox

    A government and society that is ever ready to restrict the freedoms of Black folks now offers “freedom” from Blackness. This census and social “opt-out” for the progeny of interracial couples allows them to hope to be considered “as something entirely separate, different and apart from” what Curtis Mayfield called the “dark deep well.” The…

  • The Marital Patterns of Multiracial People in the United States: A Comparison of Asian/Whites and Black/Whites

    The Marital Patterns of Multiracial People in the United States: A Comparison of Asian/Whites and Black/Whites American Sociological Association Annual Meeting Hilton San Francisco San Francisco, California 2009-08-08 20 pages Michael Miyawaki Fordham University In this paper, I examine and compare the marital patterns of two multiracial groups—Asian/whites and black/whites—in the United States. Examining the…

  • Politics and policies: attitudes toward multiracial Americans

    Politics and policies: attitudes toward multiracial Americans Ethnic and Racial Studies First Published on: 2010-04-15 Volume 33, Issue 9 (October 2010) pages 1511-1536 DOI: 10.1080/01419871003671929 Mary E. Campbell, Associate Professor of Sociology University of Iowa Melissa R. Herman, Assistant Professor of Sociology Dartmouth College The growing prominence of the multiracial population in the United States…

  • Ethnically mixed individuals: Cultural Homelessness or Multicultural Integration?

    Ethnically mixed individuals: Cultural Homelessness or Multicultural Integration? University of North Texas May 1999 260 pages 15 tables, 6 illustrations, references, 273 titles Veronica Navarrete-Vivero, B. S. CPR University of North Texas Thesis Prepared for the Degree of Master of Science of Psychology Studies addressing racial/ethnic identity development have often overlooked the developmental cultural context.…

  • Founding Chestnut Ridge: The Origins of Central West Virginia’s Multiracial Community

    Founding Chestnut Ridge: The Origins of Central West Virginia’s Multiracial Community The Ohio State University Department of History Project Advisor: Randolph Roth, Professor of History and Sociology March 2010 140 pages Alexandra Finley The Ohio State University Senior Honors Thesis Presented in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for graduation with research distinction in History in…

  • The Long Shadow of the Civil War: Southern Dissent and Its Legacies [Review by Paul D. Escott]

    The Long Shadow of the Civil War: Southern Dissent and Its Legacies [Review by Paul D. Escott] H-Net Reviews May, 2010 3 pages Paul D. Escott, Reynolds Professor of History Wake Forest University “Few histories,” writes Victoria Bynum, “are buried faster or deeper than those of political and social dissenters” (p. 148). The Long Shadow…