Mixed Race Studies

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  • The controversial connection between race, genetics and medicine

    The controversial connection between race, genetics and medicine Minnesota Public Radio News Midmorning Broadcast: 2010-02-03, 09:06 CST Kerri Miller, 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 David Goldstein, Professor of Genetics and Director of the Institute…

  • Audio: History professor discusses census

    Audio: History professor discusses census The Daily Collegian Published Independently by the students at Penn State 2010-04-09 Eddie Lau Interview with Grace Delgado, Assistant Professor of History Pennsylvania State University Associate Professor of History Grace Delgado, who specializes in Chicano history, said the U.S. census is not sensitive enough to mix-raced residents. She said having…

  • Half-Yella: Mixed Race Asian American Art [Lecture]

    Half-Yella: Mixed Race Asian American Art [Lecture] Oberlin College King 106 2010-04-29, 16:30 to 17:30 EDT (Local Time) Laura Kina, Professor of Art DePaul University Laura Kina is an artist, independent curator, and scholar whose research focuses on Asian American art and critical mixed race studies. She is an Associate Professor of Art, Media and…

  • Reinventing the Color Line: Immigration and America’s New Racial/Ethnic Divide

    Reinventing the Color Line: Immigration and America’s New Racial/Ethnic Divide Social Forces Volume 86, Number 2 (December 2007) E-ISSN: 1534-7605 Print ISSN: 0037-7732 DOI: 10.1353/sof.2008.0024 Jennifer Lee, Associate Professor of Sociology University of California, Irvine Frank D. Bean, Chancellor’s Professor of Sociology University of California, Irvine Contemporary nonwhite immigration from Latin America and Asia, increasing…

  • Teaching Race as a Social Construction: Two Interactive Class Exercises

    Teaching Race as a Social Construction: Two Interactive Class Exercises Teaching Sociology Volume 37, Number 4 (October 2009) Pages 369-378 Nikki Khanna, Assistant Professor of Sociology University of Vermont Cherise A. Harris, Assistant Professor of Sociology Connecticut College This paper offers two interactive exercises to teach students about race as a social construction. In the…

  • A cross-cultural marriage is an adventure I’d recommend

    A cross-cultural marriage is an adventure I’d recommend The Observer 2009-12-27 Anushka Asthana, Education Correspondent Mixed-race unions in this country are on the increase, a magical journey that benefits all the families involved One visit to India and a childhood playing cricket was never going to be quite enough to prepare Toby, a white Englishman…

  • Biracial Children Learn To Self-Identify

    Biracial Children Learn To Self-Identify Tell Me More National Public Radio 2010-04-20 Michel Martin, Host Interview with: Kip Fulbeck, Professor of Performative Studies, Video University of California, Santa Barbara Author of: Mixed: Portraits of Multiracial Kids Peggy Orenstein Author of: Waiting for Daisy: A Tale of Two Continents, Three Religions, Five Fertility Doctors, An Oscar,…

  • Black by Choice

    Black by Choice The Nation 2010-04-15 Melissa Harris-Lacewell, Associate Professor of Politics and African American Studies Princeton University The first black president has created a definitional crisis for whiteness. President Obama created a bit of a stir in early April when he completed his Census form. In response to the question about racial identity the…

  • Parenting children from ‘mixed’ racial, ethnic and faith backgrounds: typifications of difference and belonging

    Parenting children from ‘mixed’ racial, ethnic and faith backgrounds: typifications of difference and belonging Ethnic and Racial Studies First Published on: 2009-10-29 Volume 33, Issue 6 (preview) DOI: 10.1080/01419870903318185 Rosalind Edwards, Professor in Social Policy Families & Social Capital Research Group London South Bank University Chamion Caballero, Senior Research Fellow Families & Social Capital Research…

  • What happens after segmented assimilation? An exploration of intermarriage and ‘mixed race’ young people in Britain

    What happens after segmented assimilation? An exploration of intermarriage and ‘mixed race’ young people in Britain Ethnic and Racial Studies First Published on: 2010-03-17 Volume 33, Issue 7 (preview) DOI: 10.1080/01419871003625271 Miri Song, Professor of Sociology University of Kent  Theorizing on segmented assimilation has usefully spurred debate about the experiences and positions of the second generation in the…