Mixed Race Studies

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  • The Myth of Latin American Multiracialism

    Latin American critics have begun to argue that multiracialism, like racial democracy, functions as an ideology that masks enduring racial injustice and thus blocks substantial political, social, and economic reform.

  • Counting Multiracial People in the Census: The Unfulfilled Wish for More Data

    Counting Multiracial People in the Census: The Unfulfilled Wish for More Data Racism Review 2010-03-26 Jenifer L. Bratter, Assistant Professor of Sociology and Associate Director of the Institute for Urban Research Rice University People who study the multiracial population are constantly confronted with the problem of small numbers to work with.  A recent article I co-authored…

  • Biracial Youth and Their Parents: Counseling Considerations for Family Therapists

    Biracial Youth and Their Parents: Counseling Considerations for Family Therapists The Family Journal Volume 12, Number 2 (2004) pages 170-173 DOI: 10.1177/1066480703261977 Laurie McClurg University of Virginia In spite of recent developments in the area of multicultural family therapy, interracial families and their biracial children remain a neglected population in the mental health field. Very…

  • Jared Sexton: People of Color-Blindness: Notes on the Afterlife of Slavery

    Jared Sexton: People of Color-Blindness: Notes on the Afterlife of Slavery University of Northern Arizona Gardner Auditorium, W.A. Franke College of Business, NAU 2010-03-25, 17:30 to 19:00 CDT (Local Time) Jared Sexton, Associate Professor of African American Studies and Film & Media Studies University of California, Irvine   This lecture explores the significance of the…

  • Crises of Whiteness and Empire in Colonial Indochina: The Removal of Abandoned Eurasian Children From the Vietnamese Milieu, 1890–1956

    Crises of Whiteness and Empire in Colonial Indochina: The Removal of Abandoned Eurasian Children From the Vietnamese Milieu, 1890–1956 Journal of Social History Volume 43, Number 3 (Spring 2010) pages 587-613 E-ISSN: 1527-1897 Print ISSN: 0022-4529 DOI: 10.1353/jsh.0.0304 Christina Firpo, Assistant Professor of History California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo From 1890–1956, non-governmental welfare…

  • The beauty of difference

    The beauty of difference In The Fray 2005-12-04 Nicole Marie Pezold Zadie Smith’s latest novel, “On Beauty”, is many things. Chief among them: an homage to differences. For those of mixed heritage — who straddle more than one race, nationality, faith, class, or whatever else — uncovering a coherent identity can be a complicated emotional…

  • 2010 Association for Asian American Studies Conference

    2010 Association for Asian American Studies Conference Omni Austin Hotel Downtown Austin, Texas 2010-04-07 through 2010-04-10 Theme: Emergent Cartographies: Asian American Studies in the Twenty-first Century Selected programs from the conference schedule: Panel Transnational Perspectives on Beauty and Skin Color: China, Indonesia, and the Philippines Friday 2010-04-09, 08:30-10:00 CDT (Local Time) Chair: Paul Spickard, University…

  • The Masters and the Slaves: Plantation Relations and Mestizaje in American Imaginaries

    The Masters and the Slaves: Plantation Relations and Mestizaje in American Imaginaries Palgrave Macmillan January 2005 176 pages Size 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 Paperback ISBN: 1-4039-6708-3 Hardcover ISBN: 1-4039-6563-3 Edited by: Alexandra Isfahani-Hammond, Assistant Professor of Luso-Brazilian Literature University of California, San Diego The Masters and the Slaves theorizes the interface of plantation relations…

  • White Negritude: Race, Writing, and Brazilian Cultural Identity

    White Negritude: Race, Writing, and Brazilian Cultural Identity Palgrave Macmillan December 2007 208 pages Size 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 Hardcover ISBN: 1-4039-7595-7 Alexandra Isfahani-Hammond, Associate Professor of Luso-Brazilian Literature University of California, San Diego White Negritude analyzes the discourse of mestiçagem (mestizaje, métissage, or “mixing”) in Brazil. Focused on Gilberto Freyre‘s sociology of plantation…

  • Uma Mulata, Sim!: Araci Cortes, ‘the mulatta’ of the Teatro de Revista

    Uma Mulata, Sim!: Araci Cortes, ‘the mulatta’ of the Teatro de Revista Women & Performance: a journal of feminist theory Volume 16, Issue 1 (March 2006) pages 7-26 DOI: 10.1080/07407700500514996 Judith Michelle Williams, Professor of African and African-American Studies University of Kansas Araci Cortes, a mulata assumida, rose to be one of the most successful…