Mixed Race Studies

Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.

recent posts

about

Author: Steven

  • A Clearer Picture of Multiracial Substance Use: Rates and Correlates of Alcohol and Tobacco Use in Multiracial Adolescents and Adults

    A Clearer Picture of Multiracial Substance Use: Rates and Correlates of Alcohol and Tobacco Use in Multiracial Adolescents and Adults Race and Social Problems Volume 2, Number 1 (March 2010) Published online: 2010-03-12 18 pages Print ISSN: 1867-1748, Online ISSN: 1867-1756 (Online) DOI: 10.1007/s12552-010-9023-1 George G. Chavez Rutgers University Diana T. Sanchez, Assistant Professor of…

  • In Their Siblings’ Voices: White Non-Adopted Siblings Talk About Their Experiences Being Raised with Black and Biracial Brothers and Sisters

    In Their Siblings’ Voices: White Non-Adopted Siblings Talk About Their Experiences Being Raised with Black and Biracial Brothers and Sisters Columbia University Press May 2009 248 pages 5 tables Cloth ISBN: 978-0-231-14850-4 Paper ISBN: 978-0-231-14851-1 Rita J. Simon, University Professor Emerita Department of Justice, Law and Society American University, Washington, D.C. In Their Siblings’ Voices…

  • Racial Categorization in the 2010 Census

    Racial Categorization in the 2010 Census U.S. Commision on Civil Rights Briefing Report March 2009 59 pages A Briefing Before The United States Commission on Civil Rights Held in Washington, DC on 2006-04-07. On April 7, 2006, a panel of experts briefed members of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights on racial categorization in the…

  • Race Card: Corinne Bailey Rae and Zadie Smith Navigate Race and Art

    Race Card: Corinne Bailey Rae and Zadie Smith Navigate Race and Art Bitch Magazine 2010-01-21 Nadra Kareem Works by two mixed-race Brits—musician Corinne Bailey Rae and writer Zadie Smith—have recently been profiled in the New York Times. Both women navigate their collective white and Caribbean ancestry by embracing hybridity instead of relegating themselves to one…

  • Phillip Handy – Race and gender in the family

    Phillip Handy – Race and gender in the family Rutgers University Undergraduate Research Spotlight 2009-07-26 Phillip Handy Rutgers University Phillip Handy discusses his research, which looks into the question of how mother-daughter and father-son relationships impact a mixed-race child’s racial identity. Phillip is advised by Dr. Diana Sanchez, Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology…

  • ‘A Yellow-Ass Nigga’?: Hip Hop and the ‘Mixed-Race’ Experience

    ‘A Yellow-Ass Nigga’?: Hip Hop and the ‘Mixed-Race’ Experience Intermix Academic Papers February 2010 Dr. Kevin Searle Hip Hop has always engaged with the politics of ‘race’ and racism. From the Black Panther Party-inspired Marxism of acts such as The Coup and Immortal Technique, to the Nation of Islam-influenced stance of Public Enemy and Ice…

  • Telling a Tall Tale, Family-Style—Author and Cultural Historian Scott Sandage Delivers 17th Annual Levine Lecture

    Telling a Tall Tale, Family-Style—Author and Cultural Historian Scott Sandage Delivers 17th Annual Levine Lecture Rider University News Rider University, New Jersey 2008-10-16 For all his traditional academic rearing, Scott Sandage readily concedes that the revival of narrative has brought a new vitality to the discipline of history. “It was long considered unintellectual to tell…

  • Mixed: Portraits of Multiracial Kids

    Mixed: Portraits of Multiracial Kids Chronicle Books 2010-03-17 264 pages 7 x 7 in; 127 color photographs ISBN 9780811874083 ISBN10 0811874087 Kip Fulbeck, Professor of Performative Studies, Video University of California, Santa Barbara Foreword by Dr. Maya Soetoro-Ng Afterword by Cher (Cherilyn Sarkisian) Mixed — From beloved writer and artist Kip Fulbeck, author of Part…

  • Interview with Ngozi Onwurah

    Interview with Ngozi Onwurah African Women in Cinema African Literature Association Conference April 1997 East Lansing, Michigan Originally published in Sisters of the Screen: Women of Africa on Film Video and Television. Africa World Press, Trenton, NJ,  2000. In another conversation, we talked about your identity as an African woman filmmaker based in London.  You…

  • A Knock Out: A film by Tessa Boerman and Samuel Reiziger

    A Knock Out: A film by Tessa Boerman and Samuel Reiziger Women Make Movies Netherlands, 2004 53 minutes Color, VHS/DVD Subtitled Order No. W05882 Boxing champion Michele Aboro grew up in South London, where life for a girl was never easy, let alone for a mixed-race lesbian girl. Thanks to her tenacious spirit and an…