Mixed Race Studies

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  • Multiracial Men in Toronto: Identities, Masculinities and Multiculturalism

    Multiracial Men in Toronto: Identities, Masculinities and Multiculturalism Masters Thesis of Education Department of Sociology and Equity Studies in Education Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto 2009-12-11 Danielle Lafond University of Toronto This thesis draws from ten qualitative semi-structured interviews with multiracial men in Toronto. It is an exploratory study that examines…

  • A Question of Blood, Race, and Politics

    A Question of Blood, Race, and Politics Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences Volume 61, Number 4 (2006) pages 456-491 DOI: 10.1093/jhmas/jrl003 Michael G. Kenny, Professor of Sociology and Anthropology Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia This article explores the political and intellectual context of a controversy arising from a proposal made…

  • Two or Three Spectacular Mulatas and the Queer Pleasures of Overidentification

    Two or Three Spectacular Mulatas and the Queer Pleasures of Overidentification Camera Obscura Volume 23, Number 1 67 (2008) pages 113-143 DOI: 10.1215/02705346-2007-026 Hiram Perez, Assistant professor of English Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York Building on feminist and queer scholarship on the relationship of film spectatorship to subjectivity, this essay conjectures subaltern spectatorships of the…

  • Mixed-ethnic girls and boys as similarly powerless and powerful: embodiment of attractiveness and grotesqueness

    Mixed-ethnic girls and boys as similarly powerless and powerful: embodiment of attractiveness and grotesqueness Discourse Studies Volume 11, Number 3 (June 2009) pages 329-352 DOI: 10.1177/1461445609102447 Laurel D. Kamada Tohoku University, Japan An ongoing study examining the discursive negotiation of ethnic and gendered embodied identities of adolescent girls in Japan with Japanese and `white’ mixed-parentage…

  • Social Work Practice and Lone White Mothers of Mixed-Parentage Children

    Social Work Practice and Lone White Mothers of Mixed-Parentage Children British Journal of Social Work Volume 40, Number 2 pages 391-406 DOI:10.1093/bjsw/bcn164 Vicki Harman, Lecturer in Social Policy and Social Work Royal Holloway, University of London This paper reports on empirical research involving focus groups with social workers in order to provide insight into their…

  • Race representation in this year’s Common Book

    Race representation in this year’s Common Book University of Washington News Laboratory Department of Communication December 2009 Kaetlyn Cordingley UW News Lab Each year, First Year Programs chooses a book as a means to bind the incoming freshman class together. This year’s book was Barack Obama’s “Dreams from My Father.” Coincidentally, on the same evening…

  • Mixed: An Anthology of Short Fiction on the Multiracial Experience

    With a roster of acclaimed fiction writers, Mixed shatters expectations of what it means to be multiracial.

  • “There’s No One as Irish as Barack O’Bama”: The Policy and Politics of American Multiracialism

    “There’s No One as Irish as Barack O’Bama”: The Policy and Politics of American Multiracialism Weatherhead Center for International Affairs Harvard University February 2010 Working Paper 68 pages Jennifer Hochschild, Henry LaBarre Jayne Professor of Government and Professor of African and African American Studies Harvard University Vesla Weaver, Assistant Professor The Woodrow Wilson Department of…

  • Multiracial no longer boxed in by the Census

    Multiracial no longer boxed in by the Census USA Today 2010-03-02 Haya El Nasser Jennifer Harvey was raised by her white mother and white stepfather in what she calls “a Caucasian world.” Harvey never met her father but she knew he was black and Cuban. That made her Hispanic, white and black. “Blacks think I’m…

  • Reimagining The ‘Tragic Mulatto’ [Interview with Author Heidi W. Durrow]

    Reimagining The ‘Tragic Mulatto’ [Interview with Author Heidi W. Durrow] All Things Considered National Public Radio 2010-03-02 Michele Norris, Host All Things Considered Like so many children of mixed marriages, the author Heidi Durrow has often felt like she’s had to straddle two worlds. She is the daughter of a black serviceman and a white Danish…