Mixed Race Studies

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  • Homelands and Waterways: The American Journey of the Bond Family, 1846-1926

    This monumental history traces the rise of a resolute African American family (the author’s own) from privation to the middle class. In doing so, it explodes the stereotypes that have shaped and distorted our thinking about African Americans–both in slavery and in freedom.

  • Black History Month play explores interracial issues

    Black History Month play explores interracial issues Orlando Sentinal 2010-02-20 Rosalind Jennings, Special To The Orlando Sentinel Leesburg, [Florida] – Dolores Sandoval’s paternal grandmother was an African slave on a plantation, and that ancestor’s father was the white plantation owner. So she was mixed racially – an “octoroon,” which is one-eighth African. “Her father owned…

  • Socially Embedded Identities: Theories, Typologies, and Processes of Racial Identity among Black/White Biracials

    Socially Embedded Identities: Theories, Typologies, and Processes of Racial Identity among Black/White Biracials Sociological Quarterly Volume 43 Issue 3, (2002) Pages 335 – 356 DOI: 10.1111/j.1533-8525.2002.tb00052.x David L. Brunsma, Professor of Sociology Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Kerry Ann Rockquemore, Associate Professor of Sociology University of Illinois at Chicago Current research on racial identity…

  • Public Categories, Private Identities: Exploring Regional Differences in the Biracial Experience

    Public Categories, Private Identities: Exploring Regional Differences in the Biracial Experience Social Science Research Volume 35, Issue 3, September 2006 Pages 555-576 David L. Brunsma, Professor of Sociology Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Empirical research on multiraciality and the development of richer models of racial identity have increased in the last decade. Increased attention…

  • What Does “Black” Mean? Exploring the Epistemological Stranglehold of Racial Categorization

    What Does “Black” Mean? Exploring the Epistemological Stranglehold of Racial Categorization Critical Sociology Vol. 28, No. 1-2 (2002) pages 101-121 DOI: 10.1177/08969205020280010801 David L. Brunsma, Professor of Sociology Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Kerry Ann Rockquemore, Associate Professor of Sociology University of Illinois at Chicago The “check all that apply” approach to race on the…

  • The relationship between binge eating and weight status on depression, anxiety, and body image among a diverse college sample: A focus on Bi/Multiracial women

    The relationship between binge eating and weight status on depression, anxiety, and body image among a diverse college sample: A focus on Bi/Multiracial women Eating Behaviors Volume 11, Issue 1, January 2010 Pages 18-24 DOI: 10.1016/j.eatbeh.2009.08.003 Valentina Ivezaj Eastern Michigan University Karen K. Saules Eastern Michigan University Flora Hoodin Eastern Michigan University Kevin Alschuler Eastern…

  • Obama gives hope to multiracial families

    Obama gives hope to multiracial families The Connecticut Record-Journal 2009-01-24 George Moore Three-year-old George Garner used to introduce himself as ‘George Barack Obama’ when his mother took him to political events. For George, an energetic boy of a mixed racial background, Barack Obama’s presidency will serve as proof that he, too, can be president, said…

  • Parallel Worlds: The Remarkable Gibbs-Hunts and the Enduring (In)significance of Melanin

    When William Henry Hunt married Ida Alexander Gibbs in the spring of 1904, their wedding was a glittering Washington social event that joined an Oberlin-educated diplomat’s daughter and a Wall Street veteran who could trace his lineage to Jamestown.

  • American Mestizo: Filipinos and Antimiscegenation Laws in California

    American Mestizo: Filipinos and Antimiscegenation Laws in California University of California, Davis Law Review Volume 33, Number 44 (2000) pages 795-835 Leti Volpp, Professor of Law University of California, Berkeley This essay interprets the legal history of efforts to prohibit intermarriage between Filipino men and white women in the state of California in the 1920s…

  • The Chinese in the Caribbean

    The history of the Caribbean is a history of migrations. The peoples of the region came as conquerors and planters, slaves and indentured laborers from all parts of the globe. Each group contributed to the social fabric, culture, and commerce of the region. The Chinese diaspora has spread Chinese people and culture around the world,…