Mixed Race Studies

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  • Sociohistorical Constructions of Race and Language: Impacting Biracial Identity

    Sociohistorical Constructions of Race and Language: Impacting Biracial Identity A chapter in The Psychology of Prejudice and Discrimination. By Jean Lau Chin (Editor). (Santa Barbara, California. Praeger Publishers, 2004. 1,000 pages. ISBN: 0-275-98234-3, ISBN-13: 978-0-275-98234-8) Matthew J. Taylor, Assistant Professor of Psychology University of Missouri, St. Louis Historically, race has been constructed within the American psyche…

  • Dangerous Woman: Elizabeth Key’s Freedom Suit – Subjecthood and Racialized Identity in Seventeenth Century Colonial Virginia

    Elizabeth Key, an African-Anglo woman living in seventeenth century colonial Virginia sued for her freedom after being classified as a negro by the overseers of her late master’s estate. Her lawsuit is one of the earliest freedom suits in the English colonies filed by a person with some African ancestry. Elizabeth’s case also highlights those…

  • Mixed Race America and the Law: A Reader (Review)

    Mixed Race America and the Law: A Reader (Review) Law and Politics Book Review American Political Science Association Volume 13,  Number 4 (April 2003) Barbara L. Graham, Professor of Political Science, University of Missouri, St. Louis Mixed Race America and the Law: A Reader. By Kevin R. Johnson (Editor). (New York and London: New York…

  • White Enough to Be American? Race Mixing, Indigenous People, and the Boundaries of State and Nation (Review)

    White Enough to Be American? Race Mixing, Indigenous People, and the Boundaries of State and Nation (Review) Law and Politics Book Review American Political Science Association Vol. 18 No.9 (2008-09-15) pp. 788-791 Daniel Lipson, Professor of Political Science State University of New York, New Paltz White Enough to Be American? Race Mixing, Indigenous People, and…

  • Art Showcase Seeks to Study Racial Identity

    Art Showcase Seeks to Study Racial Identity Daily Nexus University of California, Santa Barbara 2010-02-02 Issue 70, Volume 90 Julie Epstein, Staff Writer The UCSB Women’s Center is currently hosting a multicultural art exhibit featuring work from students and professional artists. The art on display ranges from paintings to photography, and even includes a work…

  • The Monticello Mystery-Case Continued

    The Monticello Mystery-Case Continued William and Mary Quarterly Volume LVIII, Number 4 (October 2001) Reviews of Books Alexander O. Boulton, Professor of History Stevenson University (formerly Villa Julie College) The Jefferson-Hemings Myth: An American Travesty. Edited by Eyler Robert Coates, Sr. (Charlottesville, Va.: Thomas Jefferson Heritage Society, 2001. Pp. 207.) A President in the Family:…

  • Suspect Relations: Sex, Race, and Resistance in Colonial North Carolina (Review)

    Suspect Relations: Sex, Race, and Resistance in Colonial North Carolina (Review) William and Mary Quarterly Volume LX, Number 1 (January 2003) Reviews of Books Richard Godbeer, Professor of History University of Miami Suspect Relations: Sex, Race, and Resistance in Colonial North Carolina. By Kirsten Fischer. (Ithaca, N. Y.: Cornell University Press, 2002. Pp. xiv, 265.)…

  • I’m Color-blind But What Are You, Anyway?

    I’m Color-blind But What Are You, Anyway? Electronic Journal of Sociology (2007) ISSN: 1198 3655 Kathleen Korgen, Professor of Sociology William Paterson University Eileen O’Brien, Assistant Professor of Sociology Christopher Newport University Using primary data from interviews conducted with 1) close black-white friends and 2) biracial Americans, we examine the relationship between the traditional fixation…

  • Multicultural/Multiracial Psychology: Mestizo Perspectives in Personality and Mental Health

    Multicultural/Multiracial Psychology: Mestizo Perspectives in Personality and Mental Health  Jason Aronson an imprint of Rowman Littelfield 1997 296 pages Cloth 0-7657-0073-5 / 978-0-7657-0073-5 Manuel Ramirez, III, Professor of Psychology University of Texas, Austin also Clinical Professor of Psychology University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas This book presents a cognitive styles framework that explores the…

  • Fathers of Conscience: Mixed-Race Inheritance in the Antebellum South (Book Review)

    Fathers of Conscience: Mixed-Race Inheritance in the Antebellum South (Book Review) Civil War Book Review Louisiana State University Special Collections Kelly Kennington, 2009-2010 Law & Society Postdoctoral Fellow Institute for Legal Studies University of Wisconsin Law School Jones, Bernie D. Fathers of Conscience: Mixed-Race Inheritance in the Antebellum South, University of Georgia Press. 216 pages.…