Mixed Race Studies

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  • 2010 African American Studies Symposium

    2010 African American Studies Symposium University of Texas at San Antonio 2010-04-16 The 3rd annual African American Studies Symposium is a one-day conference Friday, April 16, 2010, at the University of Texas at San Antonio. This year, the theme is ‘Politics and Black Popular Culture.’ We especially encourage papers on language, music, hair, art, film,…

  • The Myth of the Human Races

    The idea that human races exist is a socially constructed myth that has no grounding in science. Regardless of skin, hair, or eye color, stature or physiognomy, we are all of one species. Nonetheless, scientists, social scientists, and pseudo-scientists have, for three centuries, tried vainly to prove that distinctive and separate “races” of humanity exist.

  • Q&A With Researchers: Associate Professor Manying Ip

    Q&A With Researchers: Associate Professor Manying Ip asia:nz online Asia New Zealand Foundation Associate Professor Manying Ip Asia:NZ Trustee; Associate Professor of Chinese, School of Asian Studies, University of Auckland Manying Ip came to New Zealand in 1974 from Hong Kong where her family lived for five generations. With her strong classical Chinese education at…

  • Drawing Battle Lines

    Drawing Battle Lines Sarah Lawrence College Magazine Spring 2003: Who Are You Catherine McKinley[-Davis] was one of only a few thousand African-American and biracial children adopted by white couples in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Throughout her childhood and adolescence, her consciousness grew as she did. Her very identity—composed both of the whiteness and…

  • Mestizaje Upside-Down: Aesthetic Politics in Modern Bolivia

    Mestizaje Upside-Down: Aesthetic Politics in Modern Bolivia University of Pittsburgh Press May 2004 240 pages 6 x 9 ISBN: 9780822942276 Javier C. Sanjinés, Associate Professor of Latin American Literature and Cultural Studies University of Michigan Mestizaje refers to the process of cultural, ethnic, and racial mixture that is part of cultural identity in Latin America.…

  • A Letter to My Father: Growing up Filipina and American

    A Letter to My Father: Growing up Filipina and American University of Oklahoma Press 2008 184 pages 5.5″ x 8.5″ x 0″ 8 b&w illustrations, 2 maps Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8061-3909-8 Helen Madamba Mossman Going from the jungles of the wartime Philippines to the schoolyards of northwestern Oklahoma is no easy transition. For one twelve-year-old girl,…

  • Being Māori-Chinese: Mixed Identities (Book Review)

    Being Māori-Chinese: Mixed Identities (Book Review) Sites: a journal of social anthropology and cultural studies University of Otago, New Zealand Volume 5, Number 2 (2008) pages 180-182 Kate Bagnall Being Māori-Chinese: Mixed Identities, Manying Ip, Auckland University Press, Auckland, 2008, 255pp. ISBN 978-1-86940-399-7 Manying Ip makes it clear from the outset that Being Māori-Chinese: Mixed Identities…

  • Santiago de Guatemala, 1541-1773: City, Caste, and the Colonial Experience

    Santiago de Guatemala, 1541-1773: City, Caste, and the Colonial Experience University of Oklahoma Press 1997 368 pages 9.09″ x 6.02″ x 0.83″ 14 illus, 6 maps, 1 figure Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8061-2911-2; ISBN(10): 0-8061-2911-5 Christopher H. Lutz Santiago de Guatemala was the colonial capital and most important urban center of Spanish Central America from its establishment…

  • Married to a Daughter of the Land: Spanish-Mexican Women and Interethnic Marriage in California, 1820-1880

    The surprising truth about intermarriage in 19th-Century California

  • Black, White, Other: Racial categories are cultural constructs masquerading as biology

    Black, White, Other: Racial categories are cultural constructs masquerading as biology Natural History Magazine December 1994 pp. 32–35 Jonathan Marks, Associate Professor of Anthropology University of North Carolina, Charlotte While reading the Sunday edition of the New York Times one morning last February, my attention was drawn by an editorial inconsistency. The article I was…