Mixed Race Studies

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  • Status, Race, and Marriage: French Continental Law versus French Colonial Law

    Status, Race, and Marriage: French Continental Law versus French Colonial Law American Historical Association 124th Annual Meeting Friday, 2010-01-08 14:30 PST (Local Time) Manchester Grand Hyatt San Diego Manchester Ballroom F (Hyatt) San Diego, California Valérie Gobert-Sega École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris, France In its most traditional moral and legal conception, marriage…

  • Intimacy and the Atlantic World

    Intimacy and the Atlantic World American Historical Association 124th Annual Meeting Friday, 2010-01-08 14:50 PST (Local Time) Manchester Grand Hyatt San Diego Manchester Ballroom F (Hyatt) San Diego, California Jennifer L. Palmer, Collegiate Assistant Professor of History University of Chicago In 1755 the merchant Aimé-Benjamin Fleuriau returned to his native city of La Rochelle, a…

  • Patterns of Mixed-Race Migration to Britain in the Eighteenth-Century Black Atlantic

    Patterns of Mixed-Race Migration to Britain in the Eighteenth-Century Black Atlantic American Historical Association 124th Annual Meeting Friday, 2010-01-08 15:10 PST (Local Time) Manchester Grand Hyatt San Diego Manchester Ballroom F (Hyatt) San Diego, California Daniel Alan Livesay, Assistant Professor of History Drury University, Springfield, Missouri With tremendous gender and racial disparities, miscegenation and interracial…

  • Crossing Boundaries, Claiming a Homeland: The Mexican Chinese Transpacific Journey to Becoming Mexican, 1910s-1960s

    Crossing Boundaries, Claiming a Homeland: The Mexican Chinese Transpacific Journey to Becoming Mexican, 1910s-1960s 2009 Meeting of the Latin American Studies Association Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 2009-06-11 through 2009-06-14 Julia María Schiavone Camacho, Assistant Professor of History University of Texa, El Paso On May 12, 1960, the Mexican Chinese community leader in Macau, Ramón Lay…

  • Ethnic Identity Among Mixed-Heritage People In Hawaii

    Ethnic Identity Among Mixed-Heritage People In Hawaii Symbolic Interaction Volume 14, Number 3 (Fall 1991) Pages 261–277 DOI 10.1525/si.1991.14.3.261 Cookie White Stephan, Emeritus Professor of Sociology New Mexico State University In this study, intensive interviews were used to explore the identity of a sample of mixed-heritage Hawaiian college students from a variety of ethnic groups. The…

  • The White Blackbird: Miscegenation, Genre, and the Tragic Mulatta in Howells, Harper, and the “Babes of Romance”

    The White Blackbird: Miscegenation, Genre, and the Tragic Mulatta in Howells, Harper, and the “Babes of Romance” Nineteenth-Century Literature Volume 56, Number 4 (March 2002) Pages 495–517 DOI 10.1525/ncl.2002.56.4.495 Debra J. Rosenthal, Associate Professor of English John Carroll University In this essay I construct a literary genealogy that situates William Dean Howells in the middle…

  • Multiracial Groups and Educational Inequality: A Rainbow or a Divide?

    Multiracial Groups and Educational Inequality: A Rainbow or a Divide? Social Problems Volume 56, Number 3 (August 2009) Pages 425–446 DOI 10.1525/sp.2009.56.3.425 Mary E. Campbell, Associate Professor of Sociology University of Iowa How do multiracial groups “fit” into the system of racial oppression and privilege in the United States? Are the outcomes of multiracial individuals…

  • Who And What You Are

    Who And What You Are Contexts Fall 2009 Vol. 8, No. 4 Pages 64–65 DOI 10.1525/ctx.2009.8.4.64 Sangyoub Park, Assistant Professor of Sociology Washburn University Barack Obama‘s presidency and changes in how the U.S. Census tracks race underline the importance of the social construction of race and ethnicity in the United States. Changes in our racial…

  • Mixing It Up

    Mixing It Up Contexts Volume  4, Number 4 (Fall 2005) Pages 15–16 DOI 10.1525/ctx.2005.4.4.15 Kimberly McClain DaCosta, Associate Professor Gallatin School of Individualized Study, New York University Jamie Tibbetts is a member of the Generation Mix National Awareness Tour. He and four other mixed-race young adults are driving across the country, making stops in sixteen…

  • Crossing Boundaries, Claiming a Homeland: The Mexican Chinese Transpacific Journey to Becoming Mexican, 1930s–1960s

    Crossing Boundaries, Claiming a Homeland: The Mexican Chinese Transpacific Journey to Becoming Mexican, 1930s–1960s Pacific Historical Review Volume 78, Number 4 (November 2009) pages 545–577 DOI 10.1525/phr.2009.78.4.545 Julia María Schiavone Camacho, Assistant Professor of History University of Texa, El Paso This article follows Mexican Chinese families from Mexico, across the Mexican-U.S. border, to China, and…