Mixed Race Studies

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  • The Sociological Significance of President Barack Obama

    The Sociological Significance of President Barack Obama The American Sociological Association Mini-Symposium San Francisco, California 2009-08-08 through 2009-08-09 The historic campaign and election of Barack Obama constitutes a compelling and timely context for examining the program theme. In response, the 2009 ASA Program Committee and ASA President Patricia Hill Collins have organized a mini-symposium, a…

  • Racial Thinking in the United States: Uncompleted Independence

    Racial Thinking in the United States: Uncompleted Independence University of Notre Dame Press 2004 376 pages Cloth ISBN 10: 0-268-04103-2 Cloth ISBN 13: 978-0-268-04103-8 Paper ISBN 10: 0-268-04104-0 Paper ISBN 13: 978-0-268-04104-5 Edited by: Paul Spickard, Professor of 20th Century U.S. Social and Cultural History University of California, Santa Barbara G. Reginald Daniel, Professor of…

  • Mix-d: uk (Photography Exhibition)

    Mix-d: uk (Photography Exhibition) New Walk Museum & Art Gallery 2009-10-17 through 2009-12-31 Opening Times: Monday – Friday: 10:00 – 19:00 Saturday: 10:00 – 17:00 Sunday: 11:00 – 17:00 Closed: 24th, 25th, 26th, 31st December. Address: 53 New Walk Leicester LE1 7EA   Telephone: +44 (0)116 225 4900 Email: museums@leicester.gov.uk Looking at mixed-race identities on…

  • Raiding The Gene Pool: The Social Construction of Mixed Race

    Raiding The Gene Pool: The Social Construction of Mixed Race Pluto Press an imprint of MacMillan Publishing February 2002 ISBN: 978-0-7453-1764-9 ISBN10: 0-7453-1764-2 5.5 x 8.25 inches 224 pages Jill Olumide, Researcher Swansea University, School of Health Science High profile ‘mixed race’ stars like Tiger Woods have brought the politics of identity into the mainstream.…

  • Mixed-Race, Post-Race: Gender, New Ethnicities and Cultural Practices

    Focusing on mixed-race and inter-ethnic families, this book not only explores current understandings of ‘race’, but it shows, using innovative research techniques with children, how we come to read race.

  • Mixed Feelings: The Complex Lives of Mixed-Race Britons

    Mixed Feelings: The Complex Lives of Mixed-Race Britons The Women’s Press 2001 336 pages 9.1 x 6.1 x 0.7 inches Paperback ISBN-10: 0704347067; ISBN-13: 978-0704347069 Yasmin Alibhai-Brown Yasmin Alibhai-Brown’s new book offers the sharpest and most informed insight yet on mixed-race Britain. Opening with an historical perspective, she traces up to the twenty-first century the…

  • Teaching and Learning Guide for: Ethnographic approaches to race, genetics and genealogy

    Teaching and Learning Guide for: Ethnographic approaches to race, genetics and genealogy Sociology Compass Volume 3 Issue 5 Pages 847 – 852 2009-07-29 DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-9020.2009.00231.x Katharine Tyler, Lecturer in Race and Ethnicity University of Surrey Over the last 20 years, there has been a technological advance and commercial boom in genetic technologies and projects. These…

  • Hybridity and its Discontents: Politics, Science, Culture

    Hybridity and its Discontents: Politics, Science, Culture Routledge 2000-08-24 320 pages Trim Size: 234×156 Hardback ISBN: 978-0-415-19402-0 Paperback ISBN: 978-0-415-19403-7 Edited by Avtar Brah, Professor in Sociology Birbek University of London Annie Coombes, Professor of Material and Visual Culture Birkbeck University of London Hybridity and its Discontents explores the history and experience of ‘hybridity’ –…

  • A Premonition of Obama: La Raza Cosmica in America

    A Premonition of Obama: La Raza Cosmica in America New Perspectives Quarterly (NPQ) Volume 26 Issue 4 Pages 100 – 110 Published Online: 2009-10-26 DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-5842.2009.01119.x Ryszard Kapuscinski Ryszard Kapuscinski, who died in 2007, was one of the 20th century’s greatest literary journalists. He personally witnessed the dramatic post-World War II upheavals of decolonization and…

  • Working with multiracial clients in therapy: Bridging theory, research, and practice

    Working with multiracial clients in therapy: Bridging theory, research, and practice Professional Psychology: Research and Practice Vol 39(2) Apr 2008 pages 192-201 Jennifer Teramoto Pedrotti, Associate Professor California Polytechnic State University Lisa M. Edwards, Assistant Professor, Director of Child/Adolescent Community Program Marquette University Shane J. Lopez The growing multiracial population has resulted in a need…