Mixed Race Studies

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  • Racial Boundary Formation at the Dawn of Jim Crow: The Determinants and Effects of Black/Mulatto Occupational Differences in the United States, 1880

    Racial Boundary Formation at the Dawn of Jim Crow: The Determinants and Effects of Black/Mulatto Occupational Differences in the United States, 1880 Department Colloquium Series University of Washington, Department of Sociology Savery Hall 2009-10-06 15:30 PDT (Local Time) Aaron Gullickson, Assistant Professor University of Oregon Much of the literature within sociology regarding mixed-race populations focuses…

  • Students Create Course About Mixed Identities

    Students Create Course About Mixed Identities A&S Perspectives College of Arts and Sciences University of Washington Editor: Nancy Joseph July 2009 Last fall, students in the UW Mixed Club—a campus group for students of mixed race—discussed how rarely mixed-race issues were being addressed in their courses. Then they decided to do something about it. That…

  • Identity and Health in the Narratives of People of Mixed Race

    Identity and Health in the Narratives of People of Mixed Race Center for the Advancement of Health Disparities Research 2nd Annual Teach-In: Health Disparities Awareness 2004-05-21 Cathy J. Tashiro, PhD, MPH, RN Nursing Program University of Washington, Tacoma …Why Study People of Mixed Race? A rapidly growing part of the population Seldom acknowledged in studies,…

  • Salt-sweat & Tears

    Salt-sweat & Tears Cinnamon Press March 2007 80 pages 21 x 14 x 0.8 cm Paperback ISBN 10: 1905614187; ISBN-13: 978-1905614189 Louisa Adjoa Parker Of Ghanaian-British descent Louisa Adjoa Parker explores issues of identity, belonging, family and relationships in raw, honest, but crafted pieces. Mulatto Girl See the mulatto girl walking down country lanes and…

  • Toward a Sociology of Racial Conceptualization for the 21st Century

    Toward a Sociology of Racial Conceptualization for the 21st Century Social Forces Volume 87, Number 3, 2009 Pages: 1167-1192 DOI: 10.1353/sof.0.0169 Ann J. Morning, Associate Professor of Sociology New York Univeristy Despite their longstanding interest in race, American sociologists have conducted little empirical research on sociodemographic patterns or longitudinal trends in “racial conceptualization” – that…

  • The multiple-race population of the United States: Issues and estimates

    The multiple-race population of the United States: Issues and estimates Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) 2000-05-23 vol. 97 no. 11 pages 6230-6235 Joshua R. Goldstein Ann J. Morning, Assistant Professor of Sociology New York University This paper presents national estimates of the population likely to identify with more than one race in…

  • A Contested Identity: An Exploration of the Competing Social and Political Discourse Concerning the Identification and Positioning of Young People of Inter-Racial Parentage

    A Contested Identity: An Exploration of the Competing Social and Political Discourse Concerning the Identification and Positioning of Young People of Inter-Racial Parentage British Journal of Social Work Volume 36, Number 8 (2006) pages 1309-1324 DOI: 10.1093/bjsw/bch390 Ravinder Barn, Professor of Social Policy and Social Work Royal Holloway, University of London Vicki Harman, Lecturer in…

  • Mixed Race Literature

    Mixed Race Literature Stanford University Press 2002 256 pages 8 illustrations Cloth Edition: ISBN-10: 0804736391; ISBN-13: 9780804736398 Paperback Edition ISBN-10: 0804736405; ISBN-13: 9780804736404 Edited by Jonathan Brennan, Professor of English Mission College, Santa Clara, California This collection presents the first scholarly attempt to map the rapidly emerging field of mixed-race literature, defined as texts written…

  • Understanding the Educational Needs of Mixed Heritage Pupils

    Understanding the Educational Needs of Mixed Heritage Pupils University of Bristol June 2004 ISBN: 1844782646 121 pages Leon Tikly, Professor in Education and Deputy Director of Research University of Bristol Chamion Caballero, Senior Research Fellow Families & Social Capital Research Group London South Bank University Jo Haynes, Lecturer in Sociology University of Bristol John Hill…

  • Mixed Race America and the Law: A Reader

    Mixed Race America and the Law: A Reader New York Univeristy Press 2003-02-01 512 pages ISBN: 9780814742570 Edited by: Kevin R. Johnson, Mabie-Apallas Professor of Public Interest Law and Chicano/a Studies University of California Davis For the first time in United States history, the Year 2000 census allowed people to check more than one box to identify…