Mixed Race Studies

Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.

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  • Race mixing: Jones’ research has ties to political, sports figures

    Race mixing: Jones’ research has ties to political, sports figures Richmond Now The Faculty, Staff and Student Newspaper University of Richmond By Joan Tupponce April 2007 No one is more intrigued with news about presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama or professional golfer Tiger Woods than Dr. Suzanne W. Jones, professor of English and women, gender…

  • Race Mixing: Southern Fiction since the Sixties

    In “Race Mixing,” Suzanne Jones offers insightful and provocative readings of contemporary novels, the work of a wide range of writers—black and white, established and emerging.

  • The New Colored People: The Mixed-Race Movement in America

    Focusing specifically on mixed-race blacks, Spencer argues that the mixed-race movement in the United States would benefit from consideration of how multiracial categories have evolved in South Africa.

  • Race in another America: the significance of skin color in Brazil

    his is the most comprehensive and up-to-date book on the increasingly important and controversial subject of race relations in Brazil.

  • The New Race Question: How the Census Counts Multiracial Individuals

    The New Race Question: How the Census Counts Multiracial Individuals Russell Sage Foundation October 2002 391 pages Hardcover: ISBN-13: 978-0-87154-657-9, ISBN-10: 0-87154-657-4 Paperback: ISBN-13: 978-0-87154-658-6, ISBN-10: 0-87154-658-2 Edited by Joel Perlmann, Senior Scholar and Program Director Levy Economics Institute of Bard College Mary C. Waters, M.E. Zukerman Professor of Sociology Harvard University The change in…

  • Thinking Outside the White Box

    Thinking Outside the White Box University of Southern California USC News Cristy Lytal On: 2009-10-12 18:31 “I am not part this or part that but whole. I am me.” That’s how one of USC’s multiracial students described herself at the Face It!: Project ReMiX Kickoff event at El Centro Chicano on Sept. 22. More than…

  • From Jamestown 1607 to 2007, the American Mosaic: A Multicultural Society

    From Jamestown 1607 to 2007, the American Mosaic: A Multicultural Society National Association of Independent Schools (NAIS) People of Color Conference 2006 Christine Madsen Rocky Mount Academy (North Carolina) Some of the original settlers in colonial Virginia formed self-sustaining mixed race communities. The history of these communities will be used as an entrance point to…

  • What Are You? The Changing Face of America with Kip Fulbeck

    What Are You? The Changing Face of America with Kip Fulbeck National Association of Independent Schools (NAIS) 2010 Annual Conference Dates: 2010-02-24 through 2010-02-26 Moscone Convention Center West San Francisco, California, USA Adapt, Survive, Thrive: Unleashing the Superpowers Within Kip Fulbeck, Professor of Performative Studies, Video University of California, Santa Barbara Friday, 2010-02-26 13:30 –…

  • Parenting ‘mixed’ children: difference and belonging in mixed race and faith families

    Parenting ‘mixed’ children: difference and belonging in mixed race and faith families Joseph Rowntree Foundaton 2008-06-20 Chamion Caballero, Senior Research Fellow Families & Social Capital Research Group London South Bank University  Rosalind Edwards, Professor in Social Policy Families and Social Capital Research Group London South Bank University Shuby Puthussery, Senior Research Fellow Family and Parenting…

  • The House at the End of the Road: The Story of Three Generations of an Interracial Family in the American South

    In 1914, in defiance of his middle-class landowning family, a young white man named James Morgan Richardson married a light-skinned black woman named Edna Howell. Over more than twenty years of marriage, they formed a strong family and built a house at the end of a winding sandy road in South Alabama, a place where…