Mixed Race Studies

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  • Neither Black Nor White Yet Both: Thematic Explorations of Interracial Literature

    Why can a “white” woman give birth to a “black” baby, while a “black” woman can never give birth to a “white” baby in the United States? What makes racial “passing” so different from social mobility? Why are interracial and incestuous relations often confused or conflated in literature, making “miscegenation” appear as if it were…

  • The Effects of Black Identity on Candidate Evaluations: An Exploratory Study

    The Effects of Black Identity on Candidate Evaluations: An Exploratory Study Journal of Black Studies Volume 40, Number 2 (2009) pages 215-237 DOI: 10.1177/0021934707309430 Jas M. Sullivan, Assistant Professor of Political Science Louisiana State University Keena N. Arbuthnot, Associate Professor of Education Louisiana State University Although Barack Obama’s entrance into the 2008 presidential campaign has…

  • Racially Mixed People in America

    America has been the breeding ground of a “biracial baby boom” for the past 25 years. Unfortunately, there has been a dearth of information regarding how racially mixed people identify and view themselves and how they relate to one another. “Racially Mixed People in America” steadily bridges this gap and offers a comprehensive look at…

  • Raising Biracial Children

    Raising Biracial Children AltaMira Press an Imprint of Rowman & Littlefield Publishing November 2005 208pp Cloth: 0-7591-0900-1 / 978-0-7591-0900-1 Paper 0-7591-0901-X / 978-0-7591-0901-8 Kerry Ann Rockquemore University of Illinois Tracey A. Laszloffy   As the multiracial population in the United States continues to rise, new models for our understanding of mixed-race children and how their conception…

  • Shades of Difference: A History of Ethnicity in America: Perspectives on Multiracial America

    Shades of Difference: A History of Ethnicity in America: Perspectives on Multiracial America Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. June 2006 208 pages Cloth: 0-7425-4316-1 / 978-0-7425-4316-4 Paper 0-7425-4317-X / 978-0-7425-4317-1   Richard Rees, Assistant professor of American Literature Antioch College From its prehistory in the biological theories of racial difference formulated in the 1800s to…

  • American Mixed Race: The Culture of Microdiversity

    This exciting multidisciplinary collection brings together twenty-two original essays by scholars on the cutting edge of racial theory, who address both the American concept of race and the specific problems experienced by those who do not fit neatly into the boxes society requires them to check.

  • Lecture by Professor Jennifer DeVere Brody

    Lecture by Professor Jennifer DeVere Brody Theater Dance & Performance Studies University of California at Berkeley Durham Studio Theater (Dwinelle Hall) Thursday, 2010-02-18 16:00 PST (Local Time) Sponsor: Department of Theater, Dance & Performance Studies Jennifer DeVere Brody is a Professor of African and African American Studies at Duke University where she teaches cultural and…

  • Louisiana Creoles: Cultural Recovery and Mixed-Race Native American Identity

    Louisiana Creoles: Cultural Recovery and Mixed-Race Native American Identity Lexington Books an imprint of Rowman & Littlefield Publishers December 2006 Cloth: 0-7391-1896-X / 978-0-7391-1896-2 Paper: 0-7391-1897-8 / 978-0-7391-1897-9 Andrew J. Jolivétte, Associate Professor of American Indian Studies San Francisco State University Foreword by Paula Gunn Allen Louisiana Creoles examines the recent efforts of the Louisiana…

  • Beyond Black: Biracial Identity in America (Second Edition)

    Beyond Black: Biracial Identity in America (Second Edition) Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. December 2007 220 pages Cloth ISBN: 0-7425-6054-6 / 978-0-7425-6054-3 Paper ISBN: 0-7425-6055-4 / 978-0-7425-6055-0 By Kerry Ann Rockquemore and David L. Brunsma Foreword by Joe Feagin Beyond Black is a groundbreaking study of the dynamic meaning of racial identity for multiracial people…

  • Is That Your Child? Mothers Talk about Rearing Biracial Children

    Is That Your Child? Mothers Talk about Rearing Biracial Children Lexington Books (an imprint of Rowman & Littlefield) October 2008 146 pages Hardback ISBN: 978-0-7391-2763-6 Paperback ISBN: 978-0-7391-2764-3 eBook ISBN: 978-0-7391-3208-1 By Marion Kilson and Florence Ladd “Is That Your Child?” is a question that countless mothers of biracial children encounter whether they are African…