Author: Steven

  • …The ‘mixed’ population is now the fastest growing ethnic group in Britain. While the substantial increase in the size of this group is a recent phenomenon, population mixing has happened throughout the 20th century and earlier. By the 1920s there were settled mixed race populations in a number of British seaports, including Liverpool and Cardiff,…

  • ‘In certain circumstances, race mixing is known to be bad. Further knowledge of its biological effects is needed in order to make it possible to frame a practical eugenic policy.  Meanwhile, since the process of race mixture cannot be reversed, great caution is advocated.’ Records of the Eugenics Society, 1934

  • Multiracial ideology, like the monoracial ideology it depends on, is a false consciousness. The frustration its adherents feel would be better directed at criticizing the American racial paradigm itself rather than at attempting to modify the paradigm’s configuration.  A modified paradigm, one containing a multi-racial category, would be a fallacious as one without a multiracial…

  • Within the United States, ‘mixed race’ has gained currency as a loaded but culturally comprehensible term referencing individuals where one parent is white and the other is of color. Some […] challenge this approach and claim recognition for ‘mixed-race’ identities that were never legally proscribed. It is a strategic but frivolous petition as the explicit…

  • “…’race’  as it is understood … was a social mechanism invented in the eighteenth century to refer to those populations brought together in colonial America: … European settlers, conquered Indians, and Africans brought in to supply slave labor… [Race] … subsumed a growing ideology of inequity devised to rationalize European attitudes and the treatment of…

  • The Mixed Roots Film & Literary Festival 2009 (2009-06-12 to 2009-06-13) The Mixed Roots Film & Literary Festival is an annual free public event celebrating stories of the Mixed [race] experience through films, readings, workshops and live performance.  The Festival is an inclusive event which brings together film and book lovers, innovative and emerging artists,…

  • Harvard Professor Kimberly McClain DaCosta Guest on Mixed Chicks Chat Mixed Chicks Chat (The only live weekly show about being racially and culturally mixed.) Website: TalkShoe™ (Keywords: Mixed Chicks) Episode: #101 – Dr. Kimberly McClain DaCosta When: 2009-05-08, 21:00Z  Kimberly McClain DaCosta, Associate Professor Gallatin School of Individualized Study, New York University Kimberly McClain DaCosta…

  • It matters how and when you ask: self-reported race/ethnicity of incoming law students Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology Volume 15, Number 1 (January 2009) pages 51-66 A. T. Panter Department of Psychology University of North Carolina Charles E. Dayle Department of Psychology University of North Carolina Walter R. Allen Department of Psychology University of…