Mixed Race Studies

Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.

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Guest DJ Xenia Rubinos Spins Music From Solange To Ravel

2017-01-06

Guest DJ Xenia Rubinos Spins Music From Solange To Ravel alt.Latino: Latinx Arts and Culture National Public Radio 2017-01-04 Felix Contreras, Host Xenia Rubinos plays Guest DJ on this week’s episode of Alt.Latino. Courtesy of the artist Vocalist Xenia Rubinos ended 2016 with a bang: Her album Black Terry Cat was singled out in best-of-the-year…
The Latinos of Asia: How Filipino Americans Break the Rules of Race [Review]

2017-01-06

The Latinos of Asia: How Filipino Americans Break the Rules of Race [Review] Sociology of Race and Ethnicity Volume 3, Issue 1, (January 2017) pages 145-146 DOI: 10.1177/2332649216676788 Emily Walton, Assistant Professor of Sociology Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire Anthony Christian Ocampo, The Latinos of Asia: How Filipino Americans Break the Rules of Race. Stanford,…
National Colors: Racial Classification and the State in Latin America [Review]

2017-01-06

National Colors: Racial Classification and the State in Latin America [Review] Sociology of Race and Ethnicity Volume 3, Issue 1, (January 2017) pages 141-145 DOI: 10.1177/2332649216676789 Mark Q. Sawyer, Associate Professor of Political Science University of California, Los Angeles Mara Loveman, National Colors: Racial Classification and the State in Latin America. Oxford, UK: Oxford University…
Ruth Negga: ‘Stories about race and identity pique my interest… I have always felt like a fish out of water’

2017-01-06

Ruth Negga: ‘Stories about race and identity pique my interest… I have always felt like a fish out of water’ The Belfast Telegraph 2016-12-31 Patricia Danaher Starring role: Ruth Negga’s career is going from strength to strength Nominated for a Golden Globe, tipped for an Oscar and on the cover of Vogue, Ruth Negga is…
The Other California: Land, Identity, and Politics on the Mexican Borderlands

2017-01-04

“The Other California” is the story of working-class communities and how they constituted the racially and ethnically diverse social landscape of Baja California.
Remapping Race on the Human Genome: Commercial Exploits in a Racialized America

2017-01-04

Remapping Race on the Human Genome: Commercial Exploits in a Racialized America Praeger January 2017 310 pages 6.125 x 9.25 Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4408-3063-1 eBook ISBN: 978-1-4408-3064-8 Judith Ann Warner, Professor of Sociology Texas A&M International University, Laredo, Texas Do the commercial applications of the human genome in ancestry tracing, medicine, and forensics serve to further…
In the Name of the Mother: Italian Americans, African Americans, and Modernity from Booker T. Washington to Bruce Springsteen

2017-01-04

In the Name of the Mother: Italian Americans, African Americans, and Modernity from Booker T. Washington to Bruce Springsteen Dartmouth College Press 2017-01-03 296 pages 10 illus. 6 1/8 x 9 1/4″ Paperback ISBN: 978-1-5126-0019-3 Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-5126-0018-6 Ebook ISBN: 978-1-5126-0020-9 Samuele F. S. Pardini, Associate Professor of Italian Department of World Languages and Cultures…
Kamala Harris sworn in as first Indian American senator and California’s first black senator

2017-01-03

Kamala Harris sworn in as first Indian American senator and California’s first black senator The Los Angeles Times 2017-01-03 Sara D. Wire, Congressional Delegation Reporter Before friends and family in a packed chamber, Kamala Harris was sworn in as California’s newest U.S. senator Tuesday morning. She became the first black woman the Golden State has…
Author Joseph Boyden defends indigenous heritage after investigation

2016-12-31

Author Joseph Boyden defends indigenous heritage after investigation The Toronto Star 2016-12-26 Nicole Thompson The Canadian Press Author responds after investigation by Aboriginal Peoples Television Network into his background. A celebrated Canadian author who writes about First Nations heritage and culture is defending himself on Twitter after his ancestry was questioned. In a statement posted…
Some Obamaphiles bristle at the idea that he should be thought of principally as a black president—assessed in a segregated category of one. Yet race has been essential to his career, as well as to his finest oratory.

2016-12-31

Some Obamaphiles bristle at the idea that he should be thought of principally as a black president—assessed in a segregated category of one. Yet race has been essential to his career, as well as to his finest oratory. The emergency remarks he made, in 2008, after the circulation of radical comments by his pastor, Jeremiah…

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