Mixed Race Studies

Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.

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  • Racialized Lives: Ethnic Mixing and Mixed Ethnicity in Britain

    Racialized Lives: Ethnic Mixing and Mixed Ethnicity in Britain New Left Project 2015-03-06 Karis Campion, Doctoral Researcher and Graduate Teaching Assistant Department of Sociology University of Manchester Racialization has had a deeply personal impact on the lives of people in Britain, but history shows us it can be challenged. In Racism, Class and the Racialized Outsider,…

  • Recognizing Race and Ethnicity: Power, Privilege, and Inequality

    Recognizing Race and Ethnicity: Power, Privilege, and Inequality Westview Press 2014-03-11 552 pages Print ISBN: 9780813349305 Ebook ISBN: 9780813349312 Kathleen J. Fitzgerald, Professor of Sociology University of New Orleans, New Orleans, Louisiana Despite radical changes over the last century, race remains a central organizing principle in U.S. society, a key arena of inequality, and the…

  • The Misuse of Race in Medical Diagnosis

    The Misuse of Race in Medical Diagnosis Pediatrics: Official Journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics May 2004, Volume 113 / Issue 5 Richard S. Garcia I am a 39-year-old Hispanic male born in Stockton, Calif, to a mother who—after many years of unwise eating—has recently been diagnosed with diabetes and to a father I…

  • Maria on Bhowani Junction

    Maria on Bhowani Junction Archive to Blockbuster 2016-08-11 Maria Kaladeen, Associate Fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies University of London The happiness I feel in encountering old movies about dual-heritage characters and communities is inevitably marred by the regurgitation of tired and offensive stereotypes about these individuals. The 1956 film Bhowani Junction, based on John…

  • The Cherokee Diaspora: An Indigenous History of Migration, Resettlement, and Identity by Gregory D. Smithers (review)

    The Cherokee Diaspora: An Indigenous History of Migration, Resettlement, and Identity by Gregory D. Smithers (review) Journal of Interdisciplinary History Volume 47, Number 2, Autumn 2016 pages 241-242 Tyler Boulware, Associate Professor of History West Virginia University The Cherokee Diaspora: An Indigenous History of Migration, Resettlement, and Identity. By Gregory D. Smithers (New Haven, Yale…

  • I seek to take a different approach and examine how racial self-identification influences perception, not of race, but of attractiveness, which has also been shown to be an agent of stratification.

    These studies on self-identification hinge on the idea that self-identification is derived in part from people’s interpretations of external perceptions and social context, e.g., because multiracial people with black heritage think they are viewed as black rather than multiracial, they identify as black. I seek to take a different approach and examine how racial self-identification…

  • On Race and Medicine: Insider Perspectives

    Health disparities exist between races in America. These inequalities are cataloged in numerous studies, reports, conferences, articles, seminars, and keynote speeches. Various studies include reports on income, health insurance, cultural differences between patients and their physicians, language barriers, and biological “racial” differences in the discourse of health disparities.

  • What are You Mixed with: the Effect of Multiracial Identification on Perceived Attractiveness

    Studies consistently show that attractiveness is racialized, and in a racial hierarchy that privileges whites at the expense of blacks, white phenotypic characteristics are deemed more attractive than black phenotypic characteristics. This study seeks to examine whether the racialized nature of attractiveness is based on more than just appearance.

  • Beauty is in the Ear of the Beholder Too

    Beauty is in the Ear of the Beholder Too Duke Research Blog Duke University 2016-08-10 Eric Ferreri Just the suggestion that an African-American person is of mixed-race heritage makes that person more attractive to others, research from Duke University concludes. This holds true even if the people in question aren’t actually of multiracial heritage, according…

  • Why I Cut My Racist In-Laws Out Of My Life

    Why I Cut My Racist In-Laws Out Of My Life The Establishment 2016-08-02 TaLynn Kel I won’t lie and say that I never had issues with the demographics of my mixed-race marriage. I definitely did. I worried about what my mom would think, and what my dad would say were he alive. I worried about…