Mixed Race Studies

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  • Living Color: Fathers Talk to Their Bi-Racial Sons

    Living Color: Fathers Talk to Their Bi-Racial Sons NBC News 2015-01-14 Photographs by André Chung Teaching lessons they never had to learn, fathers speak to their bi-racial sons about identity, perception, and dealing with law enforcement. Mark Johnson-Lewis, 48, and his son, Tyler Lewis, 22, of Columbia, MD (André Chung/NBC News) …Mark: You’re black in…

  • What If Everything You Know About Race Is Wrong?

    What If Everything You Know About Race Is Wrong? Texas Public Radio San Antonio, Texas 2015-01-15 Jack Morgan, Arts and Culture Reporter Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni A one-woman show is coming to the Tobin Center and it’s probably unlike anything you’ve ever seen. It’s called “One Drop of Love.” starring Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni, produced by Ben…

  • One Drop of Love

    One Drop of Love Tobin Center for the Performing Arts Carlos Alvarez Studio Theater 100 Auditorium Circle San Antonio, Texas 78205 2015-01-17, 14:00 CST and 20:00 CST (Local Time) BMW OF SAN ANTONIO SIGNATURE SERIES “Amazing performance, staging, autobiography and artistry, and an amazing meditation on race and examination of America.” – Ben Affleck, 2013…

  • Toward a Sociology of Race and Ethnicity

    Toward a Sociology of Race and Ethnicity Sociology of Race and Ethnicity Volume 1, Number 1 pages 1-9 DOI: 10.1177/2332649214562028 David L. Brunsma, Professor of Sociology Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia David G. Embrick, Associate Professor of Sociology Loyola University, Chicago, Chicago, Illinois Megan Nanney Department of Sociology Virginia Polytechnic Institute and…

  • Hawaii As ‘Racial Paradise’? Bid For Obama Library Invokes A Complex Past

    Hawaii As ‘Racial Paradise’? Bid For Obama Library Invokes A Complex Past Code Switch: Frontiers of Race, Culture and Ethnicity National Public Radio 2015-01-15 Ellen Wu, Associate Professor of History Indiana University Sometime in March, President Obama is expected to announce his choice of the institution that will hold his presidential archive. Vying for the…

  • Plaçage and the Performance of Whiteness: The Trial of Eulalie Mandeville, Free Colored Woman, of Antebellum New Orleans

    Plaçage and the Performance of Whiteness: The Trial of Eulalie Mandeville, Free Colored Woman, of Antebellum New Orleans American Nineteenth Century History Volume 15, Issue 2, 2014 pages 187-209 DOI: 10.1080/14664658.2014.959818 Carol Wilson, Arthur A. and Elizabeth R. Knapp Professor of American History Washington College, Chestertown, Maryland Depictions of plaçage, a type of concubinage found…

  • You Can be Both! (And Not In the Way You Might be Thinking)

    You Can be Both! (And Not In the Way You Might be Thinking) Mixed In Canada 2015-01-14 Rema Tavares Dr. Maria P. Root’s “Bill of Rights for Racially Mixed People” has greatly influenced how many mixed-race folks identify today. One of the things I learned from the Bill was that I had the right to…

  • “Does it take work leaving your hair like that?” – We resist! Sou negra (I am a black woman)!” – The development of black identity for a negro-mestiça

    “Does it take work leaving your hair like that?” – We resist! Sou negra (I am a black woman)!” – The development of black identity for a negro-mestiça Black Women of Brazil 2015-01-15 “We resist! Negra Soy (I am a black woman)!” (August, 2014) from Biscate Social Club Lia Siqueira Lia Siqueira “Yes, it takes…

  • 53 Historians Weigh In on Barack Obama’s Legacy

    53 Historians Weigh In on Barack Obama’s Legacy New York 2015-01-11 “It’s a fool’s errand you’re involved in,” warned Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Gordon Wood when approached recently by this magazine to predict Barack Obama’s historical legacy. “We live in a fog, and historians decades from now will tell their society what was happening in 2014.…

  • The myth of race, debunked in 3 minutes

    The myth of race, debunked in 3 minutes Vox 2015-01-13 Jenée Desmond Harris You may know exactly what race you are, but how would you prove it if somebody disagreed with you? Jenée Desmond Harris explains. And for more on how race is a social construct, click here.