Mixed Race Studies

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  • Parents’ Nightmare: Futile Race to Stop Killings

    Parents’ Nightmare: Futile Race to Stop Killings The New York Times 2014-05-25 Adam Nagourney It was Friday evening when the parents of Elliot O. Rodger clicked open the 140-page manifesto emailed to them from their son and learned of his plans for mass murder and suicide. Frightened and alarmed, they called 911 and then raced…

  • Go Stand Upon the Rock

    Go Stand Upon the Rock CreateSpace 2014-05-20 300 pages 9 x 6 x 0.7 inches Paperback ISBN-10: 1494211564; ISBN-13: 978-1494211561 Samuel Michael Lemon, Program Director Continuing Adult and Professional Studies Neumann University, Aston, Pennsylvania From stories handed down by my grandmother about how our ancestors fought to be free. Go Stand Upon the Rock is…

  • Passing for White, Passing for Jewish: Mixed Race Identity in Danzy Senna and Rebecca Walker

    Imitation of Life, one of the classic narratives of racial passing, originated as a 1933 novel by Jewish writer Fannie Hurst, but it is perhaps best known as the 1959 melodrama directed by Douglas Sirk inducing finale of the Sirk film, the prodigal black daughter, who has crossed the color line and passed for white, returns home…

  • This is my story (Part 1)

    This is my story (Part 1) briankamanzi 2014-03-14 Brian Kamanzi My name is Brian, in 1990 I was born to a South African Indian mother and a Ugandan father in Mthatha, a small city located in the hilly region of what is still often referred to as the Transkei in the heart of the Eastern…

  • Millions of Americans changed their racial or ethnic identity from one census to the next

      Millions of Americans changed their racial or ethnic identity from one census to the next Pew Research Center 2014-05-05 D’Vera Cohn, Senior Writer Social & Demographic Trends Project Millions of Americans counted in the 2000 census changed their race or Hispanic-origin categories when they filled out their 2010 census forms, according to new research…

  • Mexican Americans and the Question of Race

    Mexican Americans and the Question of Race University of Texas Press March 2014 184 pages 3 charts, 1 maps, 1 tables 6 x 9 Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-292-75401-0 Julie A. Dowling, Associate Professor of Latina/Latino Studies University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign This groundbreaking and timely study explores how Mexican Americans and Mexican immigrants develop their racial ideologies…

  • The Origins of “Privilege”

    The Origins of “Privilege” The New Yorker 2014-05-13 Joshua Rothman, Archive Editor The idea of “privilege”—that some people benefit from unearned, and largely unacknowledged, advantages, even when those advantages aren’t discriminatory —has a pretty long history. In the nineteen-thirties, W. E. B. Du Bois wrote about the “psychological wage” that enabled poor whites to feel…

  • Technologies of Belonging: The Absent Presence of Race in Europe

    Technologies of Belonging: The Absent Presence of Race in Europe Science Technology Human Values Volume 39, Number 4 (July 2014) pages 459-467 DOI: 10.1177/0162243914531149 Amade M’charek, Associate Professor of Anthropology University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands Katharina Schramm, Lecturer Institute for Social Anthropology Martin Luther Universität, Halle-Wittenberg, Germany David Skinner, Research Convener; Reader in Sociology Anglia…

  • Meeting the Needs of Ethnic Minority Children – Including Refugee, Black and Mixed Parentage Children: A Handbook for Professionals

    Meeting the Needs of Ethnic Minority Children – Including Refugee, Black and Mixed Parentage Children: A Handbook for Professionals Jessica Kingsley Publishers 2000 336 pages 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in Paperback ISBN: 978-1-85302-959-2 Edited by: Kedar N. Dwivedi, MBBS, MD, DPM, FRCPsych, Consultant Psychiatrist Northampton Child and Family Consultation Service Experts from a…

  • But your hair is so beautiful…

    But your hair is so beautiful… Black Women of Brazil 2014-05-08 Stephanie Paes (orginally published on 2013-06-12 as “Mas seu cabelo é tão bonito…” in Falando sem permissão) I know that it is. And only I understand the time I needed to take account of this (1). My hair is crespo (curly/kinky). It has gone…