Mixed Race Studies

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  • New Book by Dr. Yaba Blay Explores Racial Identity and Skin Color Politics

    New Book by Dr. Yaba Blay Explores Racial Identity and Skin Color Politics Drexel Now Drexel University 2013-07-31 News Media Contact: Alex McKechnie, News Officer, University Communications Phone: 215-895-2705; Mobile: 401-651-7550 What does it mean to be Black? Is Blackness a matter of biology or consciousness? What determines who is Black and who is not?…

  • The Debate: Multiracial Identity

    The Debate: Multiracial Identity The Agenda with Steve Paikin TVO (TV Ontario) Toronto, Ontario, Canada 2011-07-22, 20:00 EDT (Local Time) Also at: 2011-07-25, 05:00 EDT (Local Time) Piya Chattopadhyay, Host Guests (in order of appearance) Rainier Spencer, Director of the Afro-American Studies Program University of Nevada, Las Vegas (Author of three books on multiracialism including, Reproducing Race:…

  • Saluting a Dream, and Adapting It for a New Era

    Saluting a Dream, and Adapting It for a New Era The New York Times 2013-08-28 Peter Baker and Sheryl Gay Stolberg WASHINGTON — President Obama stepped into the space on Wednesday where the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. once stood, summoning his iconic dream of a colorblind society in a celebration of a half-century…

  • President, Not Preacher, but Speaking More on Race

    President, Not Preacher, but Speaking More on Race The New York Times 2013-08-27 Peter Baker WASHINGTON — Sitting in the Roosevelt Room with prominent African-American religious leaders, President Obama on Monday mused about how far the nation had come in the 50 years since the March on Washington led by the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther…

  • Jahaji Bhai: The emergence of a Dougla poetics in Trinidad and Tobago

    Jahaji Bhai: The emergence of a Dougla poetics in Trinidad and Tobago Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power Volume 5, Issue 4, 1999 Special Issue: Fight the Power: Changing forms of Consciousness and Protest pages 569-601 DOI: 10.1080/1070289X.1999.9962630 Rhoda Reddock, Professor of Gender and Development Studies University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad…

  • Multiracial Identities in Trinidad and Guyana: Exaltation and Ambiguity

    Multiracial Identities in Trinidad and Guyana: Exaltation and Ambiguity Latin American Issues Volume 13 (1997) (The Caribbean(s) Redefined) Article IV Camille Hernandez-Ramdwar, Associate Professor of Sociology Ryerson University, Toronto, Ontario For people of formerly colonized countries, race mixing among the populace has always been a reality. This is particularly true for Caribbean peoples. This paper…

  • Extended Families: Mixed-Race Children and Scottish Experience, 1770-1820

    Three years prior to the ending of the slave trade, Jamaica’s richest and most influential merchant mused on the possible consequences of abolition. Writing to his friend George Hibbert in January of 1804, Simon Taylor offered a stark vision of the British imperial economy without slave importation, echoing scores of other pro-slavery writers who preached…

  • The Politics of Multiracialism in an Anti-Black World

    The Politics of Multiracialism in an Anti-Black World I MiX What I Like! WPFW 89.3 FM, Washington, D.C. 2011-10-07 Jared A. Ball, Host and Associate Professor of Communication Studies Morgan State University, Baltimore, Maryland Jared Sexton, Associate Professor of African American Studies and Film & Media Studies University of California, Irvine Dr. Jared Sexton joined…

  • We must become racial assassins, beginning with our own racial suicides, in order to bring a true postracial future into reality…

    As we attempt to imagine our American future, an eventual postracial future in which racelessness is the norm and anyone advocating the assignation of racial identities is considered as strange and as beyond the fringe as someone today would be in asserting that some people are broom-riding witches and that others are animals who have…

  • Mixed “Race” in Southeast Asia?: Racial Theories in Competing Empires (Sawyer Seminar V)

    Mixed “Race” in Southeast Asia?: Racial Theories in Competing Empires (Sawyer Seminar V) University of Southern California Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences Center for Japanese Religions and Culture University Park Campus Doheny Memorial Library (DML), East Asian Seminar Room (110C) 2013-10-12, 10:00-16:00 PDT (Local Time) USC Conference Convenors: Duncan Williams,…