Mixed Race Studies

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  • A Blunt Chief Justice Unafraid to Upset Brazil’s Status

    A Blunt Chief Justice Unafraid to Upset Brazil’s Status The New York Times 2013-08-23 Simon Romero, Brazil Bureau Chief BRASÍLIA — Brazil’s highest court has long viewed itself as a bastion of manners and formality. Justices call one another “Your Excellency,” dress in billowing robes and wrap each utterance in grandiloquence, as if little had…

  • Who is an Indian?: Race, Place, and the Politics of Indigeneity in the Americas

    Who is an Indian?: Race, Place, and the Politics of Indigeneity in the Americas University of Toronto Press August 2013 272 pages Paper ISBN: 9780802095527 Cloth ISBN: 9780802098184 Edited by: Maximilian C. Forte, Associate Professor of Sociology and Anthropology Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada Who is an Indian? This is possibly the oldest question facing…

  • Research Project on “Mixed Race” Identity: Call for Participants

    Research Project on “Mixed Race” Identity: Call for Participants University of Alberta 2013-08-23 Jillian Paragg, Ph.D. Student Department of Sociology Are you of mixed racial background? Do you/have you identified as “mixed race”, “multiracial”, or with other “mixed” self-identifications (i.e. biracial, mulatto, eurasian, happa, creole etc.)? Do other people identify you as “mixed”? I am…

  • The Black Irish Onscreen: Representing Black and Mixed-Race Identities on Irish Film and Television

    This book examines the position of black and mixed-race characters in Irish film culture. By exploring key film and television productions from the 1990s to the present day, the author uncovers and interrogates concepts of Irish identity, history and nation.

  • Researching the Experiences of Multiracial People Having their Racial Group Membership Denied by Others

    Researching the Experiences of Multiracial People Having their Racial Group Membership Denied by Others University of Maryland, College Park Department of Psychology 2013-08-22 Marisa Franco, Doctoral Student Counseling Psychology Greetings! My name is Marisa Franco and I am a doctoral student in counseling psychology at the University of Maryland. I am conducting a survey examining…

  • What the ‘Mixed Kids Are Always So Beautiful’ Meme Really Means

    What the ‘Mixed Kids Are Always So Beautiful’ Meme Really Means The Huffington Post 2013-08-22 Marcia Dawkins, Clinical Assistant Professor of Communications University of Southern California, Annenberg The New York Times’ Motherlode blog recently posted a thought-provoking article called, “Mixed Kids Are Always So Beautiful.” The author’s experiences as a parent to a racially-ambiguous mixed…

  • Notorious in the Neighborhood with Joshua Rothman, Ph.D. [on Research at the National Archives and Beyond]

    Notorious in the Neighborhood with Joshua Rothman, Ph.D. Research at the National Archives and Beyond BlogTalk Radio Thursday, 2013-08-22, 21:00 EDT, (Friday, 2013-08-23, 01:00Z) Bernice Bennett, Host Joshua D. Rothman, Professor of History and African American Studies University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa Notorious in the Neighborhood: Sex and Families Across the Color Line in Virginia, 1787-1861 Laws…

  • Multiracial Experiences Survey

    Multiracial Experiences Survey Self in Social Context Lab Psychology Department Simon Fraser University Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada 2013-02-18 Lisa S. Giamo, M.A., Ph.D. Candidate Experimental Social Psychology I am conducting research as part of my dissertation at Simon Fraser University. As part of research being conducted on behalf of the Self in the Social Context…

  • Fix the Census’ Archaic Racial Categories

    Fix the Census’ Archaic Racial Categories The New York Times 2013-08-21 Kenneth Prewitt, Carnegie Professor of Public Affairs Columbia University Also former director of the U.S. Census Bureau from 1998 to 2001 and author of What Is Your Race? The Census and Our Flawed Efforts to Classify Americans (Princeton University Press, 2013) Starting in 1790, and…

  • Becoming Melungeon: Making an Ethnic Identity in the Appalachian South

    Becoming Melungeon: Making an Ethnic Identity in the Appalachian South University of Nebraska Press 2013 232 pages Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-8032-7154-8 Melissa Schrift, Associate Professor of Anthropology East Tennessee State University Appalachian legend describes a mysterious, multiethnic population of exotic, dark-skinned rogues called Melungeons who rejected the outside world and lived in the remote, rugged mountains…