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  • The JCMRS inaugural issue will be released on Summer, 2013 Journal of Critical Mixed Race Studies c/o Department of Sociology SSMS Room 3005 University of California, Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, California  93106-9430 E-Mail: socjcmrs@soc.ucsb.edu 2012-10-10 The Journal of Critical Mixed Race Studies (JCMRS) is a peer-reviewed online journal dedicated to developing the field of Critical Mixed…

  • Kiss Me, I’m 1/16 Irish: African-, Irish-, and the Hyphenated-Americans The Huffington Post 2013-03-15 Theodore Johnson, Op-Ed Columnist, 2012 White House Fellow Years ago, I spent Saint Patrick’s Day in an Irish pub singing ditties with a restaurant full of my newest friends—and left feeling a little green with envy. The Irish-American traditions and fare…

  • Dr. Zélie Asava considers the contest’s celebration of the ‘new Irish’

  • Seeking Interviewees for Research on Mixed Heritage Asian American Mothers 2013-03-17 Brian DeGuzman San Francisco State University I am an Asian American Studies M.A. student at San Francisco State University and I am looking for interviewees for my research on mixed heritage Asian American mothers. I am specifically looking for mixed Asian American mothers who…

  • The Mulatto to His Critics Eugenical News Volume VII (7), Number 8 (August, 1922) page 100 Joseph S. Cotter, Jr., gives this answer to the critics of the mulatto: “Ashamed of my race? And of what race am I? I am many in one. Through my veins there flows the blood Of Red Man, Black…

  • While the William Shatner era of Star Trek isn’t exactly the first thing that springs to mind as a predecessor of the “It Gets Better” anti-bullying movement, Buzzfeed’s got an excerpt from the advice pages of a 1968 teen magazine called FaVE displays Leonard Nimoy’s sensitivity to the plight of one particular young woman.

  • Eugenics in South America Eugenical News Volume 7, Number 3 (March, 1922) pages 17-42 Reginald G. Harris Ever since the rediscovery of Mendel’s laws of inheritance plant and animal breeders have been occupied with conducting experiments on a large number of widely varying types of organisms. These experiments hare brought to light the method of…

  • Lyn Dickens relates her experiences of being a young Eurasian woman in Australia

  • (Mixed) Racial formation in Aotearoa/New Zealand: framing biculturalism and ‘mixed race’ through categorisation Kotuitui: New Zealand Journal of Social Sciences Online Volume 7, Issue 1, (May 2012) DOI: 10.1080/1177083X.2012.670650 pages 1-13 Zarine L. Rocha, Research Scholar Department of Sociology National University of Singapore This paper explores racial formation in Aotearoa/New Zealand, and the impacts of…

  • If you do not understand White Supremacy—what it is, and how it works—everything else that you understand, will only confuse you. Neely Fuller, Jr., The united-independent compensatory code/system/concept: A textbook/workbook for thought, speech, and/or action, for victims of racism (white supremacy), (1969).