Mixed Race Studies

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  • The adoption of a multiracial category is equally likely to contribute to the proliferation of racial categories rather than to their elimination.

    The Multiracial Category Movement originated in the 1980s when parents of biracial children began to challenge identification criteria on school data forms. By the 1990s, multiracial category advocates had shifted most of their energy to a campaign to secure the addition of a multiracial category on decennial census forms for the year 2000. Their efforts…

  • Notorious in the Neighborhood: Sex and Families across the Color Line in Virginia, 1787-1861

    Laws and cultural norms militated against interracial sex in Virginia before the Civil War, and yet it was ubiquitous in cities, towns, and plantation communities throughout the state. In “Notorious in the Neighborhood,” Joshua Rothman examines the full spectrum of interracial sexual relationships under slavery—from Thomas Jefferson, Sally Hemings, and the intertwined interracial families of…

  • ‘We have a race problem in England’

    ‘We have a race problem in England’ The Voice London, England 2013-03-06 Hazelann Williams Arinze Kene says he does not do politics. But for anyone who has seen one of Kene’s plays, it may sound like an unusual statement because the prolific playwright has written many plays about the state of society, ranging from life…

  • Canada Is Still Racist: And No Think Piece Can Change That

    Canada Is Still Racist: And No Think Piece Can Change That Vice Canada: The Definitive Guide to Enlightening Information 2013-03-05 Anupa Mistry When I was younger and more naïve and shielded by my parents, Canadian multiculturalism felt real and true. I grew up in Brampton, Ont., a restlessly expanding suburb of Toronto that teems with…

  • Africa in Europe: Studies in Transnational Practice in the Long Twentieth Century

    This volume explores the lives and activities of people of African descent in Europe between the 1880s and the beginning of the twenty-first century.

  • Looking for British Mixed-Race Females Aged 16-25 for Dissertation Research

    2013-03-06 My name is Nina Robinson, a third year photography student at Glamorgan University. To form part of the research for my dissertation about mixed-race identity, I am looking for British mixed-race girls aged 16-25 to fill in my questionnaire. It’s a good way to express your opinions and feelings, be part of a project…

  • Laylah Ali: The Greenheads Series

    Laylah Ali: The Greenheads Series Weisman Art Museum University of Minnesota 333 East River Road Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455 (612) 625-9494 2013-02-16 through 2013-05-12 Laylah Ali, Associate Professor of Art Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts Join us for a talk with Laylah Ali on March 7, 2013. WAM is pleased to present Laylah Ali: The Greenheads Series.…

  • 60 Ways of Looking at a Black Woman

    60 Ways of Looking at a Black Woman The New York Times 2005-01-23 Edward Lewine Ellen Gallagher dabbed a swirl of gray watercolor onto the delicate pencil drawing she had just sketched of a furry hamster. Late December sunlight radiated through the windows at Two Palms Press, the SoHo printmaking studio where she has spent…

  • “Double Natural”

    “Double Natural” Yale University Department of African American Studies 81 Wall St., Gordon Parks Room 201 2013-01-24, 11:45-13:15 EST (Local Time) Ellen Gallagher, Hayden Visiting Artist Yale University Art Gallery Ellen Gallagher breaks the boundaries of traditional art by using materials and found images in unexpected ways. Her work often looks at how African Americans…

  • MFA Thesis Choreographies

    MFA Thesis Choreographies Davis Life Magazine Davis, California 2013-02-28 UC Davis Department of Theatre and Dance is proud to present MFA Thesis Choreographies: “Ligilo” by Jarrell Iu-Hui Chua, in collaboration with Bobby August Jr., travels through the worlds of memories, dreams and present realities to investigate touch and its effects on relationships; “Transmutation” by Christine…