Mixed Race Studies

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  • The Color Question Like Banquo’s Ghost

    The Color Question Like Banquo’s Ghost The Indianapolis Recorder: A Weekly Newspaper Devoted the to Best Interest of the Negroes Saturday, 1910-05-07 page 1, column 3 Source: Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis: University Library: Program of Digital Scholarship There Is Virtue In Being a Full Blood Negro—Louisiana Supreme Court Makes Important Ruling. According to a decision…

  • Mixing Matters: Critical Intersectionalities: Call For Papers

    Mixing Matters: Critical Intersectionalities: Call For Papers Centre for Ethnicity and Racism Studies (CERS) University of Leeds 2013-05-18 An Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Symposium on Critical Mixed Race Studies The Centre for Ethnicity and Racism Studies (CERS) at the University of Leeds invites postgraduate research students to participate in a one-day symposium which will be held on…

  • John C. Minkins on Race Purity

    A large and representative audience was present at the recent meeting of the Boston Literary and Historical association to hear an address by John C. Minkins, editor of the Providence (R. I.) Evening News, on miscegenation and the fight for race purity.

  • Looking for Feedback for a Thesis on Growing up Biracial

    Looking for Feedback for a Thesis on Growing up Biracial Damien Haynes 2013-02-22 I am doing a thesis on growing up biracial in America and I need feedback from people’s experiences. If anyone has any good bad or indifferent experiences, please contact me. This is important to me, I am of Louisiana Creole heritage and…

  • CNN Joins Forces with Soledad O’Brien’s New Production Company

    CNN Joins Forces with Soledad O’Brien’s New Production Company Cable News Network (CNN) 2012-02-21 Starfish Media Group Will Produce Specials and Documentaries for CNN   CNN is entering into a production and distribution agreement with critically-acclaimed journalist Soledad O’Brien, whose new production company will produce long-form programming specials for the network it was announced today…

  • The Stigma of Privilege: Racial Identity and Stigma Consciousness Among Biracial Individuals

    The Stigma of Privilege: Racial Identity and Stigma Consciousness Among Biracial Individuals Race and Social Problems Volume 5, Issue 1 (March 2013) pages 41-56 DOI: 10.1007/s12552-012-9083-5 Leigh S. Wilton Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey Diana T. Sanchez, Associate Professor of Psychology Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey Julie A. Garcia, Associate Professor…

  • Colorism and School-to-Work and School-to-College Transitions of African American Adolescents

    Colorism and School-to-Work and School-to-College Transitions of African American Adolescents Race and Social Problems Volume 5, Issue 1 (March 2013) pages 15-27 DOI: 10.1007/s12552-012-9081-7 Igor Ryabov, Associate Professor of Sociology University of Texas-Pan American, Edinburg, Texas Using multinomial logistic modeling, the current study estimated the impact of skin tone on school-to-work and school-to-college transitions of…

  • Aristocrats of Color: The Black Elite, 1880–1920

    Aristocrats of Color: The Black Elite, 1880–1920 University of Arkansas Press 2000 464 pages 64 illustrations Paperback ISBN: 978-1-55728-593-5 | 1-55728-593-4 Willard B. Gatewood, Alumni Distinguished Professor of History Emeritus University of Arkansas, Fayetteville This monumental work is a classic study of the black “aristocracy” which developed in the United States in the years following…

  • Race: A Philosophical Introduction, 2nd Edition

    Race: A Philosophical Introduction, 2nd Edition Polity Press February 2013 240 pages Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7456-4965-8 Paperback ISBN: 978-0-7456-4966-5 Paul C. Taylor, Associate Professor of Philosophy Pennsylvania State University In Race: A Philosophical Introduction, Second Edition, Paul C. Taylor provides an accessible guide to a well-travelled but still-mysterious area of the contemporary social landscape. As in…

  • Dropping Anchor, Setting Sail: Geographies of Race in Black Liverpool

    Dropping Anchor, Setting Sail: Geographies of Race in Black Liverpool Princeton University Press 2005 312 pages 6 x 9 ISBN: 978-1-4008-2641-4 Jacqueline Nassy Brown, Associate Professor of Anthropology Hunter College of the City University of New York The port city of Liverpool, England, is home to one of the oldest Black communities in Britain. Its…