Mixed Race Studies

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  • College applications force mixed-race teens to color outside the lines

    College applications force mixed-race teens to color outside the lines The Mash: For teens, by teens 2012-11-15 Steffie Drucker Niles North High School, Skokie, Illinois Josh Kalamotousakis John F. Kennedy High School, Chicago, Illinois The Mash is a weekly newspaper and Web site that is here to serve you, the Chicago-area teenager. The paper is…

  • The New Colored People: The Mixed Race Movement in America (Book Review)

    The New Colored People: The Mixed Race Movement in America (Book Review) Mixed American Life 2012-11-15 Charles T. Franklin The New Colored People: The Mixed Race Movement in America by Jon Michael Spencer (1997) makes the argument that the US multi-cultural movement, like other movements in the past, is something that we need to pay…

  • Human Migration and the Marginal Man

    Human Migration and the Marginal Man The American Journal of Sociology Volume 33, Number 6 (May 1928) pages 881-893 Robert E. Park (1864-1944), Professor of Sociology University of Chicago Migrations, with all the incidental collision, conflicts, and fusions of peoples and of cultures which they occasion, have been accounted among the decisive forces in history.…

  • Coping with the crickets: a fusion autoethnography of silence, schooling, and the continuum of biracial identity formation

    Coping with the crickets: a fusion autoethnography of silence, schooling, and the continuum of biracial identity formation International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education Published online: 2012-11-07 DOI: 10.1080/09518398.2012.731537 Lynnette Mawhinney, Assistant Professor of Elementary/Early Childhood Education The College of New Jersey, Ewing, New Jersey Emery Marc Petchauer, Assistant Professor of Teacher Development & Educational…

  • The Skin We’re In: A Literary Analysis of Representations Of Mixed Race Identity in Children’s Literature

    This study systematically analyzed novels of contemporary and historical fiction with mixed race content intended for readers age 9-14. In the context of an increasingly multiracial and multicultural society, this study was primarily concerned with the question of identity representation: What is contemporary children’s literature saying about the experience of being racially mixed? This question…

  • HCOL 86 E: D1: Mixed: Multiracialism in U.S. Culture

    HCOL 86 E: D1: Mixed: Multiracialism in U.S. Culture University of Vermont The Honors College Spring 2013 John Gennari, Associate Professor of English This seminar will examine the theme of multiracial identity and culture in the United States. We’ll consider how U.S. concepts and ideologies of race have developed historically, and why within that history…

  • Covering Multiracial America Requires Historical Perspective

    Covering Multiracial America Requires Historical Perspective Maynard Media Center on Structural Inequity Maynard Institute 2012-11-14 Nadra Kareem Nittle Although people of mixed races have lived in the United States for centuries, authorities on multiracial identity say mainstream media continue to report on these people as if they are a new phenomenon. In 1619, the first…

  • Carnival, Convents, and the Cult of St. Rocque: Cultural Subterfuge in the Work of Alice Dunbar-Nelson

    Carnival, Convents, and the Cult of St. Rocque: Cultural Subterfuge in the Work of Alice Dunbar-Nelson Georgia State University 2012-08-09 57 pages Sibongile B. N. Lynch A Thesis Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts in the College of Arts and Sciences Georgia State University 2012 In the…

  • Curious Studies of Mixed Bloods in the West Indies

    Curious Studies of Mixed Bloods in the West Indies Timaru Herald Timaru, New Zealand Volume XXXVI, Issue 2366 1882-04-22 page 3 Source: Papers Past, National Library of New Zealand Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa The following is contributed by the Paris correspondent of the New Orleans Picayune—There has been an interesting diicussion on the negro…

  • Paradigm Lost: Race, Ethnicity, and the Search for a New Population Taxonomy

    Paradigm Lost: Race, Ethnicity, and the Search for a New Population Taxonomy American Journal of Public Health Volume 91, Number 7 (July 2001) pages 1049-1056 DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.91.7.1049 Gerald M. Oppenheimer, Professor of Clinical Sociomedical Sciences Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health The Institute of Medicine (IOM) recently recommended that the National Institutes of Health…