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  • Mixing It Up: Multiracial Subjects

    Mixing It Up: Multiracial Subjects University of Texas Press 2004 6 x 9 in. 225 pages ISBN: 978-0-292-74345-8 Print-on-demand title Edited by: SanSan Kwan, Associate Professor of Dance, Performance Studies University of California, Berkeley and Kenneth Speirs (1964-2013), Professor of English University of California, Berkeley Foreword by Naomi Zack, Professor of Philosophy University of Oregon The…

  • Queer in Black and White: Interraciality, Same Sex Desire, and Contemporary African American Culture

    This book analyzes representative works of African American fiction, film, and music in which interracial desire appears in the context of same sex desire. In close readings of these “texts,” Stefanie K. Dunning explores the ways in which the interracial intersects with queerness, blackness, whiteness, class, and black national identity.

  • The Historical Problematization of ‘Mixed Race’ in Psychological and Human-Scientific Discourses

    The Historical Problematization of ‘Mixed Race’ in Psychological and Human-Scientific Discourses Defining difference: Race and Racism in the History of Psychology 2004 Edited by Andrew Winston pages pp. 79-108 American Psychological Association Thomas Teo, Associate Professor Department of Psychology York University This paper reconstructs techniques of problematization regarding “mixed race” from Enlightenment inspired anthropological discourses…

  • Hollywood Fantasies of Miscegenation: Spectacular Narratives of Gender and Race

    Hollywood Fantasies of Miscegenation: Spectacular Narratives of Gender and Race Princeton University Press 2004 376 pages 6 x 9, 142 halftones. Paperback ISBN: 9780691113050 Susan Courtney, Associate Professor of English and Film Studies University of South Carolina Hollywood Fantasies of Miscegenation analyzes white fantasies of interracial desire in the history of popular American film.  From…

  • The Chinatown Trunk Mystery: Murder, Miscegenation, and Other Dangerous Encounters in Turn-of-the-Century New York City

    In the summer of 1909, the gruesome murder of nineteen-year-old Elsie Sigel sent shock waves through New York City and the nation at large. The young woman’s strangled corpse was discovered inside a trunk in the midtown Manhattan apartment of her reputed former Sunday school student and lover, a Chinese man named Leon Ling.

  • The Mulatto In The United States: Including A Study Of The Role Of Mixed-Blood Races Throughout The World

    An historical study of the role of the mulatto in American society, with a discussion of the mixing of races in other parts of the world. Edward Byron Reuter (1880-1946) received his doctoral degree in sociology from the University of Chicago in 1919 for this dissertation. He served (in 1933) as the 22nd President of…

  • From Black to Biracial: Transforming Racial Identity Among Americans

    From Black to Biracial: Transforming Racial Identity Among Americans Praeger Publishers an imprint of Greenwood Publishing Group 1998 160 pages Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 Paperback ISBN: 0-275-96744-1; ISBN-13: 978-0-275-96744-4 Kathleen Odell Korgen, Professor of Sociology William Paterson University, Wayne, New Jersey Is a person with both a white and African American parent…

  • Claiming Place: Biracial Young Adults of the Post-Civil Rights Era

    Claiming Place: Biracial Young Adults of the Post-Civil Rights Era Praeger 2000-11-30 208 pages Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-89789-760-0 Ebook ISBN: 978-0-313-06507-1 Marion Kilson, Dean of the Graduate School Salem State College, Massachusetts Born in the 1960s, the middle-class Biracial Americans of this study are part of a transitional cohort…

  • Light, Bright, and Damned Near White: Biracial and Triracial Culture in America

    Light, Bright, and Damned Near White: Biracial and Triracial Culture in America Praeger Publishers an imprint of Greenwood Publishing Group 2009-03-20 168 pages Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 Hardcover ISBN: 0-275-98954-2; ISBN-13: 978-0-275-98954-5 Stephanie Rose Bird The election of America’s first biracial president brings the question dramatically to the fore. What does it…

  • Relative/Outsider: The Art and Politics of Identity Among Mixed Heritage Students

    Relative/Outsider: The Art and Politics of Identity Among Mixed Heritage Students Praeger Publishers 2001-05-30 200 pages Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 Paperback ISBN: 978-1-56750-551-1 Hardback ISBN: 978-1-56750-550-4 e-Book ISBN: 978-0-313-07598-8 DOI: 10.1336/1567505511 Kendra R. Wallace, Assistant Professor of Education University of Maryland, Baltimore The author explores the ethnic and racial identity formation among…