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  • Methodology and Measurement in the Study of Multiracial Americans: Identity, Classification, and Perceptions

    Methodology and Measurement in the Study of Multiracial Americans: Identity, Classification, and Perceptions Sociology Compass Volume 5, Issue 7 (July 2011) pages 607–617 DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-9020.2011.00388.x Melissa R. Herman, Assistant Professor of Sociology Dartmouth College This article lays out some of the methodological issues in doing research on multiracial people (those whose immediate and/or distant ancestors come…

  • Race and Sociological Reason in the Republic: Inquiries on the Métis in the French Empire (1908-37)

    Race and Sociological Reason in the Republic: Inquiries on the Métis in the French Empire (1908-37) International Sociology Volume 17, Number 3 (September 2002) 361-391 DOI: 10.1177/0268580902017003002 Emmanuelle Saada, Associate Professor and Director of the Center for French and Francophone Studies Columbia University This article compares two collective surveys on the métis conducted in 1908 and…

  • Do You See What I Am? How Observers’ Backgrounds Affect Their Perceptions of Multiracial Faces

    Do You See What I Am? How Observers’ Backgrounds Affect Their Perceptions of Multiracial Faces Social Psychology Quarterly Volume 73, Number 1 (March 2010) pages 58-78 DOI: 10.1177/0190272510361436 Melissa R. Herman, Assistant Professor of Sociology Dartmouth College Although race is one of the most salient status characteristics in American society, many observers cannot distinguish the…

  • Oreo, Topdeck and Eminem: Hybrid identities and global media flows

    Oreo, Topdeck and Eminem: Hybrid identities and global media flows International Journal of Cultural Studies Volume 14, Nubmer 2 (March 2011) pages 153-172 DOI: 10.1177/1367877910387971 Jane Stadler, Senior Lecturer in Film and Media Studies University of Queensland, Australia The slang terms Oreo (someone who looks black but acts white) and Topdeck (someone who looks white…

  • How medicine is advancing beyond race

    How medicine is advancing beyond race CNN.com 2011-07-08 Elizabeth Landau, CNN.com Health Writer/Producer (CNN)—No matter what race you consider yourself to be, you have a unique genetic makeup. That’s why, as technology improves and researchers explore new implications of the human genome, medicine is going to become more individually tailored in a model called personalized…

  • The Wormiest of Cans: who gets to be “mixed race”?

    The Wormiest of Cans: who gets to be “mixed race”? Racialicious 2011-07-12 Thea Lim A few days ago on Facebook I watched two community activists have a throwdown over the phrase “mixed race.” It began when Activist X posted a link to this article about the Mixed Roots Film and Literary Festival and noted with…

  • The Love Story That Made Marriage a Fundamental Right

    The Love Story That Made Marriage a Fundamental Right Color Lines 2011-04-27 Asraa Mustufa The Tribeca Film Festival is under way in New York, and one featured documentary delves into the story behind the landmark civil rights case Loving vs. Virginia, which struck down Jim Crow laws meant to prevent people from openly building families…

  • The Missing Bi-racial Child in Hollywood

    The Missing Bi-racial Child in Hollywood Canadian Review of American Studies Volume 37, Number 2 (2007) pages 239-263 E-ISSN: 1710-114X; Print ISSN: 0007-7720 Naomi Angel The growing interest in issues pertaining to “mixed-race” identities and communities, as well as a surge in films with “mixed-race” characters has prompted this examination of representations of “mixedrace” characters…

  • John Powell: His Racial and Cultural Ideologies

    John Powell: His Racial and Cultural Ideologies Min-Ad: Israel Studies in Musicology Online Volume 5, Issue 1 (2006) 14 pages David Z. Kushner, Professor Emeritus of Musicology/Music History University of Florida The opening of the first movement of the Symphony in A Major “Virginia Symphony” (Allegro non troppo ma con brio). QuickTime-format, WindowsMedia-format Following John…

  • A New Branch of the United States’ Miscegenated Family Tree: Lynn Nottage’s “By the Way, Meet Vera Stark”

    A New Branch of the United States’ Miscegenated Family Tree: Lynn Nottage’s “By the Way, Meet Vera Stark” The Feminist Wire 2011-04-29 Soyica Colbert, Assistant Professor of English Dartmouth College Pulitzer Prize winner Lynn Nottage’s new play By the Way, Meet Vera Stark opened at the Second Stage Theatre on April 6, 2011 to guffaws…