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  • The social and economic circumstances of mixed ethnicity children in the UK: findings from the Millennium Cohort Study

    The social and economic circumstances of mixed ethnicity children in the UK: findings from the Millennium Cohort Study Ethnic and Racial Studies First Published online: 2011-03-10 DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2011.556745 Lidia Panico, Research Student Department for Epidemiology and Public Health University College London James Y. Nazroo, Professor of Sociology and Director of the Cathie Marsh Centre for…

  • Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference 2010—Reflections

    Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference 2010—Reflections MultiRacial Network Newsletter Winter 2011 pages 4-5 A few months have passed since the inaugural Critical Mixed Race Studies (CMRS) Conference held November 5-6, 2010 at DePaul University in Chicago, IL, but we’re still thinking about it! Here is why: The People: Over 450 people registered for the two-day…

  • The Anglo-Indians: Aspirations for Whiteness and the Dilemma of Identity

    The Anglo-Indians: Aspirations for Whiteness and the Dilemma of Identity Counterpoints The Flinders University Online Journal of Interdisciplinary Conference Papers Volume 3, Number 1 (September 2003) Flinders University of South Australia Sheila Pais James Department of Sociology Flinders University of S.A. The Anglo-Indian, as a distinct ethnic identity, was the product of the racialised social…

  • The social position of multiracial groups in the United States: evidence from residential segregation

    The social position of multiracial groups in the United States: evidence from residential segregation Ethnic and Racial Studies Volume 34, Issue 4 (April 2011) pages 707-729 DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2010.527355 Pamela R. Bennett, Assistant Professor of Sociology Johns Hopkins University I use multiple perspectives on the racial order in the United States to generate hypotheses about the…

  • Finding, and correcting, my mistakes

    Finding, and correcting, my mistakes Sociology Volume 39, Number 3 (July 2005) pages 483–499 DOI: 10.1177/0038038505052488 Michael Banton, Emeritus Professor of Sociology Univeristy of Bristol Mistakes are inherent in the process of research but can illuminate it. Some of the author’s mistakes have been false assumptions shared with others of his generation. His early work…

  • “Abominable Mixture”: Toward the Repudiation of Anglo-Indian Intermarriage in Seventeenth-Century Virginia

    “Abominable Mixture”: Toward the Repudiation of Anglo-Indian Intermarriage in Seventeenth-Century Virginia The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography Volume 95, Number 2 (April, 1987) pages 157-192 David D. Smits, Professor of History The College of New Jersey Students of Amerindian-white relations have long ascribed to the English colonists an aversion to race mixing, especially through…

  • The Melungeons: A Mixed-Blood Strain of the Southern Appalachians

    The Melungeons: A Mixed-Blood Strain of the Southern Appalachians Geographical Review Volume 41, Number 2 (April, 1951) pages 256-271 Edward T. Price, Professor Emeritus of Geography University of Oregon In the native vocabulary of East Tennessee and adjacent parts of neighboring states the word “Melungeon” is widely used. To some people it is only a…

  • The Vertical and Horizontal Dimensions of the Word Race

    The Vertical and Horizontal Dimensions of the Word Race Ethnicities Volume 10, Number 1 (March 2010) pages 127-140 DOI: 10.1177/1468796809354529 Michael Banton, Emeritus Professor of Sociology Univeristy of Bristol The word race has been used both to classify humans and to account for differences between those assigned to the resulting classes or taxa. The two…

  • Navigating the Racial Terrain: Blackness and Mixedness in the United States and the Dominican Republic

    In this article, I draw on the experiences of students who participated in the Council on International Educational Exchange (CIEE) Program in Spanish Language and Caribbean Studies, in Santiago, Dominican Republic, from 2000 to 2004, to situate the seemingly conflicting racial projects of the Dominican Republic and the United States.

  • Census Bureau Reports Final 2010 Census Data for the United States

    The U.S. Census Bureau announced today that 2010 Census population totals and demographic characteristics have been released for communities in all 50 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. These data have provided the first look at population counts for small areas and race, Hispanic origin, voting age and housing unit data released from…