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  • Brave new world: The complicated side-effects of Britain’s mixed-race households

    Brave new world: The complicated side-effects of Britain’s mixed-race households The Independent (UK) 2009-08-22 Yasmin Alibhai-Brown Bev is beautiful, with silky black skin and thick hair she ties in a bunch at the top, spurting like a fountain. At 15, her face reminds me of the young and feisty Winnie Mandela. Dressed in denim, she…

  • Racial Slur Development Not Keeping Pace With Mixed-Race Births, Nation’s Bigots Report

    Racial Slur Development Not Keeping Pace With Mixed-Race Births, Nation’s Bigots Report The Onion 2010-03-13 WASHINGTON—A coalition of the nation’s most fervent bigots convened in Washington Monday to address growing concerns that the production of hateful new racial slurs has failed to keep pace with the rise in mixed-race births. According to representatives from the…

  • Preserving Racial Identity: Population Patterns and the Application of Anti-Miscegenation Statutes to Asian Americans, 1910-1950

    Preserving Racial Identity: Population Patterns and the Application of Anti-Miscegenation Statutes to Asian Americans, 1910-1950 Berkeley Asian Law Journal Volume 9, Number 1 (2002) pages 1-40 Gabriel J. Chin University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law; University of Arizona School of Government and Public Policy Hrishi Karthikeyan New York University School of Law…

  • Mixing Bodies and Beliefs: The Predicament of Tribes

    Mixing Bodies and Beliefs: The Predicament of Tribes Columbia Law Review Volume 101, Number 4 (May 2001) L. Scott Gould This Article considers a dilemma faced by tribes in a post-inherent sovereignty world. Tribes have increasingly come to be defined through the use of blood quanta as racial entities. This practice raises the legal question…

  • Miscegenation, Eugenics, and Racism: Historical Footnotes to Loving v. Virginia

    Miscegenation, Eugenics, and Racism: Historical Footnotes to Loving v. Virginia University of California, Davis Law Review Volume 21, Number 2 (1988) pages 421-452 Paul A. Lombardo, Bobby Lee Cook Professor of Law Georgia State University This Essay explores private correspondence contained in a restricted manuscript collection along with contemporary news accounts and government documents to…

  • Race and Genetics: Attempts to Define the Relationship

    Race and Genetics: Attempts to Define the Relationship BioSocieties Volume 2, Issue 2 (June 2007) pages 221-237 DOI: 10.1017/S1745855207005625 Duana Fullwiley, Associate Professor Anthropology Stanford University Many researchers working in the field of human genetics in the United States have been caught between two seemingly competing messages with regard to racial categories and genetic difference. As…

  • Race and Reification in Science

    Race and Reification in Science Science Magazine Volume 307 2005-02-18 pages 1050-1051 Troy Duster, Professor of Sociology New York University Alfred North Whitehead warned many years ago about “the fallacy of misplaced concreteness” (1), by which he meant the tendency to assume that categories of thought coincide with the obdurate character of the empirical world.…

  • Race in a Genetic World

    “I am an African American,” says Duana Fullwiley, “but in parts of Africa, I am white.” To do fieldwork as a medical anthropologist in Senegal, she says, “I take a plane to France, a seven- to eight-hour ride. My race changes as I cross the Atlantic. There, I say, ‘Je suis noire,’ and they say,…

  • Vulnerable Multiracial Families and Early Years Services: Concerns, Challenges and Opportunities

    Vulnerable Multiracial Families and Early Years Services: Concerns, Challenges and Opportunities Children & Society Volume 10, Issue 4 (December 1996) Pages 305 – 316 DOI: 10.1111/j.1099-0860.1996.tb00598.x Margaret Boushel Department of Social Work and Social Care University of Sussex In Britain, very young mixed-parentage children are more likely to receive state care than any other children.…

  • Building Kinship and Community: Relational Processes of Bicultural Identity Among Adult Multiracial Adoptees

    Building Kinship and Community: Relational Processes of Bicultural Identity Among Adult Multiracial Adoptees Family Process Volume 49, Issue 1 (March 2010) pages 26-42 DOI: 10.1111/j.1545-5300.2010.01306.x Gina Miranda Samuels, Associate Professor School of Social Service Administration University of Chicago This study uses the case of transracially adopted multiracial adults to highlight an alternative family context and…