Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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Race Bending: “Mixed” Youth Practicing Strategic Racialization in California Anthropology & Education Quarterly Volume 35 Issue 1 (March 2004) Pages 30-52 DOI: 10.1525/aeq.2004.35.1.30 Mica Pollock, Associate Professor of Education Harvard University As more U.S. youth claim “mixed” heritages, some adults are proposing to erase race words altogether from the nation’s inequality analysis. Yet such proposals, as…
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The Inheritability of Identity: Children’s Understanding of the Cultural Biology of Race Child Development Volume 66 Issue 5 (October 1995) Pages 1418 – 1437 DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.1995.tb00943.x Lawrence A. Hirschfeld, Professor, Anthropology & Psychology Eugene Lang College, The New School for Liberal Arts 4 experiments explored adult and grade school children’s beliefs about inheritability of identity,…
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A New Look at an Old Notion: Lawrence Hirchfeld Discusses Race in Society Michigan Today University of Michigan June 1996 John Woodford Talk of race is everywhere and incessant in America, the din of discourse emanating from all ranks and stations, all age groups, all creeds, all parts of the political spectrum and all manner…
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Continuous dynamics in the real-time perception of race Journal of Experimental Social Psychology Volume 46, Issue 1 (January 2010) pages 179–185 DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2009.10.002 Jonathan B. Freemam, Assistant Professor of Psychological & Brain Sciences Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire Kristin Pauker, Assistant Professor of Psychology University of Hawaii Evan P. Apfelbaum Kellog School of Management Northwestern Univeristy Nalini…
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`For Venus smiles not in a house of tears’: Interethnic relations in European cinema European Journal of Cultural Studies 2003 Vol. 6, No. 1 pages 55-74 DOI: 10.1177/1367549403006001470 Anneke Smelik University of Nijmegen In the 1990s, several European filmmakers addressed the Romeo and Juliet motif of `impossible love’ in the context of multiculturalism. A heterosexual…
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‘After all, I am partly Māori, partly Dalmatian, but first of all I am a New Zealander’ Ethnography Volume 6, Number 4 (December 2005) pages 517-542 DOI: 10.1177/1466138105062477 Senka Božić-Vrbančić The University of Auckland, New Zealand This article explores the complexity of the processes of identity construction for ‘mixed-race’ individuals in New Zealand. It focuses…
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Collecting and tabulating race/ethnicity data with diverse and mixed heritage populations: A case-study with US high school students Ethnic and Racial Studies September 2003 Vol. 26 No. 5 pp. 931–961 Alejandra M. Lopez-Torkos, Social Scientist SRI International The increasing diversity of the US coupled with the continuing need for information gathered about race/ethnicity require us…
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Mixed-Race School-Age Children: A Summary of Census 2000 Data Educational Researcher Volume 32, Number 6 (2003) pages 25-37 DOI: 10.3102/0013189X032006025 Alejandra M. Lopez-Torkos, Social Scientist SRI International On the 2000 Census, people were allowed to identify themselves and their children by more than one race. This article examines these data to document the mixed-race population…
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Living Proof: Is Hawaii the Answer? The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science Volume 530, Number 1 (November 1993) pages 137-154 DOI: 10.1177/0002716293530001010 Glen Grant Dennis M. Ogawa, Professor and Department Chair of American Studies University of Hawaii Hawaii has often been heralded for its relatively harmonious race relations, which encompass…
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Are Mestizos Hybrids? The Conceptual Politics of Andean Identities Journal of Latin American Studies Volume 37, Issue 02 May 2005 pp 259-284 DOI: 10.1017/S0022216X05009004 Marisol de la Cadena, Associate Professor of Anthropology University of California, Davis Through a genealogical analysis of the terms mestizo and mestizaje, this article reveals that these voices are doubly hybrid.…