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  • Book Review: Spencer, R. (1999). Spurious Issues: Race and Multiracial Identity Politics in the United States: Boulder, CO: Westview. Spencer, R. (2006). Challenging Multiracial ldentity. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner

    Book Review: Spencer, R. (1999). Spurious Issues: Race and Multiracial Identity Politics in the United States: Boulder, CO: Westview. Spencer, R. (2006). Challenging Multiracial ldentity. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Journal of Black Studies Volume 38, Number 4 (March 2008) pages 679-683 DOI: 10.1177/0021934706296761 Lewis R. Gordon, Laura H. Carnell Professor of Philosophy, Director of the…

  • Exploring the Pastoral Dynamics of Mixed-Race Persons

    Exploring the Pastoral Dynamics of Mixed-Race Persons Pastoral Psychology Volume 52, Number 4 (March 2004) Pages 315-328 DOI: 10.1023/B:PASP.0000016936.79800.89 Peter Yuichi Clark, Assistant Professor of Pastoral Care American Baptist Seminary of the West, Berkeley, California The number of persons in the United States who identify with more than one racial group is a steadily growing…

  • Rethinking inclusion and exclusion: the question of mixed-race presence in late colonial India

    Rethinking inclusion and exclusion: the question of mixed-race presence in late colonial India University of Sussex Journal of Contemporary History Issue Five 2002 pp. 1-22 Satoshi Mizutani This article examines the ambivalent meanings of mixed-race presence in late colonial India (from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries). In doing so it contributes insights for pursuing…

  • Interracial Families and the Racial Identification of Mixed-Race Children: Evidence from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study

    Interracial Families and the Racial Identification of Mixed-Race Children: Evidence from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study Social Forces Volume 84, Number 2 (December 2005) pages 1131-1157 DOI: 10.1353/sof.2006.0007 David L. Brunsma, Professor of Sociology Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University In this article, a nationally-representative sample of kindergarten-aged children is used from the Early Childhood…

  • Multiraciality Reigns Supreme? Mixed-Race Japanese Americans and the Cherry Blossom Queen Pagent

    Multiraciality Reigns Supreme? Mixed-Race Japanese Americans and the Cherry Blossom Queen Pagent Amerasia Journal 1997 Volume 23, No. 1 pp. 113-128 Rebecca Chiyoko King-O’Riain, Lecturer in Sociology National University of Ireland, Maynooth The notes of the koto echo through the hall and I am mesmerized by the vision on stage.  Beautiful Japanese women dressed in…

  • The Alchemy of Mixed Race – Review Essay

    The Alchemy of Mixed Race – Review Essay The Global Review of Ethnopolitics Vol. 2, no. 3-4 March/June 2003 pages 100-106 Ayo Mansaray University of Middlesex, UK Raiding the Gene Pool: The Social Construction of Mixed Race Jill Olumide Pluto Press, 2001 pp. 224 (including: foreword, notes, bibliography, index, appendix) Rethinking “Mixed Race” Parker &…

  • The Blurring of the Lines: Children and Bans on Interrracial Unions and Same-Sex Marriages

    The Blurring of the Lines: Children and Bans on Interrracial Unions and Same-Sex Marriages Fordham Law Review May 2008 Volume 76, Number 6 pages 2733-2770 Carlos A. Ball, Professor of Law and Judge Frederick Lacey Scholar Rutgers University School of Law, Newark When Richard Loving and Mildred Jeter drove from their hometown of Central Point,…

  • Sex, Segregation, and the Sacred after Brown

    This article explores how religion served as a vessel for one particular language crucial to racial segregation in the South: the language of miscegenation. It was through sex that racial segregation in the South moved from being a local social practice to a part of the divine plan for the world. It was thus through…

  • The Obama Issue

    The Obama Issue Journal of Visual Culture August 2009 Volume 8, No. 2 Online ISSN: 1741-2994 Print ISSN: 1470-4129 The August 2009 edition of Journal of Visual Culture is focused on president Barack Obama. Table of Contents Marquard Smith and JVC Editorial Group Questionnaire on Barack Obama pp. 123-124 W.J.T. Mitchell Obama as Icon pp.…

  • Diversity in ads not reflected in real life

    Diversity in ads not reflected in real life St. Petersburg Times St. Petersburg, Florida 2005-02-21 Associated Press Advertisers are filling commercials with a mix of races and ethnicities, but critics contend such utopian situations rarely exist. Somewhere there’s an America that’s full of neighborhoods where black and white kids play softball together, where biracial families…