Mixed Race Studies

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  • Phil Wilkes Fixico — a True Native Son

    Phil Wilkes Fixico — a True Native Son L. A. Watts Times 2010-03-11 Darlene Donloe, Contributing Writer Phil Wilkes Fixico’s life is more dramatic than virtually any soap opera. It took him about 52 years to find out who he was after growing up in what he calls a “web of lies.” His intriguing story…

  • Mixed Race in the Seminole Nation

    This is a story of two hidden identities.

  • The Other Hafu of Japan

    The Other Hafu of Japan Rafu Shimpo: Los Angeles Japanses Daily News 2011-01-14 Brett Fujioka, Rafu Intern A new documentary examines the lives of racially mixed individuals as they explore their own identities. Is a ship the same if you take it apart piece by piece and replace its frame? No simple answer exists, as…

  • Oreo

    Oreo Northeastern University Press (now University Press of New England) 2000 (Originially published in 1974.) 224 pages 6 x 9″ Fran Ross Forward by Harryette Mullen This uproariously funny satire about relations between African Americans and Jews is as fresh and outrageous today as when it was first published in 1974. Born to a Jewish…

  • Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance

    “Dreams from My Father” tells the story of Obama’s struggle to understand the forces that shaped him as the son of a black African father and white American mother—a struggle that takes him from the American heartland to the ancestral home of his great-aunt in the tiny African village of Alego.

  • Nowhere People

    Nowhere People Penguin Books Australia January 2005 300 pages Paperback ISBN-13:9780143001911 Henry Reynolds, Emeritus Associate Professor of History and Politics James Cook University, Australia ‘That’s how at six at night on 11 May 1928 I stopped being a Yanyuwa child and became a nowhere person… Motherless, cultureless and stuck in a government institution because my…

  • Thoroughly Modern Mulatta: Rethinking “Old World” Stereotypes in a “New World” Setting

    Thoroughly Modern Mulatta: Rethinking “Old World” Stereotypes in a “New World” Setting Biography Volume 28, Number 1 (Winter 2005) pages 104-116 E-ISSN: 1529-1456, Print ISSN: 0162-4962 DOI: 10.1353/bio.2005.0034 Maureen Perkins, Associate Professor of Sociology Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia This paper examines the role of racial stereotypes in the life narratives of several women of…

  • Who Are We? New Dialogue on Mixed Race

    Who Are We? New Dialogue on Mixed Race The New York TImes 2008-03-31 Mireya Navarro Jenifer Bratter once wore a T-shirt in college that read “100 percent black woman.” Her African-American friends would not have it. “I remember getting a lot of flak because of the fact I wasn’t 100 percent black,” said Ms. Bratter,…

  • Biracial Youth: The Role of the School Counselor in Racial Identity Development

    Biracial Youth: The Role of the School Counselor in Racial Identity Development Professional School Counseling 2001-10-01 Teri Olisky Amy E. Benedetto Since the 1967 Supreme Court decision of Loving v. Virginia, which prohibits anti-miscegenation laws, the number of biracial births has more than tripled (Sandor & Larson, 1994). Schwartz (1998a) reported that through 1996 more…

  • Ambiguous Ethnicity: Interracial Families in London

    In a society where race is a significant component of social identity and exerts an important influence on social relationships, the problems faced by couples who enter into ‘mixed’ marriages are especially difficult.