Mixed Race Studies

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  • Equally Multiracial? A Study of Asian/Whites and Black/Whites

    Equally Multiracial? A Study of Asian/Whites and Black/Whites American Sociological Association Annual Meeting Hilton Atlanta and Atlanta Marriott Marquis Atlanta, Georgia 2010-08-13 19 pages Hephzibah Strmic-Pawl University of Virginia In a study with 28 individuals with either Asian/White or Black/White descent I find that all the participants prefer some variation of a multiracial identity. However,…

  • Beyond borders: Multiracial identities in the shadow of blackness

    Beyond borders: Multiracial identities in the shadow of blackness 53rd Annual Conference of the Comparative and International Education Society Francis Marion Hotel Charleston South Carolina 2009-09-24 Fileve Palmer Indiana University Within the United States and South Africa the idea of multiracial identity has often been subverted beneath a collective, more powerful Black political identity. The…

  • CCIE presents Cedar & Bamboo – Film Première and Panel Discussion

    CCIE presents Cedar & Bamboo – Film Première and Panel Discussion University of British Columbia, Point Grey Campus UBC First Nations Longhouse Thursday, 2010-10-14, 12:00-14:30 (Local Time) Sponsored by the Centre for Culture, Identity and Education (CCIE). There are numerous First Nations in what is now British Columbia and Chinese people arrived on BC’s shores…

  • BEYOND ‘OTHER’: A special report.;More Than Identity Rides On a New Racial Category

    BEYOND ‘OTHER’: A special report.;More Than Identity Rides On a New Racial Category The New York Times 1996-07-06 Linda Mathews Edward Cooper, a Portland, Ore., businessman, is black. His wife and business partner, Barbara McIntyre, is white. Their 12-year-old son, Ethan McCooper, is, like his name, a blend of his parents, and harder to classify.…

  • Immigration’s Racial Complexity

    Immigration’s Racial Complexity The Washington Post Political Bookworm: Where tomorrow’s must-read political books are discovered today 2010-07-09 Steven E. Levingston Will today’s Latino and Asian immigrants become incorporated into American society like their European predecessors? Or will race remain a stumbling block to full assimilation? Jennifer Lee and Frank Bean explore these questions in their…

  • Sociologist links poverty and employment to racial identity

    Sociologist links poverty and employment to racial identity University of California, Irvine 2009-01-05 Laura Rico, University Communications Andrew Penner studies how social status shapes ethnicity Andrew Penner studies how perception of race can change, depending on one’s social status.Losing your job or doing jail time can affect how people perceive your racial background, according to…

  • How Social Status Shapes Race

    How Social Status Shapes Race Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Volume 105, Number 50 (2008-12-16) pages 19628-19630 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0805762105 Andrew M. Penner, Associate Professor of Sociology University of California, Irvine Aliya Saperstein, Assistant Professor of Sociology Stanford University Edited by Michael Hout, Professor of Sociology University of California, Berkeley We show that racial perceptions…

  • Making Ethnic Choices: California’s Punjabi Mexican Americans

    Discovering an unexpected compatibility, Punjabis married women of Mexican descent and these alliances inspired others as the men introduced their bachelor friends to the sisters and friends of their wives. These biethnic families developed an identity as “Hindus” but also as Americans.

  • White Negro Communities: Too White To Be Black And Too Black To Be White

    White Negro Communities: Too White To Be Black And Too Black To Be White Johnathon Odell: Discovering Our Stories 2010-07-25 John Odell Yvonne Bivins had to make a choice very few Americans have forced upon them.  She could live as a black woman or a white woman. Yvonne’s ancestry is enmeshed with the Knights of…

  • Coyote Nation: Sexuality, Race, and Conquest in Modernizing New Mexico, 1880-1920

    Coyote Nation: Sexuality, Race, and Conquest in Modernizing New Mexico, 1880-1920 University of Chicago Press 2005 224 pages 10 halftones  6 x 9 Cloth ISBN: 9780226532424 Paper ISBN: 9780226532431 E-book ISBN: 9780226532523 Pablo Mitchell, Eric and Jane Nord Associate Professor of History and Comparative American Studies Oberlin College With the arrival of the transcontinental railroad…