Mixed Race Studies

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  • The Sorcery of Color: Identity, Race, and Gender in Brazil

    The Sorcery of Color: Identity, Race, and Gender in Brazil Temple University Press November 2006 336 pages 6×9 6 tables Paper EAN: 978-1-59213-351-2; ISBN: 1-59213-351-7 Cloth EAN: 978-1-59213-350-5; ISBN: 1-59213-350-9 Electronic Book EAN: 978-1-59213-352-9 Elisa Larkin Nascimento, Director IPEAFRO Afro-Brazilian Studies and Research Institute, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Originally published in 2003 in Portuguese, The…

  • Kilombismo, Virtual Whiteness, and the Sorcery of Color

    Kilombismo, Virtual Whiteness, and the Sorcery of Color Journal of Black Studies Volume 34, Number 6 (2004) pages 861-880 DOI: 10.1177/0021934704264009 Elisa Larkin Nascimento Afro-Brazilian Studies and Research Institute This article explores the legacy and current presence of racism in Brazil, particularly their unique expression in the juxtaposition of the miscegenation ideology of nonracism with…

  • Socially Embedded Identities: Theories, Typologies, and Processes of Racial Identity among Black/White Biracials

    Socially Embedded Identities: Theories, Typologies, and Processes of Racial Identity among Black/White Biracials Sociological Quarterly Volume 43 Issue 3, (2002) Pages 335 – 356 DOI: 10.1111/j.1533-8525.2002.tb00052.x David L. Brunsma, Professor of Sociology Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Kerry Ann Rockquemore, Associate Professor of Sociology University of Illinois at Chicago Current research on racial identity…

  • Public Categories, Private Identities: Exploring Regional Differences in the Biracial Experience

    Public Categories, Private Identities: Exploring Regional Differences in the Biracial Experience Social Science Research Volume 35, Issue 3, September 2006 Pages 555-576 David L. Brunsma, Professor of Sociology Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Empirical research on multiraciality and the development of richer models of racial identity have increased in the last decade. Increased attention…

  • What Does “Black” Mean? Exploring the Epistemological Stranglehold of Racial Categorization

    What Does “Black” Mean? Exploring the Epistemological Stranglehold of Racial Categorization Critical Sociology Vol. 28, No. 1-2 (2002) pages 101-121 DOI: 10.1177/08969205020280010801 David L. Brunsma, Professor of Sociology Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Kerry Ann Rockquemore, Associate Professor of Sociology University of Illinois at Chicago The “check all that apply” approach to race on the…

  • The African Presence in Mexico

    The African Presence in Mexico A Symposium Presented by Callaloo – A Journal of African Diapora Arts and Letters and The Center for Africana Studies, Johns Hopkins University 2008-10-22 through 2008-10-23 Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas Sessions The Road to Blackness: A Search for Identity Within the Afro-Mexican Community (audio, photographs) Slavery and Freedom…

  • Mixed Race in the Age of Obama

    Mixed Race in the Age of Obama University of Chicago Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture (CSRPC) International House, Home Room 1414 East 59th Street, Chicago, IL 2010-03-05, 09:00 to 18:00 CST (Local Time) The Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture at the University of  Chicago presents a daylong…

  • My Bones Are Red: A Spiritual Journey With A Triracial People In The Americas

    In the late 1700s the roots of cowboy culture arose out of the Carolinas. These men and women were not the typical white ranchers that would be depicted in later stories and films. Instead they were a group of “tri-racial isolates.”

  • Investigations: Problem behavior

    Investigations: Problem behavior University of Chicago Magazine October 2006 Volume 99, Issue 1 Lydialyle Gibson For American children, says Yoonsun Choi, assistant professor at the School of Social Service Administration, early adolescence isn’t getting any simpler. Besides the awkwardness and looming angst, there’s this: more and more youth now find themselves navigating the uncertain territory…

  • Social Work Response to the Needs of Biracial Americans

    Social Work Response to the Needs of Biracial Americans Surjit Singh Dhooper, Assistant Professor of Social Work University of Kentucky Journal of Ethnic And Cultural Diversity in Social Work Volume 12, Issue 4 (April 2004) pages 19 – 47 DOI: 10.1300/J051v12n04_02 The number of interracial marriages is rising. The offspring of these marriages are a special…