Mixed Race Studies

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  • I-Dentity: The Biracial Woman as a Bridge In Third-Wave Feminism

    I-Dentity: The Biracial Woman as a Bridge In Third-Wave Feminism Erica Jackson Fall 1993 This is by no means intended to be an exhaustive discussion of the biracial experience in America, which is in no way monolithic.  In fact, it is inspired by the belief that race (whether singular or plural)  is an outdated concept…

  • The New Color Complex: Appearances and Biracial Identity

    The New Color Complex: Appearances and Biracial Identity Identity: An International Journal of Theory and Research 2001 Volume 3, Number 1 Pags 29-52 David L. Brunsma, Associate Professor of Sociology University of Missouri, Columbia Kerry Ann Rockquemore, Associate Professor of Sociology University of Illinois at Chicago Ethnic identity research has largely focused on the identity…

  • The Multiracial Experience: Racial Borders as the New Frontier

    In her bold new edited volume, The Multiracial Experience, Maria P. P. Root challenges current theoretical and political conceptualizations of race by examining the experience of mixed-race individuals.

  • Author Dr. Bonnie M. Davis Guest on Mixed Chicks Chat

    Author Dr. Bonnie M. Davis Guest on Mixed Chicks Chat Mixed Chicks Chat (The only live weekly show about being racially and culturally mixed.  Also, founders of the Mixed Roots Film & Literary Festival) Website: TalkShoe™ (Keywords: Mixed Chicks) Episode: #135 – Bonnie M. Davis, Ph.D. When: Wednesday, 2010-01-06, 22:00Z Bonnie M. Davis, Ph.D., Author…

  • Puerto Rican Phenotype: Understanding Its Historical Underpinnings and Psychological Associations

    Puerto Rican Phenotype: Understanding Its Historical Underpinnings and Psychological Associations Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences (2008) Vol. 30, No. 2 pages 161-180 DOI: 10.1177/0739986307313116 Irene López, Assistant Professor of Psychology Kenyon College The following is a historically informed review of Puerto Rican phenotype. Geared toward educating psychologists, this review discusses how various psychological issues associated…

  • Multiculturalism in Brazil, Bolivia and Peru

    Multiculturalism in Brazil, Bolivia and Peru Race & Class (2008) Vol. 49, No. 4 pages 1-21 DOI: 10.1177/0306396808089284 Felipe Arocena (farocena@fcs.edu.uy), Professor of Sociology Universidad de la República-Uruguay The different strategies of resistance deployed by discriminated ethnic groups in Brazil, Peru and Bolivia are analysed here. In Brazil, Afro movements and indigenous populations are increasingly…

  • The Skin Between Us: A Memoir of Race, Beauty, and Belonging

    The Skin Between Us: A Memoir of Race, Beauty, and Belonging W. W. Norton May 2006 240 pages 5.8 × 8.6 in ISBN: 978-0-393-05890-1 Kym Ragusa, Professor of Nonfiction &  Professor Writing Queens University of Charlotte, North Carolina Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies, Massachusetts Inistitute of Technology A memoir of astonishing delicacy and strength…

  • Lumbee Indians in the Jim Crow South: Race, Identity, and the Making of a Nation

    With more than 50,000 enrolled members, North Carolina’s Lumbee Indians are the largest Native American tribe east of the Mississippi River. Malinda Maynor Lowery, a Lumbee herself, describes how, between Reconstruction and the 1950s, the Lumbee crafted and maintained a distinct identity in an era defined by racial segregation in the South and paternalistic policies…

  • Sugar & Slate

    Sugar & Slate Planet Books January 2002 192 pages ISBN-10: 0954088107 ISBN-13: 978-0954088101 8.1 x 5.8 x 0.6 inches Charlotte Williams, Professor of Social Work Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Melbourne, Australia Arts Council of Wales Book of the Year, 2003 A mixed-race young woman, the daughter of a white Welsh-speaking mother and black father…

  • The Attitudes Toward Multiracial Children Scale

    The Attitudes Toward Multiracial Children Scale Journal of Black Psychology 2001 Vol. 27, No. 1 pages 86-99 DOI: 10.1177/0095798401027001005 Charmain F. Jackman University of Southern Mississippi William G. Wagner, Professor University of Southern Mississippi J. T. Johnson University of Southern Mississippi The Attitudes Toward Multiracial Children Scale (AMCS) was developed to measure adults’ attitudes concerning…