Mixed Race Studies

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  • Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza (Third Edition)

    Rooted in Gloria Anzaldúa’s experience as a Chicana, a lesbian, an activist, and a writer, the groundbreaking essays and poems in this volume profoundly challenge how we think about identity.

  • (Re)constructing multiracial blackness: women’s activism, difference and collective identity in Britain

    (Re)constructing multiracial blackness: women’s activism, difference and collective identity in Britain Ethnic and Racial Studies Volume 24, Issue 1 (January 2001) pages 29-49 DOI: 10.1080/014198701750052488 Julia Sudbury, Professor and Department Head of Ethnic Studies Mills College, Oakland, California This article analyses the (re)construction of black identity as a multiracial signifier shared by African, Asian and…

  • Interracial Intimacy: The Regulation of Race and Romance

    Interracial Intimacy: The Regulation of Race and Romance The University of Chicago Press 2001 232 pages 6 x 9 Paper ISBN: 9780226536637 Rachel F. Moran, Michael J. Connell Distinguished Professor of Law University of California, Los Angeles As late as the 1960s, states could legally punish minorities who either had sex with or married persons…

  • Asian Americans: From Racial Category to Multiple Identities

    Asian Americans: From Racial Category to Multiple Identities Alta Mira Press April 1998 116 pages Cloth: 2 0-7619-9172-7 / 978-0-7619-9172-4  Paper: 2 0-7619-9173-5 / 978-0-7619-9173-1  Juanita Tamayo Lott Does race matter? Having witnessed the civil rights movement and changes in immigration laws, we continue to ask ourselves this complex question. In the United States, racial…

  • Nagô Grandma and White Papa: Candomblé and the Creation of Afro-Brazilian Identity

    Nagô Grandma and White Papa: Candomblé and the Creation of Afro-Brazilian Identity University of North Carolina Press September 2009 208 pages 6.125 x 9.25, 2 figs., 4 tables, notes, bibl., index Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8078-3177-9 Paper ISBN: 978-0-8078-5975-9 Beatriz Góis Dantas, Professor Emerita of Anthropology Universidade Federal de Sergipe in Brazil Translated by Stephen Berg Nagô…

  • Visible Identities: Race, Gender, and the Self

    In the heated debates over identity politics, few theorists have looked carefully at the conceptualizations of identity assumed by all sides. “Visible Identities” fills this gap.

  • Stanford profs examine mixed race in U.S. society

    Stanford profs examine mixed race in U.S. society The Dartmouth Victoria Boggiano, The Dartmouth Staff 2008-04-18 In 2000, the U.S. Census gave Americans the chance to identify themselves by more than one race for the first time. Almost seven million people — over 80 percent of whom were under 25 — checked more than one…

  • Anomaly: A New Documentary Film About Mixed Race Identity

    Anomaly: A New Documentary Film About Mixed Race Identity African Diaspora Film Festival Tuesday, 2009-12-01 at 17:50 EST (Local Time) – Anthology Film Archives, 2nd St. and 2nd Ave., New York, New York Wednesday, 2009-12-09 at 19:30 EST (Local Time) – Cowin Center, Columbia University Teachers College, 525 W. 120th St., New York, New York…

  • Interracial Relationships in the 21st Century

    Interracial Relationships in the 21st Century Carolina Academic Press 2009 160 pp Paper ISBN: 978-1-59460-571-0 LCCN: 2009001612 Earl Smith, Professor of Sociology and Rubin Professor and Director of Ethnic Studies Wake Forest University Angela J. Hattery, Professor of Sociology Wake Forest University Interracial Relationships in the 21st Century is a unique set of essays—both personal…

  • Racial Passing

    Racial Passing Ohio State Law Journal Ohio State University Michael E. Moritz College of Law Vol. 62: 1145 (2001) Frank R. Strong Law Forum Lecture Randall Kennedy, Michael R. Klein Professor of Law Harvard Law School I. Passing: A Definition Passing is a deception that enables a person to adopt certain roles or identities from…