Mixed Race Studies

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  • The Politics of Bisexual/Biracial Identity: A study of Bisexual and Mixed Race Women of Asian/Pacific Islander Descent

    The Politics of Bisexual/Biracial Identity: A study of Bisexual and Mixed Race Women of Asian/Pacific Islander Descent San Diego State University First Published: 1999 Reprint: 2006 120 pages ISBN 1-23456-789-0 Beverly Yuen Thompson, Assistant Professor of Women’s Studies Texas Woman’s College The construction of certain behaviors and physical characteristics into an acceptable and recognized “identity”…

  • Fence Sitters, Switch Hitters, and Bi-Bi Girls: An Exploration of “Hapa” and Bisexual Identities

    Fence Sitters, Switch Hitters, and Bi-Bi Girls: An Exploration of “Hapa” and Bisexual Identities Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies Vol. 21, No. 1/2 (2000) Asian American Women pp. 171-180. Beverly Yuen Thompson, Assistant Professor of Women’s Studies Texas Woman’s College I had been wondering about taking part in a student theatre project about being…

  • The Dismissal of the “Mulatto”…

    The dismissal of the “mulatto” through his emasculation is historically grounded: “so frequently did nineteenth century writers depict octoroons as delicate beauties that the word itself began to conjure up images of passive femininity. Although by definition an octoroon was either a male or a female with one-eighth Black blood, Black men in novels were…

  • “Real” Indians and Others: Mixed-Blood Urban Native Peoples and Indigenous Nationhood

    “Real” Indians and Others: Mixed-Blood Urban Native Peoples and Indigenous Nationhood University of Nebraska Press 2004 303 pages Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8032-8037-3 Bonita Lawrence, Associate Professor York University, Ontario, Canada Mixed-blood urban Native peoples in Canada are profoundly affected by federal legislation that divides Aboriginal peoples into different legal categories. In this pathfinding book, Bonita Lawrence…

  • White Enough to Be American? Race Mixing, Indigenous People, and the Boundaries of State and Nation

    Racial mixture posed a distinct threat to European American perceptions of the nation and state in the late nineteenth century, says Lauren Basson, as it exposed and disrupted the racial categories that organized political and social life in the United States. Offering a provocative conceptual approach to the study of citizenship, nationhood, and race, Basson…

  • Legalizing Identities: Becoming Black or Indian in Brazil’s Northeast

    Legalizing Identities: Becoming Black or Indian in Brazil’s Northeast University of North Carolina Press June 2009 272 pages 6.125 x 9.25, 18 illus., 2 maps, notes, bibl., index Cloth ISBN  978-0-8078-3292-9 Paper ISBN  978-0-8078-5951-3 Jan Hoffman French, Assistant Professor of Anthropology University of Richmond Anthropologists widely agree that identities—even ethnic and racial ones—are socially constructed.…

  • The Interracial Experience: Growing Up Black/White Racially Mixed in the United States

    The Interracial Experience: Growing Up Black/White Racially Mixed in the United States Praeger Publishers 2000-11-30 168 pages Paperback ISBN: 978-0-275-97046-8 Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-275-97046-8 eBook ISBN: 978-0-313-00033-1 Ursula M. Brown, Psychotherapist in Private Practice Montclair, New Jersey, USA The number of black-white mixed marriages increased by 504% in the last 25 years. By offering relevant demographic,…

  • Understanding interracial relationships

    Understanding Interracial Relationships Russell House Publishing June 2009 160 pages ISBN:978-1-905541-53-9 Toyin Okitikpi, Professor University of Bedfordshire It is no longer a novelty to see people of different races and ethnicity holding hands and going about their daily lives. Between 1991 and 2001, the British population grew by 4.0 per cent, while the mixed population…

  • New book highlights the needs of Mixed Parentage children

    New book highlights the needs of Mixed Parentage children London South Bank University News 2005-06-02 Dr Toyin Okitikpi with his challenging new book [Working with Children of Mixed Parentage] Proportionately a higher percentage of mixed parentage children end up in care and in Britain we only statistically classify mixed parentage for children where one parent…

  • Young Single White Mothers with Black Children in Therapy

    Young Single White Mothers with Black Children in Therapy Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry 1996 Vol. 1, No. 1 pages 19-28 DOI: 10.1177/1359104596011003 N. J. Banks Department of Social Policy and Social Work, University of Birmingham This article describes the treatment of 16 single, white women aged 17-23 years with black mixed-parentage children within an…