Mixed Race Studies

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  • Eurocentrism in Social Work Education: From Race to Identity Across the Lifespan as Biracial Alternative

    Eurocentrism in Social Work Education: From Race to Identity Across the Lifespan as Biracial Alternative Journal of Social Work Volume 5, Number 1 (April 2005) pages 101-114 DOI: 10.1177/1468017305051238 Ronald E. Hall, Professor of Social Work Michigan State University, East Lansing Summary: Consequent to Eurocentric hegemony, race has been erroneously validated as the standard identity…

  • Working with children of mixed parentage

    Working with children of mixed parentage Russell House Publishing 2005-03-01 160 Pages ISBN:978-1-903855-64-5 Edited by Toyin Okitikpi, Professor University of Bedfordshire Table of Contents Introduction: mixed responses: working with children of mixed parentage. Looking at numbers and projections: making sense of the census, emerging trends. Mulatto, marginal man, half-caste, mixed race: the one-drop rule in…

  • Demystifying the “Tragic Mulatta”: the Biracial Woman as Spectacle

    Demystifying the “Tragic Mulatta”: the Biracial Woman as Spectacle Stanford Black Arts Quarterly Stanford University 2.3 (Summer/Spring 1997) Pages 12-14 Stafanie Dunning, Associate Professor and Director of Literature Program Miami University, Ohio “You know redbone girls got a problem.” —Cassandra Wilson, Blue Light ‘Til Dawn “Indigenous like corn, like corn the mestiza is a product…

  • Walking A Tightrope: Towards a Social History of the Coloured People of Zimbabwe

    Walking A Tightrope: Towards a Social History of the Coloured People of Zimbabwe Africa World Press May 2004 300 pages SKU: 1592212648 ISBN: 1592212648 James Muzondidya, Senior Research Specialist of Democracy and Governance Human Sciences Research Council This book examines the history of the Coloured or “mixed race” community of Zimbabwe, a group that has…

  • A Beautiful Lie: Exploring Rhinelander v. Rhinelander as a Formative Lesson on Race, Marriage, Identity, and Family

    A Beautiful Lie: Exploring Rhinelander v. Rhinelander as a Formative Lesson on Race, Marriage, Identity, and Family California Law Review Volume 95, Issue 6 (2007) pages 2393-2458 Angela Onwuachi-Willig, Professor of Law and Charles M. and Marion J. Kierscht Scholar University of Iowa College of Law During the mid-1920s, the story of the courtship, marriage,…

  • Chameleon’s Fate: Transnational Mixed-Race Vietnamese Identities

    Chameleon’s Fate: Transnational Mixed-Race Vietnamese Identities Amerasia Journal University of Califonia, Los Angeles Asian American Studies Center Press ISSN: 0044-7471 2005 Issue Volume 31, Number 2 Pages 51-62 Fiona I. B. Ngô, Assistant Professor, Asian American Studies & Gender and Women’s Studies University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign The chameleon’s fate is an apt metaphor for the lives of…

  • Conversation with Rev. Dr. Frederick J. Streets

    Conversation with Rev. Dr. Frederick J. Streets The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance & Abolition Yale University 1990-02-02 Frederick J. Streets, University Chaplain and Senior Pastor Church of Christ, Yale University A conversation with Rev. Dr. Frederick J. Streets, University Chaplain and Senior Pastor of the Church of Christ, Yale University.…

  • An Unexpected Blackness

    An Unexpected Blackness Transition: An International Review Feb 2009 No. 100 Pages 112-132 Naomi Pabst, Assistant Professor of African American Studies and American Studies Yale University What does it mean to be of African descent while residing in Canada, where the hypodescent rule does not hold sway?  Naomi Pabst reflects upon the complexity of life…

  • Negotiating Ethnic Boundaries: Multiethnic Mexican Americans and Ethnic Identity in the United States

    Negotiating Ethnic Boundaries: Multiethnic Mexican Americans and Ethnic Identity in the United States Ethnicities Volume 4, Number  1 (March 2004) pages 75-97 DOI: 10.1177/1468796804040329 Tomás R. Jiménez, Assistant Professor of Sociology Stanford University This article examines the ethnic identity of the offspring of Mexican/white (non-Hispanic) intermarriages, or multiethnic Mexican Americans, using 20 in-depth interviews with…

  • Black Europe and the African Diaspora

    Black Europe and the African Diaspora University of Illinois Press 2009 368 pages 6 x 9 in.  15 black & white photographs, 1 map Cloth: ISBN 978-0-252-03467-1 Paper: ISBN 978-0-252-07657-2 Edited by Darlene Clark Hine, Board of Trustees Professor of African American Studies Northwestern University Trica Danielle Keaton, Associate Professor of African American and Diaspora…