Mixed Race Studies

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  • Pitching Chaos, an interview with Mat Johnson, author of Loving Day

    This week marks the release of Loving Day, the new novel from Mat Johnson, author of “Pym,” “Drop,” “Hunting in Harlem,” “Incognegro,” and others. Johnson and I spoke last week on Skype.

  • The challenges of being multiracial

    The challenges of being multiracial The Santa Fe New Mexican 2015-11-16 Sakara Griffith, Sophomore Santa Fe High School, Santa Fe, New Mexico There is a photo of a black family featuring smiling faces of joy, with some of the participants wearing ugly, matching sweaters that grandma knitted and a brother and sister caught on camera…

  • Shades of Race: How Phenotype and Observer Characteristics Shape Racial Classification

    Shades of Race: How Phenotype and Observer Characteristics Shape Racial Classification American Behavioral Scientist Published online before print 2015-10-28 DOI: 10.1177/0002764215613401 Cynthia Feliciano, Associate Professor of Sociology; Associate Professor of Chicano/Latino Studies University of California, Irvine Although race-based discrimination and stereotyping can only occur if people place others into racial categories, our understanding of this…

  • Taye Diggs Isn’t Wrong (Or Right) About His Son’s Biracial Identity

    Taye Diggs Isn’t Wrong (Or Right) About His Son’s Biracial Identity The Establishment 2015-11-20 Jessica Sutherland, Marketing Director In October, Taye Diggs released Mixed Me! as a followup to his first children’s book, 2011’s Chocolate Me! While Chocolate Me! was inspired by Diggs’ experiences as a black child in a predominantly white neighborhood, Mixed Me!…

  • Call for Papers: Negotiating Identities: Mixed-Race Individuals in China, Japan, and Korea

    Call for Papers: Negotiating Identities: Mixed-Race Individuals in China, Japan, and Korea University of San Francisco Center for Asia Pacific Studies 2130 Fulton Street San Francisco, California 2015-07-09 Negotiating Identities: Mixed-Race Individuals in China, Japan, and Korea, April 14-15, 2016 The University of San Francisco Center for Asia Pacific Studies is pleased to announce the…

  • ‘Evoking The Mulatto’ In Mixed-Race America

    ‘Evoking The Mulatto’ In Mixed-Race America On Point with Tom Ashbrook WBUR 90.9 FM Boston, Massachusetts 2015-11-23 Tom Ashbrook, Host Guests: Lindsay Catherine Harris, multimedia artist and creator of “Evoking the Mulatto.” Ko Smith, painter based in New York City. Featured in “Evoking the Mulatto.” Kaliya Warren, filmmaker based in New York City. Featured in…

  • Maybe you don’t say you’re black if you’re biracial. But it’s how you’re seen

    Maybe you don’t say you’re black if you’re biracial. But it’s how you’re seen The Guardian 2015-11-22 Zach Stafford, Contributing Writer Chicago, Illinois No matter how I identify or how I feel, it’s my skin color that determines how I’ll be treated Like every young black man I know, I remember the moment when my…

  • Medicalizing Racism

    Medicalizing Racism Contexts Fall 2014, Volume 13, Number 4 pages 24-29 DOI: 10.1177/1536504214558213 James M. Thomas, Assistant Professor of Sociology Department of Sociology and Anthropology University of Mississippi Cassandra Conlin Sociologist James M. Thomas (JT) examines how public and scientific accounts of racism draw upon medical and psychological models, and how this contributes to our…

  • Correcting the conversation about race

    Correcting the conversation about race OUPblog: Oxford University Press’s Academic Insights for the Thinking World 2015-11-20 Carlos Hoyt On 6 November 2015, the New York Times featured a poignant five-minute documentary called “A Conversation About Growing Up Black,” produced by Joe Brewster and Perri Peltz. Brewster and Peltz present Rakesh, Miles, Malek, Marvin, Shaquille, Bisa,…

  • When You’re Biracial, There’s No ‘Choice’ in the Matter of Your Blackness

    When You’re Biracial, There’s No ‘Choice’ in the Matter of Your Blackness The Root 2015-11-19 Charles D. Ellison, Contributing Editor It’s safe to wager that when well-meaning black actor Taye Diggs took a recent dip into controversy over his biracial son’s identity, there was no less than white former Mrs. Taye Diggs putting on the…