Mixed Race Studies

Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.

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  • Race Remixed?

    The 2000 U.S. Census was the first in modern times allowing respondents to check off more than one box for the mandatory race question. In 2010, the number of people checking more than one box grew enormously.

  • Don’t Forget the Accent Mark: A Memoir

    Raised in a Mexican home in an Anglo neighborhood, David Sánchez was fair-skinned and fluent in Spanish and English when he entered kindergarten. None of this should have had any influence on the career path he chose, but at certain moments it did. With the birth of the Chicano Movement and affirmative action, a different…

  • Creating a New Racial Order: How Immigration, Multiracialism, Genomics, and the Young Can Remake Race in America

    Creating a New Racial Order: How Immigration, Multiracialism, Genomics, and the Young Can Remake Race in America Princeton University Press March 2012 282 pages 6 x 9; 17 halftones. 14 line illus. 10 tables Cloth ISBN: 9780691152998 eBook ISBN: 9781400841943 Jennifer L. Hochschild, Henry LaBarre Jayne Professor of Government and Professor of African and African…

  • For Many Latinos, Racial Identity Is More Culture Than Color

    For Many Latinos, Racial Identity Is More Culture Than Color The New York Times 2012-01-13 Mireya Navarro Every decade, the Census Bureau spends billions of dollars and deploys hundreds of thousands of workers to get an accurate portrait of the American population. Among the questions on the census form is one about race, with 15…

  • Recovering History, Constructing Race: The Indian, Black, and White Roots of Mexican Americans

    Recovering History, Constructing Race: The Indian, Black, and White Roots of Mexican Americans University of Texas Press 2001 389 pages 6 x 9 in., 50 b&w illus., 4 maps Paperback ISBN: ISBN: 978-0-292-75254-2 Martha Menchaca, Professor of Anthropolgy University of Texas, Austin The history of Mexican Americans is a history of the intermingling of races—Indian,…

  • Afro-Latino forum fosters dialogue on colorism, lived experiences

    Afro-Latino forum fosters dialogue on colorism, lived experiences The Tufts Daily The independent student newspaper of Tufts University 2011-12-01 Brionna Jimerson Gabrielle Hernandez Academic study and lived experience converged last night at the Afro−Latino Roundtable Forum, where an assembly of over 50 students, faculty and visiting speakers participated in a dialogue about the Afro−Latino experience…

  • The Afro-Latin@ Reader: History and Culture in the United States

    “The Afro-Latin@ Reader” focuses attention on a large, vibrant, yet oddly invisible community in the United States: people of African descent from Latin America and the Caribbean.

  • Negra & Beautiful: The Unique Challenges Faced By Afro-Latinas

    Negra & Beautiful: The Unique Challenges Faced By Afro-Latinas Latina 2011-11-29 Damarys Ocaña, Freelance Journalist The frustrating ironies of being Afro-Latina hit Yuly Marshall with stunning regularity: At work at a Miami hospital, Hispanic patients of the Cuban-born radiology technician usually assume she’s African American, asking her, “Where did you learn to speak Spanish like…

  • Between Cultural Lines

    Between Cultural Lines Collide Azusa Pacific University, Azusa, California Student Magazine 2011-12-07 Chelsey Barmore, Staff Writer For some, finding their identities as biracial or multiracial individuals can bring forth challenges. Someone born with blended ethnicities may experience the frequent question of, “What are you?” Mistaken for one race and not recognized for the other may…

  • Marginal Whiteness

    ’Marginal Whiteness California Law Review Volume 98, Number 5 (October 2010) pages 1497-1594 Camille Gear Rich, Associate Professor of Law University of Southern California How are whites injured by minority-targeted racism? Prior to filing her Title VII interracial solidarity claim, Betty Clayton thought she knew. For years, Clayton, a white cafeteria worker employed by the…