Mixed Race Studies

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  • Racing to Justice: Transforming Our Conceptions of Self and Other to Build an Inclusive Society

    Racing to Justice: Transforming Our Conceptions of Self and Other to Build an Inclusive Society Indiana University Press 2012-08-16 336 pages 6 x 9 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-253-00629-5 john a. powell, Professor of Law; Director Haas Diversity Research Center University of California, Berkeley Foreword by: David R. Roediger, Kendrick Babcock Professor of History and African American…

  • Mixed-Race and Modernity in Colonial India: Changing Concepts of Hybridity Across Empires

    Mixed-Race and Modernity in Colonial India: Changing Concepts of Hybridity Across Empires Routledge 2012-02-29 208 pages Hardback ISBN: 978-0-415-50429-4 Adrian Carton Centre for Cultural Research University of Western Sydney, Australia This book traces changing concepts of mixed-race identity in early colonial India by contrasting Portuguese, British and French colonial spaces. Starting in the sixteenth century,…

  • Brazil Approves University Affirmative Action Bill

    Brazil Approves University Affirmative Action Bill Associated Press 2012-08-08 Stan Lehman San Paulo—The Brazilian Senate has approved an affirmative action bill that reserves half the spots in federal universities for high school graduates of public schools, and distributes them according to the racial makeup of each state. The Senate’s news agency says the bill that…

  • Shades of Passing (AAS 340 / ENG 391 / AMS 340)

    Shades of Passing (AAS 340 / ENG 391 / AMS 340) Princeton University Fall 2012-2013 Anne A. Cheng, Professor of English and African American Studies This course studies the trope of passing in 20th century American literary and cinematic narratives in an effort to re-examine the crisis of identity that both produces and confounds acts…

  • Mississippi Black Code (1865)

    Mississippi Black Code (1865) America’s Reconstruction: People and Politics After The Civil War Digital History: using new technologies to enhance teaching and research 2011 The Civil Rights of Freedmen in Mississippi (Approved November 25, 1865) Section 1. Be it enacted by the legislature of the State of Mississippi, That all freedmen, free Negroes, and mulattoes…

  • Unsuitable Suitors: Anti-Miscegenation Laws, Naturalization Laws, and the Construction of Asian Identities

    Unsuitable Suitors: Anti-Miscegenation Laws, Naturalization Laws, and the Construction of Asian Identities Law & Society Review Volume 41, Issue 3 (September 2007) pages 587–618 DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-5893.2007.00315.x Deenesh Sohoni, Associate Professor of Sociology The College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia In this article, I use state-level anti-miscegenation legislation to examine how Asian ethnic groups became…

  • Equality Trouble: Sameness and Difference in Twentieth-Century Race Law

    Equality Trouble: Sameness and Difference in Twentieth-Century Race Law California Law Review Volume 88, Issue 6 (2000) pages 1923-2015 Angela P. Harris, Professor of Law University of California, Davis In this Essay, Professor Harris suggests that “race law” consists not only of antidiscrimination law, but law pertaining to the formation, recognition, and maintenance of racial…

  • Administering Identity: The Determination of Race in Race-Conscious Law

    Administering Identity: The Determination of Race in Race-Conscious Law California Law Review Volume 82, Issue 5 (1994) pages 1231-1285 Christopher A. Ford Modern American anti-discrimination law seeks to remedy the effects of racial and ethnic prejudice by ensuring equality in areas such as political access and employment opportunity. In this effort, the concept of race…

  • The Black/White Binary Paradigm of Race: The Normal Science of American Racial Thought

    The Black/White Binary Paradigm of Race: The Normal Science of American Racial Thought California Law Review Volume 85, Issue 5 (1997) pages 1213-1258 Juan F. Perea, Cone, Wagner, Nugent, Johnson, Hazouri & Roth Professor of Law University of Florida This Article is about how we are taught to think about race. In particular, I intend…

  • Black Like Obama: What the Junior Illinois Senator’s Appearance on the National Scene Reveals About Race in America, and Where We Should Go from Here

    Black Like Obama: What the Junior Illinois Senator’s Appearance on the National Scene Reveals About Race in America, and Where We Should Go from Here Thurgood Marshall Law Review Volume 31 (2005) pages 79-100 Amos N. Jones, Professor of Law Campbell University, Raleigh, North Carolina Given Americans’ warm bipartisan response to Senator Barack Obama’s keynote…