Mixed Race Studies

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  • AFAM 349a/AMST 326a/WGSS 388a: Interraciality and Hybridity

    AFAM 349a/AMST 326a/WGSS 388a: Interraciality and Hybridity Yale University Fall 2011 Naomi Pabst, Assistant Professor of African American Studies and American Studies Yale University Examination of mixed-race matters in both literary and critical writings, primarily within the black/white schema.  Historical and current questions of black and interracial identity; the contemporary “mixed race movement” and the…

  • Race and the Genetic Revolution: Science, Myth, and Culture

    Race and the Genetic Revolution: Science, Myth, and Culture Columbia University Press September 2011 304 pages 1 illus; 4 tables Paper ISBN: 978-0-231-15697-4 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-231-15696-7 Edited by: Sheldon Krimsky, Professor of Urban & Environmental Policy & Planning; Adjunct Professor of Public Health and Family Medicine Tufts School of Medicine Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts Kathleen…

  • Black Power, White Blood: The Life and Times of Johnny Spain (With a New Epilogue by the Author)

    A struggle to transcend race and find justice

  • Representing the Race: The Creation of the Civil Rights Lawyer

    Representing the Race: The Creation of the Civil Rights Lawyer Harvard University Press April 2012 352 pages 6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches; 20 halftones Hardcover ISBN: 9780674046870 Kenneth W. Mack, Professor of Law Harvard University ” Representing the Race tells the story of an enduring paradox of American race relations, through the prism of a collective…

  • Loving vs. Virginia in a Post-Racial World: Rethinking Race, Sex, and Marriage

    In 1967, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that laws prohibiting interracial marriage were unconstitutional in Loving vs. Virginia. Although this case promotes marital freedom and racial equality, there are still significant legal and social barriers to the free formation of intimate relationships.

  • The Black Peril and Miscegenation: The Regulation of Inter-racial Sexual Relations in Southern Rhodesia, 1890-1933

    The Black Peril and Miscegenation: The Regulation of Inter-racial Sexual Relations in Southern Rhodesia, 1890-1933 McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada September 1991 140 Pages Katherine Gombay A Thesis submitted to the Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research in partial fulfillment of the requirements of the degree  of M.A. For over forty years, at the turn…

  • “Racially-Tailored” Medicine Unraveled

    “Racially-Tailored” Medicine Unraveled American University Law Review Volume 55, Number 2 (December 2005) pages 395-452 Sharona Hoffman, Professor of Law, Professor of Bioethics, and Associate Director of the Law-Medicine Center Case Western Reserve University School of Law Table of Contents Introduction I. “Race-Based” Research and Therapeutic Practices A. The Story of BiDil B. “Race-Based” Research…

  • Spinning on Margins: An Analysis of Passing as Communicative Phenomenon

    Spinning on Margins: An Analysis of Passing as Communicative Phenomenon Queen: a journal of rhetoric and power Special Issue: Rehtorics of identity: Place, Race, Sex and the Person (January 2005) From the conference held from 2005-01-20 through 2005-01-22 at the University of Redlands 21 pages Marcia Alesan Dawkins, Visiting Scholar Brown University Acts of black-to-white…

  • Rodney King juror: ‘My father was black’

    Rodney King juror: ‘My father was black’ Ventura County Star Camarillo, California 2012-04-28 Gretchen Wenner, Staff Reporter SQUAW VALLEY — Juror No. 8 from the Rodney King beating trial has always heard the 12-member panel described as either all white or as having no blacks.   Now, he wants the public to know that’s not…

  • The ambivalence of authority and secret lives of tears: transracial child placements and the historical development of South African Law

    The ambivalence of authority and secret lives of tears: transracial child placements and the historical development of South African Law Journal of Southern African Studies Volume 18, Issue 2, (June 1992) pages 372-404 DOI: 10.1080/03057079208708319 Frederick Noel Zaal, Professor of Law University of Kwazulu-Natal The negative attitudes towards racially mixed familial groups which underlay many…