Mixed Race Studies

Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.

recent posts

about

Category: Law

  • Understanding Race: The Evolution of the Meaning of Race in American Law and the Impact of DNA Technology on its Meaning in the Future

    Understanding Race: The Evolution of the Meaning of Race in American Law and the Impact of DNA Technology on its Meaning in the Future Albany Law Review Volume 72, Issue 4 (2009) Pages 1113-1143 William Q. Lowe Albany Law School Race has played a decisive role in nearly all aspects of American society, yet its…

  • “They Call It Marriage”: the Louisiana Interracial Family and the Making of American Legitimacy

    “They Call It Marriage”: the Louisiana Interracial Family and the Making of American Legitimacy Book Manuscript In Progress Diana Irene Williams, Assistant Professor of History, Law and Gender Studies University of Southern California Winner of the 2008 William Nelson Cromwell Dissertation Prize in Legal History. “They Call it Marriage” examines interracial marriage between black women…

  • Preserving Racial Identity: Population Patterns and the Application of Anti-Miscegenation Statutes to Asian Americans, 1910-1950

    Preserving Racial Identity: Population Patterns and the Application of Anti-Miscegenation Statutes to Asian Americans, 1910-1950 Berkeley Asian Law Journal Volume 9, Number 1 (2002) pages 1-40 Gabriel J. Chin University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law; University of Arizona School of Government and Public Policy Hrishi Karthikeyan New York University School of Law…

  • Mixing Bodies and Beliefs: The Predicament of Tribes

    Mixing Bodies and Beliefs: The Predicament of Tribes Columbia Law Review Volume 101, Number 4 (May 2001) L. Scott Gould This Article considers a dilemma faced by tribes in a post-inherent sovereignty world. Tribes have increasingly come to be defined through the use of blood quanta as racial entities. This practice raises the legal question…

  • Miscegenation, Eugenics, and Racism: Historical Footnotes to Loving v. Virginia

    Miscegenation, Eugenics, and Racism: Historical Footnotes to Loving v. Virginia University of California, Davis Law Review Volume 21, Number 2 (1988) pages 421-452 Paul A. Lombardo, Bobby Lee Cook Professor of Law Georgia State University This Essay explores private correspondence contained in a restricted manuscript collection along with contemporary news accounts and government documents to…

  • Race – The Power of an Illusion

    Race – The Power of an Illusion California Newsreel – Film and video for social change since 1968 2003 3 Episodes, 56 minutes each DVD and VHS The division of the world’s peoples into distinct groups – “red,” “black,” “white” or “yellow” peoples – has became so deeply imbedded in our psyches, so widely accepted, many…

  • Deconstructing Binary Race and Sex Categories: A Comparison of the Multiracial and Transgendered Experience

    Deconstructing Binary Race and Sex Categories: A Comparison of the Multiracial and Transgendered Experience San Diego Law Review Volume 39, Number 3 (2002) pages 917-942 Julie A. Greenberg, Professor of Law Thomas Jefferson School of Law, San Diego This Article explores the potential difficulties that exist as legal institutions develop a classification of transgendered people,…

  • The Idea of Race in Latin America, 1870-1940

    The Idea of Race in Latin America, 1870-1940 University of Texas Press 1990 143 pages 10 b&w illus. 6 x 9 in. ISBN: 978-0-292-73857-7 Edited by Richard Graham, Emeritus Frances Higginbotham Nalle Centennial Professor of History University of Texas, Austin With chapters by Thomas E. Skidmore, Aline Helg, and Alan Knight From the mid-nineteenth century…

  • Couple finds a more than a century old gravestone

    Couple finds a more than a century old gravestone Beaumont Enterprise 2009-12-13 Kyle Peveto Beneath a tool shed behind her house, Mallary Sanders and her fiance found a 118-year-old piece of history they are begging someone to take. Last weekend, Sanders’ fiance, Justin Trusty, 24, was cleaning beneath the pier-and-beam shed when he came across…

  • Shades of Gray: The Life and Times of a Free Family of Color in Antebellum Texas

    Shades of Gray: The Life and Times of a Free Family of Color in Antebellum Texas Jason A. Gillmer, Professor of Law Texas Wesleyan University School of Law 2009-08-13 64 pages The history of race and slavery is often told from the perspective of either the oppressors or the oppressed. This Article takes a different…