Mixed Race Studies

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  • The Social Construction of Race: Some Observations on Illusion, Fabrication, and Choice

    The Social Construction of Race: Some Observations on Illusion, Fabrication, and Choice Harvard Civil Rights – Civil Liberties Law Review Volume 29 (1993) 62 pages Ian F. Haney Lopez, John H. Boalt Professor of Law and Executive Committee Member for The Center for Social Justice Berkeley Law School University of California, Berkeley Under the jurisprudence…

  • Founding Chestnut Ridge: The Origins of Central West Virginia’s Multiracial Community

    Founding Chestnut Ridge: The Origins of Central West Virginia’s Multiracial Community The Ohio State University Department of History Project Advisor: Randolph Roth, Professor of History and Sociology March 2010 140 pages Alexandra Finley The Ohio State University Senior Honors Thesis Presented in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for graduation with research distinction in History in…

  • Bio-Ancestry and Social Construction of Race and Ethnicity

    Bio-Ancestry and Social Construction of Race and Ethnicity Population Association of America 2010 Annual Meeting Program 2010-04-17 Guang Guo, Odum Distinguished Term Professor of Sociology University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Yilan Fu University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Kathleen Mullan Harris, James Haar Distinguished Professor of Sociology University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Two sharply…

  • Crossing Waters, Crossing Worlds: The African Diaspora in Indian Country

    Crossing Waters, Crossing Worlds: The African Diaspora in Indian Country Duke University Press 2006 392 pages 7 illustrations, 1 table Edited by: Tiya Miles, Professor of American Culture, Afroamerican and African Studies, and Native American Studies University of Michigan Sharon Patricia Holland, Associate Professor of English; African & African American Studies Duke University Contributors: Joy…

  • African Cherokees in Indian Territory: From Chattel to Citizens

    Forcibly removed from their homes in the late 1830s, Cherokee, Creek, Choctaw, and Chickasaw Indians brought their African-descended slaves with them along the Trail of Tears and resettled in Indian Territory, present-day Oklahoma. Celia E. Naylor vividly charts the experiences of enslaved and free African Cherokees from the Trail of Tears to Oklahoma’s entry into…

  • Black Beauty: Aesthetics, Stylization, Politics

    Previous work discussing Black beauty has tended to concentrate on Black women’s search for white beauty as a consequence of racialization. Without denying either the continuation of such aesthetics or their enduring power, this book uncovers the cracks in this hegemonic Black beauty.

  • Black Skins, Black Masks: Hybridity, Dialogism, Performativity

    “Black Skin, Black Masks: Hybridity, Dialogism, Performativity” offers a timely exploration of Black identity and its negotiation. The book draws on empirical work recording everyday conversations between Black women: friends, peers and family members.

  • In First Lady’s Roots, a Complex Path From Slavery

    In First Lady’s Roots, a Complex Path From Slavery The New York Times 2009-10-08 Rachel L. Swarns Jodi Kantor WASHINGTON — In 1850, the elderly master of a South Carolina estate took pen in hand and painstakingly divided up his possessions. Among the spinning wheels, scythes, tablecloths and cattle that he bequeathed to his far-flung…

  • Triumphant Miscegenation: Reflections on Beauty and Race in Brazil

    Triumphant Miscegenation: Reflections on Beauty and Race in Brazil Journal of Intercultural Studies Volume 28, Issue 1 (February 2007) pages 83-97 DOI: 10.1080/07256860601082954 Alexander Edmonds, Professor of Medical Anthropology and Sociology University of Amsterdam In Brazil racial mixture, mestiçagem has been a dominant theme in the political and cultural re-imagination of the nation in the…

  • One of the Family: Metis Culture in Nineteenth-Century Northwestern Saskatchewan

    In “One of the Family,” Brenda Macdougall draws on diverse written and oral sources and employs the concept of wahkootowin—the Cree term for a worldview that privileges family and values relatedness between all beings—to trace the emergence of a distinct Metis community at Île à la Crosse in northern Saskatchewan.