Mixed Race Studies

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  • Mixed and Multiracial in Trinidad and Honduras: Rethinking Mixed-race Identities in Latin America and the Caribbean

    Mixed and Multiracial in Trinidad and Honduras: Rethinking Mixed-race Identities in Latin America and the Caribbean Ethnic and Racial Studies Volume 33, Issue 2 (2010) pages 195-213 DOI: 10.1080/01419870903040169 Sarah England, Associate Professor of Anthropology Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences Soka University of America, Aliso Viejo, California The purpose of this paper is to…

  • Philosophical aspects of the ‘AAA Statement on “Race”’

    Philosophical aspects of the ‘AAA Statement on “Race”’ Anthropological Theory Volume 1, Number 4 (December 2001) pages 445-465 DOI: 10.1177/14634990122228836 Naomi Zack, Professor of Philosophy University of Oregon I apply philosophical analysis to the ‘AAA Statement on “Race”’ (American Anthropological Association, 1998) and the commentary on its earlier draft published in the Anthropology Newsletter (1997).…

  • Louisiana Creoles: Cultural Recovery and Mixed-Race Native American Identity (review)

    Louisiana Creoles: Cultural Recovery and Mixed-Race Native American Identity (review) The American Indian Quarterly Volume 33, Number 4 Fall 2009 E-ISSN: 1534-1828 Print ISSN: 0095-182X DOI: 10.1353/aiq.0.0078 Gary C. Cheek Jr. Jolivétte, Andrew J., Louisiana Creoles: Cultural Recovery and Mixed-Race Native American Identity, Lexington Books, 2006. “Who is white?” Jolivétte asks in the first chapter…

  • Impurity of Blood: Defining Race in Spain, 1870-1930

    Impurity of Blood: Defining Race in Spain, 1870-1930 Louisiana State University Press Published: December 2009 288 pages Trim: 6 x 9 Illustrations: 1 map Cloth ISBN: 13: 978-0-8071-3516-7 Joshua Goode, Professor of History and Cultural Studies Claremont Graduate University, California Although Francisco Franco courted the Nazis as allies during the Spanish Civil War in the…

  • Making Multiracials: State, Family, and Market in the Redrawing of the Color Line

    “Making Multiracials” tells the story of the social movement that emerged around mixed race identity in the 1990s. Organizations for interracial families and mixed race people—groups once loosely organized and only partially aware of each other—proliferated.

  • Injun Joe’s Ghost: The Indian Mixed-Blood in American Writing

    What does it mean to be a “mixed-blood,” and how has our understanding of this term changed over the last two centuries? What processes have shaped American thinking on racial blending?  Why has the figure of the mixed-blood, thought too offensive for polite conversation in the nineteenth century, become a major representative of twentieth-century native…

  • The Social Construction of Race and Ethnicity in the United States (2nd Edition)

    The Social Construction of Race and Ethnicity in the United States (2nd Edition) Prentice Hall 2001 525 pages Paperback ISBN-10: 0130283231; ISBN-13:  9780130283238 Edited By: Joan Ferrante Northern Kentucky University Prince Brown, Jr. Northern Kentucky University For undergraduate courses in race and ethnic relations. This groundbreaking collection of classic and cutting edge sociological research gives…

  • Lecture by Professor Jennifer DeVere Brody

    Lecture by Professor Jennifer DeVere Brody Theater Dance & Performance Studies University of California at Berkeley Durham Studio Theater (Dwinelle Hall) Thursday, 2010-02-18 16:00 PST (Local Time) Sponsor: Department of Theater, Dance & Performance Studies Jennifer DeVere Brody is a Professor of African and African American Studies at Duke University where she teaches cultural and…

  • ‘Mixed Race’ Studies: A Reader

    This collection adds a new dimension to the growing body of literature on the topic and provides a comprehensive history of the origins and directions of ‘mixed race’ research as an intellectual movement. For students of anthropology, race and ethnicity, it is an invaluable resource for examining the complexities and paradoxes of ‘racial’ thinking across…