Mixed Race Studies

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  • Expats Find Brazil’s Reputation For Race-Blindness Is Undone By Reality

    Expats Find Brazil’s Reputation For Race-Blindness Is Undone By Reality Parallels: Many Stories, One World National Public Radio 2015-05-22 Lourdes Garcia-Navarro, South America Correspondent There is a joke among Brazilians that a Brazilian passport is the most coveted on the black market because no matter what your background — Asian, African or European — you…

  • What’s Radical About “Mixed Race?”

    What’s Radical About “Mixed Race?” Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU 8 Washington Mews New York, New York 10003 Phone: (212) 998-3700 Monday, 2015-04-20, 18:00-20:00 EDT (Local Time) | Free Since the 1990s, mainstream media has heralded the growing population of self-identified “mixed race” people in the US and Canada as material proof of a post-racial era…

  • The Challenge of Mixed-Blood Nations

    The Challenge of Mixed-Blood Nations Indian Country Today Media Network 2015-04-25 Duane Champagne, Professor of Sociology and American Indian Studies; Professor of Law University of California, Los Angeles Countries with indigenous nations usually also have mixed-blood nations composed of people of indigenous descent and other nations or races. In an increasingly shrinking world where ethnicity…

  • The Somatechnics of Whiteness and Race: Colonialism and Mestiza Privilege

    The Somatechnics of Whiteness and Race: Colonialism and Mestiza Privilege Ashgate May 2015 186 pages 234 x 156 mm Hardback ISBN: 978-1-4724-5307-5 eBook PDF ISBN: 978-1-4724-5308-2 eBook ePUB ISBN: 978-1-4724-5309-9 Elaine Marie Carbonell Laforteza, Lecturer in Cultural Studies Macquarie University, Australia Investigating the emergence of a specific mestiza/mestizo whiteness that facilitates relations between the Philippines…

  • Being Maori-Chinese: Mixed Identities

    Being Maori-Chinese uses extensive interviews with seven different families to explore historical and contemporary relations between Māori and Chinese, a subject which has never been given serious study before. A full chapter is given to each family which is explored in depth often in the voices of the protagonists themselves.

  • My body is not an apology: Race, Representation & Beauty by Emma Dabiri

    My body is not an apology: Race, Representation & Beauty by Emma Dabiri Thandie Kay 2015-04-19 Emma Dabiri, Teaching Fellow Africa Department, School of African and Oriental Studies, London Visual Sociology Ph.D. Researcher, Goldsmiths University of London Emma Dabiri Emma Dabiri is an Irish-Nigerian PhD researcher in Goldsmiths, and teaching fellow in the Africa Department…

  • Having Mixed-Race Kids Doesn’t Make You Non-White

    Having Mixed-Race Kids Doesn’t Make You Non-White Mom.Me 2015-04-20 Grace Hwang Lynch, Blogger Hapa Mama Adel Vardell photography Do white parents become “less white” when they have non-white kids? That question is burning up my Facebook feed right now, thanks to an essay in the New York Times last week. In the piece published in…

  • In Puerto Rico, a push to revive indigenous culture

    In Puerto Rico, a push to revive indigenous culture The Associated Press 2015-04-20 Anica Coto SAN LORENZO, Puerto Rico (AP) — In Puerto Rico’s misty, bamboo-studded mountains, elementary school students are studying a nearly extinct language, beating on drums and growing native crops like cassava and sweet potato as they learn about the indigenous people…

  • White Parents, Becoming a Little Less White

    White Parents, Becoming a Little Less White Motherlode: Living the Family Dynamic The New York Times 2015-04-15 Jack Cheng Amy Crosson Former Gov. Jeb Bush made news recently because he checked “Hispanic” on a voter registration form. This is obviously ridiculous from a scion of the Bush family (and Mr. Bush has said he made…

  • Blaxicans (Black Mexicans) of California

    Blaxicans (Black Mexicans) of California African American – Latino World 2015-04-07 Bill Smith This post is not about the black Mexicans who were historically born and raised in Mexico, but those born and raised in Los Angeles, California’s metropolitan area to Mexican and African-American parents. According to the University of Southern California researcher Walter Thompson-Hernández,…