Mixed Race Studies

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  • ‘Improving’ the Māori: Counting the Ideology of Intermarriage

    ‘Improving’ the Māori: Counting the Ideology of Intermarriage New Zealand Journal of History Volume 34, Number 1 (2000) pages 80-97 Kate Riddell Waitangi Tribunal, Wellington IN 1996 THE CENSUS gave a total of 3,681,546 New Zealanders, of whom 524,031 were self-described as Māori or of Māori descent — thus, around 14%. The 1896 census gave…

  • Becoming Mexipino: A Book Event with Rudy Guevarra Jr.

    Becoming Mexipino: A Book Event with Rudy Guevarra Jr. California State University, Fullerton Langsdorf Hall 402 (Map) Thursday, 2013-04-25, 16:00-17:30 PDT (Local Time) Rudy Guevarra, Jr., Assistant Professor, Asian Pacific American Studies, School of Social Transformation, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Arizona State University, Tempe Becoming Mexipino is a social-historical interpretation of two ethnic…

  • Mixed bloods of the Upper Monongahela Valley, West Virginia

    Mixed bloods of the Upper Monongahela Valley, West Virginia Washington Academy of Sciences Volume 36, Number 1 (1946-01-15) pages 1-13 Source: Biodiversity Heritage Library William Harlen Gilbert, Jr. Library of Congress We are accustomed to think of West Virginia as a racially homogeneous State populated by Old Americans of English, Scotch, and Scotch-Irish descent with…

  • Foreign Bodies: Oceania and the Science of Race 1750–1940

    Foreign Bodies: Oceania and the Science of Race 1750–1940 Australian National University Press October 2008 372 pages Paperback ISBN-10: 1921313994; ISBN-13: 978-1921313998 Online ISBN: 9781921536007 Edited by: Bronwen Douglas, Senior Fellow in Pacific and Asian History The Australian National University Chris Ballard, Fellow in Pacific and Asian History The Australian National University From the 18th…

  • AfroAsian Encounters: Culture, History, Politics

    AfroAsian Encounters is the first anthology to look at the mutual influence of and relationships between members of the African and Asian diasporas.

  • Everybody Was Kung Fu Fighting: Afro-Asian Connections and the Myth of Cultural Purity

    Everybody Was Kung Fu Fighting: Afro-Asian Connections and the Myth of Cultural Purity Beacon Press 2001 232 pages Paperback ISBN: 978-080705011-8 Vijay Prashad, George and Martha Kellner Chair in South Asian History and Professor of International Studies Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut Selected as One of the Village Voice’s Favorite 25 Books of 2001 In this…

  • Pacific Islander Americans and Multiethnicity: A Vision of America’s Future?

    Pacific Islander Americans and Multiethnicity: A Vision of America’s Future? Social Forces Volume 73, Issue 4 (1995) pages 1365-1383 DOI: 10.1093/sf/73.4.1365 Paul R. Spickard, Professor of History University of California, Santa Barbara Rowena Fong, Ruby Lee Piester Centennial Professor in Services to Children and Families University of Texas, Austin Americans are rapidly becoming an ethnically…

  • Race and Ethnic Relations in the Twenty-First Century: History, Theory, Institutions, and Policy

    Race and Ethnic Relations in the Twenty-First Century: History, Theory, Institutions, and Policy Cognella 2011 436 pages Paperback ISBN: 978-1-93555-160-7 Edited by: Rashawn Ray, Assistant Professor of Sociology University of Maryland, College Park This book examines the major theoretical and empirical approaches regarding race/ethnicity. Its goal is to continue to place race and ethnic relations…

  • The New Normal

    The New Normal The Rafu Shimpo: Los Angeles Japanese Daily News 2013-04-11 Mia Nakaji Monnier, Rafu Staff Writer Hapa Japan Festival and JANM exhibit celebrate mixed Japanese and Japanese Americans Outside the newest exhibit at the Japanese American National Museum hangs a banner. Up close, visitors can make out individual pictures—each about the size of…

  • Hafu: The Mixed-Race Experience in Japan

    Hafu: The Mixed-Race Experience in Japan Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival 29th Edition 2013-05-02 through 2013-05-12 2012 87 minutes Directed by: Megumi Nishikura and Lara Perez Takagi English, Japanese Screening: Wednesday, 2013-05-08, 19:30 PDT (Local Time): National Center for the Preservation of Democracy HAFU is more than a mere documentary about mixed race Japanese, or…