Mixed Race Studies

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  • 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.

  • Race Mixing: Black-White Marriage in Postwar America

    Renee Romano explains how and why such marriages have gained acceptance, and what this tells us about race relations in contemporary America.

  • Raiding The Gene Pool: The Social Construction of Mixed Race

    Raiding The Gene Pool: The Social Construction of Mixed Race Pluto Press an imprint of MacMillan Publishing February 2002 ISBN: 978-0-7453-1764-9 ISBN10: 0-7453-1764-2 5.5 x 8.25 inches 224 pages Jill Olumide, Researcher Swansea University, School of Health Science High profile ‘mixed race’ stars like Tiger Woods have brought the politics of identity into the mainstream.…

  • Mixed-Race, Post-Race: Gender, New Ethnicities and Cultural Practices

    Focusing on mixed-race and inter-ethnic families, this book not only explores current understandings of ‘race’, but it shows, using innovative research techniques with children, how we come to read race.

  • Mixed Feelings: The Complex Lives of Mixed-Race Britons

    Mixed Feelings: The Complex Lives of Mixed-Race Britons The Women’s Press 2001 336 pages 9.1 x 6.1 x 0.7 inches Paperback ISBN-10: 0704347067; ISBN-13: 978-0704347069 Yasmin Alibhai-Brown Yasmin Alibhai-Brown’s new book offers the sharpest and most informed insight yet on mixed-race Britain. Opening with an historical perspective, she traces up to the twenty-first century the…

  • The Colored Aristocracy of St. Louis

    In 1858, Cyprian Clamorgan wrote a brief but immensely readable book entitled “The Colored Aristocracy of St. Louis.” The grandson of a white voyageur and a mulatto woman, he was himself a member of the “colored aristocracy.” In a setting where the vast majority of African Americans were slaves, and where those who were free…

  • Blind Boone: Missouri’s Ragtime Pioneer

    Blind Boone: Missouri’s Ragtime Pioneer University of Missouri Press 1998 136 pages 6 x 9. Biblio. Index. 25 illus. ISBN: 0-8262-1198-4 Jack A. Batterson Often overlooked by ragtime historians, John William “Blind” Boone had a remarkably successful and influential music career that endured for almost fifty years. Blind Boone: Missouri’s Ragtime Pioneer provides the first…

  • 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…

  • Race Mixing: Southern Fiction since the Sixties

    In “Race Mixing,” Suzanne Jones offers insightful and provocative readings of contemporary novels, the work of a wide range of writers—black and white, established and emerging.

  • The New Colored People: The Mixed-Race Movement in America

    Focusing specifically on mixed-race blacks, Spencer argues that the mixed-race movement in the United States would benefit from consideration of how multiracial categories have evolved in South Africa.