Mixed Race Studies

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  • Here, There, and In Between: Travel as Metaphor in Mixed Race Narratives of the Harlem Renaissance

    Here, There, and In Between: Travel as Metaphor in Mixed Race Narratives of the Harlem Renaissance University of Massachusetts, Amherst 2014-05-09 Colin Enriquez English Department Created to comment on Antebellum and Reconstruction literature, the tragic mulatto concept is habitually applied to eras beyond the 19th century. The tragic mulatto has become an end rather than…

  • UNPOPULAR OPINION: 6 Reasons Why Your Utopic Vision for a Mixed-Race Future is My Nightmare

    Guess what? One day, when we’re all mixed race, racism won’t magically disappear.

  • Race and Ethnicity in the 2020 Census: Improving Data to Capture a Multiethnic America

    Race and Ethnicity in the 2020 Census: Improving Data to Capture a Multiethnic America The Leadership Conference Education Fund Washington, D.C. November 2014 36 pages “Race and Ethnicity in the 2020 Census” is the culmination of The Leadership Conference Education Fund’s year-long project to examine the Census Bureau’s research and testing program from the perspective…

  • Unrest Over Race Is Testing Obama’s Legacy

    Unrest Over Race Is Testing Obama’s Legacy The New York Times 2014-12-08 Julie Hirschfeld Davis, White House Reporter Michael D. Shear, White House Correspondent WASHINGTON — As crowds of people staged “die-ins” across the country last week to protest the deaths of unarmed black men at the hands of police officers, young African-American activists were…

  • White Anxiety and the Futility of Black Hope

    White Anxiety and the Futility of Black Hope The New York Times 2014-12-05 George Yancy, Professor of Philosophy Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Shannon Sullivan, Professor of Philosophy University of North Carolina, Charlotte This is the third in a series of interviews with philosophers on race that I am conducting for The Stone. This week’s conversation…

  • Class, Race, or Ethnicity Apart? Changing Whiteness and Counting People of Mexican Descent

    Class, Race, or Ethnicity Apart? Changing Whiteness and Counting People of Mexican Descent U.S. History Scene 2013-10-09 Ester Terry University of Pittsburgh In June 2013, Sebastien de la Cruz sang the National Anthem for Games 3 and 4 of the National Basketball Association (NBA) Finals in San Antonio. In July 2013, Marc Anthony sang “God…

  • Female Slaves and the Law

    Female Slaves and the Law C-SPAN: Created by Cable Lectures in History 2014-10-21 Martha S. Jones, Arthur F Thurnau Professor, Associate Professor of History and Afroamerican and African Studies University of Michigan Professor Martha Jones talked about the mid-19th century court case of Celia, a female slave who killed her master after repeated sexual assaults. Topics…

  • We aren’t playing the race card; we are analyzing the racialized deck.

    We aren’t playing the race card; we are analyzing the racialized deck. Taking Jesus Seriously The Christian Century: Thinking Critically. Living Faithfully 2014-12-08 Drew G. I. Hart Changing the game and changing our rhetoric around race and racism. I would be rich if I got money for every time a white person told me that…

  • James Baldwin asks ‘How are white Americans so sure they are white?’

    In 1963, James Baldwin wrote two essays that examined the role of race and racism in the history of America. Published in The New Yorker, Baldwin’s first essay, written in the form of a letter to his fourteen-year-old nephew on the 100th anniversary of Emancipation explained “the crux of [his] dispute with [his] country”…

  • The Half Has Never Been Told with Edward E. Baptist, Ph.D.

    The Half Has Never Been Told with Edward E. Baptist, Ph.D. Research at the National Archives and Beyond BlogTalk Radio Thursday, 2014-12-18 21:00 EST (Friday, 2014-12-19, 02:00Z) Bernice Bennett, Producer and Host Historian Edward E. Baptist reveals in The Half Has Never Been Told, the expansion of slavery in the first eight decades after American independence drove…