Mixed Race Studies

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  • Addressing Issues of Biracial Asian Americans

    Addressing Issues of Biracial Asian Americans Reflections on Shattered Windows: Promises and Prospects for Asian American Studies Washington State University Press 1988 Chapter 15, pages 111-116 Edited by: G. Y. Okihiro, S. Hune, A. A. Hansen, and J. M. Liu Stephen L. Murphy-Shigematsu Revising the Asian American Studies curriculum One of the more dramatic changes…

  • Biraciality and Nationhood in Contemporary American Art

    Biraciality and Nationhood in Contemporary American Art Third Text: Critical Perspectives on Art and Culture Volume 14, Number 53 (Winter 2001-2002) pages 43–54 Kymberly N. Pinder, Associate Professor of Art History School of the Art Insitute of Chicago An article on work by artists responding to racial hybridity that features a discussion of Lorraine O’Grady’s…

  • Optical Illusions: Images of Miscegenation in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century American Art

    Optical Illusions: Images of Miscegenation in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century American Art American Art Volume 5, Number 3 (Summer, 1991) pages 88-107 Judith Wilson, Former Assistant Professor of African American Studies, Assistant Professor of Art History and Assistant Professor of Visual Studies University of California, Irvine miscegenationn. [Latin miscere to mix + genus race…]: a mixture…

  • Blaxican Identity: An Exploratory Study of Blacks/Chicanas/os in California

    Blaxican Identity: An Exploratory Study of Blacks/Chicanas/os in California National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies Annual Conference 35th Annual Conference 2008-04-01 11 pages Rebecca Romo University of California, Santa Barbara This paper explores the life experiences of Blaxicans, or multiracial individuals who are the products of unions that are composed of one biological (or…

  • Everyone Looks a Little Bit Asian

    Everyone Looks a Little Bit Asian truthdig: drilling beneath the headlines 2010-10-27 Marcia Alesan Dawkins, Visiting Scholar Brown University Like many other Hispanics, I am a member of Generation E.A. (ethnically ambiguous). Over the years I’ve been mistaken for just about every racial or ethnic combination—from Eurasian to Afro-Irish to Arab-Native American. This guessing game…

  • Thinking and living in, out, and beyond the box: Exploring Racial and Cultural Complexity in Identity among Adoptive Multiracial Families and Persons

    Thinking and living in, out, and beyond the box: Exploring Racial and Cultural Complexity in Identity among Adoptive Multiracial Families and Persons Racial Identity and Cultural Factors in Treatment, Research, and Policy The Ninth Annual Diversity Challenge Institute for the Study and Promotion of Race and Culture Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts 2009-10-23 through 2009-10-24…

  • Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference

    Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference DePaul University, Lincoln Park Campus DePaul University Student Center 2250 N. Sheffield Chicago, Illinois USA 60614 2010-11-05 through 2010-11-06 Sponsored by DePaul University Asian American Studies and Latin American and Latino Studies and co-sponsored by the College of Ethnic Studies at San Francisco State University and the MAVIN Foundation. “Emerging…

  • The Measure of America: How a rebel anthropologist waged war on racism

    The Measure of America: How a rebel anthropologist waged war on racism The New Yorker 2004-03-08 18 pages Claudia Roth Peierpont Along with the Ferris wheel, the hamburger, Cracker Jack, Aunt Jemima, the zipper, Juicy Fruit, and the vertical file, the word “anthropology” was introduced to a vast number of Americans at the World’s Columbian…

  • Passing For Horror: Race, Fear, and Elia Kazan’s “Pinky”

    Passing For Horror: Race, Fear, and Elia Kazan’s “Pinky” Genders: Presenting Innovative Work in the Arts, Humanities and Social Theories Issue 40 (2004) Miriam J. Petty, Assistant Professor of Visual and Performing Arts Rutgers University, Newark Film genres routinely mix and evolve over time in ways that change our expectations of them, and change the…

  • Picturizing Race: Hollywood’s Censorship of Miscegenation and Production of Racial Visibility through “Imitation of Life”

    Picturizing Race: Hollywood’s Censorship of Miscegenation and Production of Racial Visibility through “Imitation of Life” Genders: Presenting Innovative Work in the Arts, Humanities and Social Theories Issue 27 (1998) Susan Courtney, Associate Professor of English and Film Studies University of South Carolina “A Case Very Near the Borderline” Hollywood’s Production Code explicitly banned “miscegenation” from…