Mixed Race Studies

Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.

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  • HapaSC: A Place Multiracial Call Home

    HapaSC: A Place Multiracial Call Home Campus Circle News Los Angeles, California 2010-08-16 Stephanie Forshee Multiracial students at USC [University of Southern California] like Lauren Perez are devoting time to create a place where you can express every part of yourself. HapaSC is an organization of about 30 USC students that raises awareness for “mixed”…

  • New England Identities: Black New England Conference

    New England Identities: Black New England Conference University of New Hampshire 2009-06-11 thorugh 2009-06-13 New England: Beyond Black & White Moving beyond rigid racial identities, this year’s conference will explore the contemporary as well as historic interactions between Black and Indigenous communities, the presence of “passing” mixed race individuals, and the more recent immigrant experience,…

  • Race on Trial: Passing and the Van Houten Case in Boston

    Race on Trial: Passing and the Van Houten Case in Boston Paper presented at the annual meeting of the 94th Annual Convention Association for the Study of African American Life and History Hilton Cincinnati, Netherland Plaza Cincinnati, Ohio 2009-09-30 Zebulon V. Miletsky, Assistant Professor of Africana Studies Stony Brook University, State University of New York…

  • City of Amalgamation: Race, Marriage, Class and Color in Boston, 1890-1930

    City of Amalgamation: Race, Marriage, Class and Color in Boston, 1890-1930 University of Massachusetts, Amherst September 2008 223 pages Paper AAI3337029 Zebulon V. Miletsky, Assistant Professor of Africana Studies Stony Brook University, State University of New York Submitted to the W.E.B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies at the Graduate School of the University of…

  • Navigating Racial Boundaries: The One-Drop Rule and Mixed-Race Jamaicans in South Florida

    Navigating Racial Boundaries: The One-Drop Rule and Mixed-Race Jamaicans in South Florida Florida International University 2010 343 pages Sharon E. Placide A dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Comparitive Sociology Like many West Indians, mixed-race Jamaican immigrants enter the United States with fluid notions about…

  • SOC 139C. Betwixt and Between: Multiracial Identity in the United States

    An examination of the factors that have influenced the social location of racially mixed individuals of African and European descent in the United States, in order to provide a context for understanding the complexities surrounding the newly emerging multiracial conciousness.

  • Thinking outside the box: Racial self-identification choice among mixed heritage adolescents

    Thinking outside the box: Racial self-identification choice among mixed heritage adolescents University of Pennsylvania 2009 234 pages ISBN: 9781109236088 Michele Munoz-Miller A Dissertation in Education Presented to the Faculties of the University of Pennsylvania in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy The purpose of this study was to explore…

  • The physical and mental health of multiracial adolescents in the United States

    The physical and mental health of multiracial adolescents in the United States University of Pennsylvania 2007 101 pages ISBN: 9780549117445 Jamie Mihoko Doyle Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology University of Pennsylvania A dissertation in Demographic Presented to Faculties of the University of Pennsylvania in partial fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Doctor of Philosophy…

  • Monstrous Intimacies: Making Post-Slavery Subjects

    Monstrous Intimacies: Making Post-Slavery Subjects Duke University Press August 2010 264 pages 21 illustrations Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8223-4591-6 Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8223-4609-8 Christina Sharpe, Associate Professor of English and Director of American Studies Tufts University Arguing that the fundamental, familiar, sexual violence of slavery and racialized subjugation have continued to shape black and white subjectivities into the…

  • Plum Bun: A Novel without a Moral

    Written in 1929 at the height of the Harlem Renaissance by one of the movement’s most important and prolific authors, “Plum Bun” is the story of Angela Murray, a young black girl who discovers she can pass for white. After the death of her parents, Angela moves to New York to escape the racism she…