Mixed Race Studies

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  • Race 2008: Critical Reflections on an Historic Campaign

    Race 2008: Critical Reflections on an Historic Campaign BrownWalker Press 2010 229 pages ISBN-10: 1599425378 ISBN-13: 9781599425375 Edited by Myra Mendible, Professor of English and Department Chair for Language and Literature Florida Gulf Coast University Race 2008: Critical Reflections on an Historic Campaign brings together a diverse group of scholars and activists to examine the…

  • The Social Construction of Race: Some Observations on Illusion, Fabrication, and Choice

    The Social Construction of Race: Some Observations on Illusion, Fabrication, and Choice Harvard Civil Rights – Civil Liberties Law Review Volume 29 (1993) 62 pages Ian F. Haney Lopez, John H. Boalt Professor of Law and Executive Committee Member for The Center for Social Justice Berkeley Law School University of California, Berkeley Under the jurisprudence…

  • Never a Neutral State: American Race Relations and Government Power

    Never a Neutral State: American Race Relations and Government Power Cato Journal Volume 29, Number 3 (Fall 2009) Pages 417-453 Jason Kuznicki, Research Fellow and Managing Editor, Cato Unbound Cato Institute Economics tells us that racial discrimination is expensive. Yet social psychology suggests that humans nonetheless tend to mistrust those whom they identify as outsiders.…

  • The nature of bi-ethnic identity in young adults of Asian and European descent and their perceptions of familial influences on its development

    The nature of bi-ethnic identity in young adults of Asian and European descent and their perceptions of familial influences on its development University of Maryland Department of Human Development 2009 Amanda Laurel Wagner Hoa The purpose of this study was to identify the key constructs of bi-ethnic identity, the key familial influences, and other salient…

  • Black, White, or Biracial? The Identity Development of Mixed-Race Individuals

    Black, White, or Biracial? The Identity Development of Mixed-Race Individuals Cornell University August 1994 Call Number: Thesis DT 3 .5 1994 M926 152 pages Mary Ellen Moule This thesis analyzes the scholarly and popular treatment of the racial identity formation of Americans with one Black and one White parent. The racial identity development of biracial…

  • America’s new racial heroes: Mixed race Americans and ideas of novelty, progress, and Utopia

    America’s new racial heroes: Mixed race Americans and ideas of novelty, progress, and Utopia University of Texas, Austin May 2007 250 pages Publication Number: AAT 3345886 ISBN: 9781109010473 Gregory Thomas Carter, Associate Professor of History University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee The University of Texas at Austin in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of…

  • Multiple choice: Literary racial formations of mixed race Americans of Asian descent

    Multiple choice: Literary racial formations of mixed race Americans of Asian descent Rice University May 2001 194 pages Shannon T. Leonard Rice University A thesis submitted in partial fulfullment of the requirements for the degree Doctor of Philosophy This dissertation reassesses key paradigms of Asian American literary studies in the interest of critically accounting for…

  • Interracial marriage still rising in U.S.

    Interracial marriage still rising in U.S. Associated Press 2010-05-26 Hope Yen, Associated Press Writer About 8 percent of U.S. marriages are mixed-race WASHINGTON – Melting pot or racial divide? The growth of interracial marriages is slowing among U.S.-born Hispanics and Asians. Still, blacks are substantially more likely than before to marry whites. The number of…

  • Changing Answers but Not Identities: A Qualitative Investigation of Race Responses in a Longitudinal Survey

    Changing Answers but Not Identities: A Qualitative Investigation of Race Responses in a Longitudinal Survey Population Association of America 2009 Annual Meeting Marriott Renaissance Center Detroit, Michigan 2009-04-16 19 pages Kelsey Poss University of Minnesota Carolyn A. Liebler, Assistant Professor of Sociology University of Minnesota Paper presented at the 2009 annual meetings of the Population…

  • Black/Irish: How do Americans understand their multiracial ancestry?

    Black/Irish: How do Americans understand their multiracial ancestry? Population Association of America 2009 Annual Meeting Marriott Renaissance Center Detroit, Michigan 2009-05-01 19 pages Aaron Gullickson, Assistant Professor of Sociology University of Oregon Ann Morning, Assistant Professor of Sociology New York University In recent years, studies examining the racial identification of mixed-race individuals on surveys and…