Mixed Race Studies

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  • Placing Racial Classification in Context

    This article extends previous research on place-based patterns of racial categorization by linking it to sociological theory that posits subnational variation in cultural schemas and applying regression techniques that allow for spatial variation in model estimates.

  • The Inheritance of Haunting, Poems

    Winner of the 2018 Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize, “The Inheritance of Haunting,” by Heidi Andrea Restrepo Rhodes, is a collection of poems contending with historical memory and its losses and gains carried within the body, wrought through colonization and its generations of violence, war, and survival.

  • Chinyere K. Osuji

    In her book, Boundaries of Love: Interracial Marriage and the Meaning of Race (NYU Press, 2019), Chinyere K. Osuji examines how interracial couples push against, navigate, and often maintain racial boundaries.

  • Being More ‘Open:’ Black Women Negotiate Dating and Marrying White Men

    One thing that struck me about the black women whom I interviewed was how several of them complained about their white husbands who “just didn’t get it.” As people on the top of gender, racial, and often class hierarchies, these white men often could not make sense of the privileges they accrued in a society…

  • Historian, master storyteller

    Allyson Hobbs distinctly remembers the first time she saw Stanford University. After flying out from Chicago for a final interview in January 2008, she was chatting with a faculty member as they arrived on campus. “We were talking about Ohio State foot-ball and we turned down Palm Drive,” she recalls. “All of a sudden, my…

  • Claiming to be Cherokee, contractors with white ancestry got $300 million

    Contractors with white ancestry were awarded hundreds of millions of dollars in government contracts reserved for minorities by making unsubstantiated claims to being Native American, a Times investigation found. To qualify for the minority contracting programs, they used membership in unrecognized Cherokee groups that federally recognized tribes and Native American experts consider illegitimate

  • Long Live the Tribe of Father­less Girls [Review]

    It sounds like an aver­age ​“poor lit­tle rich girl” sto­ry. But Long Live the Tribe of Father­less Girls is much more than that, tak­ing tropes and ren­der­ing them with an undy­ing sense of com­pas­sion.

  • Kamala Harris, Birtherism, Race and the Unscrupulous, Sinister Antics of the Far Right!

    Kamala Harris, Birtherism, Race and the Unscrupulous, Sinister Antics of the Far Right! Medium 2019-07-04 Elwood Watson, Professor of History, African American Studies and Gender Studies East Tennessee State University Now that she has emerged as a serious contender for the 2020 democratic nomination for president, Kamala Harris has come under attack from a number…

  • Why ‘Raising a Black Son’ Is a de Blasio Campaign Theme

    Dante de Blasio, whose giant Afro was featured in his father’s bid for New York City mayor, is playing a role in his presidential campaign.

  • Social media trolls try but fail to give Kamala Harris the Obama-birther treatment

    Birtherism raises its ugly head, only to be lopped off by Harris supporters and rivals