Mixed Race Studies

Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.

recent posts

about

Category: United States

  • African Americans in Atlanta: Adrienne Herndon, an Uncommon Woman

    African Americans in Atlanta: Adrienne Herndon, an Uncommon Woman Southern Spaces: A Journal about Real and Imagined Spaces and Places of the US South and their Global Connections 2004-03-16 DOI: 10.18737/M7XP4B Carole Merritt Portrait of Adrienne Herndon, date unknown. (c) The Herndon Home. Overview  Ahead of her time and outside of her assigned place, Adrienne…

  • Redefining Japaneseness: Japanese Americans in the Ancestral Homeland

    Redefining Japaneseness: Japanese Americans in the Ancestral Homeland Rutgers University Press 2017-01-24 224 pages 6 x 9 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8135-7637-4 Paper ISBN: 978-0-8135-7636-7 Web PDF ISBN: 978-0-8135-7639-8 ePub ISBN: 978-0-8135-7638-1 Jane H. Yamashiro, Visiting Scholar Asian American Studies Center University of California, Los Angeles There is a rich body of literature on the experience of…

  • Safe space for multiracial students

    Safe space for multiracial students The Sagamore: Brookline High School’s student newspaper Brookline, Massachusetts 2017-02-04 Sofia Reynoso, Staff Writer According to the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education’s 2016-2016 data, 7.5 percent of the high school’s student body consists of multiracial students. A new club known as the Multiracial Identifying Community (MIC) is forming…

  • A Family That Pushed Racial Boundaries Through Generations

    A Family That Pushed Racial Boundaries Through Generations The New York Times 2017-01-27 Caitlin Dickerson, National Reporter From left: Blake, Jared, Bryan and Deborah Treadwell, photographed in Eastham, Mass. Credit Erik Jacobs for The New York Times When Lizzie Connor kissed her husband goodbye and hopped on a train at Grand Central Depot, The New…

  • ‘Hidden’ no more: Katherine Johnson, a black NASA pioneer, finds acclaim at 98

    ‘Hidden’ no more: Katherine Johnson, a black NASA pioneer, finds acclaim at 98 The Washington Post 2017-01-27 Victoria St. Martin Fame has finally found Katherine Johnson — and it only took a half-century, six manned moon landings, a best-selling book and an Oscar-nominated movie. For more than 30 years, Johnson worked as a NASA mathematician…

  • Iconic Fine Arts Sculptor Edmonia Lewis Honored In Google Doodle

    Iconic Fine Arts Sculptor Edmonia Lewis Honored In Google Doodle The Huffington Post 2017-02-01 Zahara Hill, Black Voices Editorial Fellow Sophie Diao The artist’s dedication to portraying her African-American and Native-American ancestry separated her from other sculptors.  Black History Month began with the art of this lesser-known black icon. In honor of the start of…

  • On the Precipice of a “Majority-Minority” America: Perceived Status Threat From the Racial Demographic Shift Affects White Americans’ Political Ideology

    On the Precipice of a “Majority-Minority” America: Perceived Status Threat From the Racial Demographic Shift Affects White Americans’ Political Ideology Psychological Science Volume 25, Issue 6 (2014-06-01) pages 1189-1197 DOI: 10.1177/0956797614527113 Maureen A. Craig, Assistant Professor of Psychology New York University Jennifer A. Richeson, Philip R. Allen Professor of Psychology Yale University The U.S. Census…

  • Unmaking Race and Ethnicity: A Reader

    “(Un)Making Race and Ethnicity: A Reader,” edited by Michael O. Emerson, Jenifer L. Bratter, and Sergio Chávez, helps instructors and students connect with primary texts in ways that are informative and interesting, leading to engaging discussions and interactions.

  • The white supremacy of being asked where I’m from

    The white supremacy of being asked where I’m from PBS NewsHour 2017-01-27 What comes to mind when you hear the phrase “white supremacy”? For actor comedian Peter Kim, it’s facing the commonplace cultural assumption that white is the default race in America ANTONIO MORA: Finally tonight, a look at the subtle ways our society often…

  • Construction of Race and Class Buffers in the Structure of Immigration Controls and Laws

    Construction of Race and Class Buffers in the Structure of Immigration Controls and Laws Oregon Law Review Volume 76 (1997) pages 731-764 Tanya Katerí Hernández, Professor of Law Fordham University In the midst of current anti-immigration sentiment, which is motivating dramatic changes in the United States immigration laws, there exists the myth that prior immigration…