Mixed Race Studies

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  • The Cherokee Diaspora: An Indigenous History of Migration, Resettlement, and Identity by Gregory D. Smithers (review)

    The Cherokee Diaspora: An Indigenous History of Migration, Resettlement, and Identity by Gregory D. Smithers (review) Journal of Interdisciplinary History Volume 47, Number 2, Autumn 2016 pages 241-242 Tyler Boulware, Associate Professor of History West Virginia University The Cherokee Diaspora: An Indigenous History of Migration, Resettlement, and Identity. By Gregory D. Smithers (New Haven, Yale…

  • On Race and Medicine: Insider Perspectives

    Health disparities exist between races in America. These inequalities are cataloged in numerous studies, reports, conferences, articles, seminars, and keynote speeches. Various studies include reports on income, health insurance, cultural differences between patients and their physicians, language barriers, and biological “racial” differences in the discourse of health disparities.

  • What are You Mixed with: the Effect of Multiracial Identification on Perceived Attractiveness

    Studies consistently show that attractiveness is racialized, and in a racial hierarchy that privileges whites at the expense of blacks, white phenotypic characteristics are deemed more attractive than black phenotypic characteristics. This study seeks to examine whether the racialized nature of attractiveness is based on more than just appearance.

  • Beauty is in the Ear of the Beholder Too

    Beauty is in the Ear of the Beholder Too Duke Research Blog Duke University 2016-08-10 Eric Ferreri Just the suggestion that an African-American person is of mixed-race heritage makes that person more attractive to others, research from Duke University concludes. This holds true even if the people in question aren’t actually of multiracial heritage, according…

  • Why I Cut My Racist In-Laws Out Of My Life

    Why I Cut My Racist In-Laws Out Of My Life The Establishment 2016-08-02 TaLynn Kel I won’t lie and say that I never had issues with the demographics of my mixed-race marriage. I definitely did. I worried about what my mom would think, and what my dad would say were he alive. I worried about…

  • How White Parents of Black and Multiracial Transracially Adopted Children Approach Racial Exposure and Neighborhood Choice

    How White Parents of Black and Multiracial Transracially Adopted Children Approach Racial Exposure and Neighborhood Choice Sociology of Race & Ethnicity Published online before print 2016-08-02 DOI: 10.1177/2332649216661851 Kathryn A. Sweeney, Associate Professor of Sociology Purdue University Northwest, Hammond, Indiana Although past research on racial socialization tends to concentrate on providing cultural knowledge and pride,…

  • White KC mom of mixed family on why she constantly checks white privilege

    White KC mom of mixed family on why she constantly checks white privilege The Kansas City Star 2016-07-24 Aaron Randle, Culture Writer Amanda and Kenton Campbell have a mixed daughter and adopted son from Haiti “I’m so past the warm and fuzzy point,” the 36-year-old mom says Amanda Campbell is ready when you are. Ready…

  • Who Gets To Be ‘Hapa’?

    Who Gets To Be ‘Hapa’? Code Switch: Race and Identity, Remixed National Public Radio 2016-08-08 Akemi Johnson Sunset in Waikiki: Tourists sipping mai tais crowded the beachside hotel bar. When the server spotted my friend and me, he seemed to relax. “Ah,” he said, smiling. “Two hapa girls.” He asked if we were from Hawaii.…

  • Othering Obama: Racial Attitudes and Dubious Beliefs about the Nation’s First Black President

    Othering Obama: Racial Attitudes and Dubious Beliefs about the Nation’s First Black President Sociological Perspectives Volume 57, Number 4 (December 2014) pages 450-469 DOI: 10.1177/0731121414536140 Daniel Tope, Associate Professor of Sociology Florida State University Justin T. Pickett, Assistant Professor School of Criminal Justice State University of New York, Albany Ryon J. Cobb, National Institute on…

  • NBA Star Amar’e Stoudemire Is Moving to Israel — Because He’s a Hebrew Israelite

    NBA Star Amar’e Stoudemire Is Moving to Israel — Because He’s a Hebrew Israelite Forward 2016-08-01 Sam Kestenbaum, Staff Writer This week, basketball star Amar’e Stoudemire ended a celebrated 14-year career with the NBA. The six-time All-Star spent most of his career with the Phoenix Suns and the New York Knicks, before finishing with the…