Mixed Race Studies

Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.

recent posts

about

Category: United States

  • Race on the Menu: Cheerios, Paula Deen, with Some Supreme Court for Dessert

    Race on the Menu: Cheerios, Paula Deen, with Some Supreme Court for Dessert brianbantum: theology, culture, teaching and life in-between 2012-06-26 Brian Bantum, Assistant Professor of Theology Seattle Pacific University It’s been a bad month. For some reason incidents and issues of race seems to appear like death, in groups of three. They clump together,…

  • Is There a “New Black Theology?” Yes and No.

    Is There a “New Black Theology?” Yes and No. brianbantum: theology, culture, teaching and life in-between 2012-11-28 Brian Bantum, Assistant Professor of Theology Seattle Pacific University Last week I had the distinct privilege of sitting on a panel with Willie James Jennings, J. Kameron Carter, and Edward Philip Antonio with Joanne Terrell responding. The panel…

  • The Lumbee Problem: The Making of an American Indian People

    How does a group of people who have American Indian ancestry but no records of treaties, reservations, Native language, or peculiarly “Indian” customs come to be accepted—socially and legally—as Indians?

  • Haji, an Actress Featured in Cult Films by Russ Meyer, Dies at 67

    Haji [Cerlette Catton?], a voluptuous actress who played one of three homicidal go-go dancers in Russ Meyer’s 1965 cult film “Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!,” died on Aug. 9 in Southern California. She was 67.

  • Southern Race Question

    How the Negro Is Taking Advantage of the Opportunities for Advancement—Some Singular Ideas as to the Future Outcome of Present Developments — Another Talker Suggests a Colored State.

  • Whites think race equality is nearer than blacks do, study finds

    Whites think race equality is nearer than blacks do, study finds The Los Angeles Times 2013-08-22 Emily Alpert Nearly half a century after Martin Luther King Jr. described his dream that someday people would be judged not by their race but by their character, whites think a colorblind society is much closer to reality than…

  • Imperfect Unions: Staging Miscegenation in U.S. Drama and Fiction [Fruscione review]

    Imperfect Unions: Staging Miscegenation in U.S. Drama and Fiction [Fruscione review] MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States Volume 38, Issue 3 (September 2013) pages 180-182 DOI: 10.1093/melus/mlt040 Joseph Fruscione, Adjunct Professor of Writing George Washington University, Washington, D.C. Imperfect Unions: Staging Miscegenation in U.S. Drama and Fiction. Diana Rebekkah Paulin. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota…

  • Imperfect Unions: Staging Miscegenation in U.S. Drama and Fiction by Diana Rebekkah Paulin (Green-Rogers review)

    Imperfect Unions: Staging Miscegenation in U.S. Drama and Fiction by Diana Rebekkah Paulin (Green-Rogers review) Theatre Journal Volume 65, Number 2, May 2013 pages 304-306 DOI: 10.1353/tj.2013.0048 Martine Kei Green-Rogers, Post Doctorate Fellow University of Utah Imperfect Unions: Staging Miscegenation in U.S. Drama and Fiction by Diana Paulin is a multidisciplinary examination of how fictionalized…

  • Counseling Single Mothers of Multiple Heritage Children: What Is the Difference?

    Counseling Single Mothers of Multiple Heritage Children: What Is the Difference? The Family Journal Volume 21, Issue 4 (October 2013) pages 396-401 DOI: 10.1177/1066480713488527 Kristin Harris, MA Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, Texas Richard Henriksen, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Education Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, Texas Anthony J. Onwuegbuzie, Ph.D., Professor of Education Sam Houston…

  • Counseling Single-Parent Multiracial Families

    Counseling Single-Parent Multiracial Families The Family Journal Volume 21, Issue 4 (October 2013) pages 386-395 DOI: 10.1177/1066480713488526 Henry L. Harris, Associate Professor of Education Department of Counseling University of North Carolina, Charlotte Single-parent families represent a growing segment of the family households in the United States today and while some literature has addressed racial differences,…