Mixed Race Studies

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  • Chats: Is Obama Black, Bi-racial, or Post-racial?

    As the son of a black Kenyan and a white American, President Obama is biracial. As a symbol of our times, he’s also called post-racial. On his census form, he classifies himself as black. Whatever he is, the categories obsess many Americans. So in advance of Randall Kennedy’s visit to Zócalo, we put the question…

  • Asked to Declare His Race, Obama Checks ‘Black’

    Asked to Declare His Race, Obama Checks ‘Black’ The New York Times 2010-04-02 Sam Roberts Peter Baker It is official: Barack Obama is the nation’s first black president. A White House spokesman confirmed that Mr. Obama, the son of a black father from Kenya and a white mother from Kansas, checked African-American on the 2010…

  • A Unique Slant of Light: The Bicentennial History of Art in Louisiana

    A Unique Slant of Light: The Bicentennial History of Art in Louisiana University Press of Mississippi 2012-09-20 450 pages 9 1/2 x 11 7/8 inches, 400+ color illustrations, foreword, introduction, bibliography, index of artists Cloth ISBN: 978-1-61703-690-3   Edited By: Michael Sartisky, President Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities J. Richard Gruber, Director Emeritus Ogden Museum…

  • Black and Blue: The Origins and Consequences of Medical Racism

    “Black & Blue” is the first systematic description of how American doctors think about racial differences and how this kind of thinking affects the treatment of their black patients.

  • Mixed-Race Chic

    Mixed-Race Chic The Chronicle Review The Chronicle of Higher Education 2009-05-19 Rainier Spencer, Associate Vice Provost for Academic Affairs University of Nevada, Las Vegas Popular wisdom suggests that we are in the midst of a transformation in the way race is constructed in the United States. Indeed, so strong and so inevitable is this shift…

  • The Melanin Millennium: Skin Color as 21st Century International Discourse

    The Melanin Millennium: Skin Color as 21st Century International Discourse Springer 2013 348 pages 32 illustrations Hardcover ISBN 978-94-007-4607-7 eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-4608-4 DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-4608-4 Edited by: Ronald E. Hall, Professor of Social Work Michigan State University Addresses the issue of skin color in a worldwide context Discusses the introduction of new forms of visual media…

  • IU Libraries Film Archive a treasure chest of educational, rare films

    IU Libraries Film Archive a treasure chest of educational, rare films inside IU Bloomington Weekly news for faculty and staff from the Indiana University Bloomington campus 2013-03-07 Lynn Schoch, Office of the Vice President for International Affairs Many of a certain age—particularly those who were in elementary school in the ’50s and ’60s—will remember 16…

  • Passing and the Problematic of Multiracial Pride (or, Why One Mixed Girl Still Answers to Black)

    I have never had the comfort zone of a given racial identity. My mother is a Bostonian white woman of WASP heritage. My father is a Louisiana black man of mixed African and Mexican heritage. Unlike people who are automatically classified as black or white, I have always been up for debate. I am forever having…

  • Mixed Race Across the Pacific

    Mixed Race Across the Pacific University of Southern California Freshman Seminars Spring 2013 Duncan Williams, Associate Professor of Religion In an era when a mixed-race President of the United States proudly proclaims himself as the first Pacific President of America, how might we rethink the study of race in a global, rather than merely a…

  • Love in black and white

    Love in black and white Princeton Alumni Weekly 2009-04-22 Lawrence Otis Graham ’83 Martha Sandweiss examines racial passing in America Clarence King, a celebrated explorer, geologist, and surveyor in 19th-century America, chose to set that identity aside — and live as a working-class black man during a time of harsh racial segregation in the United…