Mixed Race Studies

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  • Catching Up With Black in America’s Soledad O’Brien

    Catching Up With Black in America’s Soledad O’Brien Clutch Magazine 2012-12-14 Zettler Clay A while ago, I took my little cousins to Toys “R” Us. Three of them. 8 years old, 6 years old, 4 years old. It was going smoothly enough until we came across a row of dolls. There were two on the…

  • The Obama Era: A New Age in American Politics

    The Obama Era: A New Age in American Politics The Huffington Post 2012-12-05 Brandon Hill Stanford University Barack Obama’s elections—both 2008 and 2012—have inaugurated a new political reality in America. He has rewritten history in two consecutive elections, and his groundbreaking victories will forever change the game of politics in our country. Before 2008 the…

  • No longer your father’s electorate

    No longer your father’s electorate The Los Angeles Times 2012-11-08 Paul West, Washington Bureau WASHINGTON — Even more than the election that made Barack Obama the first black president, the one that returned him to office sent an unmistakable signal that the hegemony of the straight white male in America is over. The long drive…

  • The Transpacific Shift in Mixed-Race Studies: Sawyer Seminar II

    The Transpacific Shift in Mixed-Race Studies: Sawyer Seminar II University of Southern California, Univeristy Park Campus Doheny Memorial Library (DML) East Asian Seminar Room (110C) Friday, 2013-02-08, 10:00-16:00 PST (Local Time) Presented by the Center for Japanese Religions and Culture’s “Critical Mixed-Race Studies: A Transpacific Approach” Andrew W. Mellon Foundation John E. Sawyer Seminars Series…

  • Eric Garcetti invokes Latino-Jewish ancestry in mayor’s race

    Eric Garcetti invokes Latino-Jewish ancestry in mayor’s race The Los Angeles Times 2013-01-02 Michael Finnegan Working a recent breakfast gathering of business owners in Northridge, Los Angeles mayoral contender Eric Garcetti introduced himself in Hindi when a Sikh businessman approached. A few hours later, Garcetti donned a colorful Peruvian headpiece with ear flaps as he…

  • Circular Letter to “Local Registrars, Clerks, Legislators, and others responsible for, and interested in, the prevention of racial intermixture,” from Walter A. Plecker, State Registrar of Vital Statistics, Richmond

    In a 1943 letter to local registrars, clerks, and legislators, Plecker asserted, “[T]here does not exist today a descendant of Virginia ancestors claiming to be an Indian who is unmixed with negro blood.”

  • A Rising Hockey Star With N.B.A. DNA

    A Rising Hockey Star With N.B.A. DNA The New York Times 2012-12-20 Jeff Z. Klein Seth Jones probably should have wound up a basketball player. He is tall, with a great vertical leap, and his father is Popeye Jones, who played 11 years in the N.B.A. and is now an assistant coach with the Nets.…

  • Forging People: Race, Ethnicity, and Nationality in Hispanic American and Latino/a Thought

    Forging People: Race, Ethnicity, and Nationality in Hispanic American and Latino/a Thought University of Notre Dame Press 2011 376 pages ISBN 10: 0-268-02982-2 ISBN 13: 978-0-268-02982-1 Edited by: Jorge J. E. Gracia, Samuel P. Capen Chair; SUNY Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Comparative Literature State University of New York, Buffalo Forging People explores the way…

  • The Moment of Theory: Race as Myth and Medium

    The Moment of Theory: Race as Myth and Medium W. E. B. Du Bois Lecture Series W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research Harvard University 2010-04-20 W. J. T. Mitchell, Gaylord Donnelley Distinguished Service Professor of English and Art History University of Chicago Watch the lecture here.

  • Cogewea, The Half Blood: A Depiction of the Great Montana Cattle Range

    Cogewea, The Half Blood: A Depiction of the Great Montana Cattle Range University of Nebraska Press 1981 (originally published in 1927) 302 pages Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8032-8110-3 Hardback ISBN: 978-0-8032-3069-9 Mourning Dove (Humishuma) (1888-1936) Introduction by Dexter Fisher (Cirillo) One of the first known novels by a Native American woman, Cogewea (1927) is the story of…