Mixed Race Studies

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  • When Half Is Whole: Multiethnic Asian American Identities

    The son of an Irish American father and Japanese mother, Murphy-Shigematsu has devoted his life to understanding himself as a product of his diverse roots. Across twelve chapters, his reflections are interspersed among profiles of others of biracial and mixed ethnicity and accounts of their journeys to answer a seemingly simple question: Who am I?

  • A Further Discussion of the Variability of Family Strains in the Negro-White Population of New York City

    A Further Discussion of the Variability of Family Strains in the Negro-White Population of New York City Journal of the American Statistical Association Volume 20, Issue 151 (1925) pages 380-389 DOI: 10.1080/01621459.1925.10503502 Melville J. Herskovits A paper read at the meeting of Section H., American Association for the Advancement of Science, at Washington , D.C.,…

  • Barack Obama as the Great Man: Communicative Constructions of Racial Transcendence in White-Male Elite Discourses

    Barack Obama as the Great Man: Communicative Constructions of Racial Transcendence in White-Male Elite Discourses Communication Monographs Volume 78, Issue 4 (2011) pages 535-556 DOI: 10.1080/03637751.2011.618140 Christopher B. Brown, Assistant Professor of Communications Minnesota State University, Mankato This study examined responses on the potential impact of Barack Obama’s presidency from 16 semi-structured interviews with White…

  • American Indians in Chicago struggle to preserve identity, culture and history

    American Indians in Chicago struggle to preserve identity, culture and history Chicago Tribune 2012-08-13 Dahleen Glanton, Reporter Recession, social service funding cuts hinder efforts Susan Kelly Power was 17 when she boarded a train to Chicago, a place that seemed a world away from the Indian reservation she grew up on in North and South…

  • A Response to Ben Pitcher’s “Obama and the Politics of Blackness: Antiracism in the ‘post-black’ Conjuncture” [Rickey Hill]

    A Response to Ben Pitcher’s “Obama and the Politics of Blackness: Antiracism in the ‘post-black’ Conjuncture” [Rickey Hill] Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture, and Society Volume 12, Issue 4 (2010) (Post-Racial Politics and Its Discontents) pages pages 347-350 DOI: 10.1080/10999949.2010.526058 Rickey Hill, Professor of Social Science Mississippi Valley State University, Itta Bena,…

  • Beautiful stereotypes: the relationship between physical attractiveness and mixed race identity

    Beautiful stereotypes: the relationship between physical attractiveness and mixed race identity Identities: Global Studies in Power and Culture Volume 19, Number 1, 2012-01-01 pages 61-80 DOI: 10.1080/1070289X.2012.672838 Jennifer Patrice Sims The idea that mixed race individuals are physically attractive is a commonly accepted stereotype. Past research in which whites (Australians and British) and Asians (Japanese)…

  • Reconstructing Race

    Reconstructing Race The Western Historical Quarterly Volume 34, Number 1 (Spring, 2003) pages 6-26 Elliott West, Distinguished Professor of History University of Arkansas, Fayetteville During what might be called the Greater Reconstruction, 1846–1877, territorial acquisitions as well as southern slavery forced a new racial dialogue between West and South, unsettled racial relations and presumptions, and…

  • “Our America” That is Not One: Transnational Black Atlantic Disclosures in Nicolás Guillén and Langston Hughes

    “Our America” That is Not One: Transnational Black Atlantic Disclosures in Nicolás Guillén and Langston Hughes Discourse: Journal for Theoretical Studies in Media and Culture Volume 22, Number 3 (Fall 2000) pages 87-113 DOI: 10.1353/dis.2000.0007 Monika Kaup, Associate Professor of English University of Washington In the past two decades, discontent with the exclusions operative in…

  • The Browning of America and the Evasion of Social Justice

    The Browning of America and the Evasion of Social Justice SUNY Press October 2008 200 pages Hardcover ISBN-13: 978-0-7914-7585-0 Paperback ISBN-13: 978-0-7914-7586-7 Ronald R. Sundstrom,Professor of Philosophy University of San Francisco Considers the effects of the browning of America on philosophical debates over race, racism, and social justice. This book considers the challenge that the…

  • Biological Distance and the African American Dentition

    Biological Distance and the African American Dentition Ohio State University 2002 229 pages Heather Joy Hecht Edgar A DISSERTATION Presented in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Doctor of Philosophy in the Graduate School of The Ohio State University Gene flow occurs whenever two human populations come in contact. African Americans are the…