Mixed Race Studies

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  • Crimes of Performance

    Crimes of Performance Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture and Society Volume 13, Issue 1 (2011) Special Issue: Black Critiques of Capital: Radicalism, Resistance, and Visions of Social Justice pages 29-45 DOI: 10.1080/10999949.2011.551476 Uri McMillan, Assistant Professor of English University of California, Los Angeles In this article, I focus on the intersections between…

  • Standing on Both Feet: Voices of Older Mixed-Race Americans

    Standing on Both Feet: Voices of Older Mixed-Race Americans Paradigm Publishers December 2011 208 pages 6×9 ISBN: 978-1-59451-982-6 Cathy J. Tashiro, PhD, RN, Associate Professor of Nursing University of Washington, Tacoma In the first book to focus on the experiences of older American of mixed race identity, Cathy Tashiro explores questions of identity and the…

  • Bettez to discuss experiences of mixed race women

    Bettez to discuss experiences of mixed race women The Southern Illinoisan 2011-10-28 Christi Mathis, Staff Writer University Communications at SIU Carbondale CARBONDALE – Silvia C. Bettez will present “But Don’t Call Me White: Mixed Race Women Exposing Nuances of Privilege and Oppression Politics” on Tuesday, Nov. 1, at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale.   The guest…

  • Multiracial Families: Counted But Still Misunderstood

    Multiracial Families: Counted But Still Misunderstood Racialicious 2011-10-31 Jen Chau, Guest Contributor In the past couple of years, I have noticed a certain complacency that I never noticed before, in my eleven years of leading Swirl. The same passion and the same excitement around building multiracial communities had faded a bit. In the one year…

  • The Black-and-White World of Walter Ashby Plecker

    The Black-and-White World of Walter Ashby Plecker The Virginian-Pilot 2004-08-18 Warren Fiske Lacy Branham Hearl closes her eyes and travels eight decades back to what began as a sweet childhood. There was family everywhere: her parents, five siblings, nine sets of adoring aunts and uncles and more cousins than she could count. They all lived…

  • White Supremacists from 1920s Still Thwarting Virginia Tribes

    White Supremacists from 1920s Still Thwarting Virginia Tribes Indian Country Today Media Network 2011-04-26 Tanya Lee Congress is once again considering legislation that would grant federal recognition to six of Virginia’s 11 state-recognized American Indian tribes—the Chickahominy, Chickahominy Eastern Division, Nansemond, Rappahannock and Upper Mattaponi tribes and the Monacan Indian Nation. Chief Gene Adkins of…

  • Multiracial Politics or the Politics of being Multiracial?: Racial Theory, Civic Engagement, and Socio-political Participation in a Contemporary Society

    Multiracial Politics or the Politics of being Multiracial?: Racial Theory, Civic Engagement, and Socio-political Participation in a Contemporary Society University of Southern California August 2010 376 pages Jungmiwha Suk Bullock A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE USC GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR…

  • How Puerto Rico Became White: Boundary Dynamics and Intercensus Racial Reclassification

    According to official census results, the Puerto Rican population became significantly whiter in the first half of the twentieth century. Social scientists have long speculated about the source of this trend, but until now, available data did not permit competing hypotheses of Puerto Rico’s whitening to be evaluated empirically. This article revisits the question of…

  • Globalizing a Race to Publish an Encyclopedia

    Globalizing a Race to Publish an Encyclopedia American Nineteenth Century History Volume 11, Issue 1 (2010) pages 79-94 DOI: 10.1080/14664651003616966 Michael Benjamin, Independent Scholar African American Print Culture Cleveland, Ohio, USA In 1912, Daniel Alexander Payne Murray published a prospectus for his “Historical and Biographical Encyclopedia of the Colored Race throughout the World.” He promised…

  • The pot that called the kettle white: Changing racial identities and U.S. social construction of race

    The pot that called the kettle white: Changing racial identities and U.S. social construction of race Identities Volume 5, Issue 3 (1998) Special Issue: Foundational Concepts: Gender, Race, and Locality pages 379-413 DOI: 10.1080/1070289X.1998.9962622 Norberto Valdez, Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies Colorado State University Janice Valdez Continuing Education Department Colorado State University Ethnic and racial…