Mixed Race Studies

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  • Birthers’ shameful racist roots

    Birthers’ shameful racist roots The Boston Globe 2011-05-02 James Carroll It was not up to President Obama to label the birther movement as racist in his extraordinary address on the subject last week, but plenty of commentary has done it for him. There can be no doubt that the lurid contempt shown to the president…

  • Breaking the Black-White Binary

    Breaking the Black-White Binary Fathom: the source for online learning Columbia University 2002 Gary Okihiro, Professor of International and Public Affairs Columbia University Where do Asians fall in the American construct of race? According to Gary Okihiro, the director of Columbia University’s Center for Race and Ethnicity, the position of Asians has had to be…

  • Five Myths About Multiracial People in the U.S.

    Five Myths About Multiracial People in the U.S. About.com: Race Relations 2011-04-09 Nadra Kareem Nittle When Barack Obama set his sights on the presidency, newspapers suddenly began devoting a lot more ink to the multiracial identity. Media outlets from Time Magazine and the New York Times to the British-based Guardian and BBC News pondered the…

  • Responsible Mixed Race Politics

    Responsible Mixed Race Politics How do identities matter? Stanford University 2005-01-13 Presentation by: Ronald Sundstrom, Associate Professor of African American Studies University of San Francisco The harshest critics of mixed-race have claimed that the identity is self-indulgent and irresponsible, because it evades or, worse, is complicit in racism. Such strident condemnations of mixed-race identity are…

  • Recasting the Real: Reconstructivism: A Response to Hybridity in Contemporary Art Methodologies

    Recasting the Real: Reconstructivism: A Response to Hybridity in Contemporary Art Methodologies The University of Alabama McNair Journal The McNair Scholars Program Volume 7 (Spring 2007) pages 65-84 Suzanah Moorer While many artists are taking an interdisciplinary approach to art making, currently there is not a critical consensus on the direction and significance of hybrid…

  • Amalgamation Schemes: Antiblackness and the Critique of Multiracialism [Review: Spickard]

    Amalgamation Schemes: Antiblackness and the Critique of Multiracialism [Review: Spickard] American Studies Volume 50, No. 1/2: Spring/Summer 2009 pages 125-127 Paul Spickard, Professor of History University of California, Santa Barbara Amalgamation Schemes: Antiblackness and the Critique of Multiracialism. Jared Sexton. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. 2008. One of the major developments in ethnic studies over…

  • Speaking About Southern Unionists… and Mixed-Race People: A Report and an Announcement

    Speaking About Southern Unionists… and Mixed-Race People: A Report and an Announcement Renegade South: histories of unconventional southerners 2011-05-07 Victoria E. Bynum, Emeritus Professor of History Texas State University, San Marcos I just returned from a wonderful visit to Leiden University in the Netherlands, where I spoke generally about Civil War Southern Unionists and specifically…

  • New Guinea: Racial Identity and Inclusion in the Stockbridge and Brothertown Indian Communities of New York

    New Guinea: Racial Identity and Inclusion in the Stockbridge and Brothertown Indian Communities of New York New York History Volume 90, Number 3 (Summer 2009) 23 paragraphs Christopher Geherin In 1818 the Stockbridge Indians initiated a series of land sales to the state of New York in order to finance the relocation of the tribe…

  • Multiracial Identity Development: Understanding Choice of Racial Identity in Asian-White College Students

    Multiracial Identity Development: Understanding Choice of Racial Identity in Asian-White College Students Journal of the Indiana University Student Personnel Association 2011 pages 38-45 Ashley Viager Higher Education and Student Affairs Program Indiana University Asian-White individuals will have greater representation in higher education in coming years, and student affairs professionals must learn how these students make…

  • Jean Toomer and the Politics and Poetics of National Identity

    Jean Toomer and the Politics and Poetics of National Identity Contributions in Black Studies A Journal of African and Afro-American Studies Volume 7, Number 1 (1985-01-01) Article 3 24 pages Onita Estes-Hicks State University of New York, Old Westbury Jean Toomer’s place in thew world of letters rests on Cane, the author’s profound statement on…