Mixed Race Studies

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  • Voices from the Gaps: Kym Ragusa

    Voices from the Gaps: Kym Ragusa Voices from the Gaps University of Minnesota 2007-04-24 Shalee Dettmann Joey Grihalva Jenna Fodness Gaushia Thao I don’t know where I was conceived, but I was made in Harlem. Its topography is mapped on my body: the borderlines between neighborhoods marked by streets that were forbidden to cross, the…

  • The Ambiguous Meanings of the Racial/Ethnic Categories Routinely used in Human Genetics Research

    We found definitions of racial/ethnic variables were often lacking or unclear, the specific categories they used were inconsistent and context specific, and classification practices were often implicit and unexamined. We conclude that such conceptual and practical problems are inherent to routinely used racial/ethnic categories themselves, and that they lack sufficient rigor to be used as…

  • Perceptions, Representation, and Identity Development of Multiracial Students in American Higher Education

    Perceptions, Representation, and Identity Development of Multiracial Students in American Higher Education Journal of Student Affairs at New York University Volume VI, 2010 pages 1-6 Roberta Garbarini-Philippe New York University In my article I first examine some historical facts and policy issues related to multiracial individuals, giving a few examples of how this population has…

  • Transcending “The Box”: Multiracial Subjects as the New Face of Reality

    Transcending “The Box”: Multiracial Subjects as the New Face of Reality CSW Update Newsletter UCLA Center for the Study of Women February 2008 pages 24-27 Kunti Dudakia I hate it. I hate the feeling I get when I am forced in online surveys, job applications, or school admissions to check a box to identify my…

  • CRN 47519/47520-Mixed Race Asian Americans

    CRN 47519/47520-Mixed Race Asian Americans University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Fall 2008 Kent Ono, Professor of Asian American Studies, Communication, and Institute of Communications Research Part of Asian American Ethnic Groups (AAS-450) This course provides an introduction to the study of mixed race Asian Americans. From discussions of famous mixed race people, such as Tiger Woods,…

  • AMST130 SC-Multiracial People and Relations in U.S. History

    AMST130 SC-Multiracial People and Relations in U.S. History Scripps College, Claremont, California 2013 Matthew Delmont, Assistant Professor of American Studies This class will explore the conditions and consequences for crossing racial boundaries in the U.S. We will take a multidisciplinary approach, exploring historical, literary, and ethnographic writings along with several feature and documentary film treatments…

  • Plessy as “Passing”: Judicial Responses to Ambiguously Raced Bodies in Plessy v. Ferguson

    Plessy as “Passing”: Judicial Responses to Ambiguously Raced Bodies in Plessy v. Ferguson Law & Society Review Volume 39, Issue 3 (September 2005) pages 563–600 DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-5893.2005.00234.x Mark Golub, Assistant Professor of Politics & International Relations Scripps College, Claremont, California The Supreme Court’s decision in Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) is infamous for its doctrine of…

  • Interrogating Identity Construction: Bodies versus Community in Cynthia Kadohata’s In the Heart of the Valley of Love

    Interrogating Identity Construction: Bodies versus Community in Cynthia Kadohata’s In the Heart of the Valley of Love Asian American Literature: Discourses & Pedagogies Volume 1 (2010) pages 61-69 Nicole Myoshi Rabin, Instructor of Liberal Arts & Interdisciplinary Studies Emerson College, Boston. Massachusetts In an interview for the journal MELUS, Hsiu-chuan Lee claims that Cynthia Kadohata…

  • AAS 436–Politics of Racial Ambiguity

    AAS 436–Politics of Racial Ambiguity University of Nevada, Las Vegas Fall 2010 Rainier Spencer, Professor and Director, Afro-American Studies Program Interdisciplinary investigation of contemporary American black/white multiracial identities, including analyses and assessments of the “multiracial identity movement” in the United States.

  • AAS 434-Constructions of Racial Ambiguity

    AAS 434-Constructions of Racial Ambiguity University of Nevada, Las Vegas Spring 2010 Rainier Spencer, Professor and Director, Afro-American Studies Program Interdisciplinary study of miscegenation, mulattos, and passing in the United States. Focuses on the Afro-American context, using historical, literary, and cinematic sources in order to grapple with and gain an understanding of the complexities of…