Mixed Race Studies

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  • In the Mix: Issue of Mixed Race Stirs Controversy for Census [Interview with Ralina L. Joseph]

    In the Mix: Issue of Mixed Race Stirs Controversy for Census [Interview with Ralina L. Joseph] International Examiner Volume 32, Number 2 2010-01-21 Yayoi Lena Winfrey A highly anticipated event for mixed-race people takes place this year. Although it may seem officious and routine for most, the upcoming U.S. Census is actually an exciting undertaking…

  • The Color of Testamentary Freedom

    The Color of Testamentary Freedom Southern Methodist University Law Review Volume 62 p. 1783 2009 Kevin Noble Maillard, Associate Professor of Law Syracuse University Wills that prioritize the interests of nontraditional families over collateral heirs test courts’ dedication to observing the posthumous wishes of testators. Collateral heirs who object to will provisions that redraw the…

  • Slaves in the Family: Testamentary Freedom and Interracial Deviance

    Slaves in the Family: Testamentary Freedom and Interracial Deviance 2008 50 pages Kevin Noble Maillard, Associate Professor of Law Syracuse University This Article addresses the deviance of interracial sexuality acknowledged in testamentary documents. The language of wills calls into question the authority of probate and family law by forcing issues of deviance into the public…

  • Multiracial Identity and Affirmative Action

    Multiracial Identity and Affirmative Action Asian Pacific American Law Journal University of California, Los Angeles Volume 12, Fall 2006 – Spring 2007 32 pages Nancy Leong, Assistant Professor of Law Sturm College of Law, Denver University The classification of multiracial individuals has long posed a challenge in a number of legal contexts, and the affirmative…

  • Multi-Hued America: The Case for the Civil Rights Movement’s Embrace of Multiethnic Identity

    Multi-Hued America: The Case for the Civil Rights Movement’s Embrace of Multiethnic Identity The Modern American American University Volume 4, Issue 1 (Spring 2008) 8 pages Kamaria A. Kruckenberg Harvard Law School My little girl in her multi-hued skin When asked what she is, replies with a grin I am a sweet cuddlebums, A honey and…

  • Seeking Participants for a Multiracial Identity Documentary in Twin Cities Area

    Mike Peden, a graduate of the University of Minnesota with a degree in journalism and minor in communication studies and an employee of the St. Paul Neighborhood Network is currently working on a second documentary about multiracial identity that will air on the station and online.  This is the second part in a series of shows…

  • Life on the Color Line: Exploring the Struggle to Conceptualize and Measure Racial Identity in the Mixed-Raced Population

    Life on the Color Line: Exploring the Struggle to Conceptualize and Measure Racial Identity in the Mixed-Raced Population Race & Ethnic Studies Institute Texas A&M University 2010-01-29 14:30-16:00 CST (Local Time)  ACAD 326 Kerry Ann Rockquemore, Associate Professor of Sociology University of Illinois at Chicago Empirical research on the growing multiracial population in the U.S. has…

  • Mixed-Race Issues in the American and French Melodrama: An Analysis of the Imitation of Life Films (Stahl, USA, 1934; Sirk, USA, 1959) and Métisse (Kassovitz, France, 1993)

    Mixed-Race Issues in the American and French Melodrama: An Analysis of the Imitation of Life Films (Stahl, USA, 1934; Sirk, USA, 1959) and Métisse (Kassovitz, France, 1993) In: Martin McLoone & Kevin Rockett, eds. Irish Films, Global Cinema, Studies in Irish Film 4. Four Courts Press 2007 176 pages Hardback ISBN: 978-1-84682-081-6 Zélie Asava University…

  • Blurring Racial and Ethnic Boundaries in Asian American Families: Asian American Family Patterns, 1980-2005

    Blurring Racial and Ethnic Boundaries in Asian American Families: Asian American Family Patterns, 1980-2005 Journal of Family Issues Volume 31, Number 3 (March 2010) pages 280-300 DOI: 10.1177/0192513X09350870 Danielle Antoinette Hidalgo University of California, Santa Barbara Carl L. Bankston, Professor of Sociology Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana In this work, the authors use statistics from…

  • Africanastudies: YouTube Channel

    Africanastudies: YouTube Channel First Documentary Posted: 2008-03-27 Marco Polo Hernández Cuevas, Asssociate Professor of Spanish North Carolina Central University Reconstructs the involuntary planetary dispersion of African populations, with their millenary cultural capitals, between the 15th and 19th centuries; and analyses the africanization of the places of arrival through their ethnic contributions. Reconstruye la dispersión planetaria…