Mixed Race Studies

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  • Hybrid: Bisexuals, Multiracials, and Other Misfits Under American Law

    In “Hybrid,” Ruth Colker argues that our bipolar classification system obscures a genuine understanding of the very nature of subordination. Acknowledging that categorization is crucial and unavoidable in a world of practical problems and day-to-day conflicts, Ruth Colker shows how categories can and must be improved for the good of all.

  • Choosing Ethnic Identity

    Choosing Ethnic Identity Polity Books February 2003 192 pages 229 x 152 mm, 6 x 9 in Hardback ISBN: 9780745622767; ISBN10: 0745622763 Paperback ISBN: 9780745622774; ISBN10: 0745622771 Miri Song, Professor of Sociology University of Kent Choosing Ethnic Identity explores the ways in which people are able to choose their ethnic identities in contemporary multiethnic societies…

  • Harriet Wilson’s New England: Race, Writing, and Region

    This volume, with a foreword by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., advances efforts to correct the historical record about the racial complexity and richness characteristic of rural New England’s past.

  • Tripping on the Color Line: Black-White Multiracial Families in a Racially Divided World

    Tripping on the Color Line: Black-White Multiracial Families in a Racially Divided World Rutgers University Press October 2000 192 pages Cloth ISBN: 0-8135-2843-7 Paper ISBN: 0-8135-2844-5 Heather M. Dalmage, Professor of Sociology and Director Mansfield Institute for Social Justice Roosevelt University A sociological analysis of the experiences and challenges faced by black-white multiracial families At…

  • The “Tragic Mulatta” Revisited: Race and Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century Antislavery Fiction

    The “Tragic Mulatta” Revisited: Race and Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century Antislavery Fiction Rutgers University Press 2004-09-29 202 pages Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8135-3481-7 Paper ISBN: 978-0-8135-3482-4 Eve Allegra Raimon, Professor, Arts & Humanities University of Southern Maine Since its inception, the United States has been intensely preoccupied with interracialism. The concept is embedded everywhere in our social and…

  • Will “Multiracial”: Survive to the Next Generation?: The Racial Classification of Children of Multiracial Parents

    Will “Multiracial”: Survive to the Next Generation?: The Racial Classification of Children of Multiracial Parents Social Forces Volume 86, Number 2 (December 2007) pages 821-849 DOI: 10.1353/sof.2008.0007 Jenifer L. Bratter, Assistant Professor of Sociology and Associate Director of the Institute for Urban Research Rice University Will multiracial identification resonate with future generations? Using the 2000 U.S. Census,…

  • “The Ineffaceable Curse of Cain”: Racial Marking and Embodiment in Pinky

    “The Ineffaceable Curse of Cain”: Racial Marking and Embodiment in Pinky Camera Obscura 43 (Volume 15, Number 1), 2000 pp. 94-121 Elspeth Kydd Look at my fingers, are not the nails of a bluish tinge . . . that is the ineffaceable curse of Cain . . . Dion Boucicault, The Octoroon, or Life in…

  • Mixed Race: Understanding Difference in the Genome Era

    Mixed Race: Understanding Difference in the Genome Era Social Forces Volume 86, Issue 2, December 2007 pages 795-820 E-ISSN: 1534-7605, Print ISSN: 0037-7732 DOI: 10.1353/sof.2008.0011 Elizabeth M. Phillips National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health Adebola O. Odunlami National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health Vence L. Bonham National Human Genome…

  • A Mixed Race: Ethnicity in Early America

    This collection of new essays enters one of the most topical and energetic debates of our time–the subject of ethnicity. The recent vigorous debates being waged over questions raised by the phenomenon of multiculturalism in America highlight the fact that American culture has arisen out of an unusually rich and interactive ethnic mix.

  • Louisiana Creoles: Cultural Recovery and Mixed-Race Native American Identity (review)

    Louisiana Creoles: Cultural Recovery and Mixed-Race Native American Identity (review) The American Indian Quarterly Volume 33, Number 4 Fall 2009 E-ISSN: 1534-1828 Print ISSN: 0095-182X DOI: 10.1353/aiq.0.0078 Gary C. Cheek Jr. Jolivétte, Andrew J., Louisiana Creoles: Cultural Recovery and Mixed-Race Native American Identity, Lexington Books, 2006. “Who is white?” Jolivétte asks in the first chapter…