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  • The Mulatto Advantage: The Biological Consequences of Complexion in Rural Antebellum Virginia

    The Mulatto Advantage: The Biological Consequences of Complexion in Rural Antebellum Virginia Journal of Interdisciplinary History Volume 33, Number 1 (Summer 2002) pp. 21-46 E-ISSN: 1530-9169; Print ISSN: 0022-1953 DOI: 10.1162/00221950260029002 Howard Bodenhorn, Professor of Economics Clemson University Although historians have long noted that African-Americans of mixed-race in the antebellum Lower South were given economic…

  • The Significance of Color Declines: A Re-Analysis of Skin Tone Differentials in Post-Civil Rights America

    The Significance of Color Declines: A Re-Analysis of Skin Tone Differentials in Post-Civil Rights America Social Forces Volume 84, Number 1 September 2005 pp. 157-180 Aaron Gullickson, Assistant Professor University of Oregon Skin tone variation within the United States’ black population has long been associated with intraracial stratification. Skin tone differentials in socioeconomic status reflect…

  • Racial Boundary Formation at the Dawn of Jim Crow: The Determinants and Effects of Black/Mulatto Occupational Differences in the United States, 1880

    Racial Boundary Formation at the Dawn of Jim Crow: The Determinants and Effects of Black/Mulatto Occupational Differences in the United States, 1880 Department Colloquium Series University of Washington, Department of Sociology Savery Hall 2009-10-06 15:30 PDT (Local Time) Aaron Gullickson, Assistant Professor University of Oregon Much of the literature within sociology regarding mixed-race populations focuses…

  • Students Create Course About Mixed Identities

    Students Create Course About Mixed Identities A&S Perspectives College of Arts and Sciences University of Washington Editor: Nancy Joseph July 2009 Last fall, students in the UW Mixed Club—a campus group for students of mixed race—discussed how rarely mixed-race issues were being addressed in their courses. Then they decided to do something about it. That…

  • Identity and Health in the Narratives of People of Mixed Race

    Identity and Health in the Narratives of People of Mixed Race Center for the Advancement of Health Disparities Research 2nd Annual Teach-In: Health Disparities Awareness 2004-05-21 Cathy J. Tashiro, PhD, MPH, RN Nursing Program University of Washington, Tacoma …Why Study People of Mixed Race? A rapidly growing part of the population Seldom acknowledged in studies,…

  • The multiple-race population of the United States: Issues and estimates

    The multiple-race population of the United States: Issues and estimates Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) 2000-05-23 vol. 97 no. 11 pages 6230-6235 Joshua R. Goldstein Ann J. Morning, Assistant Professor of Sociology New York University This paper presents national estimates of the population likely to identify with more than one race in…

  • Mixed Race America and the Law: A Reader

    Mixed Race America and the Law: A Reader New York Univeristy Press 2003-02-01 512 pages ISBN: 9780814742570 Edited by: Kevin R. Johnson, Mabie-Apallas Professor of Public Interest Law and Chicano/a Studies University of California Davis For the first time in United States history, the Year 2000 census allowed people to check more than one box to identify…

  • Race mixing: Jones’ research has ties to political, sports figures

    Race mixing: Jones’ research has ties to political, sports figures Richmond Now The Faculty, Staff and Student Newspaper University of Richmond By Joan Tupponce April 2007 No one is more intrigued with news about presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama or professional golfer Tiger Woods than Dr. Suzanne W. Jones, professor of English and women, gender…

  • Race Mixing: Southern Fiction since the Sixties

    In “Race Mixing,” Suzanne Jones offers insightful and provocative readings of contemporary novels, the work of a wide range of writers—black and white, established and emerging.

  • The New Colored People: The Mixed-Race Movement in America

    Focusing specifically on mixed-race blacks, Spencer argues that the mixed-race movement in the United States would benefit from consideration of how multiracial categories have evolved in South Africa.