Mixed Race Studies

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  • The New Race Question: How the Census Counts Multiracial Individuals

    The New Race Question: How the Census Counts Multiracial Individuals Russell Sage Foundation October 2002 391 pages Hardcover: ISBN-13: 978-0-87154-657-9, ISBN-10: 0-87154-657-4 Paperback: ISBN-13: 978-0-87154-658-6, ISBN-10: 0-87154-658-2 Edited by Joel Perlmann, Senior Scholar and Program Director Levy Economics Institute of Bard College Mary C. Waters, M.E. Zukerman Professor of Sociology Harvard University The change in…

  • Thinking Outside the White Box

    Thinking Outside the White Box University of Southern California USC News Cristy Lytal On: 2009-10-12 18:31 “I am not part this or part that but whole. I am me.” That’s how one of USC’s multiracial students described herself at the Face It!: Project ReMiX Kickoff event at El Centro Chicano on Sept. 22. More than…

  • From Jamestown 1607 to 2007, the American Mosaic: A Multicultural Society

    From Jamestown 1607 to 2007, the American Mosaic: A Multicultural Society National Association of Independent Schools (NAIS) People of Color Conference 2006 Christine Madsen Rocky Mount Academy (North Carolina) Some of the original settlers in colonial Virginia formed self-sustaining mixed race communities. The history of these communities will be used as an entrance point to…

  • What Are You? The Changing Face of America with Kip Fulbeck

    What Are You? The Changing Face of America with Kip Fulbeck National Association of Independent Schools (NAIS) 2010 Annual Conference Dates: 2010-02-24 through 2010-02-26 Moscone Convention Center West San Francisco, California, USA Adapt, Survive, Thrive: Unleashing the Superpowers Within Kip Fulbeck, Professor of Performative Studies, Video University of California, Santa Barbara Friday, 2010-02-26 13:30 –…

  • The House at the End of the Road: The Story of Three Generations of an Interracial Family in the American South

    In 1914, in defiance of his middle-class landowning family, a young white man named James Morgan Richardson married a light-skinned black woman named Edna Howell. Over more than twenty years of marriage, they formed a strong family and built a house at the end of a winding sandy road in South Alabama, a place where…

  • Black, White or Mixed Race? Race and Racism in the Lives of Young People of Mixed Parentage, 2nd Edition

    Black, White or Mixed Race? Race and Racism in the Lives of Young People of Mixed Parentage, 2nd Edition Routledge an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group 2001-11-22 272 pages ISBN: 978-0-415-25982-8 Binding: Paperback (also available in Hardback) Trim Size: 216 x 138 Ann Phoenix, Professor and Co-Director of the Thomas Coram Research Unit…

  • Race Mixture in Nineteenth-Century U.S. and Spanish American Fictions: Gender, Culture, and Nation Building

    Race mixture has played a formative role in the history of the Americas, from the western expansion of the United States to the political consolidation of emerging nations in Latin America. Debra J. Rosenthal examines nineteenth-century authors in the United States and Spanish America who struggled to give voice to these contemporary dilemmas about interracial…

  • Mixing It Up: Multiracial Subjects

    Mixing It Up: Multiracial Subjects University of Texas Press 2004 6 x 9 in. 225 pages ISBN: 978-0-292-74345-8 Print-on-demand title Edited by: SanSan Kwan, Associate Professor of Dance, Performance Studies University of California, Berkeley and Kenneth Speirs (1964-2013), Professor of English University of California, Berkeley Foreword by Naomi Zack, Professor of Philosophy University of Oregon The…

  • Queer in Black and White: Interraciality, Same Sex Desire, and Contemporary African American Culture

    This book analyzes representative works of African American fiction, film, and music in which interracial desire appears in the context of same sex desire. In close readings of these “texts,” Stefanie K. Dunning explores the ways in which the interracial intersects with queerness, blackness, whiteness, class, and black national identity.

  • The Historical Problematization of ‘Mixed Race’ in Psychological and Human-Scientific Discourses

    The Historical Problematization of ‘Mixed Race’ in Psychological and Human-Scientific Discourses Defining difference: Race and Racism in the History of Psychology 2004 Edited by Andrew Winston pages pp. 79-108 American Psychological Association Thomas Teo, Associate Professor Department of Psychology York University This paper reconstructs techniques of problematization regarding “mixed race” from Enlightenment inspired anthropological discourses…