Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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Children of Perdition: Melungeons and the Struggle of Mixed America Mercer University Press 2006 192 pages ISBN (paperback): 9780881460742 ISBN (hardback): 9780881460131 Tim Hashaw Some oppressed groups fought with guns, some fought in court, some exercised civil disobedience; the Melungeons, however, fought by telling folktales. Whites and blacks gave the name “children of perdition” to…
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MALUNGU: The African Origin of the American Melungeons Eclectica Magazine July/August 2001 Tim Hashaw Introduction They settled in Virginia one year before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock. They sparked a major conflict between the Engllish Crown and American colonies one hundred and fifty years before the American Revolution. They lived free in the South…
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What Does Race Have to Do with Ugly Betty? An Analysis of Privilege and Postracial(?) Representations on a Television Sitcom Television & New Media Volume 10, Number 6 (November 2009) pages 521-535 DOI: 10.1177/1527476409340906 Jennifer Esposito, Associate Professor of Research, Measurement & Statistics Georgia State University, Atlanta This article examines ABC’s television comedy Ugly Betty,…
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Determinants of Multiracial Identification and Their Effects on Poverty Estimtates among US Children
Determinants of Multiracial Identification and Their Effects on Poverty Estimtates among US Children Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association Hilton San Francisco & Renaissance Parc 55 Hotel San Francisco, California 2004-08-14 21 pages Anthony Daniel Perez, Assistant Professor Chapel Hill Department of Sociology University of North Carolina This project examines…
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Revisiting The Hollow Hope: The U.S. Supreme Court and the Repeal of Interracial Marriage Restrictions Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association Atlanta Hilton Hotel Atlanta, Georgia 2003-08-13 21 pages Nancy Martin This paper outlines a research proposal for the analysis of the state-by-state repeal of interracial marriage restrictions, and particularly…
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Race-ing and (E)race-ing the Child: Interracial Families Negotiate Racial Identification for their Multiracial Children Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association Marriott Hotel, Loews Philadelphia Hotel Philadelphia, PA 2005-08-12 18 pages David L. Brunsma, Professor of Sociology Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University In this paper, a nationally-representative sample of kindergarten-aged…
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Moving Beyond the Black-White Color Line? Immigration, Diversity, and Multiracial Identification in the United States Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association Hilton San Francisco & Renaissance Parc 55 Hotel San Francisco, CA 2004-08-14 Jennifer Lee This paper explores theory and evidence about immigration, race/ethnicity, intermarriage, and multiracial identification, and assesses…
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A Practical Approach to Using Multiple-Race Response Data: A Bridging Method for Public-Use Microdata September 2006 Carolyn A. Liebler, Assistant Professor Department of Sociology and Minnesota Population Center University of Minnesota Andrew Halpern-Manners Department of Sociology and Minnesota Population Center University of Minnesota This project was begun while the first author was funded by “IPUMS-Redesign”…