Category: United States

  • Mixed Race Gay Men and HIV: A Community History Format: Single Authored Book Anticipated Publication Date: 2010 Andrew Jolivétte, Associate Professor of American Indian Studies (Also see biographies at Speak Out! and Native Wiki.) San Fransisco State University Center for Health Disparities Research and Training Mixed Race Gay Men and HIV: A Community History will…

  • The one drop rule & the one hate rule Dædalus, Winter 2005 David A. Hollinger, Preston Hotchkis Professor of American History University of California at Berkeley Two portentous practices within the public discussion of ‘race’ in the United States since the late 1960s are rarely analyzed together. One is the method by which we decide…

  • Obama, The Instability of Color Lines, and the Promise of a Postethnic Future Callaloo: A Journal of African Diaspora Arts and Letters Volume 31, Number 4 (2008) pages 1033–1037 DOI: 10.1353/cal.0.0282 David A. Hollinger, Preston Hotchkis Professor of American History University of California at Berkeley The focus of media depictions of Barack Obama as a…

  • In the middle of a July night in 1958, a couple living in a small town in Virginia were awakened when a party of local police officers walked into their bedroom and arrested them for a felony violation of Virginia’s miscegenation statute. The couple had been married in the District of Columbia, which did allow…

  • Volume 65, Number 1 issue of Journal of Social Issues, (published by The Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues) is entirely focused on mixed-race issues. Journal of Social Issues Volume 65, Number 1 pages 1-245 2009-03 You can read this issue online for free here or click on the individual articles below. OVERVIEW AND…

  • Racial Ideas and Gendered Intimacies: the Regulation of Interracial Relationships in North America Social & Legal Studies Volume 18, Number 3 (September 2009) DOI: 10.1177/0964663909339087 pages 353-371 Debra Thompson, Assistant Professor of Political Science Ohio University This article compares the regulation of interracial intimacies in North America, contending that anti-miscegenation laws in the United States…

  • “What Are You?” Biracial Children in the Classroom Childhood Education Volume 84, Number 4 Summer 2008 pp.230-233 Association for Childhood Education International Traci P. Baxley, Assistant Professor College of Education Florida Atlantic University Over the last 30 years, biracial individuals have become one of the fastest growing populations in the United States. Despite this rapid…

  • In entering into the twenty-first century, one might affirm that the face of Chinese America has changed or has it? Chineseness has been constantly conceptualized through the measure of phenotype, the quantity of blood, the preservation of language, or the possession of surname.  But what happens when African American bodies and other nonwhite cultural sites…

  • Black/White Biracial Identity: The Influence of Colorblindness and the Racialization of Poor Black Americans Theory in Action Volume 2, Number 1 (January 2009) DOI: 10.3798/tia.1937-0237.08027 Kathleen Odell Korgen, Professor of Sociology William Paterson University, Wayne, New Jersey This article focuses on the influence of colorblindness, the interaction of class and culture, and the racialization of…

  • The friendship networks of multiracial adolescents Social Science Research Volume 38, Issue 2, June 2009 pages 279-295 DOI: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2008.09.002 Lincoln Quillian, Associate Professor Department of Sociology Northwestern University Rozlyn Redd Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy Columbia University, USA We investigate the friendship networks of multiracial adolescents through a comparison of the size…