Mixed Race Studies

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  • Passing

    Passing W. W. Norton & Company September 2007 584 pages 5.2 × 8.4 in Paperback ISBN: 978-0-393-97916-9 Nella Larsen Edited by Carla Kaplan, Davis Distinguished Professor of American Literature Northeastern University Nella Larsen is a central figure in African American, Modernist, and women’s literature. Larsen’s status as a Harlem Renaissance woman writer was rivaled by…

  • Scattered Belongings: Cultural Paradoxes of Race, Nation and Gender

    When the American golfer Tiger Woods proclaimed himself a “Caublinasian”, affirming his mixed Caucasian, Black, Native American and Asian ancestry, a storm of controversy was created.  This book is about people faced by the strain of belonging and not belonging within the narrow confines of the terms ‘Black’ or ‘White’.

  • Demystifying the Tragic Mulatta: The Biracial Woman as Spectacle

    Demystifying the Tragic Mulatta: The Biracial Woman as Spectacle Stanford Black Arts Quarterly Volume 2, Issue 3 (Summer/Spring 1997) pages 12-14 Stefanie Dunning, Associate Professor Miami University (of Ohio) To talk about the complexities of subjectivity is to enter into a discussion which necessarily locates itself at the intersection of race, clans, gender and sexuality.…

  • Black (un)like me: scholar Pabst dismantles stereotypes

    Black (un)like me: scholar Pabst dismantles stereotypes University of Minnesota College of Liberal Arts Today Spring 2002 Judy Woodward Naomi Pabst (B.A. ’93 summa cum laude, English & African-American Studies) is the intellectual enemy of the stereotype, the easy generalization, and the sweeping statement. As a newly-minted scholar of African-American studies and the history of…

  • Notes of a White Black Woman: Race, Color, Community

    Notes of a White Black Woman: Race, Color, Community Penn State Press 1995 206 pages 6 x 9 cloth: ISBN 978-0-271-01430-2 paper: ISBN 978-0-271-02124-9 Judy Scales-Trent, Floyd H. & Hilda L. Hurst Faculty Scholar, Professor Emerita State Univerisity of New York at Buffalo Law School “I remember one time in particular, after the cab I…

  • New Faces in a Changing America: Multiracial Identity in the 21st Century

    New Faces in a Changing America: Multiracial Identity in the 21st Century SAGE Publications, Inc. Paperback ISBN: 9780761923008 2001 432 pages Edited by Loretta I. Winters California State University, Northridge Herman L. DeBose California State University, Northridge How multiracial people identify themselves can have major consequences on their positions in their families, communities and society.…

  • Thomas Satterwhite Noble’s Mulattos: From Barefoot Madonna to Maggie the Ripper

    Thomas Satterwhite Noble’s Mulattos: From Barefoot Madonna to Maggie the Ripper Journal of American Studies Volume 41, Issue 1 (April 2007) pages 83-114 DOI: 10.1017/S0021875806002763 Jo-Ann Morgan, Associate Professor of Art History and African American Studies Western Illinois University With emancipation a fait accompli by 1865, one might ask why Kentucky-born Thomas Satterwhite Noble (1835–1907), former Confederate…

  • Raising Biracial Children

    Raising Biracial Children AltaMira Press an Imprint of Rowman & Littlefield Publishing November 2005 208pp Cloth: 0-7591-0900-1 / 978-0-7591-0900-1 Paper 0-7591-0901-X / 978-0-7591-0901-8 Kerry Ann Rockquemore University of Illinois Tracey A. Laszloffy   As the multiracial population in the United States continues to rise, new models for our understanding of mixed-race children and how their conception…

  • Is That Your Child? Mothers Talk about Rearing Biracial Children

    Is That Your Child? Mothers Talk about Rearing Biracial Children Lexington Books (an imprint of Rowman & Littlefield) October 2008 146 pages Hardback ISBN: 978-0-7391-2763-6 Paperback ISBN: 978-0-7391-2764-3 eBook ISBN: 978-0-7391-3208-1 By Marion Kilson and Florence Ladd “Is That Your Child?” is a question that countless mothers of biracial children encounter whether they are African…

  • Mixed Messages: Multiracial Identities in the “Color-Blind” Era

    Mixed Messages: Multiracial Identities in the “Color-Blind” Era Lynne Rienner Publishers 2006 405 pages Hardcover: ISBN: 978-1-58826-372-8 Paperback: ISBN: 978-1-58826-398-8 Edited by David L. Brunsma, Professor of Sociology Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University The experiences and voices of multiracial individuals are challenging current categories of race, profoundly altering the meaning of racial identity and…