Mixed Race Studies

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  • Race, Religion Collide in 2012 Campaign

    Race, Religion Collide in 2012 Campaign The Associated Press 2012-05-05 Jesse Washington, National Writer, Race and Ethnicity Rachel Zoll, National Religion Writer How unthinkable it was, not so long ago, that a presidential election would pit a candidate fathered by an African against another condemned as un-Christian. And yet, here it is: Barack Obama vs.…

  • For Blacks in Cuba, the Revolution Hasn’t Begun

    For Blacks in Cuba, the Revolution Hasn’t Begun The New York Times 2013-03-23 Roberto Zurbano, Editor and Publisher Casa de las Américas Publishing House Translated from Spanish by Kristina Cordero CHANGE is the latest news to come out of Cuba, though for Afro-Cubans like myself, this is more dream than reality. Over the last decade,…

  • More Than Black? Multiracial Identity and the New Racial Order

    In the United States, anyone with even a trace of African American ancestry has been considered black. Even as the twenty-first century opens, a racial hierarchy still prevents people of color, including individuals of mixed race, from enjoying the same privileges as Euro-Americans. In this book, G. Reginald Daniel argues that we are at a…

  • Race in Contemporary Medicine

    Race in Contemporary Medicine Routledge 2007 208 pages Hardback ISBN: 978-0-415-41365-7 Edited by: Sander L. Gilman With the first patent being granted to “BiDil,” a combined medication that is deemed to be most effective for a specific “race,” African-Americans for a specific form of heart failure, the on-going debate about the effect of the older…

  • The Privilege of Denial

    The Privilege of Denial all things beautiful 2012-09-19 Alyssa Bacon-Liu I remember doing what’s called a Privilege Walk during my freshman year of college. There was a group of us and we stood in a line and we were given instructions. You had to take steps forward or steps back depending on how you answered…

  • A Conversation with Eric Hamako

    This is the first in a series of interviews with scholars, writers, activists and others involved with the topic of multiracilism.

  • This is a Time for Hope and Change

    This is a Time for Hope and Change Indiana Law Journal Volume 87, Issue 1 (2012) Article 23 pages 431-444 Kevin D. Brown, Richard S. Melvin Professor of Law Indiana University Maurer School of Law I have agreed to comment on the paper delivered by Professors Angela Onwuachi-Willig and Mario Barnes at a conference titled…

  • Racial Categorization of Multiracial Children in Schools

    Racial Categorization of Multiracial Children in Schools Praeger Publishing May 1998 176 pages 5 1/2×8 1/2 Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-89789-499-9 eBook ISBN: 978-0-313-00565-7 Jane Ayers Chiong Multiracial students have unique needs that are not being met in schools, because teachers and school personnel assume that those needs are the same as those of monoracial minority children.…

  • Mixed race in a world not yet post-racial

    Populations of humans have always been mixing genes, but we still have trouble with the concept.

  • Troubling the Family: The Promise of Personhood and the Rise of Multiracialism

    “Troubling the Family” argues that the emergence of multiracialism during the 1990s was determined by underlying and unacknowledged gender norms. Opening with a germinal moment for multiracialism—the seemingly massive and instantaneous popular appearance of Tiger Woods in 1997—Habiba Ibrahim examines how the shifting status of racial hero for both black and multiracial communities makes sense…