Mixed Race Studies

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  • What Are We Coming To, and When Shall We Reach It?

    The pressure on our space of other matter has prevented us from recurring to the serious and important topic of “Miscegenation.” We regret very much, however, having allowed our attention to be even temporarily diverted from it, as we find from the earnest discussion which it is receiving at the hands of our cotemporaries, that…

  • “Miscegenation” at the North.

    “Miscegenation” at the North. The Southern Banner, Athens, Georgia 1864-04-20 Page 4, column 2 Source: Athens Historic Newspapers Archive (Digital Library of Georgia as part of Georgia HomePLACE) “Miscegenation“—the new term for amalgamation, is the last and newest phase of abolitionism at the North—openly and unblushtngly avowed, and preached even from the pulpit. The New…

  • Pete Souza’s Portrait of a Presidency

    Pete Souza’s Portrait of a Presidency Time LightBox Time Magazine 2012-10-08 Phil Bicker, Senior Photo Editor Pete Souza/The White House The long view of history tends to be the judge of a presidency. As President Obama embarks on a second term in the Oval Office, it may still be too early to draw conclusions about…

  • 2012 Person of the Year: Barack Obama, the President

    2012 Person of the Year: Barack Obama, the President Time Magazine 2012-12-19 Michael Scherer Photograph by Nadav Kander Twenty-seven years after driving from New York City to Chicago in a $2,000 Honda Civic for a job that probably wouldn’t amount to much, Barack Obama, in better shape but with grayer hair, stood in the presidential…

  • The melting pot generation: How Britain became more relaxed on race

    The melting pot generation: How Britain became more relaxed on race British Future 2012-12-12 26 pages Rob Ford, Lecturer in Politics University of Manchester Rachael Jolley, Editorial Director and Director of Communications British Future Sunder Katwala, Director British Future Binita Mehta, Intern British Future As the 2011 census results show an ever larger number of…

  • How might social policies change as more Americans identify themselves as “multiracial”?

    QUESTION: How might social policies change as more Americans identify themselves as “multiracial”?

  • Dismantling the Race Myth

    Dismantling the Race Myth Kyoto International Conference Center Kyoto, Japan 2012-12-15 through 2012-12-16 Poster (PDF, Japanese) Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University presents International Symposium.   “Race” still has social reality even though it has no biological reality. This symposium aims to dismantle the race myth by bringing together scholars in a wide range…

  • Race in a Bottle: The Story of BiDil and Racialized Medicine in a Post-Genomic Age

    At a ceremony announcing the completion of the first draft of the human genome in 2000, President Bill Clinton declared, “I believe one of the great truths to emerge from this triumphant expedition inside the human genome is that in genetic terms, all human beings, regardless of race, are more than 99.9 percent the same.”…

  • How the United States Racializes Latinos: White Hegemony and Its Consequences

    Mexican and Central American undocumented immigrants, as well as U.S. citizens such as Puerto Ricans and Mexican Americans, have become a significant portion of the U.S. population. Yet the U.S. government, mainstream society, and radical activists characterize this rich diversity of peoples and cultures as one group alternatively called “Hispanics,” “Latinos,” or even the pejorative…

  • Othering Obama: How Whiteness is Used to Undermine Authority

    Othering Obama: How Whiteness is Used to Undermine Authority Altre Modernità/Other Modernities ISSN 2035-7680 Number 3 (2010) pages 112-119 DOI: 10.6092/2035-7680/517 David S. Owen, Associate Professor of Philosophy; Director of Diversity Programs, College of Arts and Sciences University of Louisville In this paper, I argue that the sociocultural structuring property of whiteness has been utilized…