Mixed Race Studies

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  • Will new age of mixed-race identities loosen the hold of race or tie it up in tighter knots?

    Ward Connerly, who describes himself as a roughly equal mix of French Canadian, Choctaw, African and Irish ancestry and who is married to a white woman, spent much of the last decade campaigning to end race-based affirmative action. Susan Graham, a white woman married to a black man, has spent that same decade working tirelessly…

  • New Americans: Rise of the Multiracials: A Documentary

    New Americans: Rise of the Multiracials: A Documentary A Work-In-Progress Documentary Eli Steele, Producer With more Americans marrying across the color line today than before, it is inevitable that the racial makeup of America’s face will forever change. Of the nine million individuals that identified themselves as multiracial on the 2010 census, more than 50…

  • Brazil’s New Racial Politics

    Brazil’s New Racial Politics Lynne Rienner Publishers 2009 251 pages ISBN: 978-1-58826-666-8 Edited by: Bernd Reiter, Associate Professor of Political Science University of South Florida Gladys L. Mitchell (Gladys Mitchell-Walthour), Assistant Professor of Political Science Denison University, Granville, Ohio As the popular myth of racial equality in Brazil crumbles beneath the weight of current grassroots…

  • A Mulatto Area Gets Own School

    A Mulatto Area Gets Own School The New York Times 1962-09-16 page 73 Hedrick Smith, Special to the New York Times Desegregation Moves Roi Louisiana Caste System BURAS, La., Sept. 13—Freda’s Hi-Lo Bar sits just off State Highway 23 as the road chases the Mississippi River on its last 100 miles from the suburbs of…

  • Black Like Obama: What the Junior Illinois Senator’s Appearance on the National Scene Reveals About Race in America, and Where We Should Go from Here

    Black Like Obama: What the Junior Illinois Senator’s Appearance on the National Scene Reveals About Race in America, and Where We Should Go from Here Thurgood Marshall Law Review Volume 31 (2005) pages 79-100 Amos N. Jones, Professor of Law Campbell University, Raleigh, North Carolina Given Americans’ warm bipartisan response to Senator Barack Obama’s keynote…

  • Obama and Race: History, Culture, Politics

    Obama and Race: History, Culture, Politics Routledge 2011-11-10 200 pages Hardback ISBN: 978-0-415-68678-5 Edited by Richard H. King, Professor Emeritus of American and Canadian Studies University of Nottingham In this collection, academics from both sides of the Atlantic analyze the confluence of a politician, a process, and a problem—Barack Obama, the 2008 US presidential election,…

  • Becoming black, becoming president

    Becoming black, becoming president Patterns of Prejudice Volume 45, Issue 1-2, 2011 pages 62-85 DOI: 10.1080/0031322X.2011.563145 Richard H. King, Professor Emeritus of American and Canadian Studies University of Nottingham Speculation about the relationship between Barack Obama’s election to the presidency and race in the United States was rife prior to, during and after his successful…

  • Destiny’s Child: Obama and Election ’08

    Destiny’s Child: Obama and Election ’08 boundary 2: an international journal of literature and culture Volume 39, Number 2 (Summer 2012) pages 3-32 DOI: 10.1215/01903659-1597871 Hortense Spillers, Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of English Vanderbilt University “Destiny’s Child: Obama and Election ’08” interrogates the election of Barack Obama to the presidency of the United States as…

  • The Miracle and the Defects [Chapter]

    The Miracle and the Defects [Chapter] Chapter in: The Constantinos Kararnanlis Institute for Democracy Yearbook 2009 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-00621-0 pages 73-77 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-00621-0_11 Edited by: Constantine Arvanitopoulos, Professor of European and International Studies Panteion University, Athens, Greece Konstantina E. Botsiou, Associate Professor of Political Science University of Peloponnisos, Korinthos, Greece Chapter Author: George Th. Mavrogordatos, Professor…

  • Mixed Blessing

    Mixed Blessing The New York Times 2008-06-18 Francis Wilkinson, Executive Editor The Week Being from an interracial marriage has shaped Obama’s political stance. Far from the storied hollows of Appalachia, and well before the Rev. Jeremiah Wright lit up the cable news channels or the “elitist” label was fixed to Barack Obama’s lapel right where…