Mixed Race Studies

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  • Race and the Genetic Revolution: Science, Myth, and Culture

    Race and the Genetic Revolution: Science, Myth, and Culture Columbia University Press September 2011 304 pages 1 illus; 4 tables Paper ISBN: 978-0-231-15697-4 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-231-15696-7 Edited by: Sheldon Krimsky, Professor of Urban & Environmental Policy & Planning; Adjunct Professor of Public Health and Family Medicine Tufts School of Medicine Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts Kathleen…

  • Reframing Transracial Adoption: Adopted Koreans, White Parents, and the Politics of Kinship

    Reframing Transracial Adoption: Adopted Koreans, White Parents, and the Politics of Kinship Temple University Press May 2012 230 pages 6 x 9 Paper ISBN: 978-1-43990-184-7 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-43990-183-0 eBook ISBN: 978-1-43990-185-4 Kristi Brian, Lecturer in Women’s and Gender Studies and Anthropology and Director of Diversity Education and Training College of Charleston, Charleston, South Carolina Until…

  • Feeling Is Believing: Why Obama’s Hair Matters

    Feeling Is Believing: Why Obama’s Hair Matters Racialicious 2012-05-30 Danielle Fuentes Morgan It’s a question President Obama has undoubtedly been asked before. It’s almost a universal African American experience, except this time it was asked under different circumstances and for a different reason. “Can I touch your hair?” The photo of this moment, three-years-old at…

  • Jared Sexton, Amalgamation Schemes: Antiblackness and the Critique of Multiracialism [Comer Review]

    Jared Sexton, Amalgamation Schemes: Antiblackness and the Critique of Multiracialism [Comer Review] Black Diaspora Review Volume 3, Number 1 (2012) pages 52-53 Nandi Comer Indiana University, Bloomington Amalgamation Schemes: Antiblackness and the Critique of Multiracialism. By Jared Sexton. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2008. 345 pp. “It’s proud to be able to say that… The…

  • The Significance of Mixed-Race: Public Perceptions of Barack Obama’s Race and the Effect of Obama’s Race on Public Support for his Presidency

    The Significance of Mixed-Race: Public Perceptions of Barack Obama’s Race and the Effect of Obama’s Race on Public Support for his Presidency Social Science Research Network Working Paper Series 2011-08-15 55 pages DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.1910209 Samuel Sinyangwe Stanford University This research paper seeks to understand white, black, and mixed-race Americans’ perceptions of President Barack Obama’s racial…

  • The future of whiteness

    The future of whiteness Salon 2012-05-29 Michael Lind Both Republican and Democratic racial politics are doomed. How culture shifts will reshape American ideas on race The Census Bureau has announced that a majority of new-born infants in the U.S. now belong to categories other than what the U.S. federal government calls “non-Hispanic white.”   While…

  • The Emotional Tug of Obama

    In a story that quickly went viral, The Times’s Jackie Calmes wrote last week about the photograph, which was taken three years ago when the boy, then 5, visited the White House. It has hung there ever since, left on the wall even as other pictures were swapped out, as is the custom, for newer,…

  • Does The Heritage Controversy Tell Us More About Warren Or The Media?

    Does The Heritage Controversy Tell Us More About Warren Or The Media? Radio Boston WBUR 2012-05-22 Dan Mauzy, Associate Producer Hosts Meghna Chakrabarti, Co-Host Anthony Brooks, Co-Host Guests Kevin Noble Maillard, Associate Professor of Law (member of the Seminole Nation of Oklahoma) Syracuse University David Catanese, National Political Reporter Politico Here’s a bit of a…

  • The Hypervisible Man: Obama as the First Black, Mixed-Race, Asian American and now Gay President

    The Hypervisible Man: Obama as the First Black, Mixed-Race, Asian American and now Gay President Mixed Dreams: towards a radical multiracial/ethnic movement 2012-05-24 Nicole Asong Nfonoyim “I have always sensed that he [Obama] intuitively understands gays and our predicament—because it so mirrors his own. And he knows how the love and sacrifice of marriage can…

  • Not Even Past: Barack Obama and the Burden of Race

    Not Even Past: Barack Obama and the Burden of Race Princeton University Press 2010 178 pages 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 Cloth ISBN: 9780691137308 eBook ISBN: 9781400834198 Thomas J. Sugrue, David Boies Professor of History and Professor of Sociology University of Pennsylvania Finalist, The 2010 Benjamin L. Hooks Institute for Social Change National Book Award,…