Mixed Race Studies

Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.

recent posts

about

Category: Politics/Public Policy

  • Sharing Outsider Status and a Style of Coping

    Sharing Outsider Status and a Style of Coping The New York Times 2012-05-25 Jodi Kantor The United States quietly passed a milestone this spring, mostly lost amid the clamor of the presidential race: for the first time, neither party’s candidate is a white Protestant. The contenders are both from outsider groups that were once persecuted,…

  • When a Boy Found a Familiar Feel in a Pat of the Head of State

    A copy of the photo hangs in the Philadelphia family’s living room with several others taken that day. Mr. Philadelphia, now in Afghanistan for the State Department, said: “It’s important for black children to see a black man as president. You can believe that any position is possible to achieve if you see a black…

  • Breaking the Race Barrier

    Breaking the Race Barrier 360 Magazine Ithica College 2012-05-02 Danielle Torres “I’m Puerto Rican.” That’s usually what I say when people ask a second time where I am from. The first time someone asks me that question I usually say, “I’m from New York.” Then the person rephrases the question, “What are you? What is…

  • Black Mormons and the Politics of Identity

    Black Mormons and the Politics of Identity The New York Times 2012-05-22 Susan Saulny SALT LAKE CITY — When Marguerite Driessen, a professor here, entered Brigham Young University in the early 1980s, she was the first black person many Mormon students had ever met, and she spent a good bit of her college time debunking…

  • Medicating Race: Heart Disease and Durable Preoccupations with Difference

    Medicating Race: Heart Disease and Durable Preoccupations with Difference Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2007 250 pages Anne Pollock, Assistant Professor of Science, Technology and Culture Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia Submitted to the Program in Science, Technology and Society In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements of the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the…

  • “Racially-Tailored” Medicine Unraveled

    “Racially-Tailored” Medicine Unraveled American University Law Review Volume 55, Number 2 (December 2005) pages 395-452 Sharona Hoffman, Professor of Law, Professor of Bioethics, and Associate Director of the Law-Medicine Center Case Western Reserve University School of Law Table of Contents Introduction I. “Race-Based” Research and Therapeutic Practices A. The Story of BiDil B. “Race-Based” Research…

  • Off white

    Off white The Indian Express New Delhi, India 2012-05-19 Census data confirms America’s enduring ability to bring the world home The United States has crossed a demographic tipping point, driven by changes in immigration, fertility and mortality patterns. By now, more than half the babies born in the US belong to a racial or ethnic…

  • Out writer Andrew Jolivétte on Obama and race

    Out writer Andrew Jolivétte on Obama and race Windy City Times Chicago, Illinois 2012-02-21 David-Elijah Nahmod History was made a few short years ago, when Barack Obama became the first African American president in U.S. history. Though it’s been mentioned, the fact that the president is actually half white hasn’t gotten nearly as much attention.…

  • Race Decoded: The Genomic Fight for Social Justice

    Winner of the 2014 Oliver Cromwell Cox Award, sponsored by the ASA Section on Racial and Ethnic Minorities.

  • An educational defense for multiracial identity

    An educational defense for multiracial identity San Francisco Chronicle 2001-07-25 Kimberly Cooper-Plaszewski Celebrate rather than assimilate biracial heritages U.S. CENSUS 2000 marked the first time in history that multiracial people were given the “option” to specify more than one race to describe their racial identity.   On the surface, this alternative may give the impression…