Mixed Race Studies

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  • The Social Construction of Race and Monacan Education in Amherst County, Virginia, 1908–1965: Monacan Perspectives

    The Social Construction of Race and Monacan Education in Amherst County, Virginia, 1908–1965: Monacan Perspectives History of Education Quarterly Volume 47, Issue 4 (November 2007) pages 389–415 DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-5959.2007.00107.x Melanie D. Haimes-Bartolf Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia That’s all you heard, everywhere we went, or whatever we done, “oh, he’s one of those issues.” We…

  • We the “White”” People: Race, Culture, and the Virginia Constitution of 1902

    We the “White”” People: Race, Culture, and the Virginia Constitution of 1902 Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University September 2003 92 pages Jeremy Boggs In 1902. in an effort to reestablish what they saw as whites’ natural right to control government rule over blacks, the delegates to Virginia’s Constitutional Convention of 1901-1902 declared the new…

  • The short life of a race drug

    The headlines back in June, 2005, read “FDA approves a heart drug for African Americans”. The decision that gave the company NitroMed approval for its drug BiDil exclusively to a “racial group” represented a milestone in US drug policy. The decision ignited a debate that polarised the African American community, confounded proponents of personalised medicine,…

  • Making Race: Biology and the Evolution of the Race Concept in 20 Century American Thought

    Making Race: Biology and the Evolution of the Race Concept in 20 Century American Thought Columbia University December 2008 309 pages Michael Yudell Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy under the Executive Committee of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences At the dawn of the 21st…

  • American Indian Identity and Blood Quantum in the 21st Century: A Critical Review

    American Indian Identity and Blood Quantum in the 21st Century: A Critical Review Journal of Anthropology Volume 2011 (2011) Article ID 549521 9 pages DOI: 10.1155/2011/549521 Ryan W. Schmidt Department of Anthropology University of Montana Identity in American Indian communities has continually been a subject of contentious debate among legal scholars, federal policy-makers, anthropologists, historians,…

  • Fading Roles of Fictive Kinship: Mixed-Blood Racial Isolation and United States Indian Policy in the Lower Missouri River Basin, 1790-1830

    Fading Roles of Fictive Kinship: Mixed-Blood Racial Isolation and United States Indian Policy in the Lower Missouri River Basin, 1790-1830 Kansas State University, Manhattan 2012 124 pages Zachary Charles Isenhower A THESIS submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree MASTER OF ARTS Department of History College of Arts and Sciences On June…

  • In Brazil I glimpsed a possible future in which there is only one race

    In Brazil I glimpsed a possible future in which there is only one race The Guardian 2007-07-11 Timothy Garton Ash By its own definition it is a mixed country, but extreme poverty and violence occur mainly at one end of the spectrum Some time ago, Brazil’s census takers asked people to describe their skin colour.…

  • Professor Andrew Jolivétte to be Featured Guest on Mixed Chicks Chat

    Professor Andrew Jolivétte to be Featured Guest on Mixed Chicks Chat Mixed Chicks Chat (Founders of the Mixed Roots Film & Literary Festival) Hosted by Fanshen Cox, Heidi W. Durrow and Jennifer Frappier Website: TalkShoe™ (Keywords: Mixed Chicks) Episode: 252-Professor Andrew Jolivétte When: Wednesday, 2012-04-11, 21:00Z (17:00 EDT, 14:00 PDT) Andrew Jolivétte, Associate Professor of…

  • In Arizona, Censoring Questions About Race

    In Arizona, Censoring Questions About Race The New York Times 2012-04-01 Linda Martín Alcoff, Professor of Philosophy Hunter College, City University of New York In recent weeks, the state of Arizona has intensified its attack in its schools on an entire branch of study — critical race theory. Books and literature that, in the state’s…

  • The Case for Cablinasian: Multiracial Naming From Plessy to Tiger Woods

    The Case for Cablinasian: Multiracial Naming From Plessy to Tiger Woods Communication Theory Volume 22, Issue 1 (February 2012) pages 92–111 DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-2885.2011.01399.x LeiLani Nishime, Assistant Professor of Communication University of Washington, Seattle This article advocates for the interdisciplinary use of critical race theory and critical rhetorical theory in communication to analyze racialized language and…