Mixed Race Studies

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  • To tackle racism, we must tackle ignorance

    To tackle racism, we must tackle ignorance The Times of London 2012-02-14 John Barnes It’s not about football, it’s about destroying modern myths of colour, race and superiority   In 1987 a black friend of mine went into a shop to buy a coat. He asked the assistant if they had it in black and…

  • Obama Has Shattered America’s Racial Ceiling

    Obama Has Shattered America’s Racial Ceiling San Diego Union-Tribune 2012-02-12 Constance M. Carroll, Chancellor San Diego Community College District If he could visit 21st-century America, Alexis de Tocqueville would be amazed to find Barack Obama, an African-American, as president of the United States. However, he would not be surprised to find that, despite this powerful…

  • Not White Enough, Not Black Enough

    Not White Enough, Not Black Enough International Herald Tribune (The Global Edition of the New York Times) 2012-02-15 Eusebius McKaiser, political Analyst Wits University, Johannesburg, South Africa JOHANNESBURG – A few weeks ago, a British friend of mine served a sumptuous confession as a starter for dinner, “I only realized recently that you’re not actually…

  • Brazil in black and white? Race categories, the census, and the study of inequality

    Brazil in black and white? Race categories, the census, and the study of inequality Ethnic and Racial Studies Volume 35, Number 8, August 2012 pages 1466-1483 DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2011.607503 Mara Loveman, Associate Professor of Sociology University of Wisconsin, Madison Jeronimo O. Muniz, Assistant Professor of Sociology Federal University of Minas Gerais Stanley R. Bailey, Associate Professor…

  • Loving and the Legacy of Unintended Consequences

    Here, I will explore Loving’s unintended consequences by considering why the Court took so much for granted and how the opinion later was deployed in unexpected ways. After briefly examining the facts and holdings in the case, I will show that the Justices accepted monoracial categories as a given, despite evidence of multiracial complexity.

  • The Multiracial Epiphany of Loving

    Looking back to Loving as the official birth of Multiracial America reinforces the prevailing memory of racial separatism while further underscoring the illegitimacy of miscegenations past. By establishing racial freedom in marriage, Loving also sets a misleading context for the history of mixed race in America. Even though Loving instigates the open acceptance of interracialism,…

  • Post-Racial? Americans and Race in the Age of Obama

    Post-Racial? Americans and Race in the Age of Obama The Greenlining Institute Berkeley, California November 2011 26 pages Dr. Daniel Byrd, Research Director Bruce Mirken, Media Relations Coordinator Since the election of Barack Obama as the United States’ first African American president, there has been much discussion of whether this means the U.S. has become…

  • Replacing History With Fiction in Arizona

    Replacing History With Fiction in Arizona The Nation 2012-02-08 Gary Younge In 1997 black America gained a new hero when Tiger Woods putted himself into history at the US Masters. Within a few weeks, it had lost him in an unlikely fashion—to a bespoke racial identity articulated on Oprah’s couch.    Does it bother you…

  • Charles Marsh recounts the formation and activities of The Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission.

    Charles Marsh recounts the formation and activities of The Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission. The Civil Rights Movement as Theological Drama The Project on Lived Theology University of Virginia Charles Marsh In 1956, a new organization appeared, predisposed to the same political concerns articulated by the Citizen’s Council, but now underwritten by the state legislature.  The…

  • The History and Evolution of Racism and Discrimination in Sierra Leone

    The History and Evolution of Racism and Discrimination in Sierra Leone The Sierra Leone Daily Mail 2012-02-10 In 1961, the independence constitution of Sierra Leone created a single nationality, without any distinction by race, ethnic group or sex. ‘Every person’ born in the former colony or protectorate who was a citizen of the United Kingdom…