Mixed Race Studies

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  • Check One Box: Reconsidering Directive No. 15 and the Classification of Mixed-Race People

    Check One Box: Reconsidering Directive No. 15 and the Classification of Mixed-Race People California Law Review Volume 84, Number 4 (July, 1996) pages 1233-1291 Kenneth E. Payson Introduction “What are you?” As the child of a Japanese mother and a White father, I have often been asked this question. While I am also male, heterosexual,…

  • The Persistence of the Color Line: Racial Politics and the Obama Presidency

    The Persistence of the Color Line: Racial Politics and the Obama Presidency Random House, Inc. 2011-08-16 336 pages Hardback ISBN: 978-0-307-37789-0 Paperback ISBN: 978-0-307-45555-0 Randall Kennedy, Michael R. Klein Professor of Law Harvard Law School Timely—as the 2012 presidential election nears—and controversial, here is the first book by a major African-American public intellectual on racial…

  • Student reflection on the Luther Lecture

    Student reflection on the Luther Lecture Impetus Luther College at the University of Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada Fall 2011 Jenna Tickell Senator Lillian Eva Dyck was the 36th Annual Luther Lecturer.  Senator Dyck presented her personal story in relation to the issues of racism and sexism in Canada.  She began with power-point statistics and ended with…

  • When It Counts—More On Obama and the Census

    When It Counts—More On Obama and the Census InterfaithFamiliy.com 2010-05-03 Ruth Abrams Elizabeth Chang wrote in an op-ed in the Washington Post last week, “Why Obama should not have checked ‘black’ on his census form,” Although I knew Obama self-identifies as African American, I was disappointed when I read that that’s what he checked on…

  • TV Review: Mixed Race Britain – Mixed Britannia

    TV Review: Mixed Race Britain – Mixed Britannia BioNews Number 630 (2011-10-24) Anoushka Shepherd Mixed Race Britain: Mixed Britannia, BBC2, 6-20 October 2011, Presented by George Alagiah I am mixed race, and thereby a member the fastest growing ethnic minority in the UK. My British dad met my Sri Lankan mum while travelling in the…

  • Book review: What’s the use of race? Modern governance and the biology of difference

    Book review: What’s the use of race? Modern governance and the biology of difference BioNews Number 634 (2011-11-21) Dr. Rachael Panizzo Decoding the human genome has revealed details of our evolution and patterns of migration across the world. The study of genetic diversity between ethnic groups can help explain the ways in which race influences…

  • African-American Reflections on Brazil’s Racial Paradise

    African-American Reflections on Brazil’s Racial Paradise Temple University Press February 1992 276 pages 5.5 x 8.25 Cloth ISBN: 0-87722-892-2 eBook ISBN: 978-1-59213-104-4 Edited by David J. Hellwig, Professor Emeritus of Interdisciplinary Studies St. Cloud State University, St. Cloud, Minnesota Essays that focus on the authors’ observations of race relations in Brazil from the first decade…

  • Honor Bound: Race and Shame in America

    Honor Bound: Race and Shame in America Rutgers University Press 2012-03-27 288 pages Paper ISBN: 978-0-8135-5270-5 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8135-5269-9 David Leverenz, Professor Emeritus of English University of Florida As Bill Clinton said in his second inaugural address, “The divide of race has been America’s constant curse.” In Honor Bound, David Leverenz explores the past to…

  • Intimate encounters, Racial Frontiers: Stateless GI babies in South Korea and the United States, 1953-1965

    Intimate encounters, Racial Frontiers: Stateless GI babies in South Korea and the United States, 1953-1965 University of Minnesota June 2010 239 pages Bongsoo Park A DISSERTATION SUBMITTED TO THE FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY This dissertation explores…

  • Mixed-race Koreans urge identity rethink

    Mixed-race Koreans urge identity rethink The Korea Herald 2011-12-07 Kirsty Taylor Things have come a long way since the 1970s when mixed-race Koreans here were spat upon and beaten up for being different. The kids of that time, whose fathers were often foreign soldiers who first came here during the Korean War, used to find…