Mixed Race Studies

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  • Somewhere between Jim Crow & Post-Racialism: Reflections on the Racial Divide in America Today

    Somewhere between Jim Crow & Post-Racialism: Reflections on the Racial Divide in America Today Dædalus, the Journal of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences Volume 140, Number 2, Spring 2011, Race, Inequality & Culture, Volume 2 pages 11-36 Lawrence D. Bobo, W. E. B. Du Bois Professor of the Social Sciences Harvard University In…

  • Race in America: Restructuring Inequality: Intergroup Race Relation

    Race in America: Restructuring Inequality: Intergroup Race Relation Center on Race & Social Problems School of Social Work The University of Pittsburgh 2010 29 pages Editors: Larry E. Davis, Dean and Donald M. Henderson Professor of Social Work and Director of the Center on Race and Social Problems University of Pittsburgh Ralph Bangs, Associate Director…

  • Science must not invent new myths about race

    Science must not invent new myths about race London Evening Standard 2009-11-16 Lindsay Johns Science and race have never been easy bedfellows. Since Victorian times, when Western scientific advancement was used as an intellectual and moral justification for European colonial expansion, science or pseudo-science has occupied an uncomfortable place in our understanding of race. Yet…

  • For black Britons, this is not the 80s revisited. It’s worse

    For black Britons, this is not the 80s revisited. It’s worse The Guardian 2011-08-11 Joseph Harker, Assistant Comment Editor Our MPs are ‘on message’, our media in decline and the Commission for Racial Equality abolished. Who speaks for us? This is not 1981. Nor 1985. As has been pointed out over the past few days,…

  • Texas bucks U.S. trend on standardized scoring

    Texas bucks U.S. trend on standardized scoring Houston Chronicle 2011-07-25 Jennifer Radcliffe   It will tally multiracial students but not report their scores separately Multiracial students are being tallied for the first time in Texas history, but their standardized test scores won’t appear as a separate group when accountability ratings are released Friday. As it…

  • Being counted is crucial in the U.S…

    My academic research is on racial categories in national censuses.  When I first started reading about the push to get a “mixed-race” category on the U.S. census in the 1990s, I was absolutely on the side of the multiracial movement. I thought the census should recognize our identities, no matter how complicated they may be. …

  • Mixed Messages: Barack Obama and Post-Racial Politics

    Mixed Messages: Barack Obama and Post-Racial Politics Spectator (Journal of the University of Southern California’s School of Cinematics Arts) Volume 30, Number 2 (Fall 2010) pages 9-17 Marcia Alesan Dawkins, Visiting Scholar Brown University The election of President Barack Hussein Obama marks an important milestone in United States racial politics. Many cultural critics and opinion leaders…

  • The historical politics of the New Zealand half-caste

    The historical politics of the New Zealand half-caste MAI Review Issue 3 (2008) Article 7 ISSN 1177-5904 11 pages Gina M. Colvin-McCluskey The archives of settler journalism provides us with a rich resource for engaging with some of the ‘raced’ discourses in circulation at the commencement of Britain’s colonial project in Āotearoa/New Zealand. From these…

  • Debate: Are the Americas ‘sick with racism’ or is it a problem at the poles? A reply to Christina A. Sue

    Debate: Are the Americas ‘sick with racism’ or is it a problem at the poles? A reply to Christina A. Sue Ethnic and Racial Studies Volume 32, Issue 6 (July 2009) Special Issue: Making Latino/a Identities in Contemporary America pages 1071-1082 DOI: 10.1080/01419870902883536 Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, Professor of Sociology Duke University Christina A. Sue commented on…

  • Campus Colorlines: The Changing Boundaries of Race Within Institutions of Higher Education in the Post-Civil Rights Era

    Campus Colorlines: The Changing Boundaries of Race Within Institutions of Higher Education in the Post-Civil Rights Era University of Southern California August 2007 675 pages Patricia Elizabeth Literte, Assistant Professor of Sociology California State University, Fullerton A Dissertation Presented to the Faculty of the Graduate School University of Southern California In Partial Fulfillment of the…