Mixed Race Studies

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  • Half-white is an insult

    Half-white is an insult The Guardian 2008-11-13 Michael Paulin The debate over how black Obama is obscures the racial reconciliation his election represents Barack Hussein Obama’s stunning victory against what was a thoroughly cynical Clinton campaign and a confused and morally bankrupt conservative Republican opposition is as historically significant as the fall of the Berlin…

  • A Multiracial Movement and a Multiracial Box Won’t Solve the Racism Problem

    A Multiracial Movement and a Multiracial Box Won’t Solve the Racism Problem Rachel’s Tavern: Race, Gender, and Sexuality from a Sociological Perspective 2007-04-02 Rachel Sullivan, Associate Professor of Sociology Montgomery College, Germantown, Maryland In a comment on the last thread on Rachel’s Tavern about how biracial children affect family approval of black/white relationships Dave of…

  • Post-race? Nation, Inheritance and the Contradictory Performativity of Race in Barack Obama’s ‘A More Perfect Union’ Speech

    Post-race? Nation, Inheritance and the Contradictory Performativity of Race in Barack Obama’s ‘A More Perfect Union’ Speech thirdspace: a journal of feminist theory & culture Volume 10, Number 1 (2011) 18 pages Bridget Byrne, Senior Lecturer in Social Sciences University of Manchester This article takes the speech that Barack Obama made in his campaign for…

  • Identity Politics: The Ambiguity of Race and the “End of Racism”

    Identity Politics: The Ambiguity of Race and the “End of Racism” The Atlanta Post 2011-07-11 Ezinne Adibe Professor and author Kwasi Konadu discusses identity politics and what it means to be African One hundred years from now what weight will race and/or ethnicity have on our understanding of identity?  Are we moving towards a society…

  • Race Mixing a Religious Fraud

    Race mixing not only disregards the age-long experience of man and constitutional guarantees, but as it is now taught, is a religious fraud.

  • GIs and Fräuleins: The German-American Encounter in 1950s West Germany

    GIs and Fräuleins: The German-American Encounter in 1950s West Germany University of North Carolina Press December 2001 360 pages 6.125 x 9.25, 13 photos, 1 map, notes, bibl., index Paper ISBN  978-0-8078-5375-7 Maria Höhn, Professor of History Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York With the outbreak of the Korean War, the poor, rural West German state…

  • “Germany’s ‘Brown Babies’ Must Be Helped! Will You?”: U.S. Adoption Plans for Afro-German Children, 1950-1955

    “Germany’s ‘Brown Babies’ Must Be Helped! Will You?”: U.S. Adoption Plans for Afro-German Children, 1950-1955 Callaloo Volume 26, Number 2 (Spring 2003) pages 342-362 DOI: 10.1353/cal.2003.0052 E-ISSN: 1080-6512 Print ISSN: 0161-2492 Yara-Colette Lemke Muniz de Faria This essay explores the debate that arose around the adoption of Black German children by African American parents and…

  • Inclusionary Discrimination: Pigmentocracy and Patriotism in the Dominican Republic

    Inclusionary Discrimination: Pigmentocracy and Patriotism in the Dominican Republic Political Psychology Volume 22, Issue 4 (December 2001) pages 827–851 DOI: 10.1111/0162-895X.00264 Jim Sidanius, Professor of Psychology and African and African American Studies Harvard University Yesilernis Pena Mark Sawyer, Associate Professor of African American Studies and Political Science University of California, Los Angeles This study explored…

  • Into the Arms of America: The Korean Roots of International Adoption

    Into the Arms of America: The Korean Roots of International Adoption The University of Chicago August 2008 248 pages Publication Number: AAT 3322621 ISBN: 9780549742289 Arissa Hyun Jung Oh A Dissertation submitted to the faculty of the division of Social Sciences in candidacy for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, Department of History This dissertation…

  • Who are the Blacks? The Question of Racial Classification in Brazilian Affirmative Action Policies in Higher Education

    Who are the Blacks? The Question of Racial Classification in Brazilian Affirmative Action Policies in Higher Education Cahiers de la Recherche sur l’Éducation et les Savoirs Number 7 (October 2008) 18 pages Luisa Farah Schwartzman, Assistant Professor in Sociology University of Toronto Debates about racial classification and its agreement with the uses of “race” and…