Mixed Race Studies

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  • Shades of Difference: Why Skin Color Matters

    Shades of Difference: Why Skin Color Matters Stanford University Press 2009 312 pages 11 tables, 15 figures, 16 illustrations Cloth ISBN: 9780804759984 Paper ISBN: 9780804759991 E-book ISBN: 9780804770996 Edited by: Evelyn Nakano Glenn, Professor of Asian American Studies University of California, Berkeley Shades of Difference addresses the widespread but little studied phenomenon of colorism—the preference…

  • Comparative racisms: What anti-racists can learn from Latin America

    Comparative racisms: What anti-racists can learn from Latin America Ethnicities Volume 11, Number 1 (2011-03-31) pages 32-58 DOI: 10.1177/1468796810388699 Jonathan Warren, Chair of the Center for Brazilian Studies; Associate Professor of International Studies University of Washington Christina A. Sue, Assistant Professor of Sociology University of Colorado, Boulder There has been extensive debate about the putative…

  • GW gives community option to identify as multiracial

    GW gives community option to identify as multiracial The GW Hatchet George Washington University, Washington D.C. 2011-03-28 Pavan Jagannathan, Hatchet Reporter The University added a new category for multiracial students, faculty and staff to classify themselves as “two or more races” in University institutional data, moving into compliance with a new federal regulation. University Provost…

  • Making (mixed-)race: census politics and the emergence of multiracial multiculturalism in the United States, Great Britain and Canada

    Making (mixed-)race: census politics and the emergence of multiracial multiculturalism in the United States, Great Britain and Canada Ethnic and Racial Studies Volume 35, Issue 8, 2012 pages 1409-1426 DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2011.556194 Debra Thompson, Assistant Professor of Political Science Ohio University During the same time period, the United States, Great Britain and Canada all moved towards…

  • Cimmerii or Eurasians and Their Future

    A belief in Eugenics was widespread in the early half of the last centenary and amongst its prominent believers were George Bernard Shaw, Winston Churchill and Adolf Hitler. This iniquitous social philosophy supposed that Northern Europeans were superior in civilization to such races as Indians. Anglo Indians who were of mixed blood were considered, even…

  • Race and health care: problems with using race to classify, assess, and treat patients

    Race and health care: problems with using race to classify, assess, and treat patients University of Texas May 2010 64 pages Atalie Nitibhon Presented to the Faculty of the Graduate School of The University of Texas at Austin in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Public Affairs Though racial classifications…

  • President Underscores Similarities With Brazilians, but Ignores One

    President Underscores Similarities With Brazilians, but Ignores One The New York Times 2011-03-20 Alexei Barrionuevo Jackie Calmes RIO de JANEIRO — From a visit to this city’s most infamous slum to a national address amid the gilded elegance of a celebrated theater, President Obama on Sunday sought to underscore the shared histories and futures of…

  • American Identity in the Age of Obama

    American Identity in the Age of Obama Northeastern University Amilcar Cabral Center in the John D. O’Bryant African American Institute Boston, Massachusetts Friday, 2011-03-25, 08:30-15:30 EDT (Local Time) The election of Barack Obama as the 44th president of the United States has opened a new chapter in the country’s long and often tortured history of…

  • Census serves up racial buffet in Silicon Valley

    Census serves up racial buffet in Silicon Valley Silicon Valley Mercury News 2011-03-20 Joe Rodriguez Who are you? What are you? Sara Phillips, a 20-year-old computer science student from Hawaii at Santa Clara University, just may have the new look of the 21st century. When her 2010 Census form arrived last year, she gazed at…

  • Termination’s Legacy: The Discarded Indians of Utah

    Termination’s Legacy: The Discarded Indians of Utah University of Nebraska Press 2002 311 pages Illus., maps Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-8032-3201-3; Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8032-2251-9 R. Warren Metcalf, Associate Professor of United States History University of Oklahoma Termination’s Legacy describes how the federal policy of termination irrevocably affected the lives of a group of mixed-blood Ute Indians who…