Mixed Race Studies

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  • Race remains hot topic despite Obama presidency

    Race remains hot topic despite Obama presidency USA Today 2010-10-17 Shannon Mullen, Asbury Press The election of the first black president in U.S. history was supposed to usher in a post-racial era in America. But a series of controversies since then, from the White House “Beer Summit” to the conflicts between the tea party and…

  • Because the Numbers Matter: Transforming Postsecondary Education Data on Student Race and Ethnicity to Meet the Challenges of a Changing Nation

    Because the Numbers Matter: Transforming Postsecondary Education Data on Student Race and Ethnicity to Meet the Challenges of a Changing Nation Educational Policy Volume 18, Number 5 (November 2004) pages 752-783 DOI: 10.1177/0895904804269941 Kristen A. Renn, Associate Professor of Higher, Adult, and Lifelong Education Michigan State University Christina J. Lunceford, Professor of Education California State…

  • Selling eugenics: the case of Sweden

    Selling eugenics: the case of Sweden Notes & Records of the Royal Society Volume 64, Number 4 pages 379-400 DOI: 10.1098/rsnr.2010.0009 Maria Björkman Department of Thematic Studies, Technology and Social Change Linköping University Sven Widmalm Department of Thematic Studies, Technology and Social Change Linköping University This paper traces the early (1910s to 1920s) development of…

  • What Obama Isn’t: Black Like Me on Race

    What Obama Isn’t: Black Like Me on Race New York Daily News 2006-11-02 Stanley Crouch If Barack Obama makes it all the way to becoming the Democratic nominee for President in 2008, a feat he says he may attempt, a much more complex understanding of the difference between color and ethnic identity will be upon…

  • Multiethnicity and Multiethnic Families: Development, Identity, and Resilience

    Multiethnicity and Multiethnic Families: Development, Identity, and Resilience Xlibris 2010 384 pages ISBN 13 Softcover: 978-1-4500-1231-7 ISBN 13 Hardcover: 978-1-4500-1232-4 ISBN 13 Ebook: 978-1-4500-0340-7 Edited By: Hamilton McCubbin, Krystal Ontai, Lisa Kehl, Laurie McCubbin, Ida Strom, Heidi Hart, Barbara DeBaryshe, Marika Ripke and Jon Matsuoka Guided by the increasing number of interracial marriages, cross-cultural adoptions…

  • Everyone Looks a Little Bit Asian

    Everyone Looks a Little Bit Asian truthdig: drilling beneath the headlines 2010-10-27 Marcia Alesan Dawkins, Visiting Scholar Brown University Like many other Hispanics, I am a member of Generation E.A. (ethnically ambiguous). Over the years I’ve been mistaken for just about every racial or ethnic combination—from Eurasian to Afro-Irish to Arab-Native American. This guessing game…

  • Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference

    Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference DePaul University, Lincoln Park Campus DePaul University Student Center 2250 N. Sheffield Chicago, Illinois USA 60614 2010-11-05 through 2010-11-06 Sponsored by DePaul University Asian American Studies and Latin American and Latino Studies and co-sponsored by the College of Ethnic Studies at San Francisco State University and the MAVIN Foundation. “Emerging…

  • Color Struck: Essays on Race and Ethnicity in Global Perspective

    Color Struck: Essays on Race and Ethnicity in Global Perspective University Press of America April 2010 516 pages Paper ISBN: 0-7618-5064-3 / 978-0-7618-5064-9 Electronic ISBN: 0-7618-5092-9 / 978-0-7618-5092-2 Edited by Julius O. Adekunle, Professor of History Monmouth University, West Long Branch, New Jersey Hettie V. Williams, Lecturer, African American History Department of History and Anthropology…

  • Video From Angle Event Reopens Subject of Race

    Video From Angle Event Reopens Subject of Race New York Times 2010-10-19 Susan Saulny, National Correspondent Louie Gong, a 36-year-old Seattle resident who is a mix of American Indian, white and Chinese, is often mistaken for Latino. “Most people don’t look at me and say ‘Chinese,’ ” he said. “Then I tell them what my…

  • Colby Cosh: Obama’s family tree might have hung him from a limb

    Colby Cosh: Obama’s family tree might have hung him from a limb National Post 2008-10-24 Colby Cosh Ever since Barack Obama won the Democratic nomination for the presidency, American political observers have been arguing endlessly over whether his race will be a net help or a hindrance to him at the polls November 4. Strangely,…