Category: Politics/Public Policy

  •  Mixed Dreams: A Symposium on Multiracial Identities in the United States 2010-10-15 through 2010-10-20 Oberlin College Oberlin, Ohio At its root, Mixed Dreams: A Symposium on Multiracial Identities in the U.S. aims to create a space to discuss and interrogate historical and contemporary perspectives on multiraciality and the “multiracial experiences” of people identifying as bi-racial,…

  • Indigenous Mestizos: The Politics of Race and Culture in Cuzco, Peru, 1919–1991 Duke University Press 2000 424 pages 21 b&w photographs, 2 maps, 1 table Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8223-2385-3 Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8223-2420-1 Marisol de la Cadena, Associate Professor of Anthropology University of California, Davis In the early twentieth century, Peruvian intellectuals, unlike their European counterparts, rejected…

  • Ethnic Studies 064: Mixed Race Descent in the Americas Mills College, Oakland, California Fall 2010 Melinda Micco, Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies This is an introductory course that examines the historical and theoretical development of identities and of communities of multiracial and multiethnic people. In the academy, in government, and in popular culture, the lives…

  • Mixedness and The Arts Runnymede Thinkpiece Runnymede Trust July 2010 18 pages ISBN: 978-1-906732-63-9 (online) EAN: 9781906732639 (online) ISBN: 978-1-906732-64-6 (print) EAN: 9781906732646 (print) Chamion Caballero, Senior Research Fellow Families & Social Capital Research Group London South Bank University This think piece explores the presentation of mixed-race identity in the sphere of arts and culture…

  • Reducing Race: News Themes in the 2008 Primaries The International Journal of Press/Politics Volume 15, Number 4 (October 2010) pages 375-400 DOI: 10.1177/1940161210372962 Catherine R. Squires, Cowles Professor of Journalism, Diversity and Equality University of Minnesota Sarah J. Jackson University of Minnesota This article presents a content analysis exploring how racial issues were addressed in…

  • The Election of Barack Obama and the Politics of Interracial and Same-Sex Marriage History News Network 2009-02-23 Peggy Pascoe, Beekman Professor of Northwest and Pacific History University of Oregon Peggy Pascoe is the author of “What Comes Naturally: Miscegenation Law and the Making of Race in America”, (winner of 5 literary prizes). The election (and now…

  • Fall 2010 Honors Colloquium: RACE University of Rhode Island Tuesday evenings, 19:00 ET (Local Time); (23:00Z through November; 00:00Z on Wednesday after November 9). 2010-09-14 through 2010-12-07 Edwards Auditorium, URI Kingston Campus A series of public programs at the University of Rhode Island presented by the URI Honors Program Join us! The public is invited…

  • Being between: can multiracial Americans form a cohesive anti-racist movement beyond identity politics and Tiger Woods chic? ColorLines: Race, Culture, Action 2003-06-22 Sasha Su-Ling Welland, Assistant Professor Anthropology & Women Studies University of Washington So much of being mixed race these days seems about having to explain, always answering “What are you?” for others and…

  • Political partisanship influences perception of biracial candidates’ skin tone Proceedings of the National Acadamy of Sciences Volume 106, Number 48 (2009-12-01) pages 20168-20173 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0905362106 Eugene M. Caruso, Assistant Professor of Behavioral Science Booth School of Business, University of Chicago Nicole L. Mead, Researcher Tilburg Institute for Behavioral Economics Research Tilburg University, The Netherlands Emily…

  • BEYOND ‘OTHER’: A special report.;More Than Identity Rides On a New Racial Category The New York Times 1996-07-06 Linda Mathews Edward Cooper, a Portland, Ore., businessman, is black. His wife and business partner, Barbara McIntyre, is white. Their 12-year-old son, Ethan McCooper, is, like his name, a blend of his parents, and harder to classify.…