Mixed Race Studies

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  • One Drop of Blood

    One Drop of Blood The New Yorker 1994-07-24 Lawrence Wright, Staff Writer Washington in the millennial years is a city of warring racial and ethnic groups fighting for recognition, protection, and entitlements. This war has been fought throughout the second half of the twentieth century largely by black Americans. How much this contest has widened,…

  • Rethinking race and politics: Mixed race and the trajectory of minority politics in the United States

    Rethinking race and politics: Mixed race and the trajectory of minority politics in the United States University of California, Irvine 2007 232 pages AAT 3274346 ISBN: 9780549148944 Natalie Masuoka, Assistant Professor of Political Science Tufts University This project addresses how minority communities frame collective identities and organize political agendas amidst growing levels of racial and…

  • Aren’t they just black kids? Biracial children in the child welfare system

    Aren’t they just black kids? Biracial children in the child welfare system Child & Family Social Work Volume 15, Issue 4 (November 2010) pages 441-45 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2206.2010.00690.x Rachel A. Fusco, Assistant Professor of Social Work University of Pittsburgh Mary E. Rauktis, Research Assistant Professor of Social Work University of Pittsburgh Julie S. McCrae, Research Scientist…

  • AAS 436–Politics of Racial Ambiguity

    AAS 436–Politics of Racial Ambiguity University of Nevada, Las Vegas Fall 2010 Rainier Spencer, Professor and Director, Afro-American Studies Program Interdisciplinary investigation of contemporary American black/white multiracial identities, including analyses and assessments of the “multiracial identity movement” in the United States.

  • The Racial Politics of Mixed Race

    The Racial Politics of Mixed Race Journal of Social Philosophy Volume 30, Issue 2, Summer 1999 pages 276–294 DOI: 10.1111/0047-2786.00018 Lisa Tessman, Associate Professor of Philosophy and Women’s Studies Binghamton University, State University of New York Recently there has been an increasing amount of attention given in academic, political, and popular settings in the United…

  • The Geography of a Mixed-Race Society

    The Geography of a Mixed-Race Society Growth and Change: A Journal of Urban And Regional Policy Volume 40, Issue 4 (December 2009) Pages 565 – 593 DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-2257.2009.00501.x William A. V. Clark, Professor of Geography University of California, Los Angeles Reagan Maas University of California, Los Angeles The pattern and level of separation among ethnic…

  • The social care system and mixed race young people: placing the individual child at the heart of decision making

    The social care system and mixed race young people: placing the individual child at the heart of decision making People in Harmony Central London, England 2010-11-11 A one-day conference from People in Harmony which will consider why mixed race young people are over-represented in the care system, how they fare in the system and beyond,…

  • Multiracial Identity [Movie] to be screened at the Portland, Maine International Film Festival

    Multiracial Identity [Movie] to be screened at the  Portland, Maine International Film Festival Portland, Maine International Film Festival Saturday, 2010-08-21, 12:00 – 13:30 EDT (Local Time) Space Gallery 538 Congress Street, Portland, Maine 04101 Phone: 207.828.5600 Year: 2010 Director: Brian Chinhema Writer: Brian Chinhema Producer: Brian Chinhema (Abacus Production) Running Time: 01:22:00 Multiracial people are the fastest…

  • Unmixing for Race Making in Brazil

    This article analyzes race-targeted policy in Brazil as both a political stake and a powerful instrument in an unfolding classificatory struggle over the definition of racial boundaries.

  • President Obama checks the “Black” box; Evidently it’s official: Barack Obama is the nation’s first black president.

    President Obama checks the “Black” box Evidently it’s official: Barack Obama is the nation’s first black president. Psychology Today 2010-04-04 Samantha Smithstein, Psy.D., Clinical and Forensic Psychologist and Co-Founder Pathways Institute for Impulse Control, San Francisco This week, the New York Times reported that “It is official: Barack Obama is the nation’s first black president.”…