Mixed Race Studies

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  • Race in an Era of Change: A Reader

    Race in an Era of Change: A Reader Oxford University Press September 2010 544 pages ISBN13: 9780199752102 ISBN10: 0199752109 Edited By: Heather Dalmage, Professor of Sociology and Director of the Mansfield Institute Roosevelt University Barbara Katz Rothman, Professor of Sociology Baruch College of the City Univerity of New York Featuring a wide range of classic…

  • Race 2008: Critical Reflections on an Historic Campaign

    Race 2008: Critical Reflections on an Historic Campaign BrownWalker Press 2010 229 pages ISBN-10: 1599425378 ISBN-13: 9781599425375 Edited by Myra Mendible, Professor of English and Department Chair for Language and Literature Florida Gulf Coast University Race 2008: Critical Reflections on an Historic Campaign brings together a diverse group of scholars and activists to examine the…

  • Never a Neutral State: American Race Relations and Government Power

    Never a Neutral State: American Race Relations and Government Power Cato Journal Volume 29, Number 3 (Fall 2009) Pages 417-453 Jason Kuznicki, Research Fellow and Managing Editor, Cato Unbound Cato Institute Economics tells us that racial discrimination is expensive. Yet social psychology suggests that humans nonetheless tend to mistrust those whom they identify as outsiders.…

  • Book Review: Dispatches from the Color Line: The Press and Multiracial America

    Book Review: Dispatches from the Color Line: The Press and Multiracial America Hot Topics in Journalism and Mass Communication 2010-05-19 Queenie A. Byars, Assistant Professor of Journalism and Mass Communication University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Dispatches from the Color Line: The Press and Multiracial America. Catherine R. Squires. Albany, NY: State University of New…

  • Not-Black by Default

    Not-Black by Default The Nation Diary of a Mad Law Professor 2010-04-21 Patricia J. Williams, James L. Dohr Professor of Law Columbia University Most people who appear phenotypically “black” don’t play around when the government asks them to report their race. Last week, Melissa Harris-Lacewell wrote an insightful column, “Black by Choice,” about President Obama’s…

  • The Multiracial Sheep IS the White Supremacist Fox

    A government and society that is ever ready to restrict the freedoms of Black folks now offers “freedom” from Blackness. This census and social “opt-out” for the progeny of interracial couples allows them to hope to be considered “as something entirely separate, different and apart from” what Curtis Mayfield called the “dark deep well.” The…

  • Politics and policies: attitudes toward multiracial Americans

    Politics and policies: attitudes toward multiracial Americans Ethnic and Racial Studies First Published on: 2010-04-15 Volume 33, Issue 9 (October 2010) pages 1511-1536 DOI: 10.1080/01419871003671929 Mary E. Campbell, Associate Professor of Sociology University of Iowa Melissa R. Herman, Assistant Professor of Sociology Dartmouth College The growing prominence of the multiracial population in the United States…

  • Census trend shows mixed-race Americans are more likely to identify with their multiracial background

    Census trend shows mixed-race Americans are more likely to identify with their multiracial background Daily Bruin University of California, Los Angeles 2010-05-18 Brittany Wong, Bruin contributor When President Barack Obama got to Question No. 9 on the 2010 Census, he did what mixed-race respondents nationwide were asked to do: pare down and define his complex…

  • Seeing Like Citizens: Unofficial Understandings of Official Racial Categories in a Brazilian University

    Seeing Like Citizens: Unofficial Understandings of Official Racial Categories in a Brazilian University Journal of Latin American Studies Number 41 (2009) pages 221–250 DOI: 10.1017/S0022216X09005550 Luisa Farah Schwartzman, Assistant Professor of Sociology University of Toronto This paper investigates how students at the State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ), one of the first Brazilian universities…

  • Interzones: Black/White Sex Districts in Chicago and New York in the Early Twentieth Century

    Interzones: Black/White Sex Districts in Chicago and New York in the Early Twentieth Century Columbia University Press August 1997 248 pages Paper ISBN: 978-0-231-10493-7 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-231-10492-0 Kevin Mumford, Professor of African-American History University of Iowa Interzones is an innovative account of how the color line was drawn—and how it was crossed—in twentieth-century American cities.…