Mixed Race Studies

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  • Book Review/Compte rendu: Stanley R. Bailey, Legacies of Race: Identities, Attitudes, and Politics in Brazil

    Book Review/Compte rendu: Stanley R. Bailey, Legacies of Race: Identities, Attitudes, and Politics in Brazil Canadian Journal of Sociology Volume 35, Number 1 (2010) pages 189-191 Luisa Farah Schwartzman, Assistant Professor of Sociology University of Toronto Stanley R. Bailey, Legacies of Race: Identities, Attitudes, and Politics in Brazil. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2009, 304 pp.…

  • Shifting Demographics: Preparing for a New Race and Ethnicity Classification Scheme in NAEP

    Shifting Demographics: Preparing for a New Race and Ethnicity Classification Scheme in NAEP Population Association of America 2010 Annual Meeting Program 2010-04-17 3 pages 1 chart, 1 table Salvador Rivas American Institutes for Research On September 24, 2007, the U.S. Department of Education (USDE) issued final guidance for collecting and reporting race/ethnicity information to all…

  • Measuring Race (and Ethnicity): An Overview of Past Practices, Current Concerns and Thoughts for the Future [Draft]

    Measuring Race (and Ethnicity): An Overview of Past Practices, Current Concerns and Thoughts for the Future [Draft] Population Association of America 2010 Annual Meeting Program 2010-04-17 25 pages C. Matthew Snipp, Professor of Sociology Stanford University On the eve of the 2010 census, Census Bureau staff are already beginning to think about how race should…

  • Mixed Black and White Race and Public Policy

    Mixed Black and White Race and Public Policy Hypatia Volume 10, Issue 1 (February 1995) Pages 120 – 132 Special Issue: Feminist Ethics and Social Policy, Part 1 DOI: 10.1111/j.1527-2001.1995.tb01356.x Naomi Zack, Professor of Philosophy University of Oregon The American folk concept of race assumes the factual existence of races. However, biological science does not…

  • Crossing Waters, Crossing Worlds: The African Diaspora in Indian Country

    Crossing Waters, Crossing Worlds: The African Diaspora in Indian Country Duke University Press 2006 392 pages 7 illustrations, 1 table Edited by: Tiya Miles, Professor of American Culture, Afroamerican and African Studies, and Native American Studies University of Michigan Sharon Patricia Holland, Associate Professor of English; African & African American Studies Duke University Contributors: Joy…

  • Mixed-race theory for everyone

    Mixed-race theory for everyone Mixedness & mixing: New perspectives on mixed-race Britons A Commission for Racial Equality eConference 2007-09-04 through 2007-09-06 Jin Haritaworn, Assistant Professor in Gender, Race and Environment at the Faculty of Environmental Studies York University, Canada What insights does mixed-race theory bear for mixed-race people, our allies, and the professionals who work…

  • Multiracial Identity [Movie], World Premiere Screening

    Multiracial Identity [Movie], World Premiere Screening Politics on Film 2010 Festival Saturday, 2010-05-08, 13:30 EDT (Local Time) E Street Cinema (Purchase tickets on-line here.) 555 11th Street, NW Washington, DC Year: 2010 Director: Brian Chinhema Writer: Brian Chinhema Producer: Brian Chinhema (Abacus Production) Running Time: 01:22:00 Multiracial people are the fastest growing demographic in America, yet…

  • Census Nonsense: Why Barack Obama isn’t black.

    Census Nonsense: Why Barack Obama isn’t black. The New Republic 2010-04-07 John Judis, Senior Editor and Visiting Scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace When asked about his race on the census form, Barack Obama, the child of a white Kansan and black African, did not take the option of checking both “white” and…

  • Race/Ethnicity and the 2000 Census: Recommendations for African American and Other Black Populations in the United States

    Race/Ethnicity and the 2000 Census: Recommendations for African American and Other Black Populations in the United States Amercan Journal of Public Health Volume 90, Number 11 (November 2000) pages 1728-1730 David R. Williams, Florence and Laura Norman Professor of Public Health and of African and African American Studies Harvard University James S. Jackson, Daniel Katz…

  • Erasure and Recognition: The Census, Race and the National Imagination

    This Article is concerned with the constitutive power of the census with respect to race. It is an examination of the U.S. Census as an aspect of what Angela Harris calls race law, “law pertaining to the formation, recognition, and maintenance of racial groups, as well as the law regulating the relationships among these groups.”…