Mixed Race Studies

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  • Census reveals history of U.S. racial identity

    Census reveals history of U.S. racial identity San Francisco Chronicle 2010-04-18 Sally Lehrman, Fellow Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University also Knight Ridder San Jose Mercury News Endowed Chair in Journalism and the Public Interest Whether or not they can lay claim to a special category, the “Confederate Southern Americans” who want…

  • Mixed feelings about mixed-race census option

    The 2010 census, which hit mailboxes this month, is causing scholars and mixed-race people to debate, for just the second time in the count’s history, the dilemma of whether or not to check multiple “race” boxes.

  • Crossing the Color Line: Racial Migration and the One-Drop Rule, 1600–1860

    Crossing the Color Line: Racial Migration and the One-Drop Rule, 1600–1860 Minnesota Law Review Volume 91, Number 3 (February 2007) pages 592-656 Daniel J. Sharfstein, Professor of Law Vanderbilt University “It ain’t no lie, it’s a natural fact, / You could have been colored without being so black…” —Sung by deck hands, Auburn, Alabama, 1915–161…

  • How Mixed-Race Politics Entered the United States: Lydia Maria Child’s ‘Appeal’

    How Mixed-Race Politics Entered the United States: Lydia Maria Child’s ‘Appeal’ ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance Volume 56, Number 1, 2010 (Nos. 218 O.S.) pages 71-104 DOI: 10.1353/esq.0.0043 Robert Fanuzzi, Assistant Chair and Associate Professor of English St. Johns University, Queens, New York For scholars of the colonial and early national United States,…

  • Race and Censuses From Around the World

    Race and Censuses From Around the World Sociological Images: Inspiring Sociological Imaginations Everywhere 2009-03-29 Lisa Wade, Assistant Professor of Sociology Occidental College Different countries formalize different racial categories.  Below are examples of the ”race” questions on the Censuses of 9 different countries.   They illustrate just how diverse ideas about race are and challenge the notion…

  • The Census and the Social Construction of Race

    The Census and the Social Construction of Race Sociological Images: Inspiring Sociological Imaginations Everywhere 2010-03-29 Lisa Wade, Assistant Professor of Sociology Occidental College Social and biological scientists agree that race and ethicity are social constructions, not biological categories.  The U.S. government, nonetheless, has an official position on what categories are “real.”  You can find them…

  • Does the British State’s Categorisation of ‘Mixed Race’ Meet Public Policy Needs?

    Does the British State’s Categorisation of ‘Mixed Race’ Meet Public Policy Needs? Social Policy & Society Volume 9, Number 1 (January 2010) pages 55-69 DOI:10.1017/S1474746409990194 Peter J. Aspinall, Reader in Population Health at the Centre for Health Services Studies University of Kent, UK The England and Wales 2001 Census was the first to include ‘Mixed’…

  • Questions for Benjamin Todd Jealous: Race Matters

    Questions for Benjamin Todd Jealous: Race Matters The New York Times 2009-07-30 Deborah Solomon As the new head of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, can you tell us how your organization plans to respond to the case of Henry Louis Gates Jr., the Harvard professor who was recently arrested for disorderly…

  • Obama Census Choice: African-American

    Obama Census Choice: African-American The Huffington Post 2010-04-02 Mark S. Smith WASHINGTON — He may be the world’s foremost mixed-race leader, but when it came to the official government head count, President Barack Obama gave only one answer to the question about his ethnic background: African-American. The White House confirmed on Friday that Obama did…

  • Who Counts & Who’s Counting? 38th Annual Conference National Association for Ethnic Studies Conference

    Who Counts & Who’s Counting? 38th Annual Conference National Association for Ethnic Studies Conference National Association for Ethnic Studies, Inc. 2010-04-08 through 2010-04-10 L’Enfant Plaza Hotel Washington, D.C. Dr. Larry Shinagawa, NAES 2010 Conference Chair Our theme of “Who Counts and Who’s Counting” signals the importance of Washington, D.C. as a physical, cultural, and social…