Mixed Race Studies

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  • The Mercurial Nature and Abiding Power of Race: A Transnational Family Story

    The Mercurial Nature and Abiding Power of Race: A Transnational Family Story The American Historical Review Volume 108, Number 1 (February 2003) pages 84-118 Martha Hodes, Professor of History New York University There are many ways to expose the mercurial nature of racial classification. Scholars of U.S. history might note, for example, that the category…

  • Multiracial Identity and the U.S. Census

    Multiracial Identity and the U.S. Census ProQuest Discovery Guides January 2010 Tyrone Nagai, Supervising Editor of Social Sciences ProQuest Introduction: What is Multiracial Identity?   Back on April 23, 1997, 21-year-old golfer Tiger Woods made headlines on the Oprah Winfrey Show when he described his racial background as “Cablinasian,” an abbreviation representing his “Caucasian,” “Black,”…

  • Images of Latin American mestizaje and the politics of comparison

    Images of Latin American mestizaje and the politics of comparison Bulletin of Latin American Research Volume 23, Number 3 (2004) pp. 355–366 DOI: 10.1111/j.0261-3050.2004.00113.x Peter Wade, Professor of Social Anthropology University of Manchester In a presidential address to the Organization of American Historians, Gary Nash (1995) reveals ‘the hidden history of mestizo America’ (by which…

  • The Virginia Racial Integrity Act Revisited: The Plecker-Laughlin correspondence: 1928-1930

    The Virginia Racial Integrity Act Revisited: The Plecker-Laughlin correspondence: 1928-1930 American Journal of Medical Genetics Volume 16, Issue 4 Pages 483 – 492 December 1983 DOI: 10.1002/ajmg.1320160407 Philip Reilly University of Houston Law Center, Houston, Texas   Margery Shaw University of Houston Law Center, Houston, Texas Correspondence between Walter Ashby Plecker, Virginia State Registrar of…

  • Impacts of Multiple Race Reporting on Rural Health Policy and Data Analysis

    Impacts of Multiple Race Reporting on Rural Health Policy and Data Analysis Working Paper No. 73 Working Paper Series North Carolina Rural Health Research and Policy Analysis Center Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 2002-05-01 39 pages Randy Randolph, M.R.P. Rebecca Slifkin, Ph.D. Lynn Whitener,…

  • IndiVisible – African-Native American Lives in the Americas

    IndiVisible – African-Native American Lives in the Americas National Museum of the American Indian 4th Street and Independence Avenue, SW Washington, DC 2009-11-09 through 2010-05-31 Comanche family, early 1900s Here is a family from the Comanche Nation located in southwestern Oklahoma. The elder man in Comanche traditional clothing is Ta-Ten-e-quer. His wife, Ta-Tat-ty, also wears…

  • Thinking about Race, Sexuality, and Marriage: A Roundtable on Peggy Pascoe’s What Comes Naturally

    Thinking about Race, Sexuality, and Marriage: A Roundtable on Peggy Pascoe’s What Comes Naturally American Historical Association 124th Annual Meeting Friday, 2010-01-10, 08:30-10:30 PST (Local Time) Manchester Grand Hyatt San Diego Manchester Ballroom D (Hyatt) San Diego, California Thinking about Race, Sexuality, and Marriage: A Roundtable on Peggy Pascoe’s What Comes Naturally Chair: Eileen Boris,…

  • Becoming Mexican Across the Pacific: The Expulsion of Mexican Chinese Families from Mexico to China and Diasporic Imaginings of a Mexican Homeland, 1930s–60s

    Becoming Mexican Across the Pacific: The Expulsion of Mexican Chinese Families from Mexico to China and Diasporic Imaginings of a Mexican Homeland, 1930s–60s American Historical Association 124th Annual Meeting Friday, 2010-01-10 11:40 PST (Local Time) San Diego Marriott Hotel & Marina Torrey 3 (Marriott) San Diego, California Julia María Schiavone Camacho, Assistant Professor of History…

  • Crossing Boundaries, Claiming a Homeland: The Mexican Chinese Transpacific Journey to Becoming Mexican, 1910s-1960s

    Crossing Boundaries, Claiming a Homeland: The Mexican Chinese Transpacific Journey to Becoming Mexican, 1910s-1960s 2009 Meeting of the Latin American Studies Association Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 2009-06-11 through 2009-06-14 Julia María Schiavone Camacho, Assistant Professor of History University of Texa, El Paso On May 12, 1960, the Mexican Chinese community leader in Macau, Ramón Lay…

  • Who And What You Are

    Who And What You Are Contexts Fall 2009 Vol. 8, No. 4 Pages 64–65 DOI 10.1525/ctx.2009.8.4.64 Sangyoub Park, Assistant Professor of Sociology Washburn University Barack Obama‘s presidency and changes in how the U.S. Census tracks race underline the importance of the social construction of race and ethnicity in the United States. Changes in our racial…