Mixed Race Studies

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  • “The New Kubla Khan: Mixed Race Multi-Nationalism”

    “The New Kubla Khan: Mixed Race Multi-Nationalism” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Studies Association 2009-05-24 Michele Elam, Martin Luther King, Jr. Centennial Professor of English, Professor, Director of African & African American Studies Stanford University This paper examines how, and to what ends, people of the “mixed race experience” are being…

  • Half-Caste and Other Poems

    ‘Half-Caste’, the title poem of this collection, is one of the set poems for GCSE English for AQA A, the largest spec with 375,000 candidates. But its influence and presence extends well beyond the ‘AQA’ schools, making John Agard one of the most popular, well-known and respected poet-performers on the schools circuit.

  • Between Camps: Nations, Cultures and the Allure of Race

    Between Camps: Nations, Cultures and the Allure of Race (Also published in the United States by Harvard University Press as Against Race: Imagining Political Culture beyond the Color Line) Routledge 2004-08-26 424 pages Trim Size: 234X156 Paperback ISBN: 978-0-415-34365-7 Paul Gilroy, Anthony Giddens Professorship in Social Theory The London School of Economics and Political Science…

  • Barack Obama’s Improbable Election and the Question of Race and Racism in Contemporary America

    Barack Obama’s Improbable Election and the Question of Race and Racism in Contemporary America Journal of Black Studies January 2010 Volume 40, No. 3 Guest Editor Pamela D. Reed, Assistant Professor of English Composition and Africana Literature Virginia State University The Journal of Black Studies has now issued two special issues on President Barack Hussein…

  • Black Berry, Sweet Juice: On Being Black and White in Canada

    Now Hill, himself a child of a black father and white mother, brings us “Black Berry, Sweet Juice, Hill: On Being Black and White in Canada,” a provocative and unprecedented look at a timely and engrossing topic.

  • Check All That Apply: The Psychological Costs and Benefits of Adopting a Multiracial Identity

    Check All That Apply: The Psychological Costs and Benefits of Adopting a Multiracial Identity SPSP 2010 The Eleventh Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology Royal Pavilion 6 Friday, 2010-01-29, 09:45-11:00 PST (Local Time) Chair: Todd L. Pittinsky, Harvard University Multiracial people have always challenged the conventional notions of racial categorization, exemplified…

  • Sixth Annual Ray Warren Multicultural Symposium (2009): Mixed: The Politics of Hybrid Identities

    Sixth Annual Ray Warren Multicultural Symposium (2009): Mixed: The Politics of Hybrid Identities Lewis and Clark College Portland, Oregon 2009-11-11 through 2009-11-13 Events “Obama and the Biracial Factor: Race, Sexuality, and the Battle for a New America” – Andrew Jolivétte (Introduced by Brenda Salas Neves, L&C student and symposium co-chair) “Secrets of a Mixed Race…

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

    Dispatches from the Color Line: The Press and Multiracial America State University of New York Press July 2007 295 pages Hardcover ISBN10: 0-7914-7099-7; ISBN13: 978-0-7914-7099-2 Paperback ISBN10: 0-7914-7100-4; ISBN13: 978-0-7914-7100-5 Catherine R. Squires, Cowles Professor of Journalism, Diversity and Equality University of Minnesota Explores contemporary news media coverage of multiracial people and identities. When modern…

  • Maya Ethnolinguistic Identity: Violence, Cultural Rights, and Modernity in Highland Guatemala

    Maya Ethnolinguistic Identity: Violence, Cultural Rights, and Modernity in Highland Guatemala University of Arizona Press 2010 192 pages 6.0 x 9.0 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8165-2767-0 Brigittine M. French, Assistant Professor of Anthropology Grinnell College In this valuable book, ethnographer and anthropologist Brigittine French mobilizes new critical-theoretical perspectives in linguistic anthropology, applying them to the politically charged…

  • Collecting and tabulating race/ethnicity data with diverse and mixed heritage populations: A case-study with US high school students

    Collecting and tabulating race/ethnicity data with diverse and mixed heritage populations: A case-study with US high school students Ethnic and Racial Studies September 2003 Vol. 26 No. 5 pp. 931–961 Alejandra M. Lopez-Torkos, Social Scientist SRI International The increasing diversity of the US coupled with the continuing need for information gathered about race/ethnicity require us…