Mixed Race Studies

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  • Mixed-Race School-Age Children: A Summary of Census 2000 Data

    Mixed-Race School-Age Children: A Summary of Census 2000 Data Educational Researcher Volume 32, Number 6 (2003) pages 25-37 DOI: 10.3102/0013189X032006025 Alejandra M. Lopez-Torkos, Social Scientist SRI International On the 2000 Census, people were allowed to identify themselves and their children by more than one race. This article examines these data to document the mixed-race population…

  • Living Proof: Is Hawaii the Answer?

    Living Proof: Is Hawaii the Answer? The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science Volume 530, Number 1 (November 1993) pages 137-154 DOI: 10.1177/0002716293530001010 Glen Grant Dennis M. Ogawa, Professor and Department Chair of American Studies University of Hawaii Hawaii has often been heralded for its relatively harmonious race relations, which encompass…

  • Individuals versus Group? The Moral Conundrum of Blurred Racial Boundaries

    Individuals versus Group? The Moral Conundrum of Blurred Racial Boundaries Chapter for publication in Social Science and Ethics, ed. Kristen Monroe. Book manuscript being prepared for review. 2008-08-26 Jennifer L. Hochschild, Henry LaBarre Jayne Professor of Government and Professor of African and African American Studies Harvard University A classic moral conundrum, especially though not uniquely…

  • Interracial Intimacy: The Regulation of Race and Romance

    Interracial Intimacy: The Regulation of Race and Romance The University of Chicago Press 2001 232 pages 6 x 9 Paper ISBN: 9780226536637 Rachel F. Moran, Michael J. Connell Distinguished Professor of Law University of California, Los Angeles As late as the 1960s, states could legally punish minorities who either had sex with or married persons…

  • Interracial Intimacy and the Potential for Social Change

    Interracial Intimacy and the Potential for Social Change Berkeley Women’s Law Journal University of California, Berkeley Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper Series 2002 pp. 153-164 Stephanie M. Wildman, Professor of Law and Director of Center for Social Justice and Public Service Santa Clara University School of Law Moran, Rachel F.  (2001).  Interracial Intimacy: The Regulation…

  • Race Law Stories

    Race Law Stories Foundation Press 2008 624 pages ISBN-13: 9781599410012 Edited by Rachel F. Moran, Michael J. Connell Distinguished Professor of Law University of California, Los Angeles Devon Wayne Carbado, Professor of Law University of California, Los Angeles Race Law Stories brings to life well-known and not-so-well known legal opinions—hidden gems—that address slavery, Native American…

  • Asian Americans: From Racial Category to Multiple Identities

    Asian Americans: From Racial Category to Multiple Identities Alta Mira Press April 1998 116 pages Cloth: 2 0-7619-9172-7 / 978-0-7619-9172-4  Paper: 2 0-7619-9173-5 / 978-0-7619-9173-1  Juanita Tamayo Lott Does race matter? Having witnessed the civil rights movement and changes in immigration laws, we continue to ask ourselves this complex question. In the United States, racial…

  • Racial Constructions: The Legal Regulation of Miscegenation in Alabama, 1890–1934

    For over one hundred years–from the post–Civil War era to the post–Civil Rights era–the state of Alabama maintained a legal and social commitment to keeping blacks and whites from engaging in long-term sexual relationships with each other. Recent studies addressing the laws that barred miscegenation have shown that investigating governmental reactions to intimate interracial connections…

  • One Nation, One Blood: Interracial Marriage in American Fiction, Scandal, and Law, 1820–1870

    One Nation, One Blood: Interracial Marriage in American Fiction, Scandal, and Law, 1820–1870 University of Massachusetts Press June 2005 288 pages Cloth ISBN: 978-1-55849-483-1 Karen Woods Weierman, Associate Professor of English Worcester State University Examines the roots of a pernicious and persistent American taboo The proscription against interracial marriage was for many years a flashpoint…

  • Almighty God Created the Races: Christianity, Interracial Marriage, and American Law

    Almighty God Created the Races: Christianity, Interracial Marriage, and American Law University of North Carolina Press December 2009 288 pages 6.125 x 9.25, notes, bibl., index Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8078-3318-6 Paper ISBN: 978-1-4696-0727-6 Fay Botham, Adjunct Professor of Religious Studies University of Iowa In this fascinating cultural history of interracial marriage and its legal regulation in the United…