Mixed Race Studies

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  • The Politics of Multiracialism: Challenging Racial Thinking

    The Politics of Multiracialism: Challenging Racial Thinking State University of New York Press June 2004 263 pages Hardcover ISBN-10: 0-7914-6153-X; ISBN-13: 978-0-7914-6153-2 Paperback ISBN-10: 0-7914-6154-8; ISBN13: 978-0-7914-6154-9 Editor: Heather M. Dalmage, Professor of Sociology and Director Mansfield Institute for Social Justice Roosevelt University A provocative analysis of current thought and discourse on multiracialism. This is…

  • ‘Mixed Race’ Studies: A Reader

    This collection adds a new dimension to the growing body of literature on the topic and provides a comprehensive history of the origins and directions of ‘mixed race’ research as an intellectual movement. For students of anthropology, race and ethnicity, it is an invaluable resource for examining the complexities and paradoxes of ‘racial’ thinking across…

  • Spurious Issues: Race And Multiracial Identity Politics In The United States

    Spurious Issues: Race And Multiracial Identity Politics In The United States Westview Press 1999-08-12 240 pages Hardcover ISBN-10: 0813336775; ISBN-13: 978-0813336770 Rainier Spencer, Director and Professor of Afro-American Studies; Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies University of Nevada, Las Vegas Recent times have seen the rise of a movement lobbying for explicit recognition of multiracial identity as…

  • Beyond Racial Exceptionalism: Explaining the Convergence of Mixed-Race Census Categorizations in Canada, the U.S. and Great Britain

    Beyond Racial Exceptionalism: Explaining the Convergence of Mixed-Race Census Categorizations in Canada, the U.S. and Great Britain Canadian Political Science Association 81th Annual Conference 2009-05-27 through 2009-05-29 Debra Thompson, Assistant Professor of Political Science Ohio University By examining racial classifications in national censuses this paper will explore moments of policy convergence that defy domestic explanations…

  • Obama, The Instability of Color Lines, and the Promise of a Postethnic Future

    Obama, The Instability of Color Lines, and the Promise of a Postethnic Future Callaloo: A Journal of African Diaspora Arts and Letters Volume 31, Number 4 (2008) pages 1033–1037 DOI: 10.1353/cal.0.0282 David A. Hollinger, Preston Hotchkis Professor of American History University of California at Berkeley The focus of media depictions of Barack Obama as a…

  • Mixed Race in Britain: A Survey of the Preferences of Mixed Race People for Terminology and Classifications (Interim Report)

    Mixed Race in Britain: A Survey of the Preferences of Mixed Race People for Terminology and Classifications (Interim Report) Centre for Health Services Studies (CHSS) University of Kent at Canterbury July 2006 Peter Aspinall, Senior Research Fellow Centre for Health Services Studies (CHSS) University of Kent Miri Song, Professor of Sociology University of Kent Ferhana…

  • Assessing Multiracial Identity Theory and Politics: The Challenge of Hypodescent

    Assessing Multiracial Identity Theory and Politics: The Challenge of Hypodescent Ethnicities Volume 4, Number 3 (September 2004) pages 357-379 DOI: 10.1177/1468796804045239 Rainier Spencer, Professor Department of Anthropology & Ethnic Studies University of Nevada, Las Vegas It is increasingly possible to detect a split in regard to current analyses of multiracial identity in the United States. On the…

  • Legacies of Race: Identities, Attitudes, and Politics in Brazil

    “Legacies of Race” offers the first examination of Brazilian public opinion to understand racial identities, attitudes, and politics in this racially ambiguous context.

  • From: KNPR in Nevada: A Conversation About Race and Ethnicity in America

    From: KNPR in Nevada: A Conversation About Race and Ethnicity in America  (2008-08-22) We continue our conversation about race and ethnicity in America when we host a joint broadcast [on 2008-08-22] with KCEP-FM.  KCEP’s Patricia Cunningham joins us with UNLV [University of Nevada at Las Vegas] Professor Rainier Spencer and Pastor Robert Fowler of The Victory Missionary Baptist…

  • The Browning of America and the Evasion of Social Justice (Review)

    The Browning of America and the Evasion of Social Justice (Review) by Ronald R. Sundstrom SUNY Press 2008, 190pp., $24.95 (pbk.) ISBN: 9780791475867 Notre Dame Philisophical Reviews 2009-06-29 Reviewed by Lucius T. Outlaw (Jr.) Vanderbilt University The United States is undergoing the most profound demographic changes in the country’s history so that in a few…