Mixed Race Studies

Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.

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Remapping Black Germany: New Perspectives on Afro-German History, Politics, and Culture

2017-07-16

Remapping Black Germany collects thirteen pieces that consider the wide array of issues facing Black German groups and individuals across turbulent periods, spanning the German colonial period, National Socialism, divided Germany, and the enormous outpouring of Black German creativity after 1986.
Reflection: How Multiracial Lives Matter 50 Years After Loving

2017-07-10

In this short reflection piece, I query how multiracial lives matter in the context of this heated social and political discussion about race.
SBU Libraries Black History Month Lecture 2-13-17 Dr. Zebulon Miletsky: “Obama, Post-Racialism and the New American Dilemma”

2017-07-10

Based on a book chapter-in-progress for a volume on the Black Intellectual Tradition in America, this presentation discusses how the 21st century could potentially mark a new low in American race relations—or a “new American dilemma”.
Race and Ethnicity: Constancy in Change (First Edition)

2017-07-05

“Race and Ethnicity: Constancy in Change” uses both classic readings and new research on contemporary racial inequality to create a logical progression through the primary issues of race and ethnicity.
Racism without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in America, Fifth Edition

2017-07-05

Eduardo Bonilla-Silva’s acclaimed Racism without Racists documents how, beneath our contemporary conversation about race, there lies a full-blown arsenal of arguments, phrases, and stories that whites use to account for—and ultimately justify—racial inequalities. This provocative book explodes the belief that America is now a color-blind society.
Surviving Twice: Amerasian Children of the Vietnam War

2017-06-29

Trin Yarborough talked about her book, Surviving Twice: Amerasian Children of the Vietnam War, published by Potomac Books. She talked about the lives of orphans who weren born to American soldiers during the Vietnam War.
Surviving Twice: Amerasian Children of the Vietnam War

2017-06-29

Surviving Twice is the story of five Vietnamese Amerasians born during the Vietnam War to American soldiers and Vietnamese mothers.
I Only Protested the Affordable Care Act Because the President Was Black. Please Don’t Take Away My Health Insurance

2017-06-28

Back in 2009, when the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act was being debated in Congress, I was fuming with anger. How could I, a fiscal conservative, support a program that would drive down my insurance costs and cover my child’s preexisting condition? It clearly was a flawed bill that would ruin small businesses.
Red and Yellow, Black and Brown: Decentering Whiteness in Mixed Race Studies

2017-06-26

“Red and Yellow, Black and Brown” gathers together life stories and analysis by twelve contributors who express and seek to understand the often very different dynamics that exist for mixed race people who are not part white. The chapters focus on the social, psychological, and political situations of mixed race people who have links to…
Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama and the Limitations of Liberal Criticism

2017-06-13

Authors Dr. Todd Steven Burroughs and Paul Street discuss their reviews of David Garrow‘s Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama. We also discussed the liberal limitations of Garrow’s criticism and the omission of Left critiques by “alternative” and “Left” media outlets.

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