Mixed Race Studies

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Visualizing Black Lives: Ownership and Control in Afro-Brazilian Media

2022-05-07

Visualizing Black Lives: Ownership and Control in Afro-Brazilian Media University of Illinois Press 2022-04-26 152 pages 6 x 9 in 12 black & white photographs Cloth ISBN: 978-0-252-04441-0 Paper ISBN: 978-0-252-08648-9 eBook ISBN: 978-0-252-05340-5 Reighan Gillam, Associate Professor of Anthropology University of Southern California A new generation of Afro-Brazilian media producers have emerged to challenge…
Bleach in the Rainbow: Latin Ethnicity and Preference for Whiteness

2022-04-15

In contrast, research reported in this article indicates strong similarities in the construction and the operation race the entire Americas. Genotype, or African ancestry, is shown to matter in Latin America; phenotype, or appearance, is shown to matter in the United States.
June Shagaloff Alexander, School Desegregation Leader, Dies at 93

2022-04-15

She helped Thurgood Marshall prepare for his Supreme Court fight and later took on de facto school segregation across the North and West.
Special Issue “Multiracial Identities and Experiences in/under White Supremacy”

2022-04-05

Special Issue “Multiracial Identities and Experiences in/under White Supremacy” Social SciencesVolume 11, Number 2, Special Issue “Multiracial Identities and Experiences in/under White Supremacy”Published 2022-02-21 Guest Editors: David L. Brunsma, Professor of SociologyVirginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia Jennifer Sims, Assistant Professor of SociologyUniversity of Alabama, Huntsville Dear Colleagues, Social scientific scholarship on Multiracial experiences and processes of…
How Are We Still Debating Interracial Marriage in 2022?

2022-03-25

Senator Braun’s mistake was not that he misunderstood the question; it’s that he understood it all too well. The world he and his colleagues are working toward is one in which the national government defers the question of civil and political rights to the states. And it is in the states, free from federal oversight,…
Who is Afro-Latin@? Examining the Social Construction of Race and Négritude in Latin America and the Caribbean

2022-03-20

Who is Afro-Latin@? Examining the Social Construction of Race and Négritude in Latin America and the Caribbean Social Education Volume 81, January/February (2017) pages 37-42 Christopher L. Busey, Associate Professor School of Teaching and Learning University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida Bárbara C. Cruz, Professor of Social Education University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida By the…
Former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio serves as a brown face of white supremacy

2022-03-17

White supremacy will always attract nonwhite believers.
A War Born Family: African American Adoption in the Wake of the Korean War

2022-03-17

The origins of a transnational adoption strategy that secured the future for Korean-black children
Barack Obama: Conservative, Pragmatist, Progressive

2022-03-15

In this insightful biography, Burton I. Kaufman explores how the political career of Barack Obama was marked by conservative tendencies that frustrated his progressive supporters and gave the lie to socialist fearmongering on the right. Obama’s was a landmark presidency that paradoxically, Kaufman shows, resulted in few, if any, radical shifts in policy.
The Heaviest Drop of Blood: Black Exceptionalism Among Multiracials

2022-03-11

Results suggest that even in a more racially mixed future, Black Americans will continue to be uniquely situated behind a most impermeable color line.

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