Mixed Race Studies

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  • The 2020 census had big undercounts of Black people, Latinos and Native Americans

    The 2020 census continued a longstanding trend of undercounting Black people, Latinos and Native Americans, while overcounting people who identified as white and not Latino, according to estimates from a report the U.S. Census Bureau released Thursday.

  • The Films of Branwen Okpako: CfP for a GSA Panel Series

    The Films of Branwen Okpako: CfP for a GSA Panel Series DEFA Film Library January 2022 We invite contributions for a series of panels on Branwen Okpako’s films, for the 2022 GSA conference, September 15-18, 2022. Co-sponsored by the Black German Heritage & Research Association (BGHRA) and the DEFA Film Library, these panels seek to…

  • The U.S. census sees Middle Eastern and North African people as white. Many don’t

    The U.S. census sees Middle Eastern and North African people as white. Many don’t National Public Radio 2022-02-17 Hansi Lo Wang, Correspondent, National Desk Federal government standards require the U.S. census to count people with roots in the Middle East or North Africa as white. But a new study finds many people of MENA descent…

  • ASU professor takes leadership of NEA

    Jackson sees opportunity in re-imagining the role of arts in creating healthy communities

  • The persistence of myth: Brazil’s undead ‘racial democracy’

    Drawing on Roland Barthes’ theory of myth, I show how the celebration of racial mixture, or mestiçagem, functions as a mythological signifier of racial democracy that operates beneath and beyond the level of conscious thought, activating powerful affects and desires even in those who ostensibly know better.

  • Middle Eastern and North African Americans may not be perceived, nor perceive themselves, to be White

    Our findings provide evidence about the suitability of adding a separate MENA label to the race/ethnicity identification question in the US Census, and suggest MENAs’ official designation as White may not correspond to their lived experiences nor to others’ perceptions.

  • 5 Years After Muslim Ban, Middle Eastern and North African Americans Remain Hidden | Opinion

    5 Years After Muslim Ban, Middle Eastern and North African Americans Remain Hidden | Opinion Newsweek 2022-02-08 Neda Maghbouleh, Associate Professor of Sociology University of Toronto René D. Flores, Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of Sociology University of Chicago Ariela Schachter, Assistant Professor of Sociology​; Faculty Affiliate in Asian American Studies Washington University in St. Louis,…

  • 2022 CMRS Conference Is Two Weeks Away!

    2022 CMRS Conference Is Two Weeks Away! Critical Mixed Race Studies Association 2022-01-24 *** View the program schedule here! *** REGISTER NOW! It is not too late to register for the 6th biennial Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference titled Ancestral Futurisms: Embodying Multiracialities Past, Present, and Future to be held virtually February 24-26, 2022. To…

  • The Galton Society for the Study of the Origin and Evolution of Man (1918–1935)

    The Galton Society for the Study of the Origin and Evolution of Man (1918–1935) The Embryo Project Encyclopedia 2021-06-03 Aliya R. Hoff, Ph.D. Candidate in Anthropology Arizona State University Charles Benedict Davenport, Madison Grant, and Henry Fairfield Osborn founded the Galton Society for the Study of the Origin and Evolution of Man, or the Galton…

  • Race is a Social Construct

    Race is a Social Construct Center for Health Progress2017-10-24 Sarah McAfeeGolden, Colorado On a recent road trip with my sister, a doctor, we were talking about how race is a social construct. (We’re not the best conversationalists.) She asked, “If there’s no biological basis for race, then why do some medications work better for people…