Mixed Race Studies

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  • Interview with Jonathan Xavier Inda on Racial Prescriptions

    Interview with Jonathan Xavier Inda on Racial Prescriptions Theory, Culture & Society 2015-12-22 Sibille Merz, Doctoral Researcher Goldsmiths, University of London Questioning Racial Prescriptions: An interview with Jonathan Xavier Inda Sibille Merz: Racial Prescriptions provides a timely, illuminating and theoretically-engaged analysis of the making of BiDil, the first (and only) drug that was marketed exclusively…

  • The Trouble with Post-Blackness

    The Trouble with Post-Blackness Columbia University Press February 2015 288 pages Paperback ISBN: 9780231169356 Hardcover ISBN: 9780231169349 E-book ISBN: 9780231538503 Edited by: Houston A. Baker, Distinguished University Professor Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee K. Merinda Simmons, Associate Professor of Religious Studies University of Alabama An America in which the color of one’s skin no longer matters…

  • Your Nationalism Can’t Contain Me

    Your Nationalism Can’t Contain Me The Nation 2016-08-25 Aminatta Forna Aminatta Forna. Photo and Illustration by Jonathan Ring. I’ve held three passports and claimed many identities, all at once. I am the future of citizenship. Those of us who call ourselves British and were of age in 1990 will remember the Conservative politician Norman Tebbit…

  • Skin Color Still Plays Big Role In Ethnically Diverse Brazil

    Skin Color Still Plays Big Role In Ethnically Diverse Brazil All Things Considered National Public Radio 2013-09-19 Audie Cornish, Host Melissa Block visits a historic section of Rio de Janeiro that pays homage to Afro-Brazilian history and the many slaves that came ashore there. She talks with Brazilian filmmaker Joel Zito Araujo about what it…

  • The Effects of School Desegregation on Mixed-Race Births

    The Effects of School Desegregation on Mixed-Race Births The National Bureau of Economic Research NBER Working Paper No. 22480 Issued in August 2016 47 pages DOI: 10.3386/w22480 Nora Gordon, Associate Professor McCourt School of Public Policy Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. Sarah Reber, Associate Professor of Public Policy Luskin School of Public Affairs University of California, Los…

  • The Senator and the Socialite: The True Story of America’s First Black Dynasty

    The Senator and the Socialite: The True Story of America’s First Black Dynasty HarperCollins 2006-06-27 512 pages 5.313 in (w) x 8 in (h) x 0.821 in (d) Hardcover ISBN: 978-0060184124 Paperback ISBN: 9780060985134 eBook ISBN: 9780061873911 Lawrence Otis Graham Blanche Kelso Bruce was born a slave in 1841, yet, remarkably, amassed a real-estate fortune…

  • JUSTIN WEBB: The tragic irony is, that under Barack Obama’s policy of not being black, America has become MORE divided by race

    JUSTIN WEBB: The tragic irony is, that under Barack Obama’s policy of not being black, America has become MORE divided by race The Daily Mail 2016-07-19 Justin Webb Like many of the most persuasive public speakers, Barack Obama has always had a neat line in self-deprecation. Shortly before being elected President in 2008 he told…

  • Othering Obama: Racial Attitudes and Dubious Beliefs about the Nation’s First Black President

    Othering Obama: Racial Attitudes and Dubious Beliefs about the Nation’s First Black President Sociological Perspectives Volume 57, Number 4 (December 2014) pages 450-469 DOI: 10.1177/0731121414536140 Daniel Tope, Associate Professor of Sociology Florida State University Justin T. Pickett, Assistant Professor School of Criminal Justice State University of New York, Albany Ryon J. Cobb, National Institute on…

  • Genetics against race: Science, politics and affirmative action in Brazil

    Genetics against race: Science, politics and affirmative action in Brazil Social Studies of Science Volume 45, Number 6 (December 2015) pages 816-838 DOI: 10.1177/0306312715610217 Peter Wade, Professor of Social Anthropology University of Manchester Michael Kent, Honorary Research Fellow in Social Anthropology School of Social Sciences University of Manchester This article analyses interrelations between genetic ancestry…

  • Glamour Exclusive: President Barack Obama Says, “This Is What a Feminist Looks Like”

    Glamour Exclusive: President Barack Obama Says, “This Is What a Feminist Looks Like” Glamour 2016-08-04 Barack Obama, President of the United States Washington, D.C. The Perk of a “45-Second Commute” The President has spent “a lot more time” watching Sasha and Malia (here, meeting Mac the Turkey in 2014) grow into women. Official White House…