Mixed Race Studies

Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.

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  • Multiracial Community Organizations Response to #Ferguson

    Multiracial Community Organizations Response to #Ferguson 2014-11-26 As members of the multiracial community, we want to express our concern and compassion for the family of Michael Brown Jr. We are connected to these events and stand in solidarity with the many individuals and communities that have been harmed by the legacies of white supremacy, privilege, and…

  • Roundtable: Global Mixed Race

    Roundtable: Global Mixed Race University of California, Santa Barbara Department of Political Science The Lane Room (Ellison 3824) Monday, 2015-03-02, 16:00 PST (Local Time) The authors of the new book Global Mixed Race (New York University Press) will participate in a Roundtable on the subject. The authors are: G. Reginald Daniel, UCSB Sociology Adrienne Edgar,…

  • Waking from Mixed Dreams

    Waking from Mixed Dreams Mixed Dreams: towards a radical multiracial/ethnic movement 2015-02-26 Nicole Asong Nfonoyim-Hara Let me begin, if I may, by introducing this rather belated post with the powerful words of some scholars, poets, writers, and activists to set our scene: “American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than…

  • Giuliani: Obama Had a White Mother, So I’m Not a Racist

    Giuliani: Obama Had a White Mother, So I’m Not a Racist The New York Times 2015-02-19 Maggie Haberman, Political Reporter Nicholas Confessore, Political Reporter Former Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani of New York on Thursday defended his assertion that President Obama did not love America, and said that his criticism of Mr. Obama’s upbringing should not…

  • Soledad O’Brien Returns to SBU with Her Black in America Tour

    Soledad O’Brien Returns to SBU with Her Black in America Tour Stony Brook University Happenings: The online newsletter for Stony Brook University Stony Brook, New York 2015-02-06 Award-winning journalist and former CNN news anchor Soledad O’Brien brings her Black in America tour to Stony Brook University in an interactive event that includes a panel discussion…

  • Obama meets with 10 unsuspecting students for hourlong roundtable

    Obama meets with 10 unsuspecting students for hourlong roundtable The Stanford Daily Stanford University, Palo Alto, California 2015-02-13 Victor Xu, Desk Editor Vicki Niu ’18 (right) was one of 10 students who participated in an hourlong roundtable with President Barack Obama on Friday afternoon. (SAM GIRVIN/The Stanford Daily) Rio LaVigne ’15 signed up to meet…

  • Mixed Race 3.0: Risk and Reward in the Digital Age

    Mixed Race 3.0: Risk and Reward in the Digital Age USC Annenberg Press 2015-01-30 113 pages ISBN: 9781625175564 Edited by: Ulli K. Ryder Department of Gender and Women’s Studies University of Rhode Island Marcia Alesan Dawkins, Clinical Assistant Professor Annenberg School for Communication and Jounalism University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California Have you been…

  • Katanga’s forgotten people

    Katanga’s forgotten people FRANCE 24 2010-03-16 Marlène Rabaud Arnaud Zajtman Like many mixed-race children in Congo, they were born of a Japanese father who came to work in the mines of Katanga in south-east of the country. Today, they accuse their fathers of wanting to kill them so as not to leave behind any traces when…

  • Scripts of Blackness: Race, Cultural Nationalism, and U.S. Colonialism in Puerto Rico

    Ideas of blackness, whiteness, and racial mixture in a Puerto Rican barrio

  • When you say you ‘don’t see race’, you’re ignoring racism, not helping to solve it

    When you say you ‘don’t see race’, you’re ignoring racism, not helping to solve it The Guardian 2015-01-26 Zach Stafford Race is such an ingrained social construct that even blind people can ‘see’ it. To pretend it doesn’t exist to you erases the experiences of black people People love to tell me that they often…