Mixed Race Studies

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  • Take Your Choice: Separation or Mongrelization

    The incontrovertible truths of this book and its sincere warnings are respectfully inscribed to every white man and woman, regardless of nationality, who is a bona fide citizen of the United States of America.

  • “Race”: a Political Weapon

    “Race”: a Political Weapon Counterpunch: Tells the Facts and Names the Names 2014-12-03 Luciana Bohne, Professor Edinboro University, Edinboro, Pennsylvania “The racial categories included in the census questionnaire generally reflect a social definition of race recognized in this country and not an attempt to define race biologically, anthropologically, or genetically.” —US Census According to a…

  • How Racists and Partisans Exploit the Age of Obama

    How Racists and Partisans Exploit the Age of Obama The Atlantic 2014-12-11 Norm Ornstein Since 2008, the Democratic Party has increasingly become the home of minorities, while the Republican Party draws its support from whites. One of my fondest memories was spending four days in February 1977 as a staffer sitting on the Senate floor,…

  • Unrest Over Race Is Testing Obama’s Legacy

    Unrest Over Race Is Testing Obama’s Legacy The New York Times 2014-12-08 Julie Hirschfeld Davis, White House Reporter Michael D. Shear, White House Correspondent WASHINGTON — As crowds of people staged “die-ins” across the country last week to protest the deaths of unarmed black men at the hands of police officers, young African-American activists were…

  • White Anxiety and the Futility of Black Hope

    White Anxiety and the Futility of Black Hope The New York Times 2014-12-05 George Yancy, Professor of Philosophy Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Shannon Sullivan, Professor of Philosophy University of North Carolina, Charlotte This is the third in a series of interviews with philosophers on race that I am conducting for The Stone. This week’s conversation…

  • Racial divisions still require full attention

    Racial divisions still require full attention The Daily News Journal Murfreesboro, Tennessee 2014-12-01 Editorial Board Harpers Ferry…Montgomery…Little Rock…Birmingham…Selma…Ferguson… Despite some optimism that the United States had evolved into a “post-racial” era, particularly with the election of a black president, events in Ferguson, Missouri, continue to reinforce the reality of a racial divide in this country.…

  • Obama Plans Meetings on Ferguson Unrest at the White House

    Obama Plans Meetings on Ferguson Unrest at the White House The New York Times 2014-11-30 Julie Hirschfeld Davis, White House Reporter WASHINGTON — President Obama is planning a day of meetings at the White House on Monday to respond to the unrest in Ferguson, Mo., and racially tinged anger across the country after a grand…

  • The Census Is Still Trying To Find The Best Way To Track Race In America

    The Census Is Still Trying To Find The Best Way To Track Race In America FiveThirtyEight New York, New York 2014-11-26 Ben Casselman, Chief Economics Writer At FiveThirtyEight, we use census data all the time to track demographic and social trends, from the aging of the U.S. population to the decline in marriage and shifts…

  • In Northern Ireland, a Wave of Immigrants Is Met With Fists

    In Northern Ireland, a Wave of Immigrants Is Met With Fists The New York Times 2014-11-28 Douglas Dalby BELFAST, Northern Ireland — More than 16 years after the Good Friday peace deal brought real hope that Protestants and Roman Catholics could live together in relative harmony, Northern Ireland is being racked by another wave of…

  • Dorothy Roberts, “Fatal Invention: The New Biopolitics of Race.”

    Dorothy Roberts, “Fatal Invention: The New Biopolitics of Race.” McMaster University Hamilton, Ontario, L8S4L9, Canada 2014-10-23 Public Lecture: Dorothy Roberts, George A. Weiss University Professor of Law and Sociology at UPenn, came to McMaster University on October 23, 2014 to give a lecture titled “Fatal Invention: The New Biopolitics of Race.” In her talk, Roberts…