Mixed Race Studies

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  • Race and Ethnic Relations in the Twenty-First Century: History, Theory, Institutions, and Policy

    Race and Ethnic Relations in the Twenty-First Century: History, Theory, Institutions, and Policy Cognella 2011 436 pages Paperback ISBN: 978-1-93555-160-7 Edited by: Rashawn Ray, Assistant Professor of Sociology University of Maryland, College Park This book examines the major theoretical and empirical approaches regarding race/ethnicity. Its goal is to continue to place race and ethnic relations…

  • The Puzzling Whiteness of Brazilian Politicians

    The Puzzling Whiteness of Brazilian Politicians Berkeley Review of Latin American Studies Center for Latin American Studies University of California, Berkeley Fall 2012 pages 30-32 Jean Spencer, Outreach and Publications Coordinator Center for Latin American Studies Is Brazil really a racial democracy? The idea of racial democracy, originally put forth by the Brazilian sociologist Gilberto…

  • Stepping toward multiculturalism

    Stepping toward multiculturalism The Korea Herald 2013-04-03 Cho Chung-un Experts call for a long-term vision of Korea as a multiethnic society, social agreement on overall immigration policy Globalization, demographic change and economic growth have led Korea to embrace cultural diversity and tolerance toward others. But biases and discrimination against foreigners remain and Koreans’ pride for…

  • The Growing Need for a National Eugenic Program

    The Growing Need for a National Eugenic Program Bios Volume 7, Number 3 (October, 1936) pages 176-187 Sue D. Comer Mississippi Stale College for Women This paper received second award in the 1936 undergraduate competition. There has been much discussion during the past half century concerning Eugenics. This discussion has not been limited to scientists…

  • Backing Barack Because He’s Black: Racially Motivated Voting in the 2008 Election

    Backing Barack Because He’s Black: Racially Motivated Voting in the 2008 Election Social Science Quarterly Volume 92, Issue 2, June 2011 pages 423–446 DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6237.2011.00776.x Ray Block Jr., Assistant Professor of Political Science/Public Administration University of Wisconsin, La Crosse Objective. If racial considerations influenced the outcome of the 2008 presidential election, then how did they…

  • So, What Are You… Anyway?: 2013 Conference on Multiracial Identity

    So, What Are You… Anyway?: 2013 Conference on Multiracial Identity Hosted by the Harvard College Half-Asian People’s Association Harvard University 2013-04-05 through 2013-04-06 The Harvard Half-Asian People’s Association will host its fifth annual conference on mixed-race politics and identity issues, “So…What Are You, Anyway?” (SWAYA) on Friday, April 5, 2013 and Saturday, April 6, 2013…

  • Blackness Is The Fulcrum

    Blackness Is The Fulcrum RaceFiles: On Race and Racism in our Politics and Daily Lives 2012-05-04 Scot Nakagawa, Senior Partner ChangeLab I’m often asked why I’ve focused so much more on anti-black racism than on Asians over the years. Some suggest I suffer from internalized racism. That might well be true since who doesn’t suffer…

  • Opinion: Why Future Politicians Must Embrace Our Composite Nation

    Opinion: Why Future Politicians Must Embrace Our Composite Nation The Next America: How Demography Shapes the National Agenda National Journal 2012-11-14 Benjamin Todd Jealous, President and CEO National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) America is becoming browner—and the ability to harness the changing electorate has become the gold standard for any aspiring…

  • Against Race: Imagining Political Culture beyond the Color Line

    Against Race: Imagining Political Culture beyond the Color Line Belknap Press (an imprint of Harvard University Press) January 2002 416 pages 6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches 1 halftone Paperback ISBN: 9780674006690 Paul Gilroy, Anthony Giddens Professor of Social Theory London School of Economics After all the “progress” made since World War II in matters pertaining to…

  • Reproducing Race: The Paradox of Generation Mix

    Is postraciality just around the corner? How realistic are the often-heard pronouncements that mixed-race identity is leading the United States to its postracial future? In his provocative analysis, Rainier Spencer illuminates the assumptions that multiracial ideology in fact shares with concepts of both white supremacy and antiblackness.