Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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Brazil’s affirmative action law offers a huge hand up The Christian Science Monitor 2013-02-12 Sara Miller Llana, Latin America Bureau Chief and Staff Writer Public universities in Brazil will reserve half their seats to provide racial, income, and ethnic diversity – a law that goes the furthest in the Americas in attempting race-based equality. It…
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Challenges to Affirmative Action: An Analysis of Skin Color and Verification at the Universidade Federal do Paraná in Brazil Journal of Undergraduate Research University of Florida Volume 14, Issue 1 (Fall 2012) 8 pages Laura Hundersmarck College of Liberal Arts and Sciences University of Florida Historically, Brazilian racial identity has been constructed from a color…
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It Takes a Village: Building Support Structures for Mixed Race Students in Higher Education National Conference on Race and Ethnicity (NCORE) 26th Annual National Conference New Orleans, Louisiana 2013-05-28 through 2013-06-01 2013-05-31, 15:15-17:15 CST (Local Time) Lawrence-Minh Davis, Founding Co-Director The Asian American Literary Review, Inc. Jennifer Hayashida, Professor and Director of Asian American Studies…
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Multiracial Identity and Intersectionality: New Ways of Understanding Racial Identity in Ourselves and Our Students National Conference on Race and Ethnicity (NCORE) 26th Annual National Conference New Orleans, Louisiana 2013-05-28 through 2013-06-01 2013-05-30, 13:30-15:30 CST (Local Time) Meg Chang, Faculty California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco, California Charmaine L. Wijeyesinghe, Consultant, Organizational Development and…
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This paper builds a Critical Race Theory approach to consider how mixed-race American Indian college students conform to, or resist, dominant black/non-black ideology. Current research on multiracials in the U.S. lacks the perspectives of mixed-race American Indians on the heightened disputes of “Indianness,” tribal enrollment, and tribal self-determination.
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National Association of Mixed Student Organizations (NAMSO) – Newsletter 1.3 National Association of Mixed Student Organizations 2013-02-10 Happy spring semester! Dear Mixed Student Organizations and friends, Hope the new term and new year are off to a great start. Here at NAMSO, we have been busier than ever following the holiday season. In this…
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An Examination of Biracial College Youths’ Family Ethnic Socialization, Ethnic Identity, and Adjustment: Do Self-Identification Labels and University Context Matter? Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology 2012-08-20 DOI: 10.1037/a0029438 Aerika S. Brittian, Assistant Professor of Educational Psychology University of Illinois, Chicago Adriana J. Umaña-Taylor, Professor School of Social and Family Dynamics Arizona State University Chelsea…
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Don’t consign Mary Seacole to history, Michael Gove is urged The Independent London, England 2013-01-04 Kevin Rawlinson Petition launched to prevent Crimean War nurse being written out of school textbooks Leading black Britons have united to urge the Education Secretary, Michael Gove, to abandons his plan to remove the country’s most celebrated black historical figure…
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Marriages Across Racial, Ethnic Lines on the Rise, Study Says Education Week 2012-02-16 Lesli A. Maxwell, Education Reporter As the number of couples marrying across racial and ethnic lines continues to grow in the United States, public attitudes toward intermarriage are also becoming more accepting, according to a new report by the Pew Research Center.…