Mixed Race Studies

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  • Factors in the Microevolution of a Triracial Isolate

    Factors in the Microevolution of a Triracial Isolate American Journal of Human Genetics Volume 18, Number 1 (January 1966) pages 26-38 W. S. Pollitzer Department of Anatomy University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill R. M. Menegaz-Bock Genetics Training Committe University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill J. C. Herion Department of Medicine University of North Carolina,…

  • Multiethnicity and Multiethnic Families: Development, Identity, and Resilience

    Multiethnicity and Multiethnic Families: Development, Identity, and Resilience Xlibris 2010 384 pages ISBN 13 Softcover: 978-1-4500-1231-7 ISBN 13 Hardcover: 978-1-4500-1232-4 ISBN 13 Ebook: 978-1-4500-0340-7 Edited By: Hamilton McCubbin, Krystal Ontai, Lisa Kehl, Laurie McCubbin, Ida Strom, Heidi Hart, Barbara DeBaryshe, Marika Ripke and Jon Matsuoka Guided by the increasing number of interracial marriages, cross-cultural adoptions…

  • Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference

    Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference DePaul University, Lincoln Park Campus DePaul University Student Center 2250 N. Sheffield Chicago, Illinois USA 60614 2010-11-05 through 2010-11-06 Sponsored by DePaul University Asian American Studies and Latin American and Latino Studies and co-sponsored by the College of Ethnic Studies at San Francisco State University and the MAVIN Foundation. “Emerging…

  • ‘Half-breeds,’ racial opacity, and geographies of crime: law’s search for the ‘original’ Indian

    ‘Half-breeds,’ racial opacity, and geographies of crime: law’s search for the ‘original’ Indian Cultural Geographies Volume 17, Number 4 (October 2010) pages 487-506 DOI: 10.1177/1474474010376012 Renisa Mawani, Associate Professor of Sociology The University of British Columbia, Canada Discussions of hybridity have proliferated in cultural geography and in social and cultural theory. What has often been…

  • Ethnic Studies 064: Mixed Race Descent in the Americas

    Ethnic Studies 064: Mixed Race Descent in the Americas Mills College, Oakland, California Fall 2010 Melinda Micco, Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies This is an introductory course that examines the historical and theoretical development of identities and of communities of multiracial and multiethnic people. In the academy, in government, and in popular culture, the lives…

  • IndiVisible: African-Native American Lives in the Americas

    IndiVisible: African-Native American Lives in the Americas Smithsonian Institution 2009 256 pages 6 5/8 x 9 1/2 inches 115 color and black-and-white illustrations ISBN: 978-1-58834-271-3 Twenty-seven passionate essays explore the complex history and contemporary lives of people with a dual heritage that is a little-known part of American culture. Authors from across the Americas share…

  • African Creeks: Estelvste and the Creek Nation

    African Creeks: Estelvste and the Creek Nation University of Oklahoma Press 2007 368 pages, 6″ x 9″ Illustrations: 15 color illustrations, 4 maps Hardcover ISBN: 9780806138152 Paperback ISBN: 9780806168951 Gary Zellar, Assistant Professor of History University of Saskatchewan A narrative history of the African Creek community Among the Creeks, they were known as Estelvste—black people—and…

  • Personal passion fuels Smithsonian exhibit

    Personal passion fuels Smithsonian exhibit San Francisco State University News 2010-02-12 Denize Springer The search for identity is particularly complex for Americans of both African and Native American heritage, according to Assistant Professor of American Indian Studies Robert Keith Collins. Of Choctaw and African American descent, Collins has turned a personal passion into a career.…

  • “Who Do You Think You’re Border Patrolling?”: Negotiating “Multiracial” Identities and “Interracial” Relationships

    “Who Do You Think You’re Border Patrolling?”: Negotiating “Multiracial” Identities and “Interracial” Relationships Georgia State University 2008 348 pages Melinda Anne Mills A Dissertation Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the College of Arts and Sciences Georgia State University Research on racial border patrolling has demonstrated…

  • Coyote Nation: Sexuality, Race, and Conquest in Modernizing New Mexico, 1880-1920

    Coyote Nation: Sexuality, Race, and Conquest in Modernizing New Mexico, 1880-1920 University of Chicago Press 2005 224 pages 10 halftones  6 x 9 Cloth ISBN: 9780226532424 Paper ISBN: 9780226532431 E-book ISBN: 9780226532523 Pablo Mitchell, Eric and Jane Nord Associate Professor of History and Comparative American Studies Oberlin College With the arrival of the transcontinental railroad…