Mixed Race Studies

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  • Barack Obama’s rise marks America’s first multiracial decade

    Barack Obama’s rise marks America’s first multiracial decade Yahoo News 2009-12-09 Thomas Kelley Everyone has a day of awakening when it comes to race. For me, it was a cool September day when I was eight years old. My family had recently moved to Colorado from Tennessee and like any child starting a new school,…

  • Blended Nation: Portraits and Interviews of Mixed-Race America

    Blended Nation: Portraits and Interviews of Mixed-Race America Channel Photographics 2009-08-11 140 pages 11 x 11 inches Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-9773399-2-1 Mike Tauber Pamela Singh What are you? On the 2000 U.S. Census, for the first time, multiracial individuals were allowed to indicate more than one race. Nearly seven million Americans did so. Blended Nation: Portraits…

  • Mixed Race Americans Picture A ‘Blended Nation’

    Mixed Race Americans Picture A ‘Blended Nation’ Weekend Edition Sunday National Public Radio 2009-11-08 Liane Hansen, Host The 2000 U.S. census was the first to give Americans the option to check more than one box for race. Nearly 7 million people declared themselves to be multiracial that year, a number that’s expected to shoot up…

  • How Will Barack Obama Fill Out His Census Form?: The Future of “Miscegenation” in America

    How Will Barack Obama Fill Out His Census Form?: The Future of “Miscegenation” in America FSB Media 2009 Rich Benjamin The President says publicly that he is “African-American.”But will he check “black” or “two or more races” on his 2010 Census form? My parents, two dark-skinned blacks, married in 1967, a year when miscegenation —…

  • “There’s No One as Irish as Barack O’Bama”: The Policy and Politics of American Multiracialism

    “There’s No One as Irish as Barack O’Bama”: The Policy and Politics of American Multiracialism Weatherhead Center for International Affairs Harvard University February 2010 Working Paper 68 pages Jennifer Hochschild, Henry LaBarre Jayne Professor of Government and Professor of African and African American Studies Harvard University Vesla Weaver, Assistant Professor The Woodrow Wilson Department of…

  • Multiracial no longer boxed in by the Census

    Multiracial no longer boxed in by the Census USA Today 2010-03-02 Haya El Nasser Jennifer Harvey was raised by her white mother and white stepfather in what she calls “a Caucasian world.” Harvey never met her father but she knew he was black and Cuban. That made her Hispanic, white and black. “Blacks think I’m…

  • Mixed-race Americans face wage discrimination

    Mixed-race Americans face wage discrimination New Scientist Magazine issue 2696 Science in Society 2009-02-22 Luckily for Barack Obama, the US president’s salary doesn’t depend on who gets elected. A study of racial discrimination in the US workplace suggests that mixed-race Americans  are discriminated against just as much as black people in terms of salary. Economist…

  • Place, scale and the racial claims made for multiracial children in the 1990 US Census

    Place, scale and the racial claims made for multiracial children in the 1990 US Census Ethnic and Racial Studies Volume 32, Issue 3 (March 2009) pages 522 – 547 Steven R. Holloway, Professor of Geography University of Georgia Richard Wright, Orvil E. Dryfoos Professor of Geography and Public Affairs and Geography Department Chair Dartmouth College…

  • Public Categories, Private Identities: Exploring Regional Differences in the Biracial Experience

    Public Categories, Private Identities: Exploring Regional Differences in the Biracial Experience Social Science Research Volume 35, Issue 3, September 2006 Pages 555-576 David L. Brunsma, Professor of Sociology Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Empirical research on multiraciality and the development of richer models of racial identity have increased in the last decade. Increased attention…

  • What Does “Black” Mean? Exploring the Epistemological Stranglehold of Racial Categorization

    What Does “Black” Mean? Exploring the Epistemological Stranglehold of Racial Categorization Critical Sociology Vol. 28, No. 1-2 (2002) pages 101-121 DOI: 10.1177/08969205020280010801 David L. Brunsma, Professor of Sociology Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Kerry Ann Rockquemore, Associate Professor of Sociology University of Illinois at Chicago The “check all that apply” approach to race on the…