Mixed Race Studies

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  • Multiracial Identity and the U.S. Census

    Multiracial Identity and the U.S. Census ProQuest Discovery Guides January 2010 Tyrone Nagai, Supervising Editor of Social Sciences ProQuest Introduction: What is Multiracial Identity?   Back on April 23, 1997, 21-year-old golfer Tiger Woods made headlines on the Oprah Winfrey Show when he described his racial background as “Cablinasian,” an abbreviation representing his “Caucasian,” “Black,”…

  • Options: Racial/Ethnic Identification of Children of Intermarried Couples

    Options: Racial/Ethnic Identification of Children of Intermarried Couples Social Science Quarterly (September 2004) Volume 85, Issue 3 Pages 746 – 766 DOI: 10.1111/j.0038-4941.2004.00243.x Zhenchao Qian, Professor of Sociology Ohio State University Objective. Whites of various European ethnic backgrounds usually have weak ethnic attachment and have options to identify their ethnic identity (Waters, 1990). What about children…

  • Black, White, Other: Racial categories are cultural constructs masquerading as biology

    Black, White, Other: Racial categories are cultural constructs masquerading as biology Natural History Magazine December 1994 pp. 32–35 Jonathan Marks, Associate Professor of Anthropology University of North Carolina, Charlotte While reading the Sunday edition of the New York Times one morning last February, my attention was drawn by an editorial inconsistency. The article I was…

  • Fade: My Journeys in Multiracial America

    Fade: My Journeys in Multiracial America Basic Books an imprint of The Perseus Books Group 2006-12-28 302 pages ISBN: 9780786718825 ISBN-10: 078671882X Elliott Lewis Television journalist Elliott Lewis weaves his memoirs as a black-and-white biracial American with the voices of dozens of multiracial people who are challenging how we think and speak about race today.…

  • Shades of Citizenship: Race and the Census in Modern Politics

    Shades of Citizenship: Race and the Census in Modern Politics Stanford University Press 2000 256 pages 4 tables. Cloth ISBN-10: 0804740135 Cloth ISBN-13: 9780804740135 Paper ISBN-10: 0804740593 Paper ISBN-13: 9780804740593 Melissa Nobles, Arthur and Ruth Sloan Professor of Political Science Massachusetts Institute of Technology This book explores the politics of race, censuses, and citizenship, drawing…

  • The Multiracial Experience: Racial Borders as the New Frontier

    In her bold new edited volume, The Multiracial Experience, Maria P. P. Root challenges current theoretical and political conceptualizations of race by examining the experience of mixed-race individuals.

  • Beyond Black: Biracial Identity in America (Book Review)

    Beyond Black: Biracial Identity in America (Book Review) Pychiatric Services May 2003 Volume 54 Page 751 Published by The American Psychiatric Association Maureen Slade, R.N., M.S., Director of Psychiatry Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago Brendan Slade-Smith Illinois Wesleyan University, Bloomington Beyond Black: Biracial Identity in America by Kerry Ann Rockquemore and David L. Brunsma; Thousand Oaks,…

  • Dispatches from the Color Line: The Press and Multiracial America

    Dispatches from the Color Line: The Press and Multiracial America State University of New York Press July 2007 295 pages Hardcover ISBN10: 0-7914-7099-7; ISBN13: 978-0-7914-7099-2 Paperback ISBN10: 0-7914-7100-4; ISBN13: 978-0-7914-7100-5 Catherine R. Squires, Cowles Professor of Journalism, Diversity and Equality University of Minnesota Explores contemporary news media coverage of multiracial people and identities. When modern…

  • Collecting and tabulating race/ethnicity data with diverse and mixed heritage populations: A case-study with US high school students

    Collecting and tabulating race/ethnicity data with diverse and mixed heritage populations: A case-study with US high school students Ethnic and Racial Studies September 2003 Vol. 26 No. 5 pp. 931–961 Alejandra M. Lopez-Torkos, Social Scientist SRI International The increasing diversity of the US coupled with the continuing need for information gathered about race/ethnicity require us…

  • Mixed-Race School-Age Children: A Summary of Census 2000 Data

    Mixed-Race School-Age Children: A Summary of Census 2000 Data Educational Researcher Volume 32, Number 6 (2003) pages 25-37 DOI: 10.3102/0013189X032006025 Alejandra M. Lopez-Torkos, Social Scientist SRI International On the 2000 Census, people were allowed to identify themselves and their children by more than one race. This article examines these data to document the mixed-race population…