Mixed Race Studies

Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.

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  • Asian Americans: From Racial Category to Multiple Identities

    Asian Americans: From Racial Category to Multiple Identities Alta Mira Press April 1998 116 pages Cloth: 2 0-7619-9172-7 / 978-0-7619-9172-4  Paper: 2 0-7619-9173-5 / 978-0-7619-9173-1  Juanita Tamayo Lott Does race matter? Having witnessed the civil rights movement and changes in immigration laws, we continue to ask ourselves this complex question. In the United States, racial…

  • Stanford profs examine mixed race in U.S. society

    Stanford profs examine mixed race in U.S. society The Dartmouth Victoria Boggiano, The Dartmouth Staff 2008-04-18 In 2000, the U.S. Census gave Americans the chance to identify themselves by more than one race for the first time. Almost seven million people — over 80 percent of whom were under 25 — checked more than one…

  • Who Counts?: Science, Demography and the Social “‘There’s No One as Irish as Barack O’Bama’: The Policy and Politics of American Multiracialism”

    Who Counts?: Science, Demography and the Social “‘There’s No One as Irish as Barack O’Bama’: The Policy and Politics of American Multiracialism” Lecture 2009-11-17 21:00Z Mencoff Hall, 68 Waterman St. Jennifer L. Hochschild, Henry LaBarre Jayne Professor of Government and Professor of African and African-American Studies Harvard University For the first time in American history,…

  • Biracial and Multiracial Students: New Directions for Student Services, Number 123

    Biracial and Multiracial Students: New Directions for Student Services, Number 123 Jossey-Bass an imprint of John Wiley & Sons October 2008 88 pages Paperback ISBN: 978-0-470-42219-9 Edited by Kristen A. Renn, Associate Professor of Higher, Adult, and Lifelong Education Michigan State University Paul Shang, Assistant Vice President and Dean of Students University of Oregon Editors…

  • Diversity in ads not reflected in real life

    Diversity in ads not reflected in real life St. Petersburg Times St. Petersburg, Florida 2005-02-21 Associated Press Advertisers are filling commercials with a mix of races and ethnicities, but critics contend such utopian situations rarely exist. Somewhere there’s an America that’s full of neighborhoods where black and white kids play softball together, where biracial families…

  • Mixed Race Marriages

    Mixed Race Marriages The Milken Institute Review Second Quarter 2009 William “Bill” H. Frey, Senior Fellow in Demography/Senior Fellow in Metropolitan Policy Milken Institute Brookings Institution in Washington While Barack Obama’s election was a signal event for many reasons, the fact that Americans chose someone of mixed race isn’t quite as startling as it first…

  • Choosing Ethnic Identity

    Choosing Ethnic Identity Polity Books February 2003 192 pages 229 x 152 mm, 6 x 9 in Hardback ISBN: 9780745622767; ISBN10: 0745622763 Paperback ISBN: 9780745622774; ISBN10: 0745622771 Miri Song, Professor of Sociology University of Kent Choosing Ethnic Identity explores the ways in which people are able to choose their ethnic identities in contemporary multiethnic societies…

  • Tripping on the Color Line: Black-White Multiracial Families in a Racially Divided World

    Tripping on the Color Line: Black-White Multiracial Families in a Racially Divided World Rutgers University Press October 2000 192 pages Cloth ISBN: 0-8135-2843-7 Paper ISBN: 0-8135-2844-5 Heather M. Dalmage, Professor of Sociology and Director Mansfield Institute for Social Justice Roosevelt University A sociological analysis of the experiences and challenges faced by black-white multiracial families At…

  • Will “Multiracial”: Survive to the Next Generation?: The Racial Classification of Children of Multiracial Parents

    Will “Multiracial”: Survive to the Next Generation?: The Racial Classification of Children of Multiracial Parents Social Forces Volume 86, Number 2 (December 2007) pages 821-849 DOI: 10.1353/sof.2008.0007 Jenifer L. Bratter, Assistant Professor of Sociology and Associate Director of the Institute for Urban Research Rice University Will multiracial identification resonate with future generations? Using the 2000 U.S. Census,…

  • Friendship choices of multiracial adolescents: Racial homophily, blending, or amalgamation?

    Friendship choices of multiracial adolescents: Racial homophily, blending, or amalgamation? Social Science Research 2007 Number 36 pages 633-653 Jamie Mihoko Doyle Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology University of Pennsylvania Grace Kao, Professor of Sociology, Education, and Asian American Studies University of Pennsylvania Using the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health), we utilize the…