Mixed Race Studies

Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.

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  • Meet Team One Drop: Dr. Chandra Crudup

    Meet Team One Drop: Dr. Chandra Crudup Fanshen Cox 2016-01-12 Meet One Drop of Love’s Production Manager, Dr. Chandra Crudup. She makes sure all technical aspects of the show are in place and lends lots of other support to Fanshen when we travel. She also often calls the show and hosts our Q&A talkbacks. She…

  • Both native and foreign: How being of mixed race affects Japanese students

    Both native and foreign: How being of mixed race affects Japanese students The Cavalier Daily Charlottesville, Virginia 2014-07-01 Emily Gorham I have now entered week five of my three month stay in Japan as an intern for the Ibaraki Christian University’s English department. A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about what I’ve termed the…

  • The Likely Persistence of a White Majority

    The Likely Persistence of a White Majority The American Prospect Winter 2016, Volume 27, Number 1 (2016-01-11) Richard Alba, Distinguished Professor of Sociology Graduate Center, City University of New York Has the notion of demography as destiny ever enjoyed so much credence? The disappearance of a white majority in the United States by the middle…

  • Multiracial Identity Recognition – Why Not? A Comparison Between Multiracialism in the United States and Brazil

    Multiracial Identity Recognition – Why Not? A Comparison Between Multiracialism in the United States and Brazil University of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada 2015 143 pages Ana Carolina Miguel Gouveia Thesis submitted to the Faculty of Graduate and Post-Graduate Studies in partial fulfillment of the requirements for a LLM Master degree in Law Graduate Studies in Law…

  • My Ancestor’s Name and Race Changed in Census Records. Why?

    My Ancestor’s Name and Race Changed in Census Records. Why? The Root 2016-01-01 Henry Louis Gates Jr., Alphonse Fletcher, Jr. University Professor; Director, Hutchins Center for African & African American Research Harvard University Anna L. Todd, Researcher New England Historic Genealogical Society (NEHGS), Boston, Massachusetts 1860 U.S. census for Hardy County, Va. U.S. census Tracing…

  • Mothering, Mixed Families and Racialised Boundaries

    This pioneering volume draws together theoretical and empirical contributions analyzing the experiences of white mothers in interracial families in Britain, Canada and the USA.

  • Once sidelined, Taiwan’s mixed-race children find new embrace

    Once sidelined, Taiwan’s mixed-race children find new embrace Christian Science Monitor 2015-07-01 Ralph Jennings As more Taiwanese men marry Southeast Asian women, the island nation is beginning to think of itself as multi-ethnic, in a distinct departure from the mainland. The change is supported by younger generations. Taipei — Huang Hui-mei used to dread being…

  • Multiracial in America: Who gets to be “white”?

    Jeremy Gordon on growing up multiracial, assimilation and “whiteness” in post-Obama America.

  • 15 striking findings from 2015

    15 striking findings from 2015 Pew Research Center 2015-12-22 George Gao, Associate Digital Producer Every year, we look back at our research to select the most memorable facts that illustrate important trends shaping our world. At Pew Research Center, the topics we analyze range from the specific subjects of video gaming and family caregivers to…

  • National Colors: Racial Classification and the State in Latin America

    National Colors: Racial Classification and the State in Latin America Oxford University Press 2014-07-07 400 pages 22 b/w line illus., 4 b/w halftones 6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches Hardcover ISBN: 9780199337354 Paperback ISBN: 9780199337361 Mara Loveman, Associate Professor of Sociology University of California, Berkeley The first comprehensive history of census-taking and nation-making in nineteen Latin American…