Mixed Race Studies

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  • Historicizing “mixed-race” and post-modern amnesia

    Historicizing “mixed-race” and post-modern amnesia O Desafio da Diferença (Challenge of the Difference) Universidade Federal da Bahia Salvador, Bahia, Brazil 2000-04-09 through 2000-04-12 Grupo de Trabalho (Workshop) 5: Mixing it up with Mixed Race: Problematizing and Historicizing the Mixed Race Discourse Katya Gibel Azoulay [Mevorach], Associate Professor of Anthropology Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa Americans have…

  • Census report shows multiracial and minority population growing fastest

    Census report shows multiracial and minority population growing fastest PoliticsNation with Rev. Al Sharpton NBC News 2013-06-13 Morgan Whitaker, Producer As white birth rates declined, Asian-American and Hispanic populations grew significantly, but the latest Census Report shows that multiracial populations grew fastest. America’s young children are more racially diverse than ever before, according to a…

  • Has ‘Caucasian’ Lost Its Meaning?

    Has ‘Caucasian’ Lost Its Meaning? The New York Times 2013-07-06 Shaila Dewan, Economics Reporter gray318 As a racial classification, the term Caucasian has many flaws, dating as it does from a time when the study of race was based on skull measurements and travel diaries. It has long been entirely unmoored from its geographical reference…

  • Redefining la raza

    Redefining la raza U.S. Catholic 2011-07-06 Father Tom Joyce, CMF There use to be an unspoken pattern to Hispanic migration to the United States: Mexicans drifted to Los Angeles or South Texas, Puerto Ricans—soon followed by Dominicans—to New York City. Cubans stayed in Miami for a quick return to Havana that never came. Mexicans and…

  • Of Loving and Zimmerman

    Of Loving and Zimmerman Univision Communications, Inc. 2013-06-26 Carlos Cortés, Professor Emeritus of History University of California, Riverside In my last blog I addressed the question of Latino identity by examining the controversy in “Is the New Pope Latino?” I responded with an emphatic “yes” (in about 500 words). Since then, three separate items relating…

  • Where in the World Is Juan—and What Color Is He?: The Geography of Latina/o Racial Identity in Southern California

    Where in the World Is Juan—and What Color Is He?: The Geography of Latina/o Racial Identity in Southern California American Quarterly Volume 65, Number 2, June 2013 pages 309-341 DOI: 10.1353/aq.2013.0020 Laura Pulido, Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity University of Southern California Manuel Pastor, Professor of Sociology and American Studies and Ethnicity University of…

  • Black/Non-Black Divide and The Anti-Blackness of Non-Black Minorities

    Black/Non-Black Divide and The Anti-Blackness of Non-Black Minorities Still Furious and Brave: Who’s Afraid of Persistent Blackness? 2013-04-03 Robert Reece Department of Sociology Duke University Last week, an Asian-American fraternity at the University of California Irvine posted a parody of a music video featuring one of their members in blackface. Blackface has become the go-to…

  • A Nation of Mutts

    A Nation of Mutts The New York Times 2013-06-28 David Brooks Over the past few decades, American society has been transformed in a fit of absence of mind. First, we’ve gone from a low immigrant nation to a high immigrant nation. If you grew up between 1950 and 1985, you grew up at a time…

  • New Faces, Old Faces: Counting the Multiracial Population Past and Present

    Multiracial Americans have often been heralded as “new people” and in fact have been rediscovered as such more than once in the last century. Charles Chesnutt’s 1899 novel The House Behind the Cedars features a mulatto character who uses the phrase to describe himself and others like him; in the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s,…

  • Census Bureau Names Ann Morning to National Advisory Committee on Racial, Ethnic and Other Populations

    Census Bureau Names Ann Morning to National Advisory Committee on Racial, Ethnic and Other Populations Newsroom, News Release: CB13-R.30 United States Census Bureau 2013-06-26 Public Information Office, Phone: 301-763-3030 Note from Steven F. Riley: Ann Morning is the author of book The Nature of Race: How Scientists Think and Teach about Human Difference (University of California Press,…