Mixed Race Studies

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  • Differences give mixed-heritage students a common bond

    Differences give mixed-heritage students a common bond The Los Angeles Times 2013-05-27 Larry Gordon Increasing numbers of college campus clubs give voice to those who don’t fit into the traditional perceptions of race. No matter what their ancestry or their skin color, many members of UCLA’s Mixed Student Union say they have repeatedly been asked…

  • Latino racial choices: the effects of skin colour and discrimination on Latinos’ and Latinas’ racial self-identifications

    Latino racial choices: the effects of skin colour and discrimination on Latinos’ and Latinas’ racial self-identifications Ethnic and Racial Studies Volume 31, Issue 5, 2008 pages 899-934 DOI: 10.1080/01419870701568858 Tanya Golash-Boza, Associate Professor of Sociology University of California, Merced William Darity, Jr., Arts & Sciences Professor of Public Policy, African and African American Studies, and…

  • The Gil Gross Program with Marcia Dawkins

    The Gil Gross Program with Marcia Dawkins The Gil Gross Program Talk 910, KKSF AM San Francisco, California Monday, 2013-05-13 Gil Gross, Host Gil speaks with Marcia Dawkins, author of “Clearly Invisible; Racial passing and the Color of Cultural Identity“, about the growth of our mulit-racial nation. Download the audio here.

  • First Person: ‘We’ve made diversity our official civic religion in Leicester’

    First Person: ‘We’ve made diversity our official civic religion in Leicester’ This is Leicestershire Leicester Mercury 2013-03-27 Ben Ravilious I was delighted to learn the city mayor has given the green light to Leicester’s City of Culture bid. However, I already have nagging doubts about the direction this might be taking. It’s the flogging of…

  • Census 2011: Leicester ‘most ethnically diverse’ in region

    Census 2011: Leicester ‘most ethnically diverse’ in region BBC News 2012-12-11 Leicester is one of the most diverse cities in the UK and the largest in the East Midlands, the latest census shows. Information from the 2011 survey shows there are 329,000 people living in the city, 24,000 more than in Nottingham, while 250,000 live…

  • Amalgamation, North and South

    Amalgamation, North and South Sacramento Daily Union Volume 24, Number 3619 (1862-11-03) page 4, column 2 Source: California Digital Newspaper Collection Driven from every other position by the force of argument or the force of facts, the advocates of a doomed system flourish before the eyes of the ignorant the bugbear of amalgamation. Amalgamation, they…

  • Checking More Than One Box: A Growing Multiracial Nation

    Checking More Than One Box: A Growing Multiracial Nation All Things Considered National Public Radio 2013-05-12 Arun Rath, Host [Note from Steven F. Riley: My wife and I live in the White Oak neighborhood of Silver Spring, Maryland, USA.] Larry Bright holds his 3-year-old son’s hand while the boy steps through a leafy playground in…

  • Latino Racial Reporting in the US: To Be or Not To Be

    Latino Racial Reporting in the US: To Be or Not To Be Sociology Compass Volume 7, Issue 5 (May 2013) pages 390-403 DOI: 10.1111/soc4.12032 Clara E. Rodríguez, Professor of Sociology Fordham University Michael H. Miyawaki Fordham University Grigoris Argeros, Assistant Professor of Sociology Mississippi State University This review focuses on how Latinos report their race.…

  • Changing Race: Latinos, the Census and the History of Ethnicity

    Changing Race: Latinos, the Census and the History of Ethnicity New York University Press July 2000 283 pages Paperback ISBN: 9780814775479 Clara E. Rodríguez, Professor of Sociology Fordham University Latinos are the fastest growing population group in the United States. Through their language and popular music Latinos are making their mark on American culture as…

  • Are You Ready for the Census?

    Are You Ready for the Census? Sacramento Daily Union Volume 19, Number 2862 (1860-05-29) page 1, column 4 Source: California Digital Newspaper Collection On the first of June, Friday next, the various Deputy Marshals in the different portions of the State will commence their labors in taking the census of the United States, which mast…