Mixed Race Studies

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  • ES 3434: Mixed Race Identities

    ES 3434: Mixed Race Identities California State University, East Bay 2012-2013 Examination of mixed race peoples—their legal and social status, U.S. Census designations, and identities from the one-drop rule to President Obama and beyond. The social science complement to ES 3430, Interracial Sex and Marriage.

  • American Voters Are Getting All Mixed Up

    American Voters Are Getting All Mixed Up Dog Park: Media Unleased 2012-11-20 Leighton Woodhouse, Founding Partner As anybody with a TV, radio or newspaper subscription can affirm, the big story coming out of the 2012 election is the long feared/eagerly awaited arrival of the Latino Vote as a national political force capable of deciding a…

  • Bolivia’s Census Omits ‘Mestizo’ as Category

    Bolivia’s Census Omits ‘Mestizo’ as Category The New York Times 2012-11-21 The Associated Press LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — Bolivia is under a virtual curfew as census-takers count and classify the landlocked Andean nation’s population in its first census in 11 years. Stirring controversy was the government decision not to include “mestizo” as a category…

  • A few questions from CMRS 2012

    A few questions from CMRS 2012 Two or More: Mixed thoughts about the Census NAC 2012-11-18 Eric Hamako Eric Hamako is one of 32 members of the United States Census Bureau’s National Advisory Committee (NAC) on Race, Ethnic, and Other Populations, 2012-2014. This blog is intended to 1) share updates and Eric’s perspectives on the…

  • Covering Multiracial America Requires Historical Perspective

    Covering Multiracial America Requires Historical Perspective Maynard Media Center on Structural Inequity Maynard Institute 2012-11-14 Nadra Kareem Nittle Although people of mixed races have lived in the United States for centuries, authorities on multiracial identity say mainstream media continue to report on these people as if they are a new phenomenon. In 1619, the first…

  • News from the 2012 Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference Business Meeting

    News from the 2012 Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference Business Meeting 2012-11-13 Camilla Fojas, (CMRS 2012 organizer) Associate Professor and Chair Latin American and Latino Studies DePaul University Laura Kina, (Mixed Roots Midwest 2012 co-organizer) Associate Professor Art, Media and Design and Director Asian American Studies DePaul University Photo of Eric Hamako at CMRS 2012…

  • Left of Black S3:E9 | Racial Passing and the Rise of Multiracialism

    For many African Americans, the practice of ‘Passing’—where light-skinned Blacks could pass for White—remains a thing connected to a difficult racial past. In her new book, Clearly Invisible: Racial Passing and the Color of Cultural Identity (Baylor University Press), Marcia Dawkins, a professor in the Annenberg School of Communications at the University of Southern California…

  • Is race a ‘salient…’ or ‘dominant identity’ in the early 21st century: The evidence of UK survey data on respondents’ sense of who they are

    Is race a ‘salient…’ or ‘dominant identity’ in the early 21st century: The evidence of UK survey data on respondents’ sense of who they are Social Science Research Available online 2012-11-07 DOI: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2012.10.007 Peter J. Aspinall, Emeritus Reader in Population Health Centre for Health Services Studies University of Kent Miri Song, Professor of Sociology University…

  • Gender and the Neighborhood Location of Mixed-Race Couples

    Gender and the Neighborhood Location of Mixed-Race Couples Demography DOI: 10.1007/s13524-012-0158-0 Published Online: 2012-10-17 Richard Wright, Professor of Geography Dartmouth College Steven R. Holloway, Professor of Geography University of Georgia Mark Ellis, Professor of Geography University of Washington Gender asymmetry in mixed-race heterosexual partnerships and marriages is common. For instance, black men marry or partner…

  • The Race to Progress: Census Taking and Nation Making in Brazil (1870–1920)

    The Race to Progress: Census Taking and Nation Making in Brazil (1870–1920) Hispanic American Historical Review Volume 89, Number 3 (2009) pages 435-470 DOI: 10.1215/00182168-2009-002 Mara Loveman, Associate Professor of Sociology University of Wisconsin, Madison From the mid-nineteenth century, central statistics agencies contributed to nation-state building through their dual mission of producing statistical description and…