Mixed Race Studies

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  • AFAM 349a/AMST 326a/WGSS 388a: Interraciality and Hybridity

    AFAM 349a/AMST 326a/WGSS 388a: Interraciality and Hybridity Yale University Fall 2011 Naomi Pabst, Assistant Professor of African American Studies and American Studies Yale University Examination of mixed-race matters in both literary and critical writings, primarily within the black/white schema.  Historical and current questions of black and interracial identity; the contemporary “mixed race movement” and the…

  • Cape Verdean identity in a land of Black and White

    Cape Verdean identity in a land of Black and White Ethnicities Volume 12, Number 3 pages 354-379 DOI: 10.1177/1468796811419599 Gene A. Fisher, Professor Emerita of Sociology University of Massachusetts, Amherst Suzanne Model, Professor Emerita of Sociology University of Massachusetts, Amherst Cape Verde is an island group off the African coast with a history of slavery.…

  • The future of whiteness

    The future of whiteness Salon 2012-05-29 Michael Lind Both Republican and Democratic racial politics are doomed. How culture shifts will reshape American ideas on race The Census Bureau has announced that a majority of new-born infants in the U.S. now belong to categories other than what the U.S. federal government calls “non-Hispanic white.”   While…

  • The Myth of Majority-Minority America

    The Myth of Majority-Minority America Slate 2012-05-22 Matthew Yglesias, Business and Economics Correspondent It’s rare that a Census Bureau press release dominates the front pages, but last week’s headline “Most Children Younger Than 1 Are Minorities, Census Reports” was the thrilling exception. The shortage of white Anglo babies, the press was eager to tell us,…

  • Beyond Fixed or Fluid: Degrees of Fluidity in Racial Identification in Latin America

    Beyond Fixed or Fluid: Degrees of Fluidity in Racial Identification in Latin America The Project on Ethnicity and Race in Latin America Princeton University 2012-05-23 60 pages Edward E. Telles, Professor of Sociology Princeton University Tianna S. Paschel, Post Doctoral Fellow (Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of Political Science as of July 2012) Department of Political…

  • Breaking the Race Barrier

    Breaking the Race Barrier 360 Magazine Ithica College 2012-05-02 Danielle Torres “I’m Puerto Rican.” That’s usually what I say when people ask a second time where I am from. The first time someone asks me that question I usually say, “I’m from New York.” Then the person rephrases the question, “What are you? What is…

  • Off white

    Off white The Indian Express New Delhi, India 2012-05-19 Census data confirms America’s enduring ability to bring the world home The United States has crossed a demographic tipping point, driven by changes in immigration, fertility and mortality patterns. By now, more than half the babies born in the US belong to a racial or ethnic…

  • Is the Tanning of America Only Skin Deep?

    Is the Tanning of America Only Skin Deep? The Huffington Post 2012-05-17 Marcia Alesan Dawkins, Visiting Scholar Brown University It’s official: The United States is officially “tan.” According to the U.S. Census Bureau’s first population estimate by age, race, ethnicity, and sex since the 2010 Census, “50.4 percent of our nation’s population younger than age…

  • Multiracial Americans Ready To Claim Their Own Identity

    Multiracial Americans Ready To Claim Their Own Identity The New York Times 1996-07-20 Michel Marriott For Alison Perry, being multiracial has meant moving through life as if she had a giant question mark drawn on her forehead. Strangers frequently approach and begin a vexing guessing game: “Are you Israeli?” “Are you a Latina?” “Where are…

  • An educational defense for multiracial identity

    An educational defense for multiracial identity San Francisco Chronicle 2001-07-25 Kimberly Cooper-Plaszewski Celebrate rather than assimilate biracial heritages U.S. CENSUS 2000 marked the first time in history that multiracial people were given the “option” to specify more than one race to describe their racial identity.   On the surface, this alternative may give the impression…