Mixed Race Studies

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  • Mixing it up: Multiracialism redefines Asian American identity

    Mixing it up: Multiracialism redefines Asian American identity San Francisco Chronicle 2011-02-11 Jeff Yang, Special to SF Gate How the mainstreaming of multiracialism is forcing a more fluid definition of Asian American identity   Like many immigrants, my parents see identity as a bucket. My mother and father had come to America carefully bearing a…

  • For Many Latinos, Racial Identity Is More Culture Than Color

    For Many Latinos, Racial Identity Is More Culture Than Color The New York Times 2012-01-13 Mireya Navarro Every decade, the Census Bureau spends billions of dollars and deploys hundreds of thousands of workers to get an accurate portrait of the American population. Among the questions on the census form is one about race, with 15…

  • What Does the Brazilian Census Tell Us About Race?

    What Does the Brazilian Census Tell Us About Race? Psychology Today 2011-12-06 Jefferson Fish, Ph.D. Problems with Brazilian and U.S. census data on race. In 2010 I posted a six-part series on the U. S. census and race (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6). In it I pointed out numerous changes in race categories and…

  • It’s dual-race for 1 in 6 babies of mixed parentage

    It’s dual-race for 1 in 6 babies of mixed parentage The Straits Times Singapore 2012-01-11 Amanda Tan One in six newborn babies of mixed parentage was registered as having a double-barrelled race last year after a new policy kicked in allowing parents to do so. This full-year figure, released for the first time to The…

  • Multiplicity within Singularity: Racial Categorization and Recognizing “Mixed Race” in Singapore

    Multiplicity within Singularity: Racial Categorization and Recognizing “Mixed Race” in Singapore Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs Volume 30, Number 3 (2011) pages 95-131 ISSN: 1868-4882 (online), ISSN: 1868-1034 Zarine L. Rocha, Research Scholar Department of Sociology National University of Singapore “Race” and racial categories play a significant role in everyday life and state organization…

  • The meaning and measurement of race in the U.S. census: Glimpses into the future

    The meaning and measurement of race in the U.S. census: Glimpses into the future Demography Volume 37, Number 3 (August 2000) pages 381-393 DOI: 10.2307/2648049 Charles Hirschman, Boeing International Professor of Sociology and Professor of Public Affaris University of Washington Richard Alba, Distinguished Professor (Emeritus) of Sociology Co-Director of The Center for the Elimination of…

  • Situating mixed-race households in neighborhood contexts

    Situating mixed-race households in neighborhood contexts University of Georgia May 2007 Margaret Anne Hudson Census 2000 counted approximately 1.7 million White/Latino mixed-race/multiethnic households in the US. Unfortunately, most research is limited to similar statistical accounting. Very little research moves beyond frequency counts to describe racial and ethnic identities in White/Latino households or the relationships of…

  • Agents of Change: Mixed-Race Households and the Dynamics of Neighborhood Segregation in the United States

    Agents of Change: Mixed-Race Households and the Dynamics of Neighborhood Segregation in the United States Annals of the Association of American Geographers Available online: 2011-12-08 DOI: 10.1080/00045608.2011.627057 Mark Ellis, Professor of Geography University of Washington Steven R. Holloway, Professor of Geography University of Georgia Richard Wright, Professor of Geography Dartmouth College Christopher S. Fowler Ph.D., Postdoctoral…

  • Check One Box: Reconsidering Directive No. 15 and the Classification of Mixed-Race People

    Check One Box: Reconsidering Directive No. 15 and the Classification of Mixed-Race People California Law Review Volume 84, Number 4 (July, 1996) pages 1233-1291 Kenneth E. Payson Introduction “What are you?” As the child of a Japanese mother and a White father, I have often been asked this question. While I am also male, heterosexual,…

  • Study: Multiracial groups and social position, segregation in America

    Study: Multiracial groups and social position, segregation in America The JHU Gazette Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore Maryland 2011-12-19 Amy Lunday, Homewood The American social hierarchy places people of mixed-race ancestry below whites but above blacks, while additional social stratifications along color lines are simultaneously taking place within the nation’s multiracial groups, according to a Johns…