Mixed Race Studies

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  • When It Counts—More On Obama and the Census

    When It Counts—More On Obama and the Census InterfaithFamiliy.com 2010-05-03 Ruth Abrams Elizabeth Chang wrote in an op-ed in the Washington Post last week, “Why Obama should not have checked ‘black’ on his census form,” Although I knew Obama self-identifies as African American, I was disappointed when I read that that’s what he checked on…

  • In My Experience: A Multi-Racial Heritage

    In My Experience: A Multi-Racial Heritage Forum: with Michael Kransy KQED Radio San Francisco, California 2011-12-16 Dave Iverson, Host As part of our series “In My Experience,” spotlighting the personal stories of our listeners, we talk with a panel of biracial and multi-racial people about race, identity and what it’s like to grow up looking…

  • Not black, not white: just the opposite. Culture, race and national identity in Brazil

    The search to define Brazil and Brazilians by colour, more specifically by a miscegenation so extreme that it appears exceptional, is longstanding. Mid-nineteenth century naturalists that visited the country from Europe were astounded by the lush vegetation, the wide variety of fauna, and another phenomena – a type of unprecedented laboratory of humans and their…

  • Lansing has highest percentage of people who identify as multiple-race black

    Lansing has highest percentage of people who identify as multiple-race black Lansing State Journal 2011-11-18 Matthew Miller Gianni Risper has a black mother, a white biological father (as opposed to the father who raised him, his mother’s husband) and a way of describing himself that isn’t found on any Census form: Italian-Caribbean-American. “Race is becoming…

  • Post-Racial America? Multiracial Identification and the Color Line in the 21st Century

    Post-Racial America? Multiracial Identification and the Color Line in the 21st Century Nanzan Review of American Studies Volume 30 (2008) pages 13-31 Jennifer Lee, Associate Professor of Sociology University of California, Irvine The United States is more racially diverse than at any point in history. Once a largely black-white society with a distinct color line…

  • Brazil: Census “Reveals” Majority of Population is Black or Mixed Race

    Brazil: Census “Reveals” Majority of Population is Black or Mixed Race Global Voices 2011-11-29 Written by: Paula Góes Translated by: Maisie Fitzpatrick [All links lead to Portuguese language pages except when otherwise noted.] For the first time in Brazilian history, the national census has shown that the majority of the population, 50.7% of a total…

  • Statistics On Miscegenation

    Statistics On Miscegenation Franklin Repository 1864-04-27 page 1, column 6 Source: Valley of the Shadow: Civil War Era Newspapers, University of Virginia Library Summary: The Repository details the disproportionate number of “mulattoes” in the South relative to the North. Full Text of Article: There were 411,613 mulatto slaves in the south in 1840, of whom…

  • The American Race

    The American Race Semi-Weekly Dispatch Franklin County, Virginia 1861-05-17 page 1, Column 3 Source: Valley of the Shadow: Civil War Era Newspapers, University of Virginia Library Summary: Reasons that America’s population has increased by one-third in the past ten years because of the intermarriage in the United States of the races of Celts, Teutons, Anglo-Saxons,…

  • Not as simple as black or white

    Not as simple as black or white The Voice 2011-11-21 Elizabeth Pears How mixed-race Brits are tackling issues surrounding dual heritage LAST MONTH, the UK’s fastest growing ethnic minority, as part of the BBC’s Mixed Britannia series, reignited the debate of what it means to be ‘mixed-race’. Demographers have predicted that Britain’s mixed-race population will…

  • Racial identity and the spatial assimilation of Mexicans in the United States

    Racial identity and the spatial assimilation of Mexicans in the United States Social Science Research Volume 21, Issue 3 (September 1992) pages 235-260 DOI: 10.1016/0049-089X(92)90007-4 Douglas S. Massey, Henry G. Bryant Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs Princeton University Nancy A. Denton, Professor of Sociology Center for Social and Demographic Analysis State University of New…