Mixed Race Studies

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  • Students Break Out of Fixed-Race Box

    Students Break Out of Fixed-Race Box Teaching Tolerance: A Project of the Southern Poverty Law Center 2011-11-15 Pamela Cytrynbaum, Instructor of Journalism Northwestern University My journalism students were brainstorming topics for their final story projects. I urged them to come up with compelling ideas that relate to their experiences but that push deeply into national…

  • Multiracial Families: Counted But Still Misunderstood

    Multiracial Families: Counted But Still Misunderstood Racialicious 2011-10-31 Jen Chau, Guest Contributor In the past couple of years, I have noticed a certain complacency that I never noticed before, in my eleven years of leading Swirl. The same passion and the same excitement around building multiracial communities had faded a bit. In the one year…

  • How Puerto Rico Became White: Boundary Dynamics and Intercensus Racial Reclassification

    According to official census results, the Puerto Rican population became significantly whiter in the first half of the twentieth century. Social scientists have long speculated about the source of this trend, but until now, available data did not permit competing hypotheses of Puerto Rico’s whitening to be evaluated empirically. This article revisits the question of…

  • Mixed Britannia: Part 3 of 3 (1965-2011)

    Mixed Britannia: Part 3 of 3 (1965-2011) BBC Two 2011-10-20 George Alagiah, Host Below is the last episode as four 15-minute videos.

  • Mixed But Not Divided: Multi-ethnic populations redefine racial lines

    Mixed But Not Divided: Multi-ethnic populations redefine racial lines City on a Hill Press: A Student-Run Newspaper University of California, Santa Cruz 2011-10-20 Chelsea Hawkins When I was six or seven years old, I would spend my Saturday afternoons at the local Korean Baptist Church. A pink textbook opened in front of me, oversized hangul…

  • “Asi lo paresçe por su aspeto”: Physiognomy and the Construction of Difference in Colonial Bogotá

    “Asi lo paresçe por su aspeto”: Physiognomy and the Construction of Difference in Colonial Bogotá Hispanic American Historical Review Volume 91, Number 4 (2011) pages 601-631 DOI: 10.1215/00182168-1416648 Joanne Rappaport, Professor of Anthropology Georgetown University My objective in this article is to examine the relationship between perception and classification in the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Andes,…

  • In Strangers’ Glances at Family, Tensions Linger

    In Strangers’ Glances at Family, Tensions Linger The New York Times 2011-10-13 Susan Saulny TOMS RIVER, N.J. — “How come she’s so white and you’re so dark?” The question tore through Heather Greenwood as she was about to check out at a store here one afternoon this summer. Her brown hands were pushing the shopping…

  • Mixed-race numbers double since 2000

    Mixed-race numbers double since 2000 The Tuscaloosa News Tuscaloosa, Alabama 2011-10-04 Dana Beyerle, Montgomery Bureau Chief More than twice as many people in Alabama say they are of two races than 10 years earlier MONTGOMERY | Alabama’s black population increased slightly between 2000 and 2010, but the number of people claiming mixed-race status more than…

  • Britain: More mixed than we thought

    Britain: More mixed than we thought British Broadcasting Corporation 2011-10-07 Mark Easton, Home editor New figures seen by the BBC suggest our mixed race population may be twice the size of official figures—numbering up to two million people Looking at some new figures on ethnic minorities in Britain the other day, I glanced at a…

  • Beware this new mixed-race love-in

    Beware this new mixed-race love-in The Guardian 2011-10-04 Joseph Harker, Assistant Comment Editor I’m glad that attitudes to mixed-race people have changed. But does it all mask a subtler kind of racism? Why does everyone want to be like me? According to scientific research (yes, really) I’m not only more beautiful than, but also biologically…