Mixed Race Studies

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  • Mixed race Britain: charting the social history

    Mixed race Britain: charting the social history The Guardian 2011-10-04 Laura Smith While mixed race is one of the fastest-growing ethnic groups in the UK, there is nothing new in people from different cultures getting together Olive was just 15 when she met the man who was to become her husband. It was 1930s Cardiff…

  • 2010 Census Shows Black Population has Highest Concentration in the South

    2010 Census Shows Black Population has Highest Concentration in the South United States Census Bureau CB11-CN.185 2011-09-29 People Who Reported as Both Black and White More than Doubled The U.S. Census Bureau released today a 2010 Census brief, The Black Population: 2010, that shows 14 percent of all people in the United States identified as…

  • The Economics of Identity and the Endogeneity of Race

    The Economics of Identity and the Endogeneity of Race National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper 9962 September 2003 Howard Bodenhorn, Professor of Economics Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina Christopher S. Ruebeck, Associate Professor of Economics Lafayette University, Easton, Pennsylvania Economic and social theorists have modeled race and ethnicity as a form of personal identity…

  • Colourism and African-American Wealth: Evidence from the Nineteenth-Century South

    Colourism and African-American Wealth: Evidence from the Nineteenth-Century South Journal of Population Economics Volume 20, Number 3 (July 2007) pages 599-620 DOI: 10.1007/s00148-006-0111-x Howard Bodenhorn, Professor of Economics Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina Christopher S. Ruebeck, Associate Professor of Economics Lafayette University, Easton, Pennsylvania Black is not always black. Subtle distinctions in skin tone translate…

  • Interracial Marriage and Admixture in Hawaii

    Interracial Marriage and Admixture in Hawaii Biodemography and Social Biology Volume 17, Issue 4 (1970) pages 278-291 DOI: 10.1080/19485565.1970.9987885 Clarence E. Glick, Professor of Sociology University of Hawaii Michener’s phrase “the golden men of Hawaii” reflects a popular romantic interest in the blending of ethnic elements that has been going on in Hawaii for almost…

  • The Hybrid in Hawaii as a Marginal Man

    The Hybrid in Hawaii as a Marginal Man American Journal of Sociology Volume 39, Number 4 (January 1934) pages 459-468 William C. Smith William Jewell College Several factors conspire to make the hybrid in Hawaii occupy a position markedly different from that of the mixed-blood in other areas. The relative absence of race prejudice on the…

  • Choosing to be Multiracial in America: The Sociopolitical Implications of the “Check All That Apply” Approach to Race in the 2000 U.S. Census

    Choosing to be Multiracial in America: The Sociopolitical Implications of the “Check All That Apply” Approach to Race in the 2000 U.S. Census Berkeley La Raza Law Journal Volume 21 (2011) Alaina R. Walker I. INTRODUCTION Race in America has long been a contentious subject, especially when the government has been involved. Race can mean…

  • The Concept of Post-Racial: How Its Easy Dismissal Obscures Important Questions

    The Concept of Post-Racial: How Its Easy Dismissal Obscures Important Questions Dædalus Volume 140, Issue 1 (Winter 2011 – Race in the Age of Obama, volume 1) pages 174–182 DOI: 10.1162/DAED_a_00069 David A. Hollinger, Preston Hotchkis Professor of American History University of California, Berkeley Nearly all of today’s confident dismissals of the notion of a…

  • Getting Back to Basics: Re-Reading NYT’s “Race Remixed”

    Getting Back to Basics: Re-Reading NYT’s “Race Remixed” Nuñez Daughter 2011-02-15 Kismet Nuñez A few weeks ago, @TrickAmaka sent me a New York Times piece by Susan Saulny on the high numbers of adults who identify as mixed-race as of the 2010 census.  In what was apparently the first in a series titled “Race Remixed,”…

  • Race Card: The New York Times Realizes Mixed People Exist

    Race Card: The New York Times Realizes Mixed People Exist Bitch Media 2011-01-31 Nadra Kareem Nittle Breaking news: the New York Times has discovered mixed people. Did you know that the number of racially mixed families in the US is growing? Or how about that some mixed kids feel pressured to choose one race? And…