Mixed Race Studies

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  • Being counted is crucial in the U.S…

    My academic research is on racial categories in national censuses.  When I first started reading about the push to get a “mixed-race” category on the U.S. census in the 1990s, I was absolutely on the side of the multiracial movement. I thought the census should recognize our identities, no matter how complicated they may be. …

  • Intermarriage and racial amalgamation in the United States

    Intermarriage and racial amalgamation in the United States Biodemography and Social Biology Volume 14, Issue 2 (1967) pages 112-120 DOI: 10.1080/19485565.1967.9987710 David M. Heer, Professor Emeritus of Sociology University of Southern California Within the last few years tremendous popular interest has been aroused in the subject of Negro-white intermarriage. Fifteen years ago Negro protest leaders…

  • CNN DIALOGUES: The 2010 Census and the New America?

    CNN DIALOGUES: The 2010 Census and the New America? The Cecil B. Day Chapel of The Carter Center  453 Freedom Parkway, Atlanta, GA, 30307 2011-08-31, 19:00-20:30 EDT (Local Time) Moderator: Wolf Blitzer, CNN’s Lead Political Anchor and Anchor of “The Situation Room” Panelists: Heidi W. Durrow, author of the debut novel The Girl Who Fell…

  • Indian Voices Creates a Bureau of Black Indian Affairs

    Indian Voices Creates a Bureau of Black Indian Affairs Indian Voices July/August 2011 Rose Davis, Publisher Indian Voices At last a true Separate But Equal—For the Good of the People The Dawes Rolls (a census, used by the BIA [Bureau of Indian Affairs] to determine identity of Tribal members and citizens) came into existence in…

  • South Africa: Is the Sun Setting on Afrikaners?

    South Africa: Is the Sun Setting on Afrikaners? International Business Times 2011-07-27 Palash R. Ghosh The recent death of Magnus Malan, the feared former general and defense minister of South Africa, might have ended an era in a country once defined by strict racial separation. Malan, who ferociously fought to maintain racial apartheid until the…

  • Brazil’s new racial reality: Insights for the U.S.?

    Brazil’s new racial reality: Insights for the U.S.? Race-Talk The Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity 2011-07-19 Cheryl Staats, Research Assistant Brazil has been a long-standing place of interest for many scholars due to its fluid racial categorization that focuses on phenotype rather than hypodescent.  With the release of Brazil’s 2010 census…

  • Multiracial Work: Handing Over the Discretionary Judicial Tool of Multiracialism

    This Comment addresses the conflict between new categorization methods for mixed race in data gathering as well as the non-cognizable mixed-race- based claims in current Title VII doctrine. Mixed-race individuals face unique harms themselves, and Title VII’s refusal to acknowledge mixed race results in dismissal of claims.

  • What about These Children? Assessing Poverty Among the ‘Hidden Population’ of Multiracial Children in Single-Mother Families

    What about These Children? Assessing Poverty Among the ‘Hidden Population’ of Multiracial Children in Single-Mother Families University of Kentucky Center for Poverty Research Discussion Paper Series: DP 2010-09 2010 ISSN: 1936-9379 48 pages Jenifer L. Bratter, Associate Professor of Sociology Rice University Sarah Damaske, Assistant Professor of Labor Studies and Employment Relations Pennsylvania State University…

  • Number of multiracial people grows in Oneida County

    Number of multiracial people grows in Oneida County The Observer-Dispatch Utica, New York 2011-07-14 Elizabeth Cooper UTICA — Nisa Duong is part Vietnamese, part black, part American Indian and part white.   But the 19-year-old Utica resident said her racial and ethnic identity isn’t at the forefront of her mind, and if it comes up,…

  • “You Can’t Put People In One Category Without Any Shades of Gray:” A Study of Native American, Black, Asian, Latino/a and White Multiracial Identity

    “You Can’t Put People In One Category Without Any Shades of Gray:” A Study of Native American, Black, Asian, Latino/a and White Multiracial Identity Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia May 2011 180 pages Melissa Faye Burgess Thesis submitted to the faculty of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in partial fulfillment…