Mixed Race Studies

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  • Profit, Power, & Privilege: The Racial Politics of Ancestry

    Profit, Power, & Privilege: The Racial Politics of Ancestry   American Anthropological Association Meetings November 18, 2000 San Francisco, California Lee D. Baker, Professor of Cultural Anthropology and African and African American Studies Duke University In March of this year each of you received your decennial census, and you were confronted, once again, by those…

  • Science: Passers

    Science: Passers TIME Magazine 1946-08-12 Will U.S. whites eventually absorb the nation’s Negroes—as Italy, Mexico and Portugal have absorbed theirs? So thought James Bryce, and so, for more than a generation, have thought many sociologists. “It is now estimated,” wrote Author Herbert Asbury in Collier’s last week, “that there are at least between 5,000,000 and…

  • A “Mixed-Race” Nation Isn’t the Same as a Post-Race One

    A “Mixed-Race” Nation Isn’t the Same as a Post-Race One ColorLines 2011-02-04 Dom Apollon The Web is still buzzing with chatter over a New York Times feature last weekend that explored how and why an increasing number of young people identify as “mixed-race.” The Census Bureau will release race-based data from its 2010 decennial count…

  • After Whiteness: Unmaking an American Majority

    After Whiteness: Unmaking an American Majority New York University Press January 2004 336 pages, 8 illustrations Cloth ISBN: 9780814735428; Paper ISBN: 9780814735435 Mike Hill, Associate Professor of English State University of New York, Albany As each new census bears out, the rise of multiracialism in the United States will inevitably result in a white minority.…

  • Mediating Racial Mixture

    Mediating Racial Mixture The Journal of Media Literacy Volume 55, Numbers 1 & 2 (Cultural Diversity) (2008) Carlos E. Cortés, Professor Emeritus of History University of California, Riverside Which one of the following names does not fit in the set? Barack Obama. Mariah Carey. Halle Berry. Tiger Woods. Ann Curry. Soledad O’Brien. Benjamin Jealous. Carlos…

  • Hawaii is older, more racially mixed, census shows

    Hawaii is older, more racially mixed, census shows Honolulu Star Advertiser 2011-05-19 Michael Tsai According to the U.S. Census Bureau’s latest demographic profile of the state, Hawaii is looking a little older, a tad whiter, perhaps a bit lonelier. The bureau is scheduled to release today detailed demographic information collected last year in Hawaii and…

  • Blending together

    Blending together The Stanford Daily Stanford University 2011-05-05 Ashley Menzies These students are part of the growing country-wide phenomenon of individuals who identify themselves as “mixed race.” The number of people who check both the black and white boxes has increased by 134 percent to 1.8 million since the 2000 census, the first time it…

  • Multiracal In America

    Multiracal In America Ebony Magazine May 2011 Adam Serwer In The Mix: Being Biracial in America When President Barack Obama checked “Black” on his census form last April, it was an actual news story. The Associated Press subhed [sub-headline] was lined with implicit anguish: “President Ticks One Box Concerning Racial Heritage on U.S. Census Form,…

  • As the mixed-race population grows, the stigma of the past fades

    As the mixed-race population grows, the stigma of the past fades jcOnline.com (Journal and Courier) Lafayette – West Lafayette, Indiana 2011-05-01 Taya Flores Gerald and Susan Thomas experienced a hurtful racial climate in Greater Lafayette when they dated during the 1970s. A drive-by verbal assault in Lafayette early in their marriage is one Gerald still…

  • Growing Up Mixed, Blended In The New American Family

    Growing Up Mixed, Blended In The New American Family National Public Radio Tell Me More 2011-03-29 Michel Martin, Host New census figures show that the number of mixed-race Americans has grown by nearly 50 percent in the last ten years. And that rise in number is most pronounced in the South. Census data also reveals…