Mixed Race Studies

Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.

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Category: Census/Demographics

Context-dependence of race self-classification: Results from a highly mixed and unequal middle-income country

2019-10-19

We investigated the association between genomic ancestry, the racial composition of census tracts and individual socioeconomic factors and self-declared race/colour in a cohort of 15,105 Brazilians. Results show that the probability of self-declaring as black or brown increases according to the proportion of African ancestry and varies widely among cities.
How States Make Race: New Evidence from Brazil

2019-10-19

In this article, we ask whether the Brazilian state’s policy turnabout has affected racial subjectivities on the ground, specifically toward mirroring the categories used by the state.
Racial Intermarriage in the Americas

2019-10-19

We propose a theory of intergenerational mixture and intermarriage and discuss implications for the role of preferences versus structure, universalism and education, and mulato escape-hatch theory.
The Shifting Definition of Mixed-Race in America

2019-09-24

Radical changes in U.S. demographics are reinventing what it means to be multiracial
UC Berkeley must redesign data practices to give visibility to mixed-race students

2019-08-26

Every mixed-race person is familiar with this moment — you fill out some sort of form, and it asks for your race. You check one of them, and then when you attempt to check another, it either unchecks the first or tells you you are unable to select more than one.
Want to Be Less Racist? Move to Hawaii

2019-07-28

The “aloha spirit” may hold a deep lesson for all of us.
Biracial American Colorism: Passing for White

2019-07-24

While much of social science literature examines the racial identification processes of biracial Americans who identify with their minority heritage, this article focuses on contextual factors such as family income, neighborhood, religion, and gender that influence the decision for otherwise African/Asian/Latino/Native Americans to identify as White.
Placing Racial Classification in Context

2019-07-14

This article extends previous research on place-based patterns of racial categorization by linking it to sociological theory that posits subnational variation in cultural schemas and applying regression techniques that allow for spatial variation in model estimates.
The mixed race Irish kids who feel like outsiders

2019-07-14

Opinion: That Irish citizens feel like outsiders in the land of their birth on the basis of skin colour remind us that the issue of race is alive and well
The Legible Citizen: Race Making and Classification in Jim Crow Louisiana, 1955-1965

2019-06-24

This study examines three legal contests during the high tide of black freedom agitation, 1955-1965, in which citizens of Louisiana challenged the state Bureau of Health’s authority to make racial classifications.

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