Mixed Race Studies

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  • Not Quite White: Race Classification and the Arab American Experience

    Not Quite White: Race Classification and the Arab American Experience This paper was first presented at a symposium on Arab Americans by: The Center for Contemporary Arab Studies Georgetown University 1997-04-04 (This is also a chapter in Arabs in America: Building a New Future) Issues of race and identity are certainly dominant factors in American…

  • who and what you are

    who and what you are Contexts Volume 8, Number 4 (Fall 2009) Pages 64–65 DOI: 10.1525/ctx.2009.8.4.64 Sangyoub Park, Assistant Professor of Sociology Washburn University Barack Obama’s presidency and changes in how the U.S. Census tracks race underline the importance of the social construction of race and ethnicity in the United States. Changes in our racial…

  • Choosing Race: Multiracial Ancestry and Identification

    Choosing Race: Multiracial Ancestry and Identification Social Science Research Volume 40, Issue 2 (March 2011) pages 498–512 DOI: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2010.12.010 Aaron Gullickson, Assistant Professor of Sociology University of Oregon Ann Morning, Assistant Professor of Sociology New York University Social scientists have become increasingly interested in the racial identification choices of multiracial individuals, partly as a result…

  • Interpreting the Census: The Elasticity of Whiteness and the Depoliticization of Race

    Interpreting the Census: The Elasticity of Whiteness and the Depoliticization of Race  2007 pages 155-170  Katya Gibel Mevorach, Associate Professor of Anthropology Grinnell College  From the anthology:  Racial Liberalism and the Politics of Urban America Michigan State University Press 2007 280 pages 6 ” x 9 ” ISBN: 0-87013-669-0, 978-0-87013-669-6  Edited by:  Curtis Stokes, Professor…

  • U.S. more diverse than ever: Census

    U.S. more diverse than ever: Census The Toronto Star 2010-12-23 Timothy R. Homan Bloomberg News WASHINGTON—The ethnic makeup of the world’s largest economy will be increasingly diverse, with more mixed-race Americans, according to the head of the U.S. Census Bureau. “This is the decade of Tiger Woods and Barack Obama, where we talked about race…

  • 2010 Census Data Products: United States (At a Glance – Version 1.0)

    2010 Census Data Products: United States (At a Glance – Version 1.0) Planned Release date: 2011-02-01 through 2011-03-31 Product: 2010 Census Redistricting Data (P.L. 94-171) Summary File by State Category: State population counts for race and Hispanic or Latino categories / State housing unit counts by occupancy status (occupied units, vacant units) Lowest Level Geography:…

  • Defying the Civil Rights Lobby: The American Multiracial Movement

    Defying the Civil Rights Lobby: The American Multiracial Movement Benjamin L. Hooks Institute for Social Change University of Memphis April 2007 35 pages Kim M. Williams, Associate Professor of Public Policy Harvard University Throughout the 1990s a handful of advocates argued to stunning if partial success that it was both inaccurate and an affront to…

  • Social Status, Race, and the Timing of Marriage in Cuba’s First Constitutional Era, 1902-1940

    Social Status, Race, and the Timing of Marriage in Cuba’s First Constitutional Era, 1902-1940 Journal of Family History Volume 36, Number 1 (December 2010) pages 52-71 DOI: 10.1177/0363199010389546 Enid Lynette Logan, Associate Professor of Sociology University of Minnesota, Minneapolis This article examines the practice of marriage among whites, mestizos, blacks, Cubans, and Spaniards during the…

  • I’ve got a Story to Tell: Critical Race Theory, Whiteness and Narrative Constructions of Racial and Ethnic Census Categories

    I’ve got a Story to Tell: Critical Race Theory, Whiteness and Narrative Constructions of Racial and Ethnic Census Categories Bowling Green State University December 2010 245 pages Candice J. LeFlore-Muñoz A Dissertation Submitted to the Graduate College of Bowling Green State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy This…

  • Sociology Professor Chronicles Rising Latino Culture

    Sociology Professor Chronicles Rising Latino Culture Inside Fordham Online Fordham University In Focus: Faculty and Research 2010-11-15 Patrick Verel Already the largest minority group in the United States, Latinos will be an even bigger presence in the years to come, according to demographic studies. Clara Rodriguez, Ph.D., professor of sociology in Fordham College at Lincoln…