Mixed Race Studies

Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.

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  • Video from 2010 Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference at DePaul now available on iTunes U

    Video from 2010 Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference at DePaul now available on iTunes U If you missed the Nov 5-6, 2010 “Emerging Paradigms in Critical Mixed Race Studies” conference or any of the keynote talks or the welcoming address, you can now download the videos via Apple’s iTunes U. Here is a link to the…

  • Mixed: A Mixed Heritage

    Mixed: A Mixed Heritage Daily Bruin University of California, Los Angeles 2010-11-09 Nicholas Greitzer America has always been considered a melting pot – a melting pot of ideas, of ethnicities, of religions, of experiences and of people. In the 2000 census, for example, this miscegenation resulted in more than 6.8 million Americans self-identifying as multiracial.…

  • Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference

    Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference DePaul University, Lincoln Park Campus DePaul University Student Center 2250 N. Sheffield Chicago, Illinois USA 60614 2010-11-05 through 2010-11-06 Sponsored by DePaul University Asian American Studies and Latin American and Latino Studies and co-sponsored by the College of Ethnic Studies at San Francisco State University and the MAVIN Foundation. “Emerging…

  • America’s Changing Color Lines: Immigration, Race/Ethnicity, and Multiracial Identification

    America’s Changing Color Lines: Immigration, Race/Ethnicity, and Multiracial Identification Annual Review of Sociology Volume 30 (August 2004) pages 221–242 DOI: 10.1146/annurev.soc.30.012703.110519 Jennifer Lee, Associate Professor of Sociology University of California, Irvine Frank D. Bean, Chancellor’s Professor of Sociology and Economics; Director of the Center for Research on Immigration, Population, and Public Policy University of California,…

  • Being between: can multiracial Americans form a cohesive anti-racist movement beyond identity politics and Tiger Woods chic?

    Being between: can multiracial Americans form a cohesive anti-racist movement beyond identity politics and Tiger Woods chic? ColorLines: Race, Culture, Action 2003-06-22 Sasha Su-Ling Welland, Assistant Professor Anthropology & Women Studies University of Washington So much of being mixed race these days seems about having to explain, always answering “What are you?” for others and…

  • Panel discusses race, identity

    Panel discusses race, identity Indiana Daily Student 2009-11-06 Therese Kennelly Graduate student Fileve Palmer said though her parents always talked about their diverse backgrounds with her, she still struggled to find a way to relay her identity to others. She struggled throughout her life to retain her African-American identity, while society viewed her as Puerto…

  • BEYOND ‘OTHER’: A special report.;More Than Identity Rides On a New Racial Category

    BEYOND ‘OTHER’: A special report.;More Than Identity Rides On a New Racial Category The New York Times 1996-07-06 Linda Mathews Edward Cooper, a Portland, Ore., businessman, is black. His wife and business partner, Barbara McIntyre, is white. Their 12-year-old son, Ethan McCooper, is, like his name, a blend of his parents, and harder to classify.…

  • Immigration’s Racial Complexity

    Immigration’s Racial Complexity The Washington Post Political Bookworm: Where tomorrow’s must-read political books are discovered today 2010-07-09 Steven E. Levingston Will today’s Latino and Asian immigrants become incorporated into American society like their European predecessors? Or will race remain a stumbling block to full assimilation? Jennifer Lee and Frank Bean explore these questions in their…

  • One Drop of Blood

    One Drop of Blood The New Yorker 1994-07-24 Lawrence Wright, Staff Writer Washington in the millennial years is a city of warring racial and ethnic groups fighting for recognition, protection, and entitlements. This war has been fought throughout the second half of the twentieth century largely by black Americans. How much this contest has widened,…

  • Making sense of race and racial classification

    Making sense of race and racial classification Race and Society Volume 4, Issue 2, (2001) Pages 235-247 DOI: 10.1016/S1090-9524(03)00012-3 Angela D. James, Associate Professor of African American Studies Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles As social scientists, race scholars, and demographers, how do we begin to make sense of recent changes in the Census Bureau’s system…