Mixed Race Studies

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  • Why I see myself as a daughter of the Diaspora rather than mixed-race

    Why this ‘mixed’ girl rejects the ‘mixed-race’ label.

  • Off-White Like Me

    Off-White Like Me LA Weekly Culver City, California 2008-03-26 David Ehrenstein Biracial? Tell it to the hosts of Fox and Friends. Obama is black. On a cross-country trip in the summer of 1957, my family stopped in Oklahoma City. There, my father asked a policeman for directions to the state capitol. The officer began to…

  • Four Simple Reasons Smart People Shouldn’t Believe in Races

    Four Simple Reasons Smart People Shouldn’t Believe in Races Psychology Today About Thinking: Questioning everything with a hopeful skeptic 2013-12-23 Guy P. Harrison Today is a good day to wake up and join the human species. Guess what I do almost every time race and racism are discussed in popular culture. I groan and turn…

  • Notes On A Theory Of Multi-Racial White Supremacist Patriarchy, aka MRWaSP

    Notes On A Theory Of Multi-Racial White Supremacist Patriarchy, aka MRWaSP it’s her factory: pop culture and philosophy from a critical-race feminist perspective. 2013-11-29 Robin James, Associate Professor of Philosophy & Women’s & Gender Studies University of North Carolina, Charlotte Multi-Racial White Supremacist Patriarchy, or MRWaSP, is my term for early 21st-century globalized Western race/gender/sexuality/capitalist…

  • NYC Mayor-Elect’s Family Reflects Rise of Intermarriage

    NYC Mayor-Elect’s Family Reflects Rise of Intermarriage Voice of America 2013-12-17 Carolyn Weaver In 1959, only four percent of Americans approved of interracial marriage. Today, 87 percent do, according to a Gallup poll. President Barack Obama was born to such a marriage, and census figures show that the fastest growing demographic under 18 is children…

  • Professor Mark Christian on Mixed Chicks Chat

    Professor Mark Christian on Mixed Chicks Chat Mixed Chicks Chat (The only live weekly show about being racially and culturally mixed. Also, founders of the Mixed Roots Film & Literary Festival) Hosted by Fanshen Cox, Heidi W. Durrow and Jennifer Frappier Episode: #233 – Professor Mark Christian Wednesday, 2011-11-16, 22:00Z (17:00 EST, 14:00 PST) Mark Christian, Professor…

  • New York Times and The American Riddle

    New York Times and The American Riddle Only-NeverInSweden 2013-09-03 Larry Lundgren Linköping, Sweden The [New York] Times accepted two comments on OpEd article by Charles Blow: “The Most Dangerous Negro.” Here are the two books that I presently cite in comments on this and related articles Prewitt, Kenneth, 2013, What is Your Race-The Census and…

  • Colloquium: Blinded by Sight: Seeing Race Through the Eyes of the Blind

    Colloquium: Blinded by Sight: Seeing Race Through the Eyes of the Blind University of Pennsylvania 103 McNeil Building 3718 Locust Walk Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6299 Wednesday, 2014-01-29, 12:00-13:00 EST (Local Time) Osagie K. Obasogie, Professor of Law University of California, Hastings College of the Law Professor Obasogie’s research attempts to bridge the conceptual and methodological gaps between…

  • Race Medicine: Treating Health Inequities from Slavery to the Genomic Age with Prof. Dorothy Roberts

    Race Medicine: Treating Health Inequities from Slavery to the Genomic Age with Prof. Dorothy Roberts Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice Brown University Steven Robert ’62  Campus Center, Petteruti Lounge 75 Waterman Street Providence, Rhode Island 02912 Tuesday, 2013-12-10, 17:30 EST (Local Time) Dorothy E. Roberts, George A. Weiss University Professor of Law…

  • Blinded by Sight: Seeing Race Through the Eyes of the Blind

    In “Blinded by Sight,” Obasogie argues that rather than being visually obvious, both blind and sighted people are socialized to see race in particular ways, even to a point where blind people “see” race.