Mixed Race Studies

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  • Interracial couples now part of mainstream

    Interracial couples now part of mainstream The Chicago Tribune 2013-10-23 Dawn Turner Trice, Reporter Mixed-race relationships becoming more common in Chicago — and everywhere else Stephen Blessman and Patricia Jones Blessman met in the mid-1990s and fell in love. It didn’t matter to either of them that he’s white and she’s African-American. They have a…

  • crossings: undone presents, pyrrhic futures

    crossings: undone presents, pyrrhic futures The State Dubai, U.A.E. Voicing 2013-03-30 Tiana Reid Columbia University “Cyaan live split. Not in this world.” The first time I read Michelle Cliff’s 1987 book No Telephone to Heaven, I immediately forgot which character had said this line. Was it Harry/Harriet, the queer Jamaican character? Or was it Clare…

  • Critical Mixed Race Studies in the Twenty-First Century (ETHN 0090B S01)

    Critical Mixed Race Studies in the Twenty-First Century (ETHN 0090B S01) Brown University Fall 2013 Alexandrina R. Agloro, Visiting Instructor in American Studies This course will guide students through an understanding of the historical, contemporary, and ideological rationale behind the constructions of mixed race, and how mixed race theory plays out in history, art, and…

  • Racism without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in America (Fourth Edition)

    Eduardo Bonilla-Silva’s acclaimed “Racism without Racists” documents how beneath our contemporary conversation about race lies a full-blown arsenal of arguments, phrases, and stories that whites use to account for—and ultimately justify—racial inequalities. This provocative book explodes the belief that America is now a color-blind society.

  • The Uniqueness of Dante de Blasio

    The Uniqueness of Dante de Blasio Gotham Gazette: The Place or New York Policy and Politics New York, New York 2013-09-24 Andy Beveridge, Professor of Sociology Queens College, City University of New York As New York took in the extent of the win by Bill de Blasio in the Democratic primary for mayor, the impact…

  • Geneticists and the Biology of Race Crossing

    Geneticists and the Biology of Race Crossing Science Magazine Volume 182, Number 4114 (1973-11-23) pages 790-796 DOI: 10.1126/science.182.4114.790 William B. Provine, Andrew H. and James S. Tisch Distinguished University Professor Cornell University Geneticists changed their minds about the biological effects of race crossing Geneticists in England and the United States clearly reversed their published remarks…

  • Fitting Into the Right Box: Multiracial America on the Rise

    Fitting Into the Right Box: Multiracial America on the Rise Brown Political Review 2013-10-18 Meg Sullivan As swimmer Michael Phelps knows, one of the highest priorities of food corporations is maintaining their squeaky clean mainstream appeal. This usually involves companies giving wide berth to any manner of controversy, but Cheerios ignored this policy four months…

  • Who stole all the black women from Britain?

    Who stole all the black women from Britain? Black Girl Dancing at Lughnasa 2013-10-17 Emma Dabiri, Teaching Fellow Africa Department, School of African and Oriental Studies, London Visual Sociology Ph.D. Researcher, Goldsmiths University of London …Here in the UK, the  visibility of black women in representations of mainstream Black British culture is such that you…

  • Rethinking race, racism, identity and ideology in Latin America

    Rethinking race, racism, identity and ideology in Latin America Ethnic and Racial Studies Volume 36,  Issue 10, 2013 (Special Issue: Rethinking Race, Racism, Identity, and Ideology in Latin America) pages 1485-1489 DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2013.808357 Tanya Golash-Boza, Associate Professor of Sociology University of California, Merced Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, Professor of Sociology Duke University, Durham, North Carolina This special issue…

  • Irish and white-ish mixed “race” identity and the scopic regime of whiteness

    Irish and white-ish mixed “race” identity and the scopic regime of whiteness Women’s Studies International Forum Volume 27, Issue 4, October–November 2004 pages 385-396 DOI: 10.1016/j.wsif.2004.10.007 Angeline D. Morrison Falmouth College of Arts, Falmouth, Cornwall, United Kingdom When speaking about the paradoxical “invisibility” of whiteness, I am referring in particular to Richard Dyer’s project to…