Mixed Race Studies

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  • Racism, White Supremacy and Biracial/Multiraciality (2011)

    From my September 2011 talk at Spalding University in Louisville, KY. In this snippet, I respond to a question about how we should understand or think about biracial and multiracial folks’ experiences in a system of racism/white supremacy.

  • Trayvon Martin, my son, and the Black Male Code

    Trayvon Martin, my son, and the Black Male Code The Associated Press 2012-03-24 Jesse Washington, National Writer/Race and Ethnicity PHILADELPHIA (AP) — I thought my son would be much older before I had to tell him about the Black Male Code. He’s only 12, still sleeping with stuffed animals, still afraid of the dark. But…

  • A Postracial Society or A Diversity Paradox? Race, Immigration, and Multiraciality in the Twenty-First Century

    A Postracial Society or A Diversity Paradox? Race, Immigration, and Multiraciality in the Twenty-First Century Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race Volume 9, Issue 2, Fall 2012 pages 419-437 DOI: 10.1017/S1742058X12000161 Jennifer Lee, Professor of Sociology University of California, Irvine Frank D. Bean, Chancellor’s Professor of Sociology University of California, Irvine At the…

  • Earnest Harris Declares: NO MORE RACE

    Earnest Harris Declares: NO MORE RACE Mixed Race Radio Blog Talk Radio 2013-07-03, 16:00Z (12:00 EDT) Tiffany Rae Reid, Host Earnest Harris, Producer/Director/Talent Manager/Writer No More Race Earnest Harris has written extensively on matters related to race relations, especially focused on moving beyond “racial” concepts and getting our society to a place where color and cultural…

  • Ethnic Identity Problems and Prospects for the Twenty-first Century – Fourth Edition

    Ethnic Identity Problems and Prospects for the Twenty-first Century – Fourth Edition AltaMira Press June 2006 436 pages 7 x 9 1/4 Hardback ISBN: 978-0-7591-0972-8 Paperback ISBN: 978-0-7591-0973-5 Edited by: Lola Romanucci-Ross, Professor Emerita of Family and Preventive Medicine University of California, San Diego De George A. Vos (1922-2010), Professor Emeritus of Anthropology University of…

  • Raceless Like Me: Students at Harvard Navigate their Way Beyond the Boundaries of Race

    Raceless Like Me: Students at Harvard Navigate their Way Beyond the Boundaries of Race The Harvard Crimson Harvard University 2011-10-13 Zoe A. Y. Weinberg, Crimson Staff Writer One day last fall, Paula M. Maouyo ’14 sat in front of her laptop in Matthews trying to think of a topic for her Expos paper about racial…

  • Fade To Black: Racelessness In The Age of Obama

    Fade To Black: Racelessness In The Age of Obama A. Little Bit of Enlightenment 2009-10-09 Anita Little The new 21st century epithet of racelessness, which most associate with the positive qualities of a post-race society, can actually be a guise for a much more sinister motivation. The tendency of society to assign the quality of…

  • Refusing to Identify by Race

    Refusing to Identify by Race The New York Times 2013-07-11 Carlos Hoyt Andover, Massachusetts Re “Has ‘Caucasian’ Lost Its Meaning?” (news analysis, Sunday Review, July 7 [2013]): I recently completed a doctoral study at the Simmons School of Social Work about people who are commonly ascribed to the black/African-American, biracial or multiracial categories, but who…

  • Afro-Rebel (Or Why I am not an Afropolitan)

    Afro-Rebel (Or Why I am not an Afropolitan) Black Girl Dancing at Lughnasa 2013-07-09 Emma Dabiri, Teaching Fellow Africa Department, School of African and Oriental Studies, London Visual Sociology Ph.D. Researcher, Goldsmiths University of London The following is from a discussion I recently took part in ‘Fantasy or Reality? Afropolitan Narratives of the 21st Century’…

  • Historicizing “mixed-race” and post-modern amnesia

    Historicizing “mixed-race” and post-modern amnesia O Desafio da Diferença (Challenge of the Difference) Universidade Federal da Bahia Salvador, Bahia, Brazil 2000-04-09 through 2000-04-12 Grupo de Trabalho (Workshop) 5: Mixing it up with Mixed Race: Problematizing and Historicizing the Mixed Race Discourse Katya Gibel Azoulay [Mevorach], Associate Professor of Anthropology Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa Americans have…