Mixed Race Studies

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  • Race, Gender, and the Politics of Skin Tone

    “Race, Gender, and the Politics of Skin Tone” tackles the hidden yet painful issue of colorism in the African American and Mexican American communities.

  • Beyond Blood Identities: Posthumanity in the Twenty-First Century

    Beyond Blood Identities: Posthumanity in the Twenty-First Century Lexington Books: an imprint of Rowman & Littlefield October 2009 262 pages 6 1/2 x 9 1/2 Hardback ISBN: 978-0-7391-3842-7 Paperback ISBN: 978-0-7391-3843-4 eBook ISBN: 978-0-7391-3844-1 Jason D. Hill, Professor of Philosophy DePaul University Beyond Blood Identities uncovers the social psychology of those who hold strong blood…

  • Has ‘Caucasian’ Lost Its Meaning?

    Has ‘Caucasian’ Lost Its Meaning? The New York Times 2013-07-06 Shaila Dewan, Economics Reporter gray318 As a racial classification, the term Caucasian has many flaws, dating as it does from a time when the study of race was based on skull measurements and travel diaries. It has long been entirely unmoored from its geographical reference…

  • Let’s face it: We need a new way to talk about race

    Let’s face it: We need a new way to talk about race U.S. Catholic July 2013 Anthony Walton Our conversation about race in America is still stuck in black and white. In order to move forward, we all need to learn a new vocabulary. By any measure, we are living in the best period of…

  • The End of the ‘Postrace’ Myth

    The End of the ‘Postrace’ Myth The Conversation: Online opinion on ideas and higher education The Chronicle of Higher Education 2013-01-14 Pamela Newkirk, Professor of Journalism New York University Over the past four years, it had become increasingly difficult to mount a public discussion about how racial bias continues to permeate our society, North and…

  • Children in Black and Mulatto Families

    Children in Black and Mulatto Families American Journal of Sociology Volume  39, Number 1 (July 1933) pages 12-29 E. Franklin Frazier (1894-1962), Professor of Sociology Fisk University Although the belief in the hereditary inferiority of the mulatto has been slowly dissipated by the accumulation of scientific knowledge, it is still echoed occasionally in scientific studies.…

  • Of Loving and Zimmerman

    Of Loving and Zimmerman Univision Communications, Inc. 2013-06-26 Carlos Cortés, Professor Emeritus of History University of California, Riverside In my last blog I addressed the question of Latino identity by examining the controversy in “Is the New Pope Latino?” I responded with an emphatic “yes” (in about 500 words). Since then, three separate items relating…

  • The Mulatto in the United States. by Edward Byron Reuter [Review by: Kelly Miller]

    The case of the everlasting negro again intrudes itself on public attention in the form of a scientific treatise upon the mulatto in the United States. The author has brought together much interesting and valuable material bearing upon mixed-blood races in all parts of the world.

  • Race Based Medication BiDil and African Americans

    Race Based Medication BiDil and African Americans New York University 2009-10-16 Ann Morning, Associate Professor of Sociology New York University Ann Morning, Assistant Professor of Sociology, discusses race-based medications.

  • Where in the World Is Juan—and What Color Is He?: The Geography of Latina/o Racial Identity in Southern California

    Where in the World Is Juan—and What Color Is He?: The Geography of Latina/o Racial Identity in Southern California American Quarterly Volume 65, Number 2, June 2013 pages 309-341 DOI: 10.1353/aq.2013.0020 Laura Pulido, Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity University of Southern California Manuel Pastor, Professor of Sociology and American Studies and Ethnicity University of…