Mixed Race Studies

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  • Coming Out As Black

    Coming Out As Black The Blog The Huffington Post 2013-05-24 Elaine Vilorio, High School Senior Northern New Jersey I’m Black. After many years in the closet, after many years of breathing that stale air of self-denial, I can finally say this. Growing up, I dreaded the question “What are you?” I always proudly answered that…

  • Can Losing Your Job Make You Black?

    Can Losing Your Job Make You Black? Boston Review 2013-06-03 Aliya Saperstein, Assistant Professor of Sociology Stanford University Most Americans think a person’s race is fairly obvious and unchanging; we know it the minute we meet him or her. Similarly, most academic research also treats race as fixed and foreordained. A person’s race comes first…

  • Cheerios stands by TV ad showing mixed-race family

    Cheerios stands by TV ad showing mixed-race family Associated Press 2013-06-05 Leanne Italie, Entertainment and Lifestyles Writer NEW YORK (AP) — A mom sits at her kitchen table when her grade schooler saunters up with a big box of Cheerios. “Mom,” says the girl. “Dad told me Cheerios is good for your heart. Is that…

  • Black-White Biracial Children’s Social Development from Kindergarten to Fifth Grade: Links with Racial Identification, Gender, and Socioeconomic Status

    Black-White Biracial Children’s Social Development from Kindergarten to Fifth Grade: Links with Racial Identification, Gender, and Socioeconomic Status Social Development Volume 23, Issue 1 (February 2014) pages 157–177 DOI: 10.1111/sode.12037 Annamaria Csizmadia, Assistant Professor of Human Development and Family Studies University of Connecticut, Stamford Jean M. Ispa, Professor of Human Development and Family Studies University…

  • White or Black? Conservatives, Liberals See Faces Differently

    White or Black? Conservatives, Liberals See Faces Differently Pacific Standard Santa Barbara, California 2013-06-05 Tom Jacobs, Staff Writer New research finds people on the political right are quicker to classify a racially ambiguous face as black. Did you notice that mixed-race gentleman who passed you on the sidewalk yesterday? During the split second as he…

  • What Makes you Black?

    What Makes you Black? Ebony Magazine Volume 38, Number 3 (January 1983) pages 115-118 Vague definition of race is the basis for court battles Imagine going to get a passport so you and your spouse can take a vacation in South America. Its all a formality, you reason; people just want to make sure you’re…

  • Louisiana’s “Creoles of Color”: Ethnicity, Marginality, and Identity

    Louisiana’s “Creoles of Color”: Ethnicity, Marginality, and Identity Social Science Quarterly Volume 73 Issue 3, September 1992 pages 615- James H. Dormon, Alumni Distinguished Professor of History and American Studies University of Southwestern Louisiana This article traces the ethnohistory of Creoles of color, beginning with an examination of the social-historical order out of which they…

  • Backlash greets Cheerios ad with interracial family

    Backlash greets Cheerios ad with interracial family The Washington Post 2013-05-31 Mary C. Curtis Here we go again, with more proof, if anyone needed it, that the post-racial American society some hoped the election of an African American president signified is far from here. Who would have thought that breakfast cereal would trigger the latest…

  • The United States of Mestizo

    The United States of Mestizo John F. Blair, Publisher 2013-01-01 48 pages 4¼ x 5½ 978-1-58838-288-7 ebook ISBN: 978-1-60306-200-8 Ilan Stavans, Lewis-Sebring Professor in Latin American and Latino Culture Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts This powerful manifesto attests to the fundamental changes the nation has undergone in the last half-century. Ilan Stavans meditates on the way…

  • Seeing Race in Modern America

    Seeing Race in Modern America University of North Carolina Press November 2013 Approx. 264 pages 6.125 x 9.25 10 color plates., 97 halftones, notes, index Cloth ISBN: 978-1-4696-1068-9 Matthew Pratt Guterl, Professor of Africana Studies and American Studies Brown University In this fiercely urgent book, Matthew Pratt Guterl focuses on how and why we come…