Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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- You were either Black or white. To claim whiteness as a mixed child was to deny and hide Blackness. Our families understood that the world we were growing into would seek to denigrate this part of us and we would need a community that was made up, always and already, of all shades of Blackness.
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Category: Social Science
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Looking the Part: Social Status Cues Shape Race Perception PLoS ONE Volume 6, Issue 9: e25107 Published: 2011-09-26 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0025107 Jonathan B. Freemam, Assistant Professor of Psychological & Brain Sciences Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire Andrew M. Penner, Associate Professor of Sociology University of California, Irvine Aliya Saperstein, Assistant Professor of Sociology Stanford University Matthias Scheutz,…
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On the ideology of Hypodescent: Political Conservatism Predicts Categorization of Racially Ambiguous Faces as Black Journal of Experimental Social Psychology In Press (May 2013) 32 pages Amy R. Krosch Department of Psychology New York University Leslie Berntsen University of Southern California David M. Amodio, Associate Professor of Psychology and Neural Science New York University John…
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Latino racial choices: the effects of skin colour and discrimination on Latinos’ and Latinas’ racial self-identifications Ethnic and Racial Studies Volume 31, Issue 5, 2008 pages 899-934 DOI: 10.1080/01419870701568858 Tanya Golash-Boza, Associate Professor of Sociology University of California, Merced William Darity, Jr., Arts & Sciences Professor of Public Policy, African and African American Studies, and…
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“My dad is samurai”: Positioning of race and ethnicity surrounding a transnational Colombian Japanese high school student Linguistics and Education Available Online: 2013-05-22 DOI: 10.1016/j.linged.2013.03.002 Satoko Shao-Kobayashi Chiba University, Japan Highlights Racial hierarchies in different countries impact transnational students’ positioning in local contexts. Participants Other coethnics by using various labels to destigmatize their own minority…
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South Korea’s multiculturalism Al Jazeera The Stream 2013-05-21 How is the nation dealing with its growing diversity? A multi-cultural, multi-ethnic society is an emerging reality that is leading to a lot of racial and social discord in South Korea. Faced with an aging population and an influx of migrant wives, many are clinging to their…
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Bullying Pulpit: Racism, Barack Obama and the Selective Call for Personal Responsibility Tim Wise, Antiracist Essayist, Author and Educator 2013-05-19 Tim Wise Sometimes, white privilege isn’t about stuff. It’s not always about better opportunities, or more money, or even greater access to those things than people of color. Sometimes, white privilege is as simple as…
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‘One Drop of Love’ Creates Ripple Effect at UCSB The Bottom Line Weekly Newspaper of Associated Students, UC Santa Barbara: News, Features, Video & Investigative Journalism for UCSB 2013-05-13 Yuen Sin, Staff Writer The personal is very much the political, as actress-playwright Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni illustrated through her solo show “One Drop of Love: A…
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Mixing Matters: Critical Intersectionalities: An Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Symposium on Critical Mixed Race Studies Centre for Ethnicity and Racism Studies (CERS) University of Leeds 2013-05-18, 08:45-17:15 BST (Local Time) Key note speakers: Dr. Suki Ali is a Senior Lecturer at the London School of Economics. Her research interests include feminist cultural studies, theories of identity and…
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Dr. Ralina Joseph and Transcending Blackness: From the New Millennium Mulatta to the Exceptional Multiracial I Mix What I Like 2013-01-11 Jared A. Ball, Host and Associate Professor of Communication Studies Morgan State University, Baltimore, Maryland This is part one of our discussion with Dr. Ralina Joseph about her book, Transcending Blackness: From the New…
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What We Mean When We Say ‘Race Is a Social Construct’ The Atlantic 2013-05-15 Ta-Nehisi Coates, Senior Editor In a world where Kevin Garnett, Harold Ford, and Halle Berry all check “black” on the census, even the argument that racial labels refer to natural differences in physical traits doesn’t hold up. Andrew Sullivan and Freddie…