Mixed Race Studies

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  • Excursus on “Hapa”; or the Fate of Identity

    Excursus on “Hapa”; or the Fate of Identity Asian American Literature: Discourses & Pedagogies Volume 3 (2012): Special Issue: Mixed Heritage Asian American Literature 11 pages Nicole Myoshi Rabin University of Hawai‘i, Manoa When I was growing up the license plate on my mom’s Dodge minivan read: R3HAPAS. My mom explained to my sister, brother,…

  • Am I Enough? A Multi-Race Teacher’s Experience In-Between Contested Race, Gender, Class, and Power

    AM NOT WHITE. I am not Black. I am mixed. I am one half Polish, one quarter Russian, and one-quarter Japanese. I was born, raised, and educated in public schools in the suburbs of Chicago, and then abruptly transitioned to public schools located in north Alabama when I was an adolescent.

  • Black, White, and Many Shades of Gray

    Black, White, and Many Shades of Gray Harvard Magazine May-June 2013 Craig Lambert Randall Kennedy probes the “variousness” of charged racial issues. In The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama, David Remnick relates a story from Obama’s first year at Harvard Law School, when he registered for “Race, Racism, and American Law,” a…

  • Hot Colors: Race, Sex, and Love

    Hot Colors: Race, Sex, and Love Harvard Magazine March-April 2003 Craig Lambert Tiger Woods, possibly the world’s best-known athlete, resists being called a “black” golfer. He coined the term “Cablinasian” (Caucasian, black, Indian, Asian) to identify his race, and used it on the Oprah Winfrey television show after winning the 1997 Masters tournament. Although Woods’s…

  • On Being Brown in America

    On Being Brown in America The New York Times 2013-04-25 Amitava Kumar, Writer and Professor of English Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York The recent bombings in Boston threw up many questions. One of the most pressing, in my somewhat narrow view, is the meaning of being brown in America. On April 17, two days after…

  • “I Thought He was White You Know a Regular American”: The Boston Marathon Bombing Shows Us How White Privilege Hurts White People… Again

    “I Thought He was White You Know a Regular American”: The Boston Marathon Bombing Shows Us How White Privilege Hurts White People… Again We Are Respectable Negroes 2013-04-19 Chauncey DeVega Race is a social construction. There is only one race, the human race. But, race has historically been something negotiated by the courts, has legal…

  • Affirmative Action in Brazil: Slavery’s Legacy

    Affirmative Action in Brazil: Slavery’s Legacy The Economist Americas View: The Americas 2013-04-26 H.J. São Paulo TO SUM up recent research predicting a mixed-race future for humanity, biologist Stephen Stearns of Yale University turns to an already intermingled nation. In a few centuries, he says, we will all “look like Brazilians”. Brazil shares with the…

  • The Color Line: A Brief in Behalf of the Unborn

    The Color Line: A Brief in Behalf of the Unborn McClure, Phillips & Co. 1905 261 pages ISBN 10: 0837113962 Open Library ID: OL7174992M William Benjamin Smith (1850-1934), Professor of Mathematics and Philosophy Tulane University Contents Chapter One: The Individual? or the Race? Chapter Two: Is the Negro Inferior? Chapter Three: Nurture? or Nature? Chapter…

  • Are the Tsarnaevs White?

    Are the Tsarnaevs White? The Daily Beast 2013-04-24 Peter Beinart, Senior Political Writer and Associate Professor of Journalism City University of New York also Editor-in-chief Open Zion In a word, yes. But why is this so hard for Americans to grasp? Peter Beinart on our country’s long track record of conflating religion and race. The…