Mixed Race Studies

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  • Generation Mixed and the One Love Club

    Generation Mixed and the One Love Club Gino Michael Pellegrini: Education, Amalgamation, Race, Class & Solidarity 2012-06-03 Gino Pellegrini, Adjunct Assistant Professor of English Pierce College, Woodland Hills, California The popular media and specifically the Race Remixed series in the New York Times propagate the myth of multiracialism. According to this social myth, the increasing…

  • Reproducing Race: The Paradox of Generation Mix

    Is postraciality just around the corner? How realistic are the often-heard pronouncements that mixed-race identity is leading the United States to its postracial future? In his provocative analysis, Rainier Spencer illuminates the assumptions that multiracial ideology in fact shares with concepts of both white supremacy and antiblackness.

  • Man’s Most Dangerous Myth: The Fallacy of Race (Sixth Edition)

    “Man’s Most Dangerous Myth” was first published in 1942, when Nazism flourished, when African Americans sat at the back of the bus, and when race was considered the determinant of people’s character and intelligence.

  • Don Lemon: It only takes one drop

    Don Lemon: It only takes one drop Cable News Network (CNN) In America: You define America. What defines you? 2012-01-15 Don Lemon, Anchor CNN Newsroom This piece is part of a three-part series tied to the (1)ne Drop Project. (CNN) – For years, the woman on the left in the photograph below could not be…

  • Passing as Black? Some Initial Thoughts…

    Passing as Black? Some Initial Thoughts… brianbantum: theology, culture, teaching and life in-between 2010-12-17 Brian Bantum, Assistant Professor of Theology Seattle Pacific University Thomas Chatterton Williams has written an intriguing article highlighting recent trends of multiracial children “passing as black.” If I let myself go I will write a short book on this before I…

  • When You’re Mixed Race, Just One Box Is Not Enough

    When You’re Mixed Race, Just One Box Is Not Enough The Race Card Project: Six-Word Essays National Public Radio 2013-04-02 NPR continues a series of conversations about The Race Card Project, where thousands of people have submitted their thoughts on race and cultural identity in six words. Every so often NPR Host/Special Correspondent Michele Norris…

  • Privilege check, one two, one too…

    Privilege check, one two, one too… Mixed in Canada 2013-04-01 MIC is taking on “Mixed Privilege” in an effort to decolonize & deconstruct the various social privileges that some of us may benefit from. Recognizing our privilege is arguably one of the most important steps in anti-oppression work, as it allows us to connect in…

  • In Living Colors

    In Living Colors B.L.A.C. Detroit: Black Life, Arts and Culture Magazine February 2011 Jared A. Ball, Associate Professor of Communication Studies Morgan State University, Baltimore, Maryland [Listen to the interview with Jared Ball and Lori Robinson on WDET in Detroit on 2011-02-01 here.] A Black man with a White mother examines the concept of multiracial identity—past,…

  • Skin Bleach And Civilization: The Racial Formation of Blackness in 1920s Harlem

    Skin Bleach And Civilization: The Racial Formation of Blackness in 1920s Harlem The Journal of Pan African Studies Voume 4, Number 4 (June 2011) pages 47-80 Jacob S. Dorman, Assistant Professor of African American History and American Studies University of Kansas Unlike previous scholarship on skin-bleaching advertisements conducted by scholars such as Lawrence Levine and…

  • Playing Games with Race

    NOTE: This article expands on a comment on Prof. Hortense Spillers’ article “Mama’s Baby, Papa’s, Too” published on The Feminist Wire on February 25, 2011. Omar Ricks would like to thank Prof. Spillers for inviting his contribution to The Feminist Wire.