Mixed Race Studies

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  • Judicial Erasure of Mixed-Race Discrimination

    This Article aims to expose the shortcomings of the prevailing crude racial categories as a means to implement the core provisions of antidiscrimination law—constitutional and statutory provisions such as the Equal Protection Clause and Title VII, and the jurisprudence that has developed around these provisions.

  • Passing for White, Passing for Black

    It was the New Graduate Student Reception for my class, the first social event of my first semester in the best graduate department in my field in the country. I was full of myself, as we all were, full of pride at having made the final cut, full of arrogance at our newly recorded membership…

  • Racial melting pot won’t end social disparities

    Racial melting pot won’t end social disparities San Francisco Chronicle 2012-02-12 Brenda Payton, Lecturer in Journalism San Francisco State University I looked at the room full of San Francisco State University students and saw the beginning of the end of race as we have defined it.   If that sounds a little over-the-top, here’s some…

  • Why Are We Hung Up on Our Mixed Roots?

    Why Are We Hung Up on Our Mixed Roots? The Root 2012-03-06 Nsenga K. Burton, Ph.D., Editor At-Large The latest controversy in Beyoncé Knowles news may be her breast-feeding Blue Ivy in public, but I’m still shaking my head about the recent fuss over her True Match commercial for L’Oréal, which highlights the singer’s mixed-race…

  • Obama and the Elusive Idea of Race

    Obama and the Elusive Idea of Race The Root 2011-04-26 Mary C. Curtis Scientists increasingly conclude that ethnicity cannot be defined scientifically, but that hasn’t stopped the racists, the Birthers and the confused from casting their insecurities onto the president. It’s not surprising to get involved in a heated discussion about race when you’re strolling…

  • 383a. Nation, Race and Gender in Latin America and the Caribbean – Senior Seminar

    383a. Nation, Race and Gender in Latin America and the Caribbean – Senior Seminar Vassar College Poughkeepsie, New York 2013/2014 Light Carruyo, Associate Professor of Sociology   (Same as Sociology 383) With a focus on Latin America and the Spanish-speaking Caribbean this course traces and analyzes the ways in which the project of nation building…

  • 305. The Social Construction of Race in the U.S.

    305. The Social Construction of Race in the U.S. Vassar College Poughkeepsie, New York Diane Harriford, Professor of Sociology This course examines the social construction of race in the United States from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the present. The focus is on the changing racial meanings and identities of specific socio-historical groups…

  • Poverty at a Racial Crossroads: Poverty Among Multiracial Children of Single Mothers

    Poverty at a Racial Crossroads: Poverty Among Multiracial Children of Single Mothers Journal of Marriage and Family Volume 75, Issue 2, April 2013 pages 486-502 DOI: 10.1111/jomf.12012 Jenifer L. Bratter, Associate Professor of Sociology Rice University Sarah Damaske, Assistant Professor of Labor Studies & Employment Relations Pennsylvania State University Although multiracial youth represent a growing…

  • The Elusive Variability of Race

    The question of race is, at its core, a questioning of humanity itself.  In various eras and locales, race has been marked by color of skin, texture of hair, dress, musical prowess, digital dexterity, rote memorization, mien, mannerisms, disease, athletic ability, capacity to write poetry, sense of rhythm, sobriety, childlike cheerfulness, animal anger, language, continent…

  • Mama’s Baby, Papa’s, Too

    …We’ve been here before, and that is the disappointment. Reminded in the course of Saulny’s treatment that terms like “mulatto,” “once tinged with shame…is enjoying a comeback in some young circles” (1), one wonders what all the brouhaha about “post-racial” identity actually means, unless the new racialist reflexes are intended to be taken as parodic…