Mixed Race Studies

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  • Multiracial Identity: An International Perspective

    Multiracial Identity: An International Perspective Palgrave Macmillan September 2000 186 pages 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches ISBN: 978-0-312-23219-1 ISBN10: 0-312-23219-5 Mark Christian, Professor of African & African American Studies Lehman College, City University of New York Multiracial Identity provides an accessible account of the social construction of racialized groups. Using both primary (in-depth interviews)…

  • Mixed Race Identities

    This book investigates the ethnic and racial options exercised by young mixed race people in higher education in Britain, and it is the first to explore the identifications and experiences of various types of mixed race individuals. It reveals the diverse ways in which these young people identify and experience their mixed status, the complex…

  • Mixing it Up

    Mixing it Up Salon 2001-03-08 Suzy Hansen Alabama just legalized black-white marriage. An expert talks about why it took so long and the American obsession with racial purity. In November 2000, after a statewide vote in a special election, Alabama became the last state to overturn a law that was an ugly reminder of America’s…

  • AAS 550: Asian Americans of Mixed Heritages

    AAS 550: Asian Americans of Mixed Heritages San Francisco State University Spring 2012 Wei Ming Dariotis, Associate Professor of Asian American Studies This is an interactive, dynamic course taught in a seminar style with an expectation of active student participation. Group work and interaction are emphasized in order to provide students with real life problem…

  • The cradle to the grave: Reflections on race thinking

    The cradle to the grave: Reflections on race thinking thesis eleven: critical theory and historical sociology Volume 115, Number 1 (April 2013) pages 43-57 DOI: 10.1177/0725513612470533 Gerhard Maré, Professor of Sociology University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa Despite a constitutional and oft-stated political commitment to an undefined notion of non-racialism, South Africans continue to operate…

  • Mixing Up the Game: Social and Historical Contours of Black Mixed Heritage Players in British Football

    Mixing Up the Game: Social and Historical Contours of Black Mixed Heritage Players in British Football Mark Christian, Professor & Chair of African & African American Studies Lehman College, City University of New York pages 131-144 in the volume Race, Ethnicity and Football: Persisting Debates and Emergent Issues Routledge 2011-03-29 288 pages Hardback ISBN: 978-0-415-88205-7…

  • Afro-Germans and the Problems of Cultural Location

    Afro-Germans and the Problems of Cultural Location Molefi Kete Asante, Professor of African American Studies Temple University The African German Experience: Critical Essays Greenwood Publishing 1997 edited by Carol Aisha Blackshire-Belay The leitmotif of the German society in regards to African people has a lot to do with the way Germans approach racial difference. Thus,…

  • Forecast of Miscegenation

    Forecast of Miscegenation Los Angeles Herald 1906-07-24 page 6, column 3 Source: Library of Congress: Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers In the course of a sermon delivered last Sunday before n local negro audience. Bishop Hamilton of the Methodist church said: “It might create a sensation if I should say a union of the races…

  • For Blacks in Cuba, the Revolution Hasn’t Begun

    For Blacks in Cuba, the Revolution Hasn’t Begun The New York Times 2013-03-23 Roberto Zurbano, Editor and Publisher Casa de las Américas Publishing House Translated from Spanish by Kristina Cordero CHANGE is the latest news to come out of Cuba, though for Afro-Cubans like myself, this is more dream than reality. Over the last decade,…

  • The Case for Transracial Adoption

    The Case for Transracial Adoption American University Press 1994 150 pages 6 x 0.5 x 9 inches Paperback ISBN-10: 1879383209; ISBN-13: 978-1879383203 Rita J. Simon, University Professor Emerita Department of Justice, Law and Society American University, Washington, D.C. Howard Altstein, Professor of Social Work University of Maryland, Baltimore Marygold S. Melli, Professor of Law Emerita…