Mixed Race Studies

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  • More Than Black? Multiracial Identity and the New Racial Order

    In the United States, anyone with even a trace of African American ancestry has been considered black. Even as the twenty-first century opens, a racial hierarchy still prevents people of color, including individuals of mixed race, from enjoying the same privileges as Euro-Americans. In this book, G. Reginald Daniel argues that we are at a…

  • Race in Contemporary Medicine

    Race in Contemporary Medicine Routledge 2007 208 pages Hardback ISBN: 978-0-415-41365-7 Edited by: Sander L. Gilman With the first patent being granted to “BiDil,” a combined medication that is deemed to be most effective for a specific “race,” African-Americans for a specific form of heart failure, the on-going debate about the effect of the older…

  • The Privilege of Denial

    The Privilege of Denial all things beautiful 2012-09-19 Alyssa Bacon-Liu I remember doing what’s called a Privilege Walk during my freshman year of college. There was a group of us and we stood in a line and we were given instructions. You had to take steps forward or steps back depending on how you answered…

  • How Do Whites Perceive Biracial People?

    How Do Whites Perceive Biracial People? Daily Observations: Your source for the latest psychological research Association for Psychological Science 2011-11-10 In case you missed it, the cameras were rolling at the APS 23rd Annual Convention in Washington, DC. Watch Sabrica Barnett from The City University of New York present her poster research on “Not Fully…

  • The Autobiography of an Ex-White Woman: Bliss Broyard’s One Drop

    The Autobiography of an Ex-White Woman: Bliss Broyard’s One Drop Mother Jones 2007-11-09 Debra J. Dickerson Suddenly, white people are fascinated by race. Good for them. Good for all of us? If you haven’t read Bliss Broyard’s One Drop: My Father’s Hidden Life—A Story of Race and Family Secrets, you must. No matter how well…

  • A Conversation with Eric Hamako

    This is the first in a series of interviews with scholars, writers, activists and others involved with the topic of multiracilism.

  • This is a Time for Hope and Change

    This is a Time for Hope and Change Indiana Law Journal Volume 87, Issue 1 (2012) Article 23 pages 431-444 Kevin D. Brown, Richard S. Melvin Professor of Law Indiana University Maurer School of Law I have agreed to comment on the paper delivered by Professors Angela Onwuachi-Willig and Mario Barnes at a conference titled…

  • ‘It is a peculiar feeling, this multiple-consciousness:’ Putting the Multiracial Experience Into Multicultural Education

    ‘It is a peculiar feeling, this multiple-consciousness:’ Putting the Multiracial Experience Into Multicultural Education McNair Scholars Research Journal Eastern Michigan University Volume 4, Issue 1 (2012-01-26) Article 2 21 pages Jennifer Alexander Alexis is the product of miscegenation. Her mother is White and her father is Black. Her appearance blends both races so that, at…

  • Troubling the Family: The Promise of Personhood and the Rise of Multiracialism

    “Troubling the Family” argues that the emergence of multiracialism during the 1990s was determined by underlying and unacknowledged gender norms. Opening with a germinal moment for multiracialism—the seemingly massive and instantaneous popular appearance of Tiger Woods in 1997—Habiba Ibrahim examines how the shifting status of racial hero for both black and multiracial communities makes sense…

  • Creating a “Latino” Race

    Creating a “Latino” Race The Society Pages: Social Science That Matters 2013-03-13 Wendy D. Roth, Associate Professor of Sociology University of British Columbia (Author of Race Migrations: Latinos and the Cultural Transformation of Race) Editors’ Note: The author prefers to capitalize Black and White along with other socially constructed racial categories. For much of American…