Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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- You were either Black or white. To claim whiteness as a mixed child was to deny and hide Blackness. Our families understood that the world we were growing into would seek to denigrate this part of us and we would need a community that was made up, always and already, of all shades of Blackness.
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Category: Social Science
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Ethnicity and Earnings in a Mixed-Race Labor Market Economic Development and Cultural Change Volume 55, Number 4 (July 2007) pages 709-734 Hugo Ñopo Inter-Amerian Development Bank Jaime Saavedra World Bank Máximo Torero International Food Policy Research Institute This study examines the relationship between earnings and racial differences in a context in which various races have…
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Obama and the Biracial Factor: The Battle for a New American Majority [Andrews Review] Ethnic and Racial Studies Volume 36, Issue 5 (May 2013) pages 918-919 DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2012.758864 Matthew T. M. Andrews Department of Sociology University of Michigan Andrew J. Jolivétte (ed), Obama and the Biracial Factor: The Battle for a New American Majority, Bristol: Policy…
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From bi-racial to tri-racial: Towards a new system of racial stratification in the USA Ethnic and Racial Studies Volume 27, Issue 6 (November 2004) pages 931-950 DOI: 10.1080/0141987042000268530 Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, Professor of Sociology Duke University In this article I argue that the bi-racial order (white vs non-white) typical of the United States is undergoing a profound…
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The experience of race in the lives of Jewish birth mothers of children from black/white interracial and inter-religious relationships: a Canadian perspective Ethnic and Racial Studies Published online: 2013-01-14 DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2013.752099 Channa C. Verbian, BSW, M.Ed., RSW, OASW, OCSWSSW Toronto, Canada In this paper, I discuss my life history study on experiences of race in…
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Researching white mothers of mixed-parentage children: the significance of investigating whiteness Ethnic and Racial Studies Published online: 2013-01-14 DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2013.752101 Joanne Britton, Lecturer in Applied Sociology University of Sheffield This article takes as its starting point the increasing number of research studies that pay specific attention to family relationships when investigating mixedness. It draws on…
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Social capital and the informal support networks of lone white mothers of mixed-parentage children Ethnic and Racial Studies Published online: 2013-02-06 DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2013.752100 Vicki Harman, Lecturer in the Centre for Criminology and Sociology Royal Holloway, University of London This article takes as its starting point the increasing number of research studies that pay specific attention…
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Multiethnic Children, Youth, and Families: Emerging Challenges to the Behavioral Sciences and Public Policy Family Relations: Interdisciplinary Journal of Applied Family Studies Volume 62, Issue 1 (February 2013) (Special Issue on Multiethnic Families) pages 1–4 DOI: 10.1111/j.1741-3729.2012.00760.x Hamilton I. McCubbin University of Hawaii, Manoa Laurie “Lali” D. McCubbin, Associate Professor of Educational Leadership and Counseling…
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Identity Politics and the New Genetics: Re/Creating Categories of Difference and Belonging [Kate Reed Review] Ethnic and Racial Studies Volume 36, Issue 3, 2013 Special Issue: Racialization and Religion: Race, culture and difference in the study of Antisemitism and Islamophobia pages 517-518 DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2012.734393 Kate Reed, Senior Lecturer in Medical Sociology University of Sheffield Katharina…
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“Multiracial” Discourse: Racial Classifications in an Era of Color-blind Jurisprudence Maryland Law Review Volume 57, Issue 1 (1998) pages 97-173 Tanya Katerí Hernández, Professor of Law Fordham University INTRODUCTION I. THE BACKGROUND AND MOTIVATION OF THE MULTIRACIAL CATEGORY MOVEMENT II. THE ADVERSE CONSEQUENCES OF MULTIRACIAL DISCOURSE A. The Reaffirmation of the Value of Whiteness in…
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Laws and cultural norms militated against interracial sex in Virginia before the Civil War, and yet it was ubiquitous in cities, towns, and plantation communities throughout the state. In “Notorious in the Neighborhood,” Joshua Rothman examines the full spectrum of interracial sexual relationships under slavery—from Thomas Jefferson, Sally Hemings, and the intertwined interracial families of…