Mixed Race Studies

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  • ‘We have a race problem in England’

    ‘We have a race problem in England’ The Voice London, England 2013-03-06 Hazelann Williams Arinze Kene says he does not do politics. But for anyone who has seen one of Kene’s plays, it may sound like an unusual statement because the prolific playwright has written many plays about the state of society, ranging from life…

  • Canada Is Still Racist: And No Think Piece Can Change That

    Canada Is Still Racist: And No Think Piece Can Change That Vice Canada: The Definitive Guide to Enlightening Information 2013-03-05 Anupa Mistry When I was younger and more naïve and shielded by my parents, Canadian multiculturalism felt real and true. I grew up in Brampton, Ont., a restlessly expanding suburb of Toronto that teems with…

  • Africa in Europe: Studies in Transnational Practice in the Long Twentieth Century

    This volume explores the lives and activities of people of African descent in Europe between the 1880s and the beginning of the twenty-first century.

  • Anti-Miscegenation Laws in the United States

    Anti-Miscegenation Laws in the United States Duke Bar Journal (Duke Law Journal) Volume 1, Issue 1 (1951) pages 26-41 James R. Browning (1918-2012) The word “miscegenation” is not included in the everyday vocabulary of a large part of our citizenry, but there are nonetheless laws in twenty-nine states prohibiting miscegenation. Etymologically, the term means intermarriage…

  • John C. Minkins on Race Purity

    A large and representative audience was present at the recent meeting of the Boston Literary and Historical association to hear an address by John C. Minkins, editor of the Providence (R. I.) Evening News, on miscegenation and the fight for race purity.

  • Colorism and School-to-Work and School-to-College Transitions of African American Adolescents

    Colorism and School-to-Work and School-to-College Transitions of African American Adolescents Race and Social Problems Volume 5, Issue 1 (March 2013) pages 15-27 DOI: 10.1007/s12552-012-9081-7 Igor Ryabov, Associate Professor of Sociology University of Texas-Pan American, Edinburg, Texas Using multinomial logistic modeling, the current study estimated the impact of skin tone on school-to-work and school-to-college transitions of…

  • Race: A Philosophical Introduction, 2nd Edition

    Race: A Philosophical Introduction, 2nd Edition Polity Press February 2013 240 pages Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7456-4965-8 Paperback ISBN: 978-0-7456-4966-5 Paul C. Taylor, Associate Professor of Philosophy Pennsylvania State University In Race: A Philosophical Introduction, Second Edition, Paul C. Taylor provides an accessible guide to a well-travelled but still-mysterious area of the contemporary social landscape. As in…

  • Five times more ‘G.I. babies’ than previously thought

    Five times more ‘G.I. babies’ than previously thought The Phillipine Star Manila, Philippines 2012-12-17 Jarius Bondoc There are five times more American “G.I. babies” in the Philippines than previously thought — and they continue to multiply. This is according to a recent study by a visiting American social researcher and professor in Angeles City, Pampanga.…

  • Colorism: The War at Home

    Colorism: The War at Home Ebony Magazine News & Views 2013-02-20 Chris Williams Dr. Yaba Blay discusses the history of ‘the color complex’ and how we can work to destroy it The “color complex” has remains a source of great controversy and pain in the African American community and across much of the African Diaspora.…

  • Brazilian Telenovelas and the Myth of Racial Democracy

    “Brazilian Telenovelas and the Myth of Racial Democracy,” by Samantha Nogueira Joyce, examines what happens when a telenovela directly addresses matters of race and racism in contemporary Brazil.