Mixed Race Studies

Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.

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  • Mixed feelings

    Mixed feelings NOW. 2012-06-30 NOW is the online source for news, features, analysis and much more, covering Lebanon, the Lebanese diaspora and the Middle East. “The people photographed are so beautiful they make you feel like having mixed race babies,” said Kevork Baboyan, one of many attendees at Wednesday’s opening of the photography exhibition, Mixed…

  • Possibilities Abound in a Nation That Is Diverse, CNN Journalist Says

    Possibilities Abound in a Nation That Is Diverse, CNN Journalist Says Yale News 2009-11-20 Susan Gonzalez When CNN anchor Soledad O’Brien was growing up, her mother in­structed her never to let anyone tell her that she wasn’t black or Hispanic because of her mixed ethnic and racial heritage. So, when she was asked to identify…

  • It’s all in the mix

    It’s all in the mix NOW 2009-05-22 NOW is the online source for news, features, analysis and much more, covering Lebanon, the Lebanese diaspora and the Middle East. “I am apartment hunting with Hala who looks like a cheap whore,” read the text message that Hala’s friend accidently sent to her while they were walking…

  • Beyond Black and White: When Going Beyond May Take Us Out of Bounds

    Beyond Black and White: When Going Beyond May Take Us Out of Bounds Journal of Black Studies Volume 44, Number 2 (March 2013) pages 158-181 DOI: 10.1177/0021934712471533 Katerina Deliovsky, Assistant Professor of Sociology Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario Tamari Kitossa, Assistant Professor of Sociology Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario This article examines a selection of…

  • Mixed-Race Studies: Misstep or the next step for Ethnic Studies in a blending nation?

    Mixed-Race Studies: Misstep or the next step for Ethnic Studies in a blending nation? Portland State University McNair Research Journal Volume 7, 2013 25 pages Jennifer E. Robe Portland State University In January of 2011, The New York Times reported that 2010 U.S. Census data shows that younger generations are self-reporting their racial identity as…

  • Bulletproof Diva: Tales of Race, Sex, and Hair

    Bulletproof Diva: Tales of Race, Sex, and Hair Anchor an imprint of Random House 1997-02-19 320 pages Paperback ISBN: 978-0-385-47123-7 Lisa Jones In Bulletproof Diva, Lisa  Jones brings the wit and candor of her infamous Village Voice column, “Skin Trade,”  to a much larger audience. Chock full of the “fierce black girl humor” that has made…

  • The Last Plantation: Color, Conflict, and Identity: Reflections of a New World Black

    The Last Plantation: Color, Conflict, and Identity: Reflections of a New World Black Houghton Mifflin 1997-02-10 307 pages Hardback ISBN-10: 0395771919; ISBN-13: 978-0395771914 Itabari Njeri In the 1980s, when most Americans considered “black” a racial reference, many multiracial people began to see themselves as part of a heterogeneous ethnic group linked by history, culture, and…

  • Racialisation in Jamaica

    Racialisation in Jamaica Mapping Global Racisms Project (2012- ) University of Leeds Working Papers 13 pages Benjamin Joyce Introduction The processes of racialisation in Jamaica reflect a complex and sustained ideological grounding upon colonial logics which actively repress perceived racial otherness. Despite the insistence of governmental institutions and the projected image of a raceless nation,…

  • More Thoughts on The Magic Mulatto Myth

    More Thoughts on The Magic Mulatto Myth The Magic Mulatto: Bringing the fine art of Race Talk straight to the people 2013-01-29 Brett Russell Coleman Elsewhere on this blog I have described the trope or myth of the magic mulatto (see the “about” page, for example, or this post about Frank Schaeffer). To my surprise,…

  • Between Barack and a Hard Place: Racism and White Denial in the Age of Obama

    Between Barack and a Hard Place: Racism and White Denial in the Age of Obama City Lights Books 2009-01-15 120 pages Paperback ISBN-10 0872865002; ISBN-13 9780872865006 Tim Wise Race is, and always has been, an explosive issue in the United States. In this timely new book, Tim Wise explores how Barack Obama’s emergence as a…