Mixed Race Studies

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  • Beyond Loving: Intimate Racework in Lesbian, Gay, and Straight Interracial Relationships

    Interviews with same-sex interracial couples–a topic on which there is very little research—allow Steinbugler to examine for the first time how everyday racial practices are shaped by sexuality and gender. Amy Steinbugler challenges the widespread assumption that interracial intimacy represents the ultimate erasure of racial differences.

  • What does Martin Luther King mean to Latinos today?

    What does Martin Luther King mean to Latinos today? Bentley IMPACT – The Power of Ideas Bentley University, Waltham, Massachusetts 2013-01-17 Donna Maria Blancero, Associate Professor of Management “I have a dream, that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their…

  • Amalgamation Schemes: Antiblackness and the Critique of Multiracialism

    Questions the ramifications of multiracialism for progressive social change.

  • The Silly Debate Over Whether Obama is Black or Mixed-Race

    The Silly Debate Over Whether Obama is Black or Mixed-Race The Huffington Post 2008-06-14 Earl Ofari Hutchinson, Political Analyst and Social Issues Commentator Presumptive Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama gave the best answer to the question whether he’s black, mixed race or something in between. He recently told a Chicago fundraiser crowd that to some…

  • Machado de Assis: Multiracial Identity and the Brazilian Novelist

    Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (1839–1908) was Brazil’s foremost novelist of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. As a mulatto, Machado experienced the ambiguity of racial identity throughout his life. Literary critics first interpreted Machado as an embittered misanthrope uninterested in the plight of his fellow African Brazilians.

  • The Racial Politics of Culture and Silent Racism in Peru

    The Racial Politics of Culture and Silent Racism in Peru Paper prepared for the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD) Conference on Racism and Public Policy Durban, South Africa 2001-09-03 through 2001-09-05 13 pages Marisol de la Cadena, Associate Professor of Anthropology University of California, Davis In this talk mestizaje is both the…

  • Yes We Can? White Racial Framing and the Obama Presidency, 2nd Edition

    Yes We Can? White Racial Framing and the Obama Presidency, 2nd Edition Routledge 292 pages 2012-12-17 Pages: 296 Hardback ISBN: 978-0-415-64536-2 Paperback ISBN: 978-0-415-64538-6 Adia Harvey Wingfield, Assistant Professor of Sociology Georgia State University Joe Feagin, Ella C. McFadden Professor of Sociology Texas A & M University The first edition of this book offered one of…

  • With Obama, not a post-racial nation, but something more complex

    With Obama, not a post-racial nation, but something more complex The Washington Post 2013-01-21 Marc Fisher, Staff Writer The huge oil painting propped up on a bridge table at 13th and F streets NW was arresting enough to stop people even as they hurried toward the Mall. There they were, heroes of black America, Malcolm…

  • Inauguration: Celebrating President Barack Obama and Reverend Martin Luther King Jr.

    Inauguration: Celebrating President Barack Obama and Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. On Being Both: Interfaith Parent, Interfaith Child: Life With Two Religions 2013-01-17 Susan Katz Miller Four years ago this week, we awoke before dawn, bundled our children into layers of clothing, and walked from our house to the Metro station. We wedged our family…

  • Have a complicated identity? America’s future looks ‘A Lot Like You’

    Have a complicated identity? America’s future looks ‘A Lot Like You’ The Seattle Globalist: Where Seattle Meets the World. 2013-01-25 Sarah Stuteville, Cofounder “The bibimbap, is that dolsot?” asks documentary filmmaker Eli Kimaro looking up from the menu of Wabi-Sabi in Columbia City. She’s trying to gauge the authenticity of the Korean dish in question.…