Mixed Race Studies

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  • Racial classifications in the US census: 1890–1990

    Racial classifications in the US census: 1890–1990 Ethnic and Racial Studies Volume 16, Issue 1 (1993) pages 75-94 DOI: 10.1080/01419870.1993.9993773 Sharon M. Lee, Adjunct Professor of Sociology University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada This article examines racial classifications on United States population census schedules between 1890 and 1990 to provide insights on the changing…

  • Intermarriage of Races is Urged by Sociologist

    Intermarriage of Races is Urged by Sociologist Chicago Tribune 1909-08-18 page 11 Source: The Mead Project, Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada Prof. William I. Thomas Predicts the Disappearance of Color Line in Prejudices of Civilized Peoples.   Disappearances of the racial “color lines” was predicted yesterday by Prof. William I. Thomas of the University…

  • A Response to Ben Pitcher’s “Obama and the Politics of Blackness: Antiracism in the ‘post-black’ Conjuncture” [Rickey Hill]

    A Response to Ben Pitcher’s “Obama and the Politics of Blackness: Antiracism in the ‘post-black’ Conjuncture” [Rickey Hill] Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture, and Society Volume 12, Issue 4 (2010) (Post-Racial Politics and Its Discontents) pages pages 347-350 DOI: 10.1080/10999949.2010.526058 Rickey Hill, Professor of Social Science Mississippi Valley State University, Itta Bena,…

  • Cultural versus Social Marginality: The Anglo-Indian Case

    Cultural versus Social Marginality: The Anglo-Indian Case Phylon (1960-) Volume 28, Number 4 (4th Quarter, 1967) pages 361-375 Noel P. Gist Human history has been replete with examples of peoples destined to exist on the margin of two or more cultures. One of these marginal peoples is the Anglo-Indian community in India. This community, whose…

  • Beautiful stereotypes: the relationship between physical attractiveness and mixed race identity

    Beautiful stereotypes: the relationship between physical attractiveness and mixed race identity Identities: Global Studies in Power and Culture Volume 19, Number 1, 2012-01-01 pages 61-80 DOI: 10.1080/1070289X.2012.672838 Jennifer Patrice Sims The idea that mixed race individuals are physically attractive is a commonly accepted stereotype. Past research in which whites (Australians and British) and Asians (Japanese)…

  • Racial Democracy in the Americas: A Latin and U.S. Comparison

    Racial Democracy in the Americas: A Latin and U.S. Comparison Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology Volume 35, Number 6 (November 2004) pages 749-762 DOI: 10.1177/0022022104270118 Yesilernis Peña University of California, Los Angeles Jim Sidanius, Professor of Psychology Harvard University Mark Sawyer, Professor of Political Science University of California, Los Angeles The “racial democracy” (Iberian exceptionalism) thesis…

  • Group Dominance and the Myth of Racial Democracy: Antiracism Attitudes in Brazil

    Group dominance perspectives contend that ideologies are central to the production and reproduction of racial oppression by their negative affect on attitudes toward antiracism initiatives. The Brazilian myth of racial democracy frequently is framed in this light, evoked as a racist ideology to explain an apparent lack of confrontation of racial inequality.

  • Fact and Myth: Discovering a Racial Problem in Brazil

    This paper examines prevalent attitudes towards race in Brazil’s mutiracial society. The author notes that, while there is a considerable literature on slavery and the struggle for abolition, relatively little work has been done on race in Brazil today even though color continues to correlate highly with social stratification.

  • Nation of Cowards: Black Activism in Barack Obama’s Post-Racial America

    Nation of Cowards: Black Activism in Barack Obama’s Post-Racial America Indiana University Press 2012-08-14 176 pages 6 x 9 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-253-00628-8 David H. Ikard, Associate Professor of English Florida State University Martell Lee Teasley, Professor of Social Work University of Texas, San Antonio In a speech from which Nation of Cowards derives its title,…

  • Black Hole

    Black Hole Brazzill November 1999 Kathleen Bond, Missioner Maryknoll Lay Missioners It is often said that Brazilians live under a racial democracy, meaning that in Brazil miscegenation has created a cultural mélange in which all races are equally valued. Nothing is farther from the truth. During the elections of 1997, Margarida Pereira da Silva was…