Mixed Race Studies

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  • Articulate While Black: Barack Obama, Language, and Race in the U.S.

    In “Articulate While Black,” two renowned scholars of Black Language address language and racial politics in the U.S. through an insightful examination of President Barack Obama’s language use—and America’s response to it

  • The Paper Bag Principle: Class, Colorism, and Rumor and the Case of Black Washington, D.C.

    “The Paper Bag Principle: Class, Colorism, and Rumor in the Case of Black Washington, D.C.” considers the function of oral history in shaping community dynamics among African American residents of the nation’s capitol.

  • Racialised ethnicities and ethnicised races: reflections on the making of South Africanism

    Racialised ethnicities and ethnicised races: reflections on the making of South Africanism African Identities Published online: 2012-06-21 DOI: 10.1080/14725843.2012.692550 Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni, Professor in the Department of Development Studies University of South Africa This article discusses how the politics of South African identity-making continues to be spoiled by racialised and ethnicised identities cascading from colonialism…

  • (An)Other English city: Multiethnicities, (post)modern moments and strategic identifications

    (An)Other English city: Multiethnicities, (post)modern moments and strategic identifications Ethnicities Volume 2, Number 3 (2002) pages 321-348 DOI: 10.1177/14687968020020030301 Jayne O. Ifekwunigwe, Visiting Associate Professor of African and African American Studies Duke University The interpretive turn in urban studies signals a heightened emphasis on the locus of the city as the site for both the…

  • Racial ideology and the production of knowledge about health

    Racial terminology and its associated assumptions pervade the discourses of health policy, practice and research. The language utilised within and across these discourses emerge from both historical and current ideologies and approaches to the understanding and management of difference.

  • Measures of “Race” and the Analysis of Racial Inequality in Brazil

    Measures of “Race” and the Analysis of Racial Inequality in Brazil Social Science Research Available online 2012-07-05 DOI: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2012.06.006 Stanley R. Bailey, Associate Professor of Sociology University of California, Irvine Mara Loveman, Associate Professor of Sociology University of Wisconsin, Madison Jeronimo O. Muniz, Assistant Professor of Sociology Federal University of Minas Gerais Quantitative analyses of…

  • Critical ‘Mixed Race’?

    Critical ‘Mixed Race’? Social Identities: Journal for the Study of Race, Nation and Culture Volume 1, Issue 2, 1995 pages 381-395 DOI: 1080/13504630.1995.9959443 Lewis R. Gordon, Laura H. Carnell Professor of Philosophy, Director of the Institute for the Study of Race and Social Thought and Director of the Center for Afro-Jewish Studies Temple University An…

  • Interview with Brazilian Journalist and Activist Daniela Gomes

    Interview with Brazilian Journalist and Activist Daniela Gomes The Husslington Post 2011-12-04 Amil Cook, Correspondent In this interview, Husslington Post correspondent, Amil Cook, goes in depth with journal/scholar/activist Daniela Gomes about her fight against racism in Brazil. This is the first installment in what we hope will become a series of interviews by Amil. How…

  • The creation and intepretation of ‘mixed’ categories in Britain today

    The creation and intepretation of ‘mixed’ categories in Britain today darkmatter: in the ruins of imperial culture ISSN 2041-3254 Post-Racial Imaginaries [9.1] (2012-07-02) Miri Song, Professor of Sociology University of Kent The growth and recognition of ‘Mixed’ in Britain It is difficult to imagine a society (such as Britain) in which ethnic and racial categories,…

  • ‘ORPHEUS’; Legacy of Domination

    ‘ORPHEUS’; Legacy of Domination The New York Times 2000-09-03 Michael Hanchard, Professor of Political Science and African American Studies Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland To the Editor: In his observations about the differences in the Brazilian and foreign receptions of two very distinct cinematic renditions of the Orpheus tale [“Orpheus, Rising From Caricature,” Aug. 20],…