Mixed Race Studies

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  • Brazilian ethnoracial classification and affirmative action policies: Where are we and where do we go?

    Brazilian ethnoracial classification and affirmative action policies: Where are we and where do we go? Social Statistics and Ethnic Diversity: Should we count, how should we count and why? 2007-12-06 through 2007-12-08 Montreal, Quebec Canada September 2007 12 pages José Luis Petruccelli, Senior Researcher Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística, Brésil Brazilian society is characterized…

  • Coming Into their Own? The Afro-Latin Struggle for Equality and Recognition

    Coming Into their Own? The Afro-Latin Struggle for Equality and Recognition Grassroots Development Journal Inter-American Foundation African Descendants and Development (2007) Robert J. Cottrol, Harold Paul Green Research Professor of Law and Professor of History and Sociology George Washington University Most Americans have at least a passing familiarity with the history of Afro-Americans in the…

  • Artspeak: Macys misses the boat on celebration of Brazil

    Artspeak: Macys misses the boat on celebration of Brazil InsightNews.com 2012-06-12 Irma McClaurin, Ph.D., Culture and Education Editor What a delightful surprise to open my mailbox and see Macys touting a celebration of Brazil.  The merchandise colors are vibrant oranges, yellows, and shocking turquoise.  However, as I looked at the models chosen to represent Brazil,…

  • Racial Democracy and Intermarriage in Brazil and the United States

    Racial Democracy and Intermarriage in Brazil and the United States The Latin Americanist Volume 55, Issue 3 (September 2011) pages 45–66 DOI: 10.1111/j.1557-203X.2011.01063.x Jack A. Draper III, Associate Professor of Portuguese University of Missouri “We see a blurring of the old lines.” —Michael Rosenfeld, Regional-Americanist sociologist “The maintenance of interracial barriers and the reproduction of…

  • Mix-d: Museum: Timeline

    Mix-d: Museum: Timeline Mix-d: Museum Mix-d: 2012-06-30 This work-in-progress Timeline draws on material from a British Academy project conducted by Dr. Chamion Caballero (Weeks Centre for Social and Policy Research, London South Bank University) and Dr. Peter Aspinall (University of Kent) which explored the presence of mixed race people, couples and families in the early…

  • Passing For What? Racial Masquerade and the Demands of Upward Mobility

    Passing For What? Racial Masquerade and the Demands of Upward Mobility Callaloo Volume 21, Number 2, Spring 1998 pages 381-397 DOI: 10.1353/cal.1998.0108 Phillip Brian Harper, Erich Maria Remarque Professor of Literature; Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis, English New York University Ends and Means: The Social-Critical Significance of Racial Passing in the U.S. Context The…

  • The overlapping concepts of race and colour in Latin America

    The overlapping concepts of race and colour in Latin America Ethnic and Racial Studies Volume 35, Issue 7, (July 2012) pages 1163-1168 DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2012.657209 Edward Telles, Professor of Sociology Princeton University I thank Ethnic and Racial Studies for the opportunity to participate in this symposium and I am honoured to be in conversation with Michael…

  • Slavery, Race, and Reunion: The NY Times White Washes the Rape of Michelle Obama’s Ancestors (Again)

    Slavery, Race, and Reunion: The NY Times White Washes the Rape of Michelle Obama’s Ancestors (Again) We Are Respectable Negroes 2012-06-18 Chauncey DeVega Why would any person honor rapist’s blood? In an effort to write the Obamas, who are de facto American royalty, back into a larger post-racial narrative that ostensibly makes some white folks…

  • Why I Remain A Negro

    She scribbled on a piece of paper and handed it to another woman, a woman whose skin was reddish brown,, a woman who was probably colored. “Is Mr. White white or colored?”

  • Performance Studies: Interracialism: Performing Mixed Race (H42.2090)

    Performance Studies: Interracialism: Performing Mixed Race (H42.2090) New York University Department of Social & Cultural Analysis: American Studies This course will survey the emergent field of  ‘critical mixed race studies’ with a particular emphasis on the black experience in the Americas. How have people of African descent been alternately excluded from and incorporated into discourses…