Mixed Race Studies

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  • Black and white student ruling in a land of rainbows

    Black and white student ruling in a land of rainbows University World News Issue 224, 2012-06-03 Chrissie Long While there appears to be little question that Brazil’s black community has been at a disadvantage regarding degree attainment, a ruling by the country’s top court upholding affirmative action in universities has sparked debate over whether the…

  • SO 3300: ‘Race’and ‘Mixed Race’

    SO 3300: ‘Race’and ‘Mixed Race’ Forham University Spring 2010 The origins of ‘race,’its historic role and social construction are examined. Ancient and modern-day ideas are explored. Contrasts between the United States and Latin American concepts of ‘race’ and ‘mixed race’ are analyzed. Future implications are discussed.

  • The Future of the ‘Tan Generation’

    Browner America: Marcia Alesan Dawkins says an increase in nonwhite births doesn’t mean more social justice.

  • Race Migrations: Latinos and the Cultural Transformation of Race

    Race Migrations: Latinos and the Cultural Transformation of Race Stanford University Press April 2012 268 pages 6 tables, 1 figure, 20 photographs Cloth ISBN: 9780804777957 Paper ISBN: 9780804777964 E-book ISBN: 9780804782531 Wendy D. Roth, Associate Professor of Sociology University of British Columbia, Canada In this groundbreaking study of Puerto Rican and Dominican migration to the United…

  • A Color Problem in England

    A Color Problem in England The Journal of the American Medical Association Volume 95, Number 3 (1930-07-19) Foreign Letters: London Letter pages 210-211 DOI: 10.1001/jama.1930.02720030040020 From Our Regular Correspondent (1930-06-21) There is no color line in England such as exists in America. This does not mean that the English do not appreciate differences of race.…

  • AmSt 201 W: The American Experience: Institutions and Movements: Mixed Race in America

    AmSt 201 W: The American Experience: Institutions and Movements: Mixed Race in America University of Hawaii Spring 2010 Students will gain familiarity with American Mixed Race theory, and politics as well as explore first hand literary accounts by mixed race individuals. Analysis of social and political narratives about Mixed Race people will be facilitated by…

  • ASTD 393-03 – Mixed Race America

    ASTD 393-03 – Mixed Race America Saint Louis University Fall 2012 Heidi Ardizzone, Assistant Professor of American Studies  Despite popular images of American as a “melting” both of races and ethnicities, our institutions, values, and practices have often tried to create or maintain spatial and social distance between groups defined as racially different. This course…

  • “Out of an obscure place”: Japanese War Brides and Cultural Pluralism in the 1950s

    “Out of an obscure place”: Japanese War Brides and Cultural Pluralism in the 1950s differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies Volume 10, Number 3 (1998) pages 47-81 Caroline Chung Simpson, Associate Professor of English University of Washington In the spring of 1954, the American philosopher Horace Kallen was invited to deliver a series of…

  • AFAM 349a/AMST 326a/WGSS 388a: Interraciality and Hybridity

    AFAM 349a/AMST 326a/WGSS 388a: Interraciality and Hybridity Yale University Fall 2011 Naomi Pabst, Assistant Professor of African American Studies and American Studies Yale University Examination of mixed-race matters in both literary and critical writings, primarily within the black/white schema.  Historical and current questions of black and interracial identity; the contemporary “mixed race movement” and the…

  • Upfront (With Guests Mark Christian and Anna Rothery)

    Upfront (With Guests Mark Christian and Anna Rothery) Upfront BBC Radio: Merseyside 2012-06-02 Phina Oruche, Host Guests Mark Christian, Professor & Chair of African & African American Studies Lehman College, City University of New York Anna Rothery, Councillor Liverpool City Council, Princes Park Ward Host Phina Oruche discusses the current state of the African diaspora…