Mixed Race Studies

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  • The Origins of Mixed Race Populations

    The Origins of Mixed Race Populations New African January 2005 Carina Ray, Associate Professor of African and Afro- American Studies Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts While rape played a huge part in the origins of Africa and the Diaspora’s mixed race populations, it is wrong to attribute it all to rape, argues Carina Ray. In the…

  • Is the Tanning of America Only Skin Deep?

    Is the Tanning of America Only Skin Deep? The Huffington Post 2012-05-17 Marcia Alesan Dawkins, Visiting Scholar Brown University It’s official: The United States is officially “tan.” According to the U.S. Census Bureau’s first population estimate by age, race, ethnicity, and sex since the 2010 Census, “50.4 percent of our nation’s population younger than age…

  • Out writer Andrew Jolivétte on Obama and race

    Out writer Andrew Jolivétte on Obama and race Windy City Times Chicago, Illinois 2012-02-21 David-Elijah Nahmod History was made a few short years ago, when Barack Obama became the first African American president in U.S. history. Though it’s been mentioned, the fact that the president is actually half white hasn’t gotten nearly as much attention.…

  • Multiracial Americans Ready To Claim Their Own Identity

    Multiracial Americans Ready To Claim Their Own Identity The New York Times 1996-07-20 Michel Marriott For Alison Perry, being multiracial has meant moving through life as if she had a giant question mark drawn on her forehead. Strangers frequently approach and begin a vexing guessing game: “Are you Israeli?” “Are you a Latina?” “Where are…

  • A Medical Humanities Perspective On Racial Borderlands

    A Medical Humanities Perspective On Racial Borderlands Literature, Arts and Medicine Blog 2008-06-30 Felice Aull, Ph.D., M.A., Associate Professor of Physiology and Neuroscience; Editor in Chief, Literature, Arts, and Medicine Database New York University School of Medicine I have long been interested in the metaphor of borderlands as a tool for exploring areas of ambiguity…

  • ‘Non-racialism’ in the struggle against apartheid

    ‘Non-racialism’ in the struggle against apartheid South African Review of Sociology (originally Society in Transition) Volume 34, Issue 1 (2003) pages 13-37 DOI: 10.1080/21528586.2003.10419082 Gerhard Maré, Professor of Sociology University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban This article examines the movement of South African society from a racialised past to a racialised present. It argues that an important…

  • The Politics of Loving Blackness in the UK

    The Politics of Loving Blackness in the UK University of Birmingham March 2010 336 pages Lisa Amanda Palmer A thesis submitted to The University of Birmingham For the degree of DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (Department of American and Canadian Studies) Can ‘loving blackness’ become a new discourse for anti-racism in the UK and the broader black…

  • Neither Enemies nor Friends: Latinos, Blacks, Afro-Latinos

    Neither Enemies nor Friends: Latinos, Blacks, Afro-Latinos Palgrave Macmillan April 2005 352 pages 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 inches Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4039-6567-7, ISBN10: 1-4039-6567-6 Paperback ISBN: 978-1-4039-6568-4, ISBN10: 1-4039-6568-4 Anani Dzidzienyo, Associate Professor of Africana Studies and Portuguese & Brazilian Studies Brown University Suzanne Oboler, Professor of Latin American and Latina/o Studies John Jay College…

  • Skin Bleaching and Global White Supremacy: By Way of Introduction

    As an introduction to this Special Issue of The Journal of Pan African Studies focusing on skin bleaching and global White supremacy, the purpose of this paper is to critically examine the symbolic significance of whiteness, particularly for and among African people, by outlining the history of global White supremacy, both politically and ideologically, discussing…

  • Race Matters: Race, Telenovela Representation, and Discourse in Contemporary Brazil

    Race Matters: Race, Telenovela Representation, and Discourse in Contemporary Brazil University of Iowa May 2010 193 pages Samantha Nogueira Joyce A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Doctor of Philosophy degree in Communication Studies in the Graduate College of The University of Iowa In Race Matters: Race, Telenovela Representation, and Discourse…