Mixed Race Studies

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  • Black people ‘least satisfied of UK population’

    Black people ‘least satisfied of UK population’ BBC News 2012-02-28 Black and mixed-ethnic Britons are less satisfied with their lives on average than the UK population as a whole, a survey suggests. Some 80,000 people across the UK, polled by the Office for National Statistics, produced an average life satisfaction rating of 7.4 out of…

  • Of Matters Very Much Related: Trayvon Martin, “Multiracial” Identity, and the Perils of Being Black, Breathing, and Nearby

    Of Matters Very Much Related: Trayvon Martin, “Multiracial” Identity, and the Perils of Being Black, Breathing, and Nearby We Are Respectable Negroes 2012-03-19 Chauncey DeVega Scholars have long maintained that race is merely a social construct, not something fixed into our nature, yet this insight hasn’t made it any less of a factor in our…

  • A troubled experiment’s forgotten lesson in racial integration

    A troubled experiment’s forgotten lesson in racial integration Point Reyes Light Point Reyes Station, California 2012-03-15 Carina Ray, Associate Professor of African and Afro- American Studies Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts The year 2012 marks the fortieth anniversary of my Puerto Rican mother and Irish-Italian father’s unusual wedding. They met and married in an experimental community…

  • Who is George Zimmerman?

    Who is George Zimmerman? The Washington Post 2012-03-23 Manuel Roig-Franzia Tom Jackman Darryl Fears The shooter was once a Catholic altar boy — with a surname that could have been Jewish. His father is white, neighbors say. His mother is Latina. And his family is eager to point out that some of his relatives are…

  • Multiracial Americans: Racial Identity Choices and Implications for the Collection of Race Data

    Multiracial Americans: Racial Identity Choices and Implications for the Collection of Race Data Sociology Compass Volume 6, Issue 4, April 2012 pages 316–331 DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-9020.2011.00454.x Nikki Khanna, Assistant Professor of Sociology University of Vermont In 2010, approximately nine million Americans self-identified with more than one race on the U.S. Census – a 32 percent increase…

  • Japanese-Canadian Identity Issues: One Big Hapa Family Screening with Jeff Chiba Stearns

    Japanese-Canadian Identity Issues: One Big Hapa Family Screening with Jeff Chiba Stearns University of Toronto, St. George Hart House 2012-03-21, 18:30-20:30 EDT (Local Time) According to recent statistics, the rate of mixed marriages among Japanese-Canadians is at 70% with intermarriage at 95%. Why? Jeff Chiba Stearns attempts to address this phenomena and more with his…

  • Using the Mixed-Race Category to Expose the Persistence of Anti-Black Racism: A Response to Thomas Chatterton Williams

    Using the Mixed-Race Category to Expose the Persistence of Anti-Black Racism: A Response to Thomas Chatterton Williams 2012-03-17 Mark S. James, Fulbright Scholar Horlivka State Pedagogical Institute of Foreign Languages This article [Thomas Chatterton Williams, “As Black as We Wish to Be,” New York Times (March 16, 2012)] stipulates that people of mixed-race parentage do…

  • Identity Politics and the New Genetics: Re/Creating Categories of Difference and Belonging

    Racial and ethnic categories have appeared in recent scientific work in novel ways and in relation to a variety of disciplines: medicine, forensics, population genetics and also developments in popular genealogy. Once again, biology is foregrounded in the discussion of human identity. Of particular importance is the preoccupation with origins and personal discovery and the…

  • Racing “mixed race” in the 21st century

    Racing “mixed race” in the 21st century Gender News The Clayman Institute for Gender Research Stanford University 2012-03-16 Krystale E. Littlejohn Mixed race and social negotiation What are you?  For many people, this question elicits a variety of responses: student, sister, brother, dancer, mother, sports enthusiast.  For ethnically ambiguous people, however, the question usually refers…

  • As Black as We Wish to Be

    As Black as We Wish to Be The New York Times 2012-03-16 Thomas Chatterton Williams My first encounter with my own blackness occurred in the checkout line at the grocery store. I was horsing around with my older brother, as bored children sometimes do. My blond-haired, blue-eyed mother, exasperated and trying hard to count out…