Mixed Race Studies

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  • SOC 240 – People of Mixed Descent

    SOC 240 – People of Mixed Descent University of San Francisco 2011-2012 This course examines the experiences of mixed race populations (mulattos, mestizos, mixed blood Native Americans, and Eurasians) in comparative perspective. Using these experiences, as well as sociological theories (assimilation, third culture, marginality, and multiculturalism), we study how race is a social and political…

  • Making sense of ‘mixture’: states and the classification of ‘mixed’ people

    Making sense of ‘mixture’: states and the classification of ‘mixed’ people Ethnic and Racial Studies Avaiable online: 2012-02-01 9 pages DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2012.648650 Miri Song, Professor of Sociology University of Kent, United Kingdom Diversity and the growth of ‘mixed’ people In many Western multi-ethnic societies, and increasingly in non-Western societies, ‘super-diversity’ has emerged as a major…

  • The Republican primaries: Miscegenation and the South

    The Republican primaries: Miscegenation and the South The Economist 2012-03-13 OVER the weekend the Democratic-affiliated polling organisation Public Policy Polling (PPP) came out with a survey showing that 21% of likely Republican voters in Alabama, and 29% of likely Republican voters in Mississippi, think interracial marriage should be illegal. (It also found about half think…

  • Mix-d: Museum

    Mix-d: Museum Mix-d:™ 2012-02-27 Chamion Caballero, Senior Research Fellow London South Bank University Peter Aspinall, Reader in Population Health at the Centre for Health Services Studies University of Kent, UK The overall aim of the project is to explore the potential of translating knowledge through technology. Working together with Mix-d, the team will draw on…

  • Studs Terkel’s study of race in the US: 20 years on

    Studs Terkel’s study of race in the US: 20 years on The Guardian 2012-03-13 Gary Younge What have we learned in the two decades since the oral historian Studs Terkel published his classic book Race? In the introduction to a new edition, Gary Younge weighs up what has changed – and what hasn’t Cultures do…

  • Multiracial Identity [Film Review by Patricia B. McGee]

    Multiracial Identity [Film Review by Patricia B. McGee] Educational Media Reviews Online 2011-07-19 Patricia B. McGee, Coordinator of Media Services Volpe Library & Media Center Tennessee Technological University, Cookeville, Tennessee Multiracial Identity 2010 Distributed by Bullfrog Films, PO Box 149, Oley, PA 19547; 800-543-FROG (3764) Produced and Directed by Brian Chinhema DVD, color, 77 min.…

  • Multiraciality Is As Old As This Country: Gender, Sexuality & Race Mixing with Professor Renee Romano

    Multiraciality Is As Old As This Country: Gender, Sexuality & Race Mixing with Professor Renee Romano Blogtalk Radio 2012-02-10 Michelle McCrary, Host Is That Your Child? Renee Romano, Associate Professor of History Oberlin College Last Friday ITYC had an enlightening conversation with Professor Renee Romano from Oberlin College about the ways in which our country’s…

  • Barack Obama is a White Man

    Barack Obama is a White Man The Language Guy 2008-06-09 Michael Geis, Professor Emeritus in Linguistics Ohio State University I don’t get it. Obama is seen as a Black man. Why not see him as a White man. He is, if I understand his parentage, 50% White and 50% Black. Moreover, he went to Harvard.…

  • Obama and the Biracial Factor: The Battle for a New American Majority

    “Obama and the Biracial Factor” is the first book to explore the significance of mixed-race identity as a key factor in the election of President Obama and examines the sociological and political relationship between race, power, and public policy in the United States with an emphasis on public discourse and ethnic representation in his election.

  • Assimilating to a White Identity: The Case of Arab Americans

    Assimilating to a White Identity: The Case of Arab Americans International Migration Review Volume 41, Issue 4, December 2007 pages 860–879 DOI: 10.1111/j.1747-7379.2007.00103.x Kristine J. Ajrouch, Adjunct Associate Research Professor in the Life Course Development Program Institute for Social Research University of Michigan Amaney Jamal, Associate Professor of Politics Princeton University Racial identity is one…