Mixed Race Studies

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  • Interracial marriage in US hits new high: 1 in 12

    Interracial marriage in US hits new high: 1 in 12 The Miami Herald 2012-02-16 Hope Yen, Associated Press WASHINGTON — Interracial marriages in the U.S. have climbed to 4.8 million—a record 1 in 12—as a steady flow of new Asian and Hispanic immigrants expands the pool of prospective spouses. Blacks are now substantially more likely…

  • The Real American Love Story: Why America is a lot less white than it looks

    The Real American Love Story: Why America is a lot less white than it looks Slate 1999-10-05 Brent Staples The PBS broadcast last month of An American Love Story—a 10-hour film about an interracial family—spawned a great deal of chatter to the effect that mixed-race couplings were the wave of the future. In fact, they…

  • Brazil in black and white? Race categories, the census, and the study of inequality

    Brazil in black and white? Race categories, the census, and the study of inequality Ethnic and Racial Studies Volume 35, Number 8, August 2012 pages 1466-1483 DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2011.607503 Mara Loveman, Associate Professor of Sociology University of Wisconsin, Madison Jeronimo O. Muniz, Assistant Professor of Sociology Federal University of Minas Gerais Stanley R. Bailey, Associate Professor…

  • The Multiracial Epiphany of Loving

    Looking back to Loving as the official birth of Multiracial America reinforces the prevailing memory of racial separatism while further underscoring the illegitimacy of miscegenations past. By establishing racial freedom in marriage, Loving also sets a misleading context for the history of mixed race in America. Even though Loving instigates the open acceptance of interracialism,…

  • Schooling, Blackness and national identity in Esmeraldas, Ecuador

    Schooling, Blackness and national identity in Esmeraldas, Ecuador Race Ethnicity and Education Volume 10, Issue 1, (March 2007) pages 47-70 DOI: 10.1080/13613320601100377 Ethan Allen Johnson, Assistant Professor of Black Studies Portland State University, Portland, Oregon In Esmeraldas, Ecuador, students of African descent make sense of racial identity and discrimination in multiple and contradictory ways as…

  • Student and teacher negotiations of racial identity in an Afro-Ecuadorian region

    Student and teacher negotiations of racial identity in an Afro-Ecuadorian region International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education Volume 22, Issue 5 (September-October 2009) pages 563-584 DOI: 10.1080/09518390902915439 Ethan Allen Johnson, Assistant Professor of Black Studies Portland State University, Portland, Oregon In this article, using data collected primarily through interviews and observations the researcher explores…

  • Post-Racial? Americans and Race in the Age of Obama

    Post-Racial? Americans and Race in the Age of Obama The Greenlining Institute Berkeley, California November 2011 26 pages Dr. Daniel Byrd, Research Director Bruce Mirken, Media Relations Coordinator Since the election of Barack Obama as the United States’ first African American president, there has been much discussion of whether this means the U.S. has become…

  • Racism and Ethnic Relations in the Portuguese-Speaking World

    The book covers the gamut of inter-ethnic experiences throughout the Portuguese-speaking world, from the sixteenth century to the present day, integrating contributions from history, sociology, social psychology, anthropology, literary, and cultural studies. It offers a radical updating of both empirical data and methodologies, and aims to contribute to current debates on racism and ethnic relations…

  • Being Black

    Being Black The Barry Morgan Show CJAD, 800 AM Montreal, Quebec, Canada 2012-02-10 Barry Morgan, Host Yaba Blay, Assistant Professor of Africana Studies Lafayette College Have you ever heard of the (1)ne Drop Project? I never had until I spoke with its pioneer, Yaba Blay, visiting Assistant Professor of Africana Studies at Lafayette College.  …

  • Charles Marsh recounts the formation and activities of The Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission.

    Charles Marsh recounts the formation and activities of The Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission. The Civil Rights Movement as Theological Drama The Project on Lived Theology University of Virginia Charles Marsh In 1956, a new organization appeared, predisposed to the same political concerns articulated by the Citizen’s Council, but now underwritten by the state legislature.  The…