Mixed Race Studies

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  • Opinion: What does Blackness look like?

    Opinion: What does Blackness look like? Cable News Network (CNN) In America: You define America. What defines you? 2012-01-21 Yaba Blay, Assistant Professor of Africana Studies Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Editor’s note: Yaba Blay, Ph.D., is an assistant professor of Africana studies who teaches courses at Lafayette College. Her research focuses on black identity, with…

  • Multiracial People are Multiplying

    Multiracial People are Multiplying brianbantum: theology, culture, teaching and life in-between 2011-03-31 Brian Bantum, Assistant Professor of Theology Seattle Pacific University The New York Times recently published a story highlighting the increase in numbers of multiracial children in the United States. The numbers of self identifying multiracial children has doubled in the United States to…

  • The Invisibility of Multiracial Students: An Emerging Majority by 2050

    The Invisibility of Multiracial Students: An Emerging Majority by 2050 University of California, San Diego January 2009 252 pages Gina Acosta Potter A dissertation submitted in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree Doctor of Education in Educational Leadership By the nature of their existence, multiracial people call to question deeply held notions of…

  • The Brazilian system of racial classification

    The Brazilian system of racial classification Ethnic and Racial Studies Published Online: 2011-12-05 6 pages DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2011.632022 Antonio Sérgio Alfredo Guimarães, Professor of Sociology Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil Michael Banton’s text belongs to the long tradition of European social sciences which rejects the conceptual use of the lerm ‘race’ in sociological analyses. His work…

  • “Race” & Ethnicity in Society in Social-Historical Context (AAS-SOC 338)

    “Race” & Ethnicity in Society in Social-Historical Context (AAS-SOC 338) Lehman College, City University of New York Spring 2012 Mark Christian, Professor & Chair of African & African American Studies The idea of “race” since the 18th Century, and up to the present, has brought forth tremendous social inequality and, not to be over-dramatic, “social…

  • The decline of Jamaica’s interracial households and the fall of the planter class, 1733–1823

    The decline of Jamaica’s interracial households and the fall of the planter class, 1733–1823 Atlantic Studies Volume 9, Issue 1, (January, 2012)  (Special Issue: Rethinking the Fall of the Planter Class) pages 107-123 DOI: 10.1080/14788810.2012.637002 Daniel Livesay, Assistant Professor of History Drury University, Springfield, Missouri The theory of planter decline traditionally implied that social and…

  • Racing ahead, going nowhere

    Racing ahead, going nowhere Very Fine Commentary 2011-04-17 Yoong Ren Yan, Editor Are we running around in circles with our policies on race? Racism is bad. What more is there to say?” It may not have been the case just 50 years ago in the time of Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King, but in…

  • Multiple Realities: Reconsidering Multiracialism in Singapore

    Multiple Realities: Reconsidering Multiracialism in Singapore World Scientific Publishing Summer 2012 150 pages ISBN: 978-981-270-604-1; 981-270-604-6 Eugene K. B. Tan, Assistant Professor of Law Singapore Management University, Singapore How has Singapore’s multiracialism policy evolved, and how has it impacted on ethnic relations and nation-building in a secure, yet perpetually vulnerable, Singapore? This important book addresses…

  • Mixing it up: Multiracialism redefines Asian American identity

    Mixing it up: Multiracialism redefines Asian American identity San Francisco Chronicle 2011-02-11 Jeff Yang, Special to SF Gate How the mainstreaming of multiracialism is forcing a more fluid definition of Asian American identity   Like many immigrants, my parents see identity as a bucket. My mother and father had come to America carefully bearing a…

  • Creating a New Racial Order: How Immigration, Multiracialism, Genomics, and the Young Can Remake Race in America

    Creating a New Racial Order: How Immigration, Multiracialism, Genomics, and the Young Can Remake Race in America Princeton University Press March 2012 282 pages 6 x 9; 17 halftones. 14 line illus. 10 tables Cloth ISBN: 9780691152998 eBook ISBN: 9781400841943 Jennifer L. Hochschild, Henry LaBarre Jayne Professor of Government and Professor of African and African…