Mixed Race Studies

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  • The Race Myth: Why We Pretend Race Exists in America

    The Race Myth: Why We Pretend Race Exists in America Plume an imprint of Penguin June 2005 320 pages 5.35 x 7.99in Paperback ISBN: 9780452286580 Joseph L. Graves, Professor & Associate Dean for Research Joint School of Nanoscience and Nanoengineering North Carolina A&T State University & University of North Carolina, Greensboro Preeminent evolutionary biologist Joseph…

  • The meaning and measurement of race in the U.S. census: Glimpses into the future

    The meaning and measurement of race in the U.S. census: Glimpses into the future Demography Volume 37, Number 3 (August 2000) pages 381-393 DOI: 10.2307/2648049 Charles Hirschman, Boeing International Professor of Sociology and Professor of Public Affaris University of Washington Richard Alba, Distinguished Professor (Emeritus) of Sociology Co-Director of The Center for the Elimination of…

  • AMST 349: Race Across the Americas

    AMST 349: Race Across the Americas Emory University Seminar exploring the social construction of race comparatively and transnationally, especially the status of the descendants of enslaved Africans and mixed-race individuals in the Caribbean and Latin America.

  • LLS-4910-850: Race and Ethnicity in Latin America

    LLS-4910-850: Race and Ethnicity in Latin America University of Nebraska, Ohama Fall 2011 Olga Celle, Visiting Professor of Sociology This course is a semester long discussion on Mestizaje or racial/ethnic mixing in Latin America. The premise informing the discussion is that race and ethnicity are social constructions—There are no actual races or ethnicities in the…

  • LATC-GA 2145 – Semester in Latin America: Brazilian Racial Democracy

    LATC-GA 2145 – Semester in Latin America: Brazilian Racial Democracy New York University Spring 2012 Sarah Sarzynski, Assistant Professor/Faculty Fellow of Latin American and Caribbean Studies Racial democracy, or the myth of racial democracy, has been a dominant national narrative in Brazil throughout the twentieth century. Gilberto Freyre’s The Masters and the Slaves (1933) is…

  • Conference Keynote: White Privilege and the Biopolitics of Race

    Conference Keynote: White Privilege and the Biopolitics of Race Understanding and Dismantling Privilege Volume 1, Number 1 (2010) 16 pages Online ISSN: 2152-1875 10th Annual White Privilege Conference Keynote Address Saturday, April 4, 2009 Memphis, Tennessee Dorothy Roberts, George A. Weiss University Professor of Law and Sociology; Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Professor of…

  • The Realities of Races

    The Realities of Races Is Race “Real”? A web forum organized by the Social Science Research Council 2006-06-07 Jonathan Marks, Professor of Anthropology University of North Carolina, Charlotte Introduction Anthropologists have been studying race for over 200 years now, and contrary to what seems to be conventional wisdom (at least as articulated in Leroi’s New…

  • The Afro-Latin@ Reader: History and Culture in the United States

    “The Afro-Latin@ Reader” focuses attention on a large, vibrant, yet oddly invisible community in the United States: people of African descent from Latin America and the Caribbean.

  • Negra & Beautiful: The Unique Challenges Faced By Afro-Latinas

    Negra & Beautiful: The Unique Challenges Faced By Afro-Latinas Latina 2011-11-29 Damarys Ocaña, Freelance Journalist The frustrating ironies of being Afro-Latina hit Yuly Marshall with stunning regularity: At work at a Miami hospital, Hispanic patients of the Cuban-born radiology technician usually assume she’s African American, asking her, “Where did you learn to speak Spanish like…

  • Agents of Change: Mixed-Race Households and the Dynamics of Neighborhood Segregation in the United States

    Agents of Change: Mixed-Race Households and the Dynamics of Neighborhood Segregation in the United States Annals of the Association of American Geographers Available online: 2011-12-08 DOI: 10.1080/00045608.2011.627057 Mark Ellis, Professor of Geography University of Washington Steven R. Holloway, Professor of Geography University of Georgia Richard Wright, Professor of Geography Dartmouth College Christopher S. Fowler Ph.D., Postdoctoral…