Mixed Race Studies

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  • Race Problems in America

    Race Problems in America Science Magazine Volume 29, Number 752 (1909-05-28) pages 839-849 DOI: 10.1126/science.29.752.839 Franz Boas The development of the American nation through amalgamation of diverse European nationalities and the ever-increasing heterogeneity of the component elements of four people have called attention to the anthropological and biological problems involved in this process. I propose…

  • Obama’s story resonates in racially diverse Brazil

    Obama’s story resonates in racially diverse Brazil Washington Post 2011-03-18 Juan Forero, Staff Writer RIO DE JANEIRO — Brazil is a big gumbo of ethnicities, its people proud of their diversity and confident their country is among the most tolerant of nations. But this country—a leading center of black culture—has never had a black president.…

  • Between Cultural Lines

    Between Cultural Lines Collide Azusa Pacific University, Azusa, California Student Magazine 2011-12-07 Chelsey Barmore, Staff Writer For some, finding their identities as biracial or multiracial individuals can bring forth challenges. Someone born with blended ethnicities may experience the frequent question of, “What are you?” Mistaken for one race and not recognized for the other may…

  • Blackness Without Ethnicity: Constructing Race in Brazil

    Blackness Without Ethnicity: Constructing Race in Brazil Palgrave Macmillan August 2003 256 pages 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches Hardback ISBN: 978-0-312-29374-1, ISBN10: 0-312-29374-7 Paperback ISBN: 978-0-312-29375-8, ISBN10: 0-312-29375-5 Livio Sansone, Vice Director of Centro de Estudos Afro-Asiaticos Universidade Candido Mendes in Brazil Drawing on 15 years of research in Bahia, Rio de Janeiro, Suriname,…

  • Black behind the Ears: Dominican Racial Identity from Museums to Beauty Shops

    Black behind the Ears: Dominican Racial Identity from Museums to Beauty Shops Duke University Press 2007 360 pages 37 b&w photos, 9 tables Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8223-4037-9 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8223-4018-8 Ginetta E. B. Candelario, Associate Professor of Sociology and Latin American and Latina/o Studies Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts Black behind the Ears is an innovative historical…

  • The Origins and Demise of the Concept of Race

    The Origins and Demise of the Concept of Race Population and Development Review Volume 30, Number 3 (September, 2004) pages 385-415 Charles Hirschman, Boeing International Professor of Sociology and Professor of Public Affaris University of Washington Physical and cultural diversity have been salient features of human societies throughout history, but “race” as a scientific concept…

  • The Persistence of the Color Line: Racial Politics and the Obama Presidency

    The Persistence of the Color Line: Racial Politics and the Obama Presidency Random House, Inc. 2011-08-16 336 pages Hardback ISBN: 978-0-307-37789-0 Paperback ISBN: 978-0-307-45555-0 Randall Kennedy, Michael R. Klein Professor of Law Harvard Law School Timely—as the 2012 presidential election nears—and controversial, here is the first book by a major African-American public intellectual on racial…

  • The Anglo-Indian Community

    The Anglo-Indian Community American Journal of Sociology Volume 40, Number 2 (September, 1934) pages 165-179 Elmer L. Hedin Halcyon, California Of the several half-caste croups in Asia, the largest and most self-conscious is the Anglo-Indian Community. It numbers perhaps two hundred thousand persons who maintain themselves precariously on the outskirts of British-Indian officialdom, employed for…

  • Black Pluralism in Post Loving America

    Black Pluralism in Post Loving America Chapter in: Loving vs. Virginia in a Post-Racial World: Rethinking Race, Sex, and Marriage Cambridge University Press May 2012 300 pages Hardback ISBN-13: 9780521198585 Paperback ISBN-13: 9780521147989 Edited by Kevin Noble Maillard, Associate Professor of Law Syracuse University Rose Cuison Villazor, Associate Professor of Law Hofstra University Chapter Author…

  • Study: Multiracial groups and social position, segregation in America

    Study: Multiracial groups and social position, segregation in America The JHU Gazette Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore Maryland 2011-12-19 Amy Lunday, Homewood The American social hierarchy places people of mixed-race ancestry below whites but above blacks, while additional social stratifications along color lines are simultaneously taking place within the nation’s multiracial groups, according to a Johns…