Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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Category: Social Science
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Racial Paradise or Run-around? Afro-North American Views of Race Relations in Brazil American Studies Volume 46, Number 1 (Spring 2005) pages 43-60 David J. Hellwig, Professor Emeritus of Interdisciplinary Studies St. Cloud State University, St. Cloud, Minnesota North American students of slavery and race relations have long used comparative approaches to examine the troubling phenomena…
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Brazilian Racial Democracy, 1900-90: An American Counterpoint Journal of Contemporary History Volume 31, Number 3 (July 1996) pages 483-507 DOI: 10.1177/002200949603100303 George Reid Andrews, Distinguished Professor of History University of Pittsburgh Brazil is one of the largest multi-racial societies in the world, and the home of the largest single component of the overseas African diaspora.…
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“Genetics and the Unsettled Past” considers the alignment of genetic science with commercial genealogy, with legal and forensic developments, and with pharmaceutical innovation to examine how these trends lend renewed authority to biological understandings of race and history.
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Honor Bound: Race and Shame in America Rutgers University Press 2012-03-27 288 pages Paper ISBN: 978-0-8135-5270-5 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8135-5269-9 David Leverenz, Professor Emeritus of English University of Florida As Bill Clinton said in his second inaugural address, “The divide of race has been America’s constant curse.” In Honor Bound, David Leverenz explores the past to…
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To Die in this Way: Nicaraguan Indians and the Myth of Mestizaje, 1880-1965 Duke University Press 1998 336 pages 11 b&w photographs, 2 maps Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8223-2098-2 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8223-2084-5 Jeffrey L. Gould, Rudy Professor of History Indiana University, Bloomington Challenging the widely held belief that Nicaragua has been ethnically homogeneous since the nineteenth century,…
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This groundbreaking ethnographic study analyzes everyday practices that leave intact the myth that Brazil is a racial democracy.
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Carl Degler’s 1971 Pulitzer-Prize-winning study of comparative slavery in Brazil and the United States is reissued in the Wisconsin paperback edition, making it accessible for all students of American and Latin American history and sociology.
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Bearing the burden of whiteness: the implications of racial self-identification for multiracial adolescents’ school belonging and academic achievement Ethnic and Racial Studies Volume 36, Issue 5 (May 2013) pages 747-773 DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2011.628998 Ruth Burke Department of Sociology University of Pennsylvania Grace Kao, Professor of Sociology, Education, and Asian American Studies University of Pennsylvania Previous literature on…
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The search to define Brazil and Brazilians by colour, more specifically by a miscegenation so extreme that it appears exceptional, is longstanding. Mid-nineteenth century naturalists that visited the country from Europe were astounded by the lush vegetation, the wide variety of fauna, and another phenomena – a type of unprecedented laboratory of humans and their…
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This Commentary Article aims to illustrate the value of comparative law to the jurisprudence of Critical Race Theory (CRT), particularly with reference to the CRT project of deconstructing the mystique of “postracialism.” The central thesis of the Article is that the dangerous seductions of a U.S. ideology of “post-racialism” are more clearly identified when subject…