Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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Category: Social Science
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Understanding Racial-ethnic Disparities in Health: Sociological Contributions Journal of Health and Social Behavior Volume 51, Number 1 Supplement (November, 2010) pages S15-S27 DOI: 10.1177/0022146510383838 David R. Williams Harvard University Michelle Sternthal Harvard University This article provides an overview of the contribution of sociologists to the study of racial and ethnic inequalities in health in the…
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Mixed-race Koreans urge identity rethink The Korea Herald 2011-12-07 Kirsty Taylor Things have come a long way since the 1970s when mixed-race Koreans here were spat upon and beaten up for being different. The kids of that time, whose fathers were often foreign soldiers who first came here during the Korean War, used to find…
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Dominican Republic Country Profile BBC News 2011-12-06 Once ruled by Spain, the Dominican Republic shares the island of Hispaniola with Haiti, a former French colony. OVERVIEW… …The Dominican Republic is inhabited mostly by people of mixed European and African origins. Western influence is seen in the colonial buildings of the capital, Santo Domingo, as well…
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The Measurement of Negro “Passing” American Journal of Sociology Volume 52, Number 1 (July, 1946) pages 18-22 John H. Burma Older and popular methods of estimating the number of Negroes who pass over into the white group are no longer to be credited. Considerable misconception exists concerning passing itself, which is more frequently temporary and…
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Race—Social or Biological? International Socialist Review Volume 21, Number 1 (Winter 1960) pages 26-27 David Dreiser Caste, Class & Race, by Oliver Cromwell Cox Monthly Review Press, New York. 1959. 600 pp. This penetrating and scholarly work originally appeared in 1948 and it is a well-deserved recognition of the author and a happy occasion for…
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Post-Racial America? Multiracial Identification and the Color Line in the 21st Century Nanzan Review of American Studies Volume 30 (2008) pages 13-31 Jennifer Lee, Associate Professor of Sociology University of California, Irvine The United States is more racially diverse than at any point in history. Once a largely black-white society with a distinct color line…
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Black Mexico: Race and Society from Colonial to Modern Times University of New Mexico Press 2009 296 pages 6 x 9 in, 21 halftones, 4 maps paperback ISBN: 978-0-8263-4701-5 Edited by: Ben Vinson III, Professor of history and Director of the Center for Africana Studies Johns Hopkins University Matthew Restall, Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of…
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The Tiger Woods phenomenon: a note on biracial identity The Social Science Journal Volume 38, Issue 2, Summer 2001 Pages 333-336 DOI: 10.1016/S0362-3319(01)00118-5 Ronald E. Hall, Professor of Social Work Michigan State University Traditional race based models exclude the unique developmental dynamics of biracial Americans such as “Tiger” Woods. Conversely, a substantial portion of the…
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A Mestizo and Tropical Country: The Creation of the Official Image of Independent Brazil European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies Number 80 (April 2006) Constructing Ethnic Labels pages 25-42 Lilia Moritz Schwarcz, Professor of Sociology University of São Paulo, Brazil The objective of this article is to consider how Brazil, in the first…
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The Negro Problem: Black and White in the Southern States: A Study of the Race Problem in the United States from a South African Point of View by M. S. Evans; The Mulatto in the United States, Including a Study of the Role of Mixed-Blood Races throughout the World by E. B. Reuter Review by:…