Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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Category: Social Science
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The Role of Racial Identification, Social Acceptance/Rejection, Social Cognition, and Racial Socialization in Multiracial Youth’s Positive Development Sociology Compass Volume 5, Issue 11 (November 2011) pages 995-1004 DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-9020.2011.00418.x Annamaria Csizmadia, Assistant Professor, Human Development & Family Studies University of Connecticut, Stamford Deficit-based scholarship has suggested that multiracial youth are maladjusted due to racial identity…
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Negotiating Mixed Race: Projection, Nostalgia, and the Rejection of Japanese-Brazilian Biracial Children Journal of Asian American Studies Volume 14, Number 3 (October 2011) pages 361-388 Zelideth María Rivas, Professor of Chinese and Japanese Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa Since their arrival in Brazil in 1908, the presence of Japanese immigrants has shaken Brazilian conceptions of race.…
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Cultural encounters and hyphenated people The Journal of the European Association of Studies on Australia Volume 1, 2009 pages 97-107 ISSN 1988-5946 Anne Holden Rønning, Professor Emerita University of Bergen, Norway Cultural encounters are a dominant feature of contemporary society. Identities are ever-changing ‘routes’ as Hall and others have stated, so we become insiders and…
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AAS 310: Mixed Race And The Media University of Texas, Austin Center for Asian American Studies Spring 2012 Alexander Cho, Assistant Instructor What is “race,” and what does it mean to be “mixed”? How is mass media responsible for channeling fears, desires, and anxieties about “mixed” bodies? Why are “mixed race” bodies suddenly desirable and…
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Families on the color-line: patrolling borders and crossing boundaries Race and Society Volume 5, Issue 2, 2002 Pages 139-161 DOI: 10.1016/j.racsoc.2004.01.001 Erica Chito-Childs, Associate Professor of Sociology Hunter College, City University of New York Multiracial couples and families are becoming increasingly more common, yet opposition to these relationships still exists even if it is often…
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The Enculturated Gene: Sickle Cell Health Politics and Biological Difference in West Africa Princeton University Press 2011 368 pages 6 x 9; 7 halftones. 1 line illus. 4 maps Paper ISBN: 9780691123172 Cloth ISBN: 9780691123165 eBook ISBN: 9781400840410 Duana Fullwiley, Associate Professor of African and African American studies and of Medical Anthropology Harvard University In…
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Racial identity and the spatial assimilation of Mexicans in the United States Social Science Research Volume 21, Issue 3 (September 1992) pages 235-260 DOI: 10.1016/0049-089X(92)90007-4 Douglas S. Massey, Henry G. Bryant Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs Princeton University Nancy A. Denton, Professor of Sociology Center for Social and Demographic Analysis State University of New…
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I wouldn’t, But You Can: Attitudes toward Interracial Relationships Social Science Research Published online: 2011-11-18 DOI: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2011.11.007 Melissa R. Herman, Visiting Researcher of the Research Unit Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung also Assistant Professor, Sociology, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire Mary E. Campbell, Associate Professor of Sociology University of Iowa Using the 2008 Cooperative Congressional Election…
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How the crowded neighborhoods of New York’s Lower East Side gave rise to cross-racial and cross ethnic bonds before 1930
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