Mixed Race Studies

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  • Guess who’s coming to brunch? Dating and the hybrid subject

    Guess who’s coming to brunch? Dating and the hybrid subject Race-Talk 2011-10-26 Adebe D. A., Race-Talk Cultural Editor I don’t have enough hands to count how many times people have asked me if my parents are “still together” and upon hearing that yes, they have been together for over 25 years, expressed sincere surprise at…

  • The Black-and-White World of Walter Ashby Plecker

    The Black-and-White World of Walter Ashby Plecker The Virginian-Pilot 2004-08-18 Warren Fiske Lacy Branham Hearl closes her eyes and travels eight decades back to what began as a sweet childhood. There was family everywhere: her parents, five siblings, nine sets of adoring aunts and uncles and more cousins than she could count. They all lived…

  • White Supremacists from 1920s Still Thwarting Virginia Tribes

    White Supremacists from 1920s Still Thwarting Virginia Tribes Indian Country Today Media Network 2011-04-26 Tanya Lee Congress is once again considering legislation that would grant federal recognition to six of Virginia’s 11 state-recognized American Indian tribes—the Chickahominy, Chickahominy Eastern Division, Nansemond, Rappahannock and Upper Mattaponi tribes and the Monacan Indian Nation. Chief Gene Adkins of…

  • There are Italians with black skin

    There are Italians with black skin Africa News 2010-05-28 Stephen Ogongo Interview with Sabrina Jacobucci, President of Association of Afro-Italian Children To be black and Italian at the same time is a new reality the Italian society is still struggling to accept.  Adoption and increase in the number of mixed marriages between Italians and Africans…

  • Mixed Britannia [Reveiw]

    Mixed Britannia [Review] Caliban in London: a postcolonial subject in an imperial capital 2011-10-10 Anindya Raychaudhuri, Post-Doctoral Fellow Department of English Language and Literature University College London Caliban in London has previously reviewed part of the BBC’s new Mixed Race season. Thursday evening saw the screening of the first of a 3 part documentary called…

  • Multiracial Politics or the Politics of being Multiracial?: Racial Theory, Civic Engagement, and Socio-political Participation in a Contemporary Society

    Multiracial Politics or the Politics of being Multiracial?: Racial Theory, Civic Engagement, and Socio-political Participation in a Contemporary Society University of Southern California August 2010 376 pages Jungmiwha Suk Bullock A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE USC GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR…

  • How Puerto Rico Became White: Boundary Dynamics and Intercensus Racial Reclassification

    According to official census results, the Puerto Rican population became significantly whiter in the first half of the twentieth century. Social scientists have long speculated about the source of this trend, but until now, available data did not permit competing hypotheses of Puerto Rico’s whitening to be evaluated empirically. This article revisits the question of…

  • The pot that called the kettle white: Changing racial identities and U.S. social construction of race

    The pot that called the kettle white: Changing racial identities and U.S. social construction of race Identities Volume 5, Issue 3 (1998) Special Issue: Foundational Concepts: Gender, Race, and Locality pages 379-413 DOI: 10.1080/1070289X.1998.9962622 Norberto Valdez, Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies Colorado State University Janice Valdez Continuing Education Department Colorado State University Ethnic and racial…

  • Reproducing Race: The Paradox of Generation Mix [Review: Harman]

    Reproducing Race: The Paradox of Generation Mix [Review: Harman] Ethnic and Racial Studies Available online: 2011-10-21 DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2011.623133 Vicki Harman, Lecturer in the Centre for Criminology and Sociology Royal Holloway, University of London Rainier Spencer. Reproduction Race: The Paradox of Generation Mix, Boulder, CO: Lyne Rienner Publishers, 2010, 355 pp. From the outset, Reproducing Race…

  • Obama’s Racial Identity Is His Call

    Obama’s Racial Identity Is His Call Poynter. 2008-12-16 Tom Huang, Sunday & Enterprise Editor The Dallas Morning News Also Ethics and Diversity Fellow at The Poynter Institute Not long ago, I sat on a journalism panel in which the question of “What are you?” came up… …I thought about the “What are you?” question when…