Mixed Race Studies

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  • Sun uses it’s Arsenal to divide us

    Sun uses it’s Arsenal to divide us Lester Holloway 2011-08-17 Lester Holloway, Liberal Democrat Councillor, Journalist & Equality Campaigner London Borough of Sutton Top footballers are good at what they do but the Government does not turn to Ashley Cole or John Terry for economic advice. By the same token, their views on race shouldn’t…

  • Clench: What are You Fighting For?

    Clench: What are You Fighting For? Commissioned By: Runnymede Trust-UK’s Leading Race Equality Think Tank 2011 Written and directed by Riffat Ahmed Produced by Shane Davey, Courtney Edwards, Riffat Ahmed and Fabien Soazandry of Davey Inc Running Time: 00:15:39 Starring: Hussina Raja as Ash With: Kevin Morris, Jeff Caffrey, Afreen Mhar, Allan Hopwood, and Danny Randall…

  • Toward a Cleaner White(ness): New Racial Identities

    Toward a Cleaner White(ness): New Racial Identities The Philosophical Forum Volume 36, Issue 3 (Fall 2005) pages 243–277 DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9191.2005.00203.x David Ingram, Professor of Philosophy Loyola University, Chicago, Illinois The essay critically examines some arguments advanced by Henry Giroux that ‘whiteness’ can be appropriated within pedagogical settings as a positive force in combating racism. I…

  • Race and Ethnicity in Society: The Changing Landscape, 3rd Edition

    Race and Ethnicity in Society: The Changing Landscape, 3rd Edition Cengage Learning 2012 480 pages ISBN-10: 1111519536; ISBN-13: 9781111519537 Edited by Elizabeth Higginbotham, Professor of Sociology, Women’s Studies, and Criminology University of Delaware Margaret L. Andersen, Edward F. and Elizabeth Goodman Rosenberg Professor of Sociology University of Delaware This engaging reader is organized in four…

  • Interracial Marriage in the Last Portuguese Colonial Empire

    Interracial Marriage in the Last Portuguese Colonial Empire Journal of Portuguese History Volume 5, Number 1, Summer 2007 23 pages ISSN: 1645-6432 Maria Eugénia Mata, Associate Professor of Economic History and History of Economics University of Lisbon The paper presents both the institutional background and the government philosophy regarding equality and non-prejudice within all of…

  • In Strangers’ Glances at Family, Tensions Linger

    In Strangers’ Glances at Family, Tensions Linger The New York Times 2011-10-13 Susan Saulny TOMS RIVER, N.J. — “How come she’s so white and you’re so dark?” The question tore through Heather Greenwood as she was about to check out at a store here one afternoon this summer. Her brown hands were pushing the shopping…

  • The Marginalization of Afro-Asians in East Asia: Globalization and the Creation of Subculture and Hybrid Identity

    The Marginalization of Afro-Asians in East Asia: Globalization and the Creation of Subculture and Hybrid Identity Global Tides: Pepperdine Journal of International Studies Volume 5 (2011) 15 pages Pepperdine University, Malibu, California Sierra Reicheneker This article explores the topic of children born of biracial couplings in East Asia. The offspring of such unique unions face…

  • Institutional Barriers, Marginality, and Adaptation Among the American-Japanese Mixed Bloods in Japan

    Institutional Barriers, Marginality, and Adaptation Among the American-Japanese Mixed Bloods in Japan The Journal of Asian Studies Volume 42, Number 3 (1983) pages 519-544 DOI: 10.2307/2055516 William R. Burkhardt, Assistant Professor of Sociology Ohio University Guided by the perspective of marginality theory, the author examines the problems that have faced the mixed-blood progeny of Japanese…

  • Who Will You Let Me Be?

    Who Will You Let Me Be? Race, Ethnicity, and Me: Autobiographical Reflections by Trinity University Students Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas Fall 2008 Claire Murphy-Cook Race, Ethnicity, and Me is a collection of autobiographical essays written by Trinity University students as an assignment for a course taught by Professor David Spener in the Department of…

  • The right colour

    The right colour Index on Censorship Volume 28, Issue 1, 1999 Special Issue: The Last Empire pages 110-114 DOI: 10.1080/03064229908536514 Daniela Cestarollo Five hundred years after the arrival of the Portuguese, Brazilians are only Just beginning to address the legacy of slavery Brazil is at last revealing its other face. After 500 years of seeking…