Mixed Race Studies

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  • The Racial Basis of Civilization: A Critique of the Nordic Doctrine

    The pernicious propaganda relating to the Nordic doctrine before, during, and since the war is the excuse for this book. From the closing years of the last century to the outbreak of the Great War there was in Germany a rising tide of adulation of the blond dolichocephal as the embodiment of all that was…

  • Skin Colour: Does it Matter in New Zealand?

    Skin Colour: Does it Matter in New Zealand? Policy Quarterly (Institute of Policy Studies, Victoria University of Wellington) Volume 4, Number 1 (2008) pages 18-25 Paul Callister, Senior Research Fellow Institute of Policy Studies Victoria University of Wellington Introduction Pick up any official New Zealand publication which includes photographs representing the population and it is…

  • Roundtable with Fanshen Cox, Dr. Ulli Ryder, and Dr. Marcia Dawkins

    Roundtable with Fanshen Cox, Dr. Ulli Ryder, and Dr. Marcia Dawkins Blogtalk Radio Tuesday, 2011-08-09, 22:00Z (18:00 EDT) Michelle McCrary, Host Is That Your Child? Fanshen Cox, Actress, Educator, Founder and Producer of the Mixed Roots Film & Literary Festival, co-host Mixed Chicks Chat Marcia Alesan Dawkins, Visiting Scholar Brown University Ulli K. Ryder, Visiting…

  • Being counted is crucial in the U.S…

    My academic research is on racial categories in national censuses.  When I first started reading about the push to get a “mixed-race” category on the U.S. census in the 1990s, I was absolutely on the side of the multiracial movement. I thought the census should recognize our identities, no matter how complicated they may be. …

  • Latinos are “Mixed,” Too

    Latinos are “Mixed,” Too News Taco: The Latino Daily 2011-07-14 Chantilly Patiño, blogger Bicultural Mom Most times, Americans don’t think of Latinos as being mixed or multicultural, but in reality Latinos are leaders of multiculturalism and mixed families.  Start off with the fact that most Latinos come from a combination of European and Native ancestry,…

  • Mixed Race Season

    Mixed Race Season BBC Press Office BBC Two Summer & Autumn 2011 Diverse, stimulating and rewarding television on BBC Two 2011-06-22 Mixed-race Britain is put under the spotlight this autumn in a collection of revealing new programmes. With a mix of drama and documentaries, the season provides a window into the varied lives of mixed-race…

  • The Politics of Multiracialism with Dr. Ralina Joseph

    The Politics of Multiracialism with Dr. Ralina Joseph Voxunion 2010-03-23 Jared A. Ball, Host and Associate Professor of Communication Studies Morgan State University, Baltimore, Maryland Ralina L. Joseph, Associate Professor of Communications University of Washington The struggles surrounding the politics of identity seem at new heights these days and to help bring some historical context…

  • Mixed Messages: Barack Obama and Post-Racial Politics

    Mixed Messages: Barack Obama and Post-Racial Politics Spectator (Journal of the University of Southern California’s School of Cinematics Arts) Volume 30, Number 2 (Fall 2010) pages 9-17 Marcia Alesan Dawkins, Visiting Scholar Brown University The election of President Barack Hussein Obama marks an important milestone in United States racial politics. Many cultural critics and opinion leaders…

  • “My Daughter Married a Negro”: Interracial Relationships in the United States as Portrayed in Popular Media, 1950-1975

    “My Daughter Married a Negro”: Interracial Relationships in the United States as Portrayed in Popular Media, 1950-1975 Journal of Undergraduate Research University of Wisconsin, La Crosse Volume VIII (2005) 13 pages Melissa Magnuson-Cannady Between 1948 and 1967, thirty states either repealed their anti-miscegenation laws or the states’ laws themselves were struck down as unconstitutional by…

  • Intermarriage and racial amalgamation in the United States

    Intermarriage and racial amalgamation in the United States Biodemography and Social Biology Volume 14, Issue 2 (1967) pages 112-120 DOI: 10.1080/19485565.1967.9987710 David M. Heer, Professor Emeritus of Sociology University of Southern California Within the last few years tremendous popular interest has been aroused in the subject of Negro-white intermarriage. Fifteen years ago Negro protest leaders…