Mixed Race Studies

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  • Christian view on segregation

    A reprint of an address made before the Synod of Mississippi of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S. on November 4, 1954.

  • Mixed schools and mixed blood

    Mixed schools and mixed blood Citizen’s Council of Mississippi: States’ Rights-Racial Integrity 1956 14 pages Source: Digital Collections of the University of Southern Mississippi Libraries USM Identifier: mus-mcc029 Herbert Ravenel Sass From the McCain (William D.) Pamphlet Collection; In the pamphlet, Sass argues that segregation is an American institution and that the Civil Rights movement…

  • Interracial Relationships and Loving v. Virginia

    Interracial Relationships and Loving v. Virginia CityLine Boston WCVB Boston 2011-06-15 Karen Holmes Ward, Director of Public Affairs and Community Services; Host and Executive Producer of CityLine Marcia Alesan Dawkins, Visiting Scholar Brown University Ken Tanabe, President and Founder LovingDay.org Dr. Dawkins discusses the ongoing impact of interracial romantic relationships, multiracial identities and passing in…

  • Book Review Essay – The Legacy of Jim Crow: The Enduring Taboo of Black-White Romance

    Book Review Essay – The Legacy of Jim Crow: The Enduring Taboo of Black-White Romance Texas Law Review Volume 84, Number 3 (February 2006) pages 739-766 Kevin R. Johnson, Dean and Mabie-Apallas Professor of Public Interest Law and Chicana/o Studies Univesity of California, Davis Dear Senator: A Memoir by the Daughter of Strom Thurmond. By…

  • Hybridity Brazilian Style: Samba, Carnaval, and the Myth of “Racial Democracy” in Rio de Janeiro

    Hybridity Brazilian Style: Samba, Carnaval, and the Myth of “Racial Democracy” in Rio de Janeiro Identities Volume 15, Issue 1 (2008) pages 80-102 DOI: 10.1080/10702890701801841 Natasha Pravaz, Associate Professor of Anthropology Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada Through ethnographic and historical inquiry, this article inspects the usefulness of the concept of hybridity for an analysis…

  • Is the Discourse of Hybridity a Celebration of Mixing, or a Reformulation of Racial Division? A Multimodal Analysis of the Portuguese Magazine Afro

    Is the Discourse of Hybridity a Celebration of Mixing, or a Reformulation of Racial Division? A Multimodal Analysis of the Portuguese Magazine Afro Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung / Forum: Qualitative Social Reasearch Volume 11, Number 2, Article 24 (May 2010) 29 pages ISSN: 1438-5627 José Ricardo Carvalheiro, Assistant Professor in the Communication and Arts Department University…

  • Living Out Loud: (De)Constructing the Multiracial Individual

    Living Out Loud: (De)Constructing the Multiracial Individual Stanford University 2011-05-19 55 pages Stephanie Otani-Sunamoto Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for Department Honors in Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity at Stanford University Although mixed race people have existed throughout American history, being mixed race was either stigmatized or an unrecognized identity option until…

  • The Color of Citizenship: Race, Modernity and Latin American / Hispanic Political Thought

    The Color of Citizenship: Race, Modernity and Latin American / Hispanic Political Thought Oxford University Press November 2011 288 pages 6-1/8 x 9-1/4 Hardback ISBN13: 9780199746668; ISBN10: 0199746664 Diego A. von Vacano, Assistant Professor of Political Science Texas A&M University The role of race in politics, citizenship, and the state is one of the most…

  • Hybridity Theory and Kinship Thinking

    Hybridity Theory and Kinship Thinking Cultural Studies Volume 19, Issue 5 (2005) pages 602-621 DOI: 10.1080/09502380500365507 Peter Wade, Professor of Social Anthropology University of Manchester A parallel is posited between the ways hybridity and kinship are thought about in Western contexts, challenging the idea that kinship and biology tend to lead to narrow, roots-oriented, essentialized…

  • What Is The Real Issue With Obama Choosing Black?

    What Is The Real Issue With Obama Choosing Black? The Atlanta Post 2010-05-04 Yvette Carnell During candidate Obama’s run for Presidency, he said “I self-identify as an African-American. That’s how I am treated and that’s how I am viewed. And I’m proud of it.” Case closed right?  One would think so, but now that President…