Mixed Race Studies

Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.

recent posts

about

Category: Social Science

  • Generation Mix? A Statement of Purpose

    Generation Mix? A Statement of Purpose Mixed Dreams: towards a radical multiracial/ethnic movement 2011-06-13 Nicole Asong Nfonoyim Call it a quarter-life crisis. A change in the winds, perhaps. Maybe it’s my sad stack of rejection letters from graduate schools. Whatever the case may be, of late, I’ve been having a bit of an intellectual, (even…

  • The Role of Reflected Appraisals in Racial Identity: The Case of Multiracial Asians

    The Role of Reflected Appraisals in Racial Identity: The Case of Multiracial Asians Social Psychology Quarterly Volume 67, Number 2 (June 2004) pages 115-131 DOI: 10.1177/019027250406700201 Nikki Khanna, Associate Professor of Sociology University of Vermont Asian Americans are one of the fastest-growing minorities in the United States and show the highest outmarriage rate; yet little…

  • Giving Loving Day Its Due

    Giving Loving Day Its Due Truthdig 2011-06-11 Marcia Alesan Dawkins, Visiting Scholar Brown University If you’re reading this, then you’ve probably been invited to commemorate or at least think about Loving Day this year. And with good reason. In 1958, newlyweds Mildred Jeter and Richard Loving were indicted on charges of violating Virginia’s ban on…

  • “You Think You Cute!” Perceived Attractiveness, Inter-Group Conflict, And Their Effect On Black/White Biracial Identity Choices

    “You Think You Cute!” Perceived Attractiveness, Inter-Group Conflict, And Their Effect On Black/White Biracial Identity Choices Vanderbilt University December 2006 31 pages Jennifer Patrice Sims Thesis Submitted to the faculty of the Graduate School of Vanderbilt University In partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Sociology The 2000 Census…

  • Bill Moyers interview with Patricial Willilams and Melissa Harris-Lacewell

    Bill Moyers interview with Patricial Willilams and Melissa Harris-Lacewell Bill Moyers Journal 2009-01-23 Bill Moyers, Host Patricia Williams, James L. Dohr Professor of Law Columbia University Melissa Harris-Lacewell (Harris-Perry), Associate Professor of Politics and African American Studies Princeton University Bill Moyers sits down with Columbia law professor and Nation columnist Patricia Williams and Princeton politics…

  • For the first time, blacks outnumber whites in Brazil

    For the first time, blacks outnumber whites in Brazil Miami Herald 2011-05-24 Taylor Barnes, Special to the Miami Herald Brazilians are no longer reluctant to admit being black or ‘pardo,’ experts said. RIO DE JANEIRO—In the past decade, famously mixed-race Brazilians either became prouder of their African roots, savvier with public policies benefiting people of…

  • Barack Obama as the post-racial candidate for a post-racial America: perspectives from Asian America and Hawai’i

    Barack Obama as the post-racial candidate for a post-racial America: perspectives from Asian America and Hawai’i Patterns of Prejudice Volume 45, Issue 1 & 2  (Special Issue: Obama and Race) (2011) Pages 133-153 DOI: 110.1080/0031322X.2011.563159 Jonathan Y. Okamura, Professor of Ethnic Studies University of Hawai’i Okamura reviews the 2008 US presidential campaign and the election of Barack Obama…

  • Prologue: the riddle of race

    Prologue: the riddle of race Patterns of Prejudice Volume 45, Issue 1 & 2 (Special Issue: Obama and Race) (2011) Pages 4-14 DOI: 10.1080/0031322X.2011.563141 Emily Bernard, Associate Professor of English and ALANA [African Americans, Latinos/as, Asian Americans and Native Americans] US Ethnic Studies University of Vermont James Vellacott, ‘President Obama shakes the hand of PC…

  • The history of racial passing…

    Although the history of racial passing does not evoke the clearcut ethical responses that we have to slavery it is an important part of the larger story of racism and racial repression in this country. The frequency of passing is further evidence of the fraudulence of race as a meaningful construct for other than divisive…

  • “Lost Boundaries”: Racial Passing and Poverty in Segregated New Orleans

    “Lost Boundaries”: Racial Passing and Poverty in Segregated New Orleans The Journal of the Louisiana Historical Association Volume 36, Number 3 (Summer, 1995) pages 291-312 Arthé A. Anthony, Professor of American Studies, Emeritus Occidental College, Los Angeles On sunny summer Sunday afternoons in Harlem when the air is one interminable ball game and grandma cannot…