Mixed Race Studies

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  • Elite (re-)constructions of coloured identities in a post-apartheid South Africa: Assimilations and bounded transgressions

    Elite (re-)constructions of coloured identities in a post-apartheid South Africa: Assimilations and bounded transgressions Rutgers The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick 2006 328 pages AAT 3249339 Michele René Ruiters A Dissertation submitted to the Graduate School – New Brunswick Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey in partial fulfillment of the requirements for…

  • Blacks in Mexico: A Forgotten Minority

    Blacks in Mexico: A Forgotten Minority Time Magazine 2009-09-15 Alexis Okeowo The first town of freed African slaves in the Americas is not exactly where you would expect to find it—and it isn’t exactly what you’d expect to find either. First, it’s not in the United States. Yanga, on Mexico’s Gulf Coast, is a sleepy…

  • Mixed Blood: An analytical look at methods of classifying race

    Mixed Blood: An analytical look at methods of classifying race Psyhcology Today 1995-11-01 Jefferson M. Fish, Professor Emeritus of Psychology St. John’s University, New York, New York An analytical look at methods of classifying race. Race is an immutable biological given, right? So how come the author’s daughter can change her race just by getting…

  • Race and Mixed Race

    Race and Mixed Race University of Michigan College of Literature, Science, and the Arts American Culture AMCULT 311 –  Topics in Ethnic Studies Section 001 Fall 2011 Evelyn Azeeza Alsultany, Assistant Professor of American Culture This course examines how conceptions of race and mixed race have been historically shaped through law, science, and popular culture.…

  • Living in the Borderlands

    Living in the Borderlands EthicsDaily.com 2007-01-19 Miguel A. De La Torre, Professor of Social Ethics Iliff School of Theology, Denver, Colorado De La Torre La Torre says U.S.-Mexico border isn’t only barrier facing Latinos. From Tijuana on the Pacific Ocean to Matamoros on the Gulf of Mexico runs a 1,833-mile border separating the United States…

  • The One Drop Rule: How Black Is “Black?”

    The One Drop Rule: How Black Is “Black?” Psychology Today Blogs: In the Eye of the Beholder: The science of social perception 2011-04-07 Jason Plaks, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Psychology University of Toronto The perception of race is subjective. Many biracial people publicly identify themselves with only one race (for example, either black or white,…

  • On being mixed-race

    On being mixed-race New Statesman 2011-04-07 Samira Shackle I grew up thinking of myself as equally English and Pakistani, writes Samira Shackle. Was I wrong? When I meet people for the first time, it’s not unusual for them to ask, “Where are you from?” If I reply, “London,” they say, “Oh, no, where are you…

  • Census data suggests increased acceptance of being multiracial

    Census data suggests increased acceptance of being multiracial The Daily Texan University of Texas, Austin 2011-04-01 Shamoyita DasGupta, Daily Texan Staff More Americans than ever before identify as multiracial, according to the 2010 census.   Of the 9 million people who listed themselves as more than one race, 4.2 million are children. The percentage rose…

  • Multiracial Identity [Film]

    Multiracial Identity Bullfrog Films 2010 77 minutes/56 minutes DVD ISBN: 1-59458-913-5 Directed by Brian Chinhema Produced by Abacus Production Narrated by Dieter Weber Director of Photography: Jay Cornelius Editor: Jay Cornelius Music: Ed Beceril, Elizabeth Nicholson Explores the social, political and religious impact of the multiracial movement. Note: There are two versions of this program…

  • Black People in Britain: Response and Reaction, 1945-62

    Black People in Britain: Response and Reaction, 1945-62 History Today Volume 36, Issue 1 (January 1986) Paul B. Rich Paul Rich argues that while the official response to post-war immigration was slow to develop, the tensions and white backlash of the late fifties marked its emergence as a national political issue. The Settlers from the…