Mixed Race Studies

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  • Philanthropic racism in Britain: The Liverpool university settlement, the anti-slavery society and the issue of ‘half-caste’ children, 1919-51

    Philanthropic racism in Britain: The Liverpool university settlement, the anti-slavery society and the issue of ‘half-caste’ children, 1919-51 Immigrants & Minorities Volume 3, Issue 1 (1984) Pages 69-88 DOI: 10.1080/02619288.1984.9974570 Paul B. Rich The history of racial ideology in Britain has focused mainly on extreme groups of the political right. Less attention has been paid…

  • Shades of Difference: Why Skin Color Matters

    Shades of Difference: Why Skin Color Matters Stanford University Press 2009 312 pages 11 tables, 15 figures, 16 illustrations Cloth ISBN: 9780804759984 Paper ISBN: 9780804759991 E-book ISBN: 9780804770996 Edited by: Evelyn Nakano Glenn, Professor of Asian American Studies University of California, Berkeley Shades of Difference addresses the widespread but little studied phenomenon of colorism—the preference…

  • Mixed Dreams: Exploring “Multi” Experiences in the U.S.

    Mixed Dreams: Exploring “Multi” Experiences in the U.S. EXCO (Experimental College) Spring 2011 Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio Nicole Asong Nfonoyim The experiences and identities of mixed-race people in the United States have often been marginalized if not rendered invisible, silenced and subsumed under the dominant black-white binary. While mixed identities have been part of U.S.…

  • Comparative racisms: What anti-racists can learn from Latin America

    Comparative racisms: What anti-racists can learn from Latin America Ethnicities Volume 11, Number 1 (2011-03-31) pages 32-58 DOI: 10.1177/1468796810388699 Jonathan Warren, Chair of the Center for Brazilian Studies; Associate Professor of International Studies University of Washington Christina A. Sue, Assistant Professor of Sociology University of Colorado, Boulder There has been extensive debate about the putative…

  • Undermining Race: Ethnic Identities in Arizona Copper Camps, 1880-1920

    Undermining Race: Ethnic Identities in Arizona Copper Camps, 1880-1920 University of Arizona Press 2009 240 pages 6.0 x 9.0 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8165-2745-8 Phylis Cancilla Martinelli, Professor of Sociology Saint Mary’s College of California, Moraga, California Undermining Race rewrites the history of race, immigration, and labor in the copper industry in Arizona. The book focuses on…

  • Passing as Black

    Passing as Black The University of Vermont University Communications 2011-03-30 Lee Ann Cox The new dynamics of biracial identity in America There’s a rule everybody knows. Not the golden one. Since the days of slavery and Jim Crow segregation, when “one drop” of black ancestry determined the whole of who you were, black-by-default is a…

  • Making (mixed-)race: census politics and the emergence of multiracial multiculturalism in the United States, Great Britain and Canada

    Making (mixed-)race: census politics and the emergence of multiracial multiculturalism in the United States, Great Britain and Canada Ethnic and Racial Studies Volume 35, Issue 8, 2012 pages 1409-1426 DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2011.556194 Debra Thompson, Assistant Professor of Political Science Ohio University During the same time period, the United States, Great Britain and Canada all moved towards…

  • The social and economic circumstances of mixed ethnicity children in the UK: findings from the Millennium Cohort Study

    The social and economic circumstances of mixed ethnicity children in the UK: findings from the Millennium Cohort Study Ethnic and Racial Studies First Published online: 2011-03-10 DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2011.556745 Lidia Panico, Research Student Department for Epidemiology and Public Health University College London James Y. Nazroo, Professor of Sociology and Director of the Cathie Marsh Centre for…

  • The social position of multiracial groups in the United States: evidence from residential segregation

    The social position of multiracial groups in the United States: evidence from residential segregation Ethnic and Racial Studies Volume 34, Issue 4 (April 2011) pages 707-729 DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2010.527355 Pamela R. Bennett, Assistant Professor of Sociology Johns Hopkins University I use multiple perspectives on the racial order in the United States to generate hypotheses about the…

  • Finding, and correcting, my mistakes

    Finding, and correcting, my mistakes Sociology Volume 39, Number 3 (July 2005) pages 483–499 DOI: 10.1177/0038038505052488 Michael Banton, Emeritus Professor of Sociology Univeristy of Bristol Mistakes are inherent in the process of research but can illuminate it. Some of the author’s mistakes have been false assumptions shared with others of his generation. His early work…