Mixed Race Studies

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BBC Two explores what it means to be mixed-race in Britain

2011-03-16

BBC Two explores what it means to be mixed-race in Britain British Broadcasting Corporaton 2010-03-10 Mixed-Race Britain is put under the spotlight this autumn on BBC Two in a collection of revealing and compelling new programmes. Britain in 2011 has proportionately the largest mixed population in the Western world, but 100 years ago people of…
The Invisible Line: Three American families and the secret journey from black to white [Live Interview with Daniel J. Sharfstein]

2011-03-15

The Invisible Line: Three American families and the secret journey from black to white [Live Interview with Daniel J. Sharfstein] Minnesota Public Radio News Midmorning Broadcast: 2011-03-15 15:06Z (10:06 CDT, 11:06 EDT, 08:06 PDT) Kerri Miller, Host Daniel J. Sharfstein, Professor of Law Vanderbilt University For much of American history, racial identity has been defined…
What is ‘post-racial’?

2011-03-14

What is ‘post-racial’? The Spectator Seattle University 2011-02-16 Frances Dinger Since Barack Obama became the first black president in 2008, the word “post-racial” has been liberally used by some media groups. We are, according to some, at a point in our country’s history when we can be past race but minorities are still incarcerated at…
Session 408: Haafu, mixed race studies and multicultural questions in Japan

2011-03-12

Session 408: Haafu, mixed race studies and multicultural questions in Japan AAS-ICAS Joint Conference Association for Asian Studes (AAS)/International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS) 2011-03-31 through 2011-04-03 Hawai’i Convention Center Honolulu, Hawaii Session Location and Time: Room 316C Saturday, 2011-04-02, 07:30-09:30 HAST (Local Time) Organizer and Chair: Koichi Iwabuchi Waseda University, Japan Discussant: Hsiao-Chuan Hsia…
A creolising South Africa? Mixing, hybridity, and creolisation: (re)imagining the South African experience

2011-03-10

A creolising South Africa? Mixing, hybridity, and creolisation: (re)imagining the South African experience International Social Science Journal Volume 58, Issue 187 (March 2006) pages 165–176 DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-2451.2006.00600.x Denis-Constant Martin [in French], Senior Research Fellow Centre for International Research and Studies (CERI) of the National Foundation for Political Science (Paris) The present state of South Africa’s society…
Introduction: Re-imagining coloured identities in post-Apartheid South Africa

2011-03-10

Introduction: Re-imagining coloured identities in post-Apartheid South Africa Introduction to: Coloured by History, Shaped by Place: New Perspectives on Coloured Identities in Cape Town Kwela Books 2001 320 pages ISBN-10: 0795701365 ISBN-13: 978-0795701368 Edited by: Zimitri Erasmus, Senior Lecturer in Sociology University of Cape Town Introduction by: Zimitri Erasmus, Senior Lecturer in Sociology University of…
Request to interview members of multiracial organizations for Sociology Honors Research Study

2011-03-08

Request to interview members of multiracial organizations for Sociology Honors Research Study My name is Steve Alcantar, a Sociology honors student attending the University of California, Irvine who is currently conducting a research study from January until April of this year [2011] on government classification of multiracial individuals. The purpose of this study is to observe how…
The Truth About Dublin—An Unfair City

2011-03-07

The tradition of a big Irish welcome isn’t always evident to a mixed-race Irish woman in Dublin, writes Zélie Asava
Charles W. Chesnutt and the Engendering of a Post-Reconstruction Multiracial Politics

2011-03-06

Charles W. Chesnutt and the Engendering of a Post-Reconstruction Multiracial Politics The Conversation Number 2 (2009-2010) Kirin Wachter-Grene Once a promising fiction writer and would-be spokesman for African-Americans, Charles W. Chesnutt promoted a form of multiracialism but is largely forgotten today. Kirin Wachter-Grene traces the development of Chesnutt’s ideas about the amalgamation of races and…
White By Definition: Social Classification in Creole Louisiana

2011-03-06

White By Definition: Social Classification in Creole Louisiana Rutgers University Press May 1986 325 pages Paper ISBN: 978-0-8135-2088-9 Virginia Dominguez, Professor of Anthropology and Latin American and Caribbean Studies University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Table of Contents Preface Acknowledgments 1. Introduction Part I: The Legal Domain 2. Defining the Racial Structure 3. The Properties of Blood…

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