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  • Mixed Blood: Intermarriage and Ethnic Identity in Twentieth-Century America [Review: Daniel]

    Mixed Blood: Intermarriage and Ethnic Identity in Twentieth-Century America [Review: Daniel] Contemporary Sociology Volume 22, Number 3 (May 1993) pages 381-382 Mixed Blood: Intermarriage and Ethnic Identity in Twentieth-Century America, by Paul R. Spickard. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1991. 532 pp. cloth ISBN: 0-299-12110-0. paper ISBN: 0-299-12114-3. G. Reginald Daniel, Professor of Sociology University…

  • Between Black and Brown: Blaxican (Black-Mexican) Multiracial Identity in California

    This article explores the racial/ethnic identities of multiracial Black-Mexicans or “Blaxicans.” In-depth interviews with 12 Blaxican individuals in California reveal how they negotiate distinct cultural systems to accomplish multiracial identities. I argue that choosing, accomplishing, and asserting a Blaxican identity challenges the dominant monoracial discourse in the United States,in particular among African American and Chicana/o…

  • Blurring the color line: the new America

    Blurring the color line: the new America The Tufts Daily Medford, Massachusetts 2011-02-22 Sylvia Avila Students identify as multiracial more than ever before Once considered a black and white issue, racial identity is hazier than ever. According to findings released in June 2010 by the Pew Research Center, the current generation of American college students…

  • Containing Multitudes

    Containing Multitudes Mixed Dreams: towards a radical multiracial/ethnic movement 2011-02-21 Nicole Asong Nfonoyim “Communities had to be created, fought for, tended like gardens. They expanded or contracted with the dreams of men– and in the civil rights movement those dreams had seemed large. In the sit-ins, the marches, the jailhouse songs, I saw the African-American…

  • Racial Paradox and Eclipse: Obama as a Balm for What Ails Us

    Racial Paradox and Eclipse: Obama as a Balm for What Ails Us Denver University Law Review Volume 86, Special Issue (Obama Phenomena: A Special Issue on the Election of President Barack Obama (2009) pages 743-783 Camille A. Nelson, Dean and Professor of Law Suffolk University, Boston, Massachusetts I. Introduction The 2008 political season provided us…

  • Mixed-Race Celebrities on Race, in their Own Words

    Mixed-Race Celebrities on Race, in their Own Words Time Magazine: Healthland 2011-02-15 Meredith Melnick, Reporter and Producer Who Are You? If biracial and multiracial celebrities have anything in common, it is that they are often asked to explain themselves. That may sound familiar to any person of mixed ancestry for whom questions like “What are…

  • Mixed race students, interracial couples become norm as US diversifies

    Mixed race students, interracial couples become norm as US diversifies The Flor-Ala (Student newspaper of the University of North Alabama) Florence, Alabama 2011-02-10 Lucy Berry, News Editor When some people see UNA students Lauren Kirby and DeForrest Brown together in public, one of the first things they notice about the couple are their racial differences.…

  • The Coming MiscegeNation?

    The Coming MiscegeNation? TruthDig 2011-02-13 Marcia Alesan Dawkins, Visiting Scholar Brown University It’s official. We’re a “miscegeNation.” The 2010 Census results are reminding us that multiracialism is not only our destiny but our reality. We’re seeing the rise of the most diverse cohort of youth in the nation’s history with a record low white population—the…

  • Where the interracials may take us

    Where the interracials may take us Los Angeles Times 2010-09-21 Eli Steele Of all Americans, they represent the best opportunity to end identity politics and point America back to its tradition of individualism. We may be in the midst of an interracial baby boom. A recent Pew Research Center study reported that interracial marriages rose…

  • Identifications and cultural practices of mixed-heritage youth

    Identifications and cultural practices of mixed-heritage youth Paper presented in the eConference on “Mixedness and Mixing: New Perspectives on Mixed-Race Britons” Commission for Racial Equality 2007-09-04 through 2007-09-06 4 pages Martyn Barrett, Professor of Psychology University of Surrey David Garbin, Research Fellow Centre for Research on Nationalism, Ethnicity and Multiculturalism University of Surrey John Eade,…