Mixed Race Studies

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  • Not White Enough, Not Black Enough: Racial Identity in the South African Coloured Community [Review]

    Not White Enough, Not Black Enough: Racial Identity in the South African Coloured Community [Review] H-Net Reviews May 2007 Sean H. Jacobs University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Mohamed Adhikari. Not White Enough, Not Black Enough: Racial Identity in the South African Coloured Community. Africa Series. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2005. xvii + 252 pp. Paper…

  • Revisioning Black/White Multiracial Families: The Single-Parent Experience

    Revisioning Black/White Multiracial Families: The Single-Parent Experience American Sociological Association, Atlanta Hilton Hotel, Atlanta, Georgia 2003-08-16 18 pages, 5,006 words Rachel Sullivan In the literature on Black/White multiracial families, there is a significant group of families missing from most research. These are households that are lead by a single parent of a biracial child. While…

  • Dr. Rainier Spencer to be Guest on MSNBC NewsNation with Tamron Hall

    Dr. Rainier Spencer to be Guest on MSNBC NewsNation with Tamron Hall NewsNation MSNBC TV Wednesday, 2011-02-02, 19:00-20:00Z (14:00-15:00 EST, 11:00-12:00 PST) (Recheduled due to a White House news conference on the situation in Egypt from 2011-01-31.) Tamron Hall, Host Rainier Spencer, Director and Professor of Afro-American Studies; Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies University of Nevada, Las Vegas…

  • Why Do We Consider Obama to Be Black?

    Why Do We Consider Obama to Be Black? New America Media Commentary 2008-10-25 Ronald Takaki (1939-2009), Emeritus Professor of Ethnic Studies University of California, Berkeley A historical look at the the persistence of the “one drop” rule. Editor’s Note: Historian and scholar Ronald Takaki uncovers the origins of the “one drop” rule that was key…

  • Black? White? Asian? More Young Americans Choose All of the Above

    Black? White? Asian? More Young Americans Choose All of the Above The New York Times 2011-01-29 Susan Saulny, National Correspondent Race Remixed: A New Sense of Identity. Articles in this series will explore the growing number of mixed-race Americans. COLLEGE PARK, Md.—In another time or place, the game of “What Are You?” that was played…

  • Remembering Mildred Loving, Unsung Hero of the Civil Rights Movement

    Remembering Mildred Loving, Unsung Hero of the Civil Rights Movement Counterpunch 2008-05-09 Mark A. Huddle, Associate Professor of History Georgia College and State University Fighting “Anti-Miscegenation” Laws On May 2, Mildred Loving died from complications of pneumonia at the age of 68.  The unassuming Mrs. Loving would have scoffed at the notion that she was…

  • Why Obama is African American, Not Biracial

    Why Obama is African American, Not Biracial New America Media Commentary 2008-12-18 Earl Ofari Hutchinson Here’s the ‘What is President-elect Barack Obama—black, biracial or multiracial?’ quiz. If he did not have one of the world’s most recognizable names and faces, he would fume at being turned away from restaurants, bypassed by taxis, racially profiled by…

  • Every mixed race marriage is building a better Britain

    Every mixed race marriage is building a better Britain The Independent 1999-03-04 Yasmin Alibhai-Brown Lynchings, imprisonment and social exclusion will never stop individual s breaking racial barriers WE HAVE looked, for a good many days, at the poisonous worms of racism as the Lawrence inquiry team turned over the soil. The coverage of this event…

  • A White Side of Black Britain: Interracial Intimacy and Racial Literacy

    “A White Side of Black Britain” explores the racial consciousness of white women in the United Kingdom who have established families and had children with black men of African Caribbean heritage. Filling a gap in the sociological literature on racism and antiracism, France Winddance Twine introduces new theoretical concepts in her description and analysis of…

  • The Devil and the One Drop Rule: Racial Categories, African Americans and the U.S. Census

    The Devil and the One Drop Rule: Racial Categories, African Americans and the U.S. Census Michigan Law Review Volume 95, Number 5 (March 1997) pages 1161-1265 Christine B. Hickman, Associate Professor of Law California Western School of Law Table of Contents Introduction I. Treatment of Mixed-Race People: The Early Legal Record A. The First African…