Mixed Race Studies

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  • Does It Matter Where You Go to College? Merit and Race

    Room For Debate: Does It Matter Where You Go to College? Merit and Race New York Times 2010-11-30 Luis Fuentes-Rohwer, Professor of Law and Harry T. Ice Faculty Fellow Indiana University What sensible and ambitious students should keep in mind about where they go to school. Notwithstanding our commitment to egalitarian norms, where one chooses…

  • English 39695-001 ST: Racial Crossings

    English 39695-001 ST: Racial Crossings Kent State University 2006 Martha Cutter, Associate Professor of English This course will examine literary and cultural treatments of individuals, authors, and characters who cross from one race to another, and sometimes also from one gender to another. This crossing may be metaphorical—for example, a white writer may attempt to…

  • Media and Performance in Racial Passing: 2007 Heterodox Identities – LCST 2007 A

    Media and Performance in Racial Passing: 2007 Heterodox Identities – LCST 2007 A Eugene Lang College The New School for Liberal Arts Spring 2009 Orville Lee, Assistant Professor of Sociology Racial passing is a ubiquitous and contentious feature of social and cultural life in the United States. Taking “passing” as an object of analysis, this…

  • The Re-Emergence of Race as a Biological Category: The Societal Implications—Reaffirmation of Race

    The Re-Emergence of Race as a Biological Category: The Societal Implications—Reaffirmation of Race The Iowa Law Review Volume 94, Number 5 (July 2009) pages 1547-1587 Alex M. Johnson, Jr., Perre Bowen Professor of Law; Thomas F. Bergin Teaching Professor of Law and Director, Center for the Study of Race and Law University of Virginia Table…

  • University of Kent research reveals diversity of multiracial identification and experience in Britain today

    University of Kent research reveals diversity of multiracial identification and experience in Britain today University of Kent Press Office 2010-11-04 Research from the University has revealed that while there is evidence of a growing consciousness and interest in mixed race identities among 18-25 year olds in Britain today, Britain cannot yet speak of a coherent…

  • The “Sabines”: A Study of Racial Hybrids in a Louisiana Coastal Parish

    The “Sabines”: A Study of Racial Hybrids in a Louisiana Coastal Parish Social Forces Volume 29, Number 2 (December, 1950) pages 148-154 Vernon J. Parenton Roland J. Pellegrin Read before the thirteenth annual meeting of the Southern Sociological Society, Biloxi, Mississippi, April 15, 1950. Historically, the position of the racial and  cultural  hybrid in rural American…

  • Chinese Interracial Families

    Chinese Interracial Families Undergraduate Research Journal Indiana University, South Bend 1998 Lin Liu, Honors Freshman Research Seminar Participant In an increasingly multi-cultural America, the Chinese population as well as the number of Chinese interracial families has risen significantly among all other nationalities. Since the 1940’s, the Chinese population has soared. There have been many contributing…

  • The Eurasian in Shanghai

    The Eurasian in Shanghai The American Journal of Sociology Volume 41, Number 5 (March, 1936) pages 642-648 Herbert Day Lamson Although hybrid offspring tend to form an intermediary group of cultural contact between the native and the alien in societies where they are found, the Eurasian in Shanghai finds himself discriminated against by both parent-stocks.…

  • But Think of the Kids: Catholic Interracialists and the Great American Taboo of Race Mixing

    But Think of the Kids: Catholic Interracialists and the Great American Taboo of Race Mixing U.S. Catholic Historian Volume 16, Number 3 Sources of Social Reform, Part One (Summer, 1998) pages 67-93 David W. Southern, Cotton Professor of History Westminster College, Fulton Missouri After requesting church funds for the Catholic Interracial Council of New York…

  • ‘Mixed Race’ Children in British Society: Some Theoretical Considerations

    ‘Mixed Race’ Children in British Society: Some Theoretical Considerations The British Journal of Sociology Volume 35, Number 1 (March, 1984) pages 42-61 Anne Wilson A study of the racial identity of British ‘mixed race’ children raises a number of theoretical issues about the racial categorization system of Britain; in particular, the validity of the assumption…