Mixed Race Studies

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  • Blaxican Identity: An Exploratory Study of Blacks/Chicanas/os in California

    Blaxican Identity: An Exploratory Study of Blacks/Chicanas/os in California National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies Annual Conference 35th Annual Conference 2008-04-01 11 pages Rebecca Romo University of California, Santa Barbara This paper explores the life experiences of Blaxicans, or multiracial individuals who are the products of unions that are composed of one biological (or…

  • Everyone Looks a Little Bit Asian

    Everyone Looks a Little Bit Asian truthdig: drilling beneath the headlines 2010-10-27 Marcia Alesan Dawkins, Visiting Scholar Brown University Like many other Hispanics, I am a member of Generation E.A. (ethnically ambiguous). Over the years I’ve been mistaken for just about every racial or ethnic combination—from Eurasian to Afro-Irish to Arab-Native American. This guessing game…

  • Thinking and living in, out, and beyond the box: Exploring Racial and Cultural Complexity in Identity among Adoptive Multiracial Families and Persons

    Thinking and living in, out, and beyond the box: Exploring Racial and Cultural Complexity in Identity among Adoptive Multiracial Families and Persons Racial Identity and Cultural Factors in Treatment, Research, and Policy The Ninth Annual Diversity Challenge Institute for the Study and Promotion of Race and Culture Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts 2009-10-23 through 2009-10-24…

  • Star-Light, Star-Bright, Star Damn Near White: Mixed-Race Superstars

    Star-Light, Star-Bright, Star Damn Near White: Mixed-Race Superstars The Journal of Popular Culture Volume 40, Issue 2 (April 2007) pages 217–237 DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-5931.2007.00376.x Sika Alaine Dagbovie, Professor of English Florida Atlantic University In an episode of the “Chris Rock Show,” comedian Chris Rock searches the streets of Harlem to find out what people think of…

  • Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference

    Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference DePaul University, Lincoln Park Campus DePaul University Student Center 2250 N. Sheffield Chicago, Illinois USA 60614 2010-11-05 through 2010-11-06 Sponsored by DePaul University Asian American Studies and Latin American and Latino Studies and co-sponsored by the College of Ethnic Studies at San Francisco State University and the MAVIN Foundation. “Emerging…

  • The Measure of America: How a rebel anthropologist waged war on racism

    The Measure of America: How a rebel anthropologist waged war on racism The New Yorker 2004-03-08 18 pages Claudia Roth Peierpont Along with the Ferris wheel, the hamburger, Cracker Jack, Aunt Jemima, the zipper, Juicy Fruit, and the vertical file, the word “anthropology” was introduced to a vast number of Americans at the World’s Columbian…

  • Science: Environmentalist

    Science: Environmentalist Time Magazine 1936-05-11 In Washington last week one of the world’s most distinguished anthropologists told the National Academy of Sciences about an Englishman who was raised in Italy and married a Jewess. In consequence this Englishman’s gestures gradually became half Italian, half Jewish. Anthropology is neither an old science like mathematics, astronomy and…

  • Color Struck: Essays on Race and Ethnicity in Global Perspective

    Color Struck: Essays on Race and Ethnicity in Global Perspective University Press of America April 2010 516 pages Paper ISBN: 0-7618-5064-3 / 978-0-7618-5064-9 Electronic ISBN: 0-7618-5092-9 / 978-0-7618-5092-2 Edited by Julius O. Adekunle, Professor of History Monmouth University, West Long Branch, New Jersey Hettie V. Williams, Lecturer, African American History Department of History and Anthropology…

  • Video From Angle Event Reopens Subject of Race

    Video From Angle Event Reopens Subject of Race New York Times 2010-10-19 Susan Saulny, National Correspondent Louie Gong, a 36-year-old Seattle resident who is a mix of American Indian, white and Chinese, is often mistaken for Latino. “Most people don’t look at me and say ‘Chinese,’ ” he said. “Then I tell them what my…

  • Neither Strange Nor Familiar: Contemporary Approaches to Hybridity

    Neither Strange Nor Familiar: Contemporary Approaches to Hybridity Location: TBD Toronto, Canada 2010-10-22 through 2010-10-23 Kenote Speaker Stephan Palmié, Professor of Anthroplogy University of Chicago We are pleased and excited to announce this interdisciplinary conference. The study of identity, whether from a sociological, ethnographic, anthropological or historical perspective, has been a widely debated topic. As…