Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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Category: Social Science
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An analysis of Stormfront forums shows a sometimes sophisticated understanding of the limits of ancestry tests.
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The Chinese-African Kids And Identity Crisis Shorthand Social 2016-02-08 Ilelah Balarabe Shehu INTRODUCTION As the number of Africans coming to China for business keeps jumping up by 20-30% annually since 2011, so also the number of intermarriages between Africans and Chinese. This inter racial marriages has resulted in giving a new face to what is…
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Color that Matters: A Comparative Approach to Mixed Race Identity and Nordic Exceptionalism Routledge 2018-09-30 240 pages Hardback ISBN: 9781138050143 Tony Sandset, Junior Research Fellow University of Oslo, Norway This book examines the ways in which mixed ethnic identities in Scandinavia are formed along both cultural and embodied lines, arguing that while the official discourses…
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This paper examines the dynamics of racial identity construction among multi-racial Malaysians and Singaporeans in a qualitative study of 31 semi-structured interviews. Thematic analysis was used to identify the different private racial identity constructions of participants who were officially ascribed with single racial identities at birth.
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Our findings proxy broad ideological shift from racial ambiguity to negro racial affirmation. They suggest race-targeted policy is transforming racial subjectivities and ideologies in Brazil.
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“It Represents Me:” Tattooing Mixed-Race Identity Sociological Spectrum Published online: 2018-10-04 DOI: 10.1080/02732173.2018.1478351 Jennifer Patrice Sims, Assistant Professor of Sociology University of Alabama, Huntsville Research on tattoos reveals that desire for something to “mark their bodies with indelible symbols of what they see themselves to be” has become a main driver behind contemporary tattoo acquisitions…
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Our analysis shows that, unlike black Mixed-Race women, black Mixed-Race men’s mixedness is often constructed as compatible with the heteronormative gender identities that are constituted in racialized peer groups. As such, black Mixed-Race men are able to cultivate a sense of strategic sameness with same gender black peers.
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Authors Imani Perry, Sheryll Cashin, and Jabari Asim discuss race and identity.
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Structural Competency: Assessing A New Paradigm for Race & Racisms in Medicine John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 2017-10-12 Jonathan Metzl, MD, Ph.D, Frederick B. Rentschler II Professor of Sociology and Psychiatry; Director of the Center for Medicine, Health, and Society Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee Jonathan Metzl is the Frederick B.…
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Narratives of mixed-race people bringing claims of racial discrimination in court, illuminating traditional understandings of civil rights law