Mixed Race Studies

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  • Diversity That Matters: A Commitment to Social Justice

    Diversity That Matters: A Commitment to Social Justice CCCC: Supporting and promoting the teaching and study of college composition and communication 2009-06-04 Annette Harris Powell, Assistant Professor of English Bellarmine University I teach at a university with a mission grounded in the Catholic Intellectual tradition of faith and reason and focused on the examined life…

  • America’s Changing Color Lines: Immigration, Race/Ethnicity, and Multiracial Identification

    America’s Changing Color Lines: Immigration, Race/Ethnicity, and Multiracial Identification Annual Review of Sociology Volume 30 (August 2004) pages 221–242 DOI: 10.1146/annurev.soc.30.012703.110519 Jennifer Lee, Associate Professor of Sociology University of California, Irvine Frank D. Bean, Chancellor’s Professor of Sociology and Economics; Director of the Center for Research on Immigration, Population, and Public Policy University of California,…

  • The Election of Barack Obama and the Politics of Interracial and Same-Sex Marriage

    The Election of Barack Obama and the Politics of Interracial and Same-Sex Marriage History News Network 2009-02-23 Peggy Pascoe, Beekman Professor of Northwest and Pacific History University of Oregon Peggy Pascoe is the author of “What Comes Naturally: Miscegenation Law and the Making of Race in America”, (winner of 5 literary prizes). The election (and now…

  • Fall 2010 Honors Colloquium: RACE

    Fall 2010 Honors Colloquium: RACE University of Rhode Island Tuesday evenings, 19:00 ET (Local Time); (23:00Z through November; 00:00Z on Wednesday after November 9). 2010-09-14 through 2010-12-07 Edwards Auditorium, URI Kingston Campus A series of public programs at the University of Rhode Island presented by the URI Honors Program Join us! The public is invited…

  • HAFU: a film about the experiences of mixed-race people living in Japan

    HAFU: a film about the experiences of mixed-race people living in Japan Hafu Film Sneak Preview in Kyoto Institut Franco-Japonais du Kansai, Kyoto, Japan Saturday, 2010-10-23. 19:30 – 22:00 (Local Time) Filmmakers Lara Perez Takagi and Megumi Nishikura David Yano (29). David was born in a small village in Ghana, to a Ghanaian mother and…

  • IndiVisible: African-Native American Lives in the Americas

    IndiVisible: African-Native American Lives in the Americas Smithsonian Institution 2009 256 pages 6 5/8 x 9 1/2 inches 115 color and black-and-white illustrations ISBN: 978-1-58834-271-3 Twenty-seven passionate essays explore the complex history and contemporary lives of people with a dual heritage that is a little-known part of American culture. Authors from across the Americas share…

  • Personal passion fuels Smithsonian exhibit

    Personal passion fuels Smithsonian exhibit San Francisco State University News 2010-02-12 Denize Springer The search for identity is particularly complex for Americans of both African and Native American heritage, according to Assistant Professor of American Indian Studies Robert Keith Collins. Of Choctaw and African American descent, Collins has turned a personal passion into a career.…

  • Passing and Performance in the 21st Century: Black-White Biracial Americans and Passing as Black

    Passing and Performance in the 21st Century: Black-White Biracial Americans and Passing as Black American Sociological Association Annual Meeting 2010 Regular Session: Multi-Racial Classification/Identity Atlanta Marriott Marquis Monday, 2010-08-16, 16:30-18:10 EDT (Local Time) 35 pages Session Organizer: Rebecca C. King-O’Riain, Senior Lecturer of Sociology, National University of Ireland-Maynooth  Presider: Carolyn A. Liebler, Assistant Professor of…

  • Persistence and Change in Asian Identity among Children of Intermarried Couples

    Persistence and Change in Asian Identity among Children of Intermarried Couples Sociological Perspectives Volume 38, Number 2 (Summer, 1995) pages 175-194 Rogelio Saenz, Professor of Sociology Texas A&M University Sean-Shong Hwang, Professor of Sociology University of Alabama, Birmingham Benigno E. Aguirre, Professor of Sociology and Criminal Justice University of Delaware Robert N. Anderson In recent…

  • Being between: can multiracial Americans form a cohesive anti-racist movement beyond identity politics and Tiger Woods chic?

    Being between: can multiracial Americans form a cohesive anti-racist movement beyond identity politics and Tiger Woods chic? ColorLines: Race, Culture, Action 2003-06-22 Sasha Su-Ling Welland, Assistant Professor Anthropology & Women Studies University of Washington So much of being mixed race these days seems about having to explain, always answering “What are you?” for others and…