Mixed Race Studies

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  • One Drop of Blood

    One Drop of Blood The New Yorker 1994-07-24 Lawrence Wright, Staff Writer Washington in the millennial years is a city of warring racial and ethnic groups fighting for recognition, protection, and entitlements. This war has been fought throughout the second half of the twentieth century largely by black Americans. How much this contest has widened,…

  • “A Fascinating Interracial Experiment Station”: Remapping the Orient-Occident Divide in Hawai’i

    “A Fascinating Interracial Experiment Station”: Remapping the Orient-Occident Divide in Hawai’i American Studies Volume 49, Number 3/4, Fall/Winter 2008 pages 87-109 E-ISSN: 2153-6856 Print ISSN: 0026-3079 Shelley Sang-Hee Lee, Assistant Professor of Comparative American Studies and History Oberlin College Rick Baldoz, Visiting Assistant Professor of Sociology Oberlin College Introduction During the 1920s and 1930s, American…

  • “A Mongrel Breed of Citizens”: Animus Against Multiracial People

    …One might argue that discrimination against multiracial people is merely a subset—perhaps even a milder one—of discrimination against monoracial individuals. In other words, a person who is identified as partially Black might be subject to the same kind of animus as one who is identified as fully Black. This Part aims to disprove that notion…

  • Blue Veins and Kinky Hair: Naming and Color Consciousness in African America

    The author explores how Africans in America internalized the negative images created of them by the European world, and how internalized racism has worked to fracture African American unity and thereby dilute inchoate efforts toward liberation.

  • Making sense of race and racial classification

    Making sense of race and racial classification Race and Society Volume 4, Issue 2, (2001) Pages 235-247 DOI: 10.1016/S1090-9524(03)00012-3 Angela D. James, Associate Professor of African American Studies Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles As social scientists, race scholars, and demographers, how do we begin to make sense of recent changes in the Census Bureau’s system…

  • Africans in China: Sweet and Sour in Guangzhou

    Africans in China: Sweet and Sour in Guangzhou The Africa Report 2010-02-01 Namvula Rennie Deterred by immigration controls in the West, African families and traders are moving to major Chinese cities, adding a new dimension to China-Africa relations. It’s raining again in Guangzhou. The downpours are sudden and violent, but do little to cool the…

  • 100% Multiracial

    100% Multiracial UrbanFaith.com 2010-06-11 Kyle Waalen The latest Census estimates show that multiracial people are the fastest growing demographic group in the United States. Yet many still struggle with the question of how many boxes to check. Two Christian women share about the tension and joy of being young and multiracial in America. Kristy McDonald…

  • It’s a wonderful, mixed-up world

    It’s a wonderful, mixed-up world The Daily Telegraph 2009-11-01 Aarathi Prasad There are now more mixed-race children than ever before—and that is something for us all to celebate, says the scientist Aarathi Prasad Just two weeks ago in Louisiana, an American Justice of the Peace made international news for refusing to issue marriage licences to…

  • Mentality of Racial Hybrids

    Mentality of Racial Hybrids American Journal of Sociology Volume 36, Number 4 (January 1931) pages 534-551 DOI: 10.1086/215474 Robert E. Park (1864-1944), Professor of Sociology University of Chicago Racial hybrids are one of the natural and inevitable results of migration and the consequent mingling of divergent racial stocks.  The motives bringing peoples of divergent races…

  • Race and Marriage

    Race and Marriage American Journal of Sociology Volume 15, Number 4 (January 1910) pages 433-453 DOI: 10.1086/211800 Ulysses G. Weatherly (1865-1940), Associate Professor of History, Economics and Sociology Indiana University The aversion exhibited by most animals to pairing with individuals of another species has been attributed by Westermarck to the selective power of hereditary instinct.  those…