Mixed Race Studies

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  • AAS 434-Constructions of Racial Ambiguity

    AAS 434-Constructions of Racial Ambiguity University of Nevada, Las Vegas Spring 2010 Rainier Spencer, Professor and Director, Afro-American Studies Program Interdisciplinary study of miscegenation, mulattos, and passing in the United States. Focuses on the Afro-American context, using historical, literary, and cinematic sources in order to grapple with and gain an understanding of the complexities of…

  • Race on Trial: Passing and the Van Houten Case in Boston

    Race on Trial: Passing and the Van Houten Case in Boston Paper presented at the annual meeting of the 94th Annual Convention Association for the Study of African American Life and History Hilton Cincinnati, Netherland Plaza Cincinnati, Ohio 2009-09-30 Zebulon V. Miletsky, Assistant Professor of Africana Studies Stony Brook University, State University of New York…

  • City of Amalgamation: Race, Marriage, Class and Color in Boston, 1890-1930

    City of Amalgamation: Race, Marriage, Class and Color in Boston, 1890-1930 University of Massachusetts, Amherst September 2008 223 pages Paper AAI3337029 Zebulon V. Miletsky, Assistant Professor of Africana Studies Stony Brook University, State University of New York Submitted to the W.E.B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies at the Graduate School of the University of…

  • Navigating Racial Boundaries: The One-Drop Rule and Mixed-Race Jamaicans in South Florida

    Navigating Racial Boundaries: The One-Drop Rule and Mixed-Race Jamaicans in South Florida Florida International University 2010 343 pages Sharon E. Placide A dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Comparitive Sociology Like many West Indians, mixed-race Jamaican immigrants enter the United States with fluid notions about…

  • SOC 139C. Betwixt and Between: Multiracial Identity in the United States

    An examination of the factors that have influenced the social location of racially mixed individuals of African and European descent in the United States, in order to provide a context for understanding the complexities surrounding the newly emerging multiracial conciousness.

  • Microaggressions and Marginality: Manifestation, Dynamics, and Impact

    Microaggressions and Marginality: Manifestation, Dynamics, and Impact Wiley July 2010 360 pages Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-470-49139-3 Edited By: Derald Wing Sue, Professor of Psychology and Education Teachers College, Columbia University A landmark volume exploring covert bias, prejudice, and discrimination with hopeful solutions for their eventual dissolution Exploring the psychological dynamics of unconscious and unintentional expressions of…

  • Race Mixture: Boundary Crossing in Comparative Perspective

    In this article, we examine a large, interdisciplinary, and somewhat scattered literature, all of which falls under the umbrella term race mixture. We highlight important analytical distinctions that need to be taken into account when addressing the related, but separate, social phenomena of intermarriage, miscegenation, multiracial identity, multiracial social movements, and race-mixture ideologies.

  • Crossing Race and Nationality: The Racial Formation of Asian Americans 1852-1965

    Crossing Race and Nationality: The Racial Formation of Asian Americans 1852-1965 Monthly Review December 2005 Bob Wing Bob Wing was part of the first wave of Asian-American activists in the late 1960s. He was founding editor of the antiwar newspaper, War Times,and of the racial justice magazine, ColorLines, and is one of the national leaders…

  • Mexipino: A History of Multiethnic Identity and the Formation of the Mexican and Filipino Communities of San Diego, 1900-1965

    Mexipino: A History of Multiethnic Identity and the Formation of the Mexican and Filipino Communities of San Diego, 1900-1965 (From T-RACES: a Testbed for the Redlining Archives of California’s Exclusionary Spaces) University of California, Santa Barbara June 2007 488 pages Rudy P. Guevarra, Jr., Assistant Professor, Asian Pacific American Studies, School of Social Transformation, College…

  • School Racial Composition and Biracial Adolescents’ School Attachment

    School Racial Composition and Biracial Adolescents’ School Attachment Sociological Quarterly Volume 51, Issue 1 (Winter 2010) Published Online: 2010-01-15 Pages 150 – 178 DOI: 10.1111/j.1533-8525.2009.01166.x Simon Cheng, Associate Professor of Sociology University of Connecticut Joshua Klugman, Assistant Professor of Sociology and Psychology Temple University Despite extensive research on multiracial youth in recent years, to date, no…