Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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- You were either Black or white. To claim whiteness as a mixed child was to deny and hide Blackness. Our families understood that the world we were growing into would seek to denigrate this part of us and we would need a community that was made up, always and already, of all shades of Blackness.
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Category: Social Science
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What’s in a name? An exploration of the significance of personal naming of ‘mixed’ children for parents from different racial, ethnic and faith backgrounds The Sociological Review Volume 56, Issue 1, February 2008 pages 39–60 DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-954X.2008.00776.x Rosalind Edwards, Professor in Social Policy Families & Social Capital Research Group London South Bank University Chamion Caballero,…
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The Geography of a Mixed-Race Society Growth and Change: A Journal of Urban And Regional Policy Volume 40, Issue 4 (December 2009) Pages 565 – 593 DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-2257.2009.00501.x William A. V. Clark, Professor of Geography University of California, Los Angeles Reagan Maas University of California, Los Angeles The pattern and level of separation among ethnic…
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Panel: Exploring the Historical Context for Contemporary Stories of the Mixed Experience Mixed Roots Film & Literary Festival Japanese American National Musuem National Center for Democracy, Tateuchi Democracy Forum 2010-06-13, 18:30 to 19:30Z Moderator Frank Buckley, Co-Anchor KTLA Morning News Panelists Kelly F. Jackson, Assistant Professor of Social Work Arizona State University Farzana Nayani, President…
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Seeing a Color-Blind Future: The Paradox of Race Farrar, Straus and Giroux (an imprint of MacMillan) April 1998 84 pages 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches Paperback ISBN: 978-0-374-52533-0, ISBN10: 0-374-52533-1 Patricia J. Williams, James L. Dohr Professor of Law Columbia Law School In these five eloquent and passionate pieces (which she gave as the…
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Racial Revolutions: Antiracism and Indian Resurgence in Brazil Duke University Press 2001 392 pages 46 b&w photos, 1 map, 3 figures Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8223-2731-8 Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8223-2741-7 Jonathan W. Warren, Associate Professor of International and Latin American Studies University of Washington Since the 1970s there has been a dramatic rise in the Indian population in…
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White Americans, The New Minority? Non-Blacks and the Ever-Expanding Boundaries of Whiteness Jonathan W. Warren, Associate Professor of International and Latin American Studies University of Washington France Winddance Twine, Professor of Sociology University of California, Santa Barbara Journal of Black Studies Volume 28, Number 2 (November 1997) pages 200-218 Argues that in the United States…
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White like who? The value of whiteness in British interracial families Ethnicities Volume 10, Number 3 (September 2010) pages 292-312 DOI: 10.1177/1468796810372306 France Winddance Twine, Professor of Sociology University of California, Santa Barbara The value of whiteness is not fixed, rather it has contradictory and competing meanings among members of Black British interracial families. Drawing upon…
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Distributed intensities: Whiteness, mestizaje and the logics of Mexican racism Ethnicities Volume 10, Number 3, September 2010 pages 387-401 DOI: 10.1177/1468796810372305 Mónica G. Moreno Figueroa, Lecturer in Sociology Newcastle University By analysing racist moments, this article engages with debates about the existence of racism in Mexico and how whiteness, as an expression of such racism,…
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The Effect of Interracial Media Portrayals on Perceptions of Multiracialism XULAneXUS: Xavier University of Louisiana’s Undergraduate Research Journal Research Manuscript Volume 5, Number 1, April 2008 9 pages Ashley E. Winston Department of Psychology The notion that context has an effect on perceptions of multiracialism was investigated. Context was manipulated in terms of exposure to…
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Mapping race: Multiracial people and racial category construction in the United States and Britain Immigrants & Minorities Volume 15, Issue 2 (July 1996) pages 107-119 DOI: 10.1080/02619288.1996.9974883 Paul R. Spickard, Professor of History University of California, Santa Barbara The social construction of what are often called ‘racial’ categories has proceeded differently in different places. The…