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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Politics and policies: attitudes toward multiracial Americans Ethnic and Racial Studies First Published on: 2010-04-15 Volume 33, Issue 9 (October 2010) pages 1511-1536 DOI: 10.1080/01419871003671929 Mary E. Campbell, Associate Professor of Sociology University of Iowa Melissa R. Herman, Assistant Professor of Sociology Dartmouth College The growing prominence of the multiracial population in the United States…
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Census trend shows mixed-race Americans are more likely to identify with their multiracial background Daily Bruin University of California, Los Angeles 2010-05-18 Brittany Wong, Bruin contributor When President Barack Obama got to Question No. 9 on the 2010 Census, he did what mixed-race respondents nationwide were asked to do: pare down and define his complex…
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Seeing Like Citizens: Unofficial Understandings of Official Racial Categories in a Brazilian University Journal of Latin American Studies Number 41 (2009) pages 221–250 DOI: 10.1017/S0022216X09005550 Luisa Farah Schwartzman, Assistant Professor of Sociology University of Toronto This paper investigates how students at the State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ), one of the first Brazilian universities…
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Interzones: Black/White Sex Districts in Chicago and New York in the Early Twentieth Century Columbia University Press August 1997 248 pages Paper ISBN: 978-0-231-10493-7 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-231-10492-0 Kevin Mumford, Professor of African-American History University of Iowa Interzones is an innovative account of how the color line was drawn—and how it was crossed—in twentieth-century American cities.…
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Race and Multiraciality in Brazil and the United States: Converging Paths? By G. Reginald Daniel. [Book Review: Skidmore] Hispanic American Historical Review Volumes 88, Number 2 (May 2008) pages 348-349 DOI: 10.1215/00182168-2007-156 Thomas E. Skidmore, Emeritus Professor of History Brown University In 1933, Gilberto Freyre published his classic Casa-grande y senzala. Although it was ostensibly…
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G. Reginald Daniel. More Than Black: Multiracial Identity and the New Racial Order [Book Review: Harrison] Journal of African American Men Volume 6, Number 4 (June, 2002) pages 96-97 Lisa Harrison California State University, Sacramento Many people in the United States have worked tirelessly to develop a truly egalitarian society that embraces all people, regardless…
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More Than Black? Multiracial Identity and the New Racial Order by G. Reginald Daniel [Book Review: Bonilla-Silva] Social Forces Volume 81, Number 2 (December 2002) pages 674-676 Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, Professor of Sociology Duke University Most books on multiracial matters are as fluffy as a goose-down pillow. These books are often edited collections in which personal…
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Book Review/Compte rendu: Stanley R. Bailey, Legacies of Race: Identities, Attitudes, and Politics in Brazil Canadian Journal of Sociology Volume 35, Number 1 (2010) pages 189-191 Luisa Farah Schwartzman, Assistant Professor of Sociology University of Toronto Stanley R. Bailey, Legacies of Race: Identities, Attitudes, and Politics in Brazil. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2009, 304 pp.…
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Shifting Demographics: Preparing for a New Race and Ethnicity Classification Scheme in NAEP Population Association of America 2010 Annual Meeting Program 2010-04-17 3 pages 1 chart, 1 table Salvador Rivas American Institutes for Research On September 24, 2007, the U.S. Department of Education (USDE) issued final guidance for collecting and reporting race/ethnicity information to all…
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Measuring Race (and Ethnicity): An Overview of Past Practices, Current Concerns and Thoughts for the Future [Draft] Population Association of America 2010 Annual Meeting Program 2010-04-17 25 pages C. Matthew Snipp, Professor of Sociology Stanford University On the eve of the 2010 census, Census Bureau staff are already beginning to think about how race should…