Mixed Race Studies

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  • Geographies of racially mixed people and households: A focus on American Indians

    Geographies of racially mixed people and households: A focus on American Indians Population Association of America 2010 Annual Meeting Program 2010-04-17 23 pages Carolyn A. Liebler, Assistant Professor Department of Sociology and Minnesota Population Center University of Minnesota Meghan Zacher Department of Sociology and Minnesota Population Center University of Minnesota March 2010 Multiracial individuals and…

  • Bio-Ancestry and Social Construction of Race and Ethnicity

    Bio-Ancestry and Social Construction of Race and Ethnicity Population Association of America 2010 Annual Meeting Program 2010-04-17 Guang Guo, Odum Distinguished Term Professor of Sociology University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Yilan Fu University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Kathleen Mullan Harris, James Haar Distinguished Professor of Sociology University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Two sharply…

  • Beyond the Looking Glass: Exploring Variation between Racial Self-Identification and Interviewer Classification

    Beyond the Looking Glass: Exploring Variation between Racial Self-Identification and Interviewer Classification Population Association of America 2010 Annual Meeting Program 2010-04-17 10 pages Aliya Saperstein, Assistant Professor of Sociology Stanford University Andrew Penner, Associate Professor of Sociology University of California, Irvine Recent research has demonstrated the existence of fluidity in both racial self-identification and interviewer classification.…

  • Who Is Multiracial? Assessing the Complexity of Lived Race

    Who Is Multiracial? Assessing the Complexity of Lived Race American Sociological Review Volume 67, Number 4 (2002) pages 614-627 David R. Harris, Deputy Provost, Vice Provost for Social Sciences, and Professor of Sociology Cornell University Jeremiah Joseph Sim Univerisity of Michigan Patterns of racial classification in the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health are examined.…

  • The Educational Costs of Being Multiracial: Evidence from a National Survey of Adolescents

    The Educational Costs of Being Multiracial: Evidence from a National Survey of Adolescents PSC Research Report Population Studies Center at the Institute for Social Research University of Michigan Report No. 02-521 August 2002 24 pages, 5 tables David R. Harris, Deputy Provost, Vice Provost for Social Sciences, and Professor of Sociology Cornell University Justin L.…

  • Mixed Black and White Race and Public Policy

    Mixed Black and White Race and Public Policy Hypatia Volume 10, Issue 1 (February 1995) Pages 120 – 132 Special Issue: Feminist Ethics and Social Policy, Part 1 DOI: 10.1111/j.1527-2001.1995.tb01356.x Naomi Zack, Professor of Philosophy University of Oregon The American folk concept of race assumes the factual existence of races. However, biological science does not…

  • The relationship between the ‘racial’ experiences of the ‘half Japanese’ and Japanese identity/racial discourse: The process of ‘othering’

    The relationship between the ‘racial’ experiences of the ‘half Japanese’ and Japanese identity/racial discourse: The process of ‘othering’ 2008 58 pages Marcia Yumi Lise People of mixed heritage in Japan, often referred to as Hafu, are often subject to ethnic/racial hurdles in Japan. The distinct Japanese racial thinking and the monoethnic myth affect the ways…

  • Our obsession with classification: What are the implications to mixed race studies?

    Our obsession with classification: What are the implications to mixed race studies? 2009-02-11 3 pages Marcia Yumi Lise Whether it is by gender, sex, race, ethnicity, culture, religion, age, or nationality, in contemporary society, we are immensely preoccupied by classifying people into categories. Social scientists collect and produce data to utilise it for analysis. We…

  • Rethinking race at the Students of Color Dinner

    Rethinking race at the Students of Color Dinner University of Buffalo Law Links University of Buffalo Law School April 2010 On the day that civil rights icon Benjamin Hooks passed away, UB Law School’s 21st annual Students of Color Dinner took stock of the nation’s state of race relations – and celebrated achievements that transcended…

  • May Ayim: A Woman in the Margin of German Society

    May Ayim: A Woman in the Margin of German Society The Florida State University College of Arts and Scienes Spring Semester, 2005 76 pages Margaret MacCarroll, Professor of Modern Languages: German Division Florida State University A thesis submitted to the Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree…