Mixed Race Studies

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  • Racial Discrimination and Miscegenation: The Experience in Brazil

    In 1888, Brazil, with a mostly black and mixed race or mulatto population, was the last country in the Western Hemisphere to abolish slavery. During more than 300 years of slavery in the Americas, it was the largest importer of African slaves, bringing in seven times as many African slaves to the country, compared to…

  • Black Beauty: Aesthetics, Stylization, Politics

    Previous work discussing Black beauty has tended to concentrate on Black women’s search for white beauty as a consequence of racialization. Without denying either the continuation of such aesthetics or their enduring power, this book uncovers the cracks in this hegemonic Black beauty.

  • The President, the Professor, and the Wide Receiver

    The President, the Professor, and the Wide Receiver When the biracial U.S. President Barack Obama visits South Korea tomorrow, he will be visiting a country grappling with its prejudices about race. Foreign Policy 2009-11-17 James Card This week, U.S. President Barack Obama, the son of a black father and white mother, is making his landmark…

  • Mixed-race theory for everyone

    Mixed-race theory for everyone Mixedness & mixing: New perspectives on mixed-race Britons A Commission for Racial Equality eConference 2007-09-04 through 2007-09-06 Jin Haritaworn, Assistant Professor in Gender, Race and Environment at the Faculty of Environmental Studies York University, Canada What insights does mixed-race theory bear for mixed-race people, our allies, and the professionals who work…

  • Multiracial Identity [Movie], World Premiere Screening

    Multiracial Identity [Movie], World Premiere Screening Politics on Film 2010 Festival Saturday, 2010-05-08, 13:30 EDT (Local Time) E Street Cinema (Purchase tickets on-line here.) 555 11th Street, NW Washington, DC Year: 2010 Director: Brian Chinhema Writer: Brian Chinhema Producer: Brian Chinhema (Abacus Production) Running Time: 01:22:00 Multiracial people are the fastest growing demographic in America, yet…

  • Census Nonsense: Why Barack Obama isn’t black.

    Census Nonsense: Why Barack Obama isn’t black. The New Republic 2010-04-07 John Judis, Senior Editor and Visiting Scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace When asked about his race on the census form, Barack Obama, the child of a white Kansan and black African, did not take the option of checking both “white” and…

  • Race/Ethnicity and the 2000 Census: Recommendations for African American and Other Black Populations in the United States

    Race/Ethnicity and the 2000 Census: Recommendations for African American and Other Black Populations in the United States Amercan Journal of Public Health Volume 90, Number 11 (November 2000) pages 1728-1730 David R. Williams, Florence and Laura Norman Professor of Public Health and of African and African American Studies Harvard University James S. Jackson, Daniel Katz…

  • Erasure and Recognition: The Census, Race and the National Imagination

    This Article is concerned with the constitutive power of the census with respect to race. It is an examination of the U.S. Census as an aspect of what Angela Harris calls race law, “law pertaining to the formation, recognition, and maintenance of racial groups, as well as the law regulating the relationships among these groups.”…

  • Harry Chang: A Seminal Theorist of Racial Justice

    Harry Chang: A Seminal Theorist of Racial Justice Monthly Review January 2007 Bob Wing It is little known that a shy Korean immigrant named Harry Chang made vital contributions to the theory and practice of racial justice in the United States. In his most fruitful period, the 1970s, his work shaped the thinking and political…

  • In First Lady’s Roots, a Complex Path From Slavery

    In First Lady’s Roots, a Complex Path From Slavery The New York Times 2009-10-08 Rachel L. Swarns Jodi Kantor WASHINGTON — In 1850, the elderly master of a South Carolina estate took pen in hand and painstakingly divided up his possessions. Among the spinning wheels, scythes, tablecloths and cattle that he bequeathed to his far-flung…