Mixed Race Studies

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  • Triumphant Miscegenation: Reflections on Beauty and Race in Brazil

    Triumphant Miscegenation: Reflections on Beauty and Race in Brazil Journal of Intercultural Studies Volume 28, Issue 1 (February 2007) pages 83-97 DOI: 10.1080/07256860601082954 Alexander Edmonds, Professor of Medical Anthropology and Sociology University of Amsterdam In Brazil racial mixture, mestiçagem has been a dominant theme in the political and cultural re-imagination of the nation in the…

  • Passing Fancy

    In the Jim Crow South, courts understood that rigidly enforcing the rules against mixed marriage would have been a disaster—for whites.

  • Crossing the Color Line: Racial Migration and the One-Drop Rule, 1600–1860

    Crossing the Color Line: Racial Migration and the One-Drop Rule, 1600–1860 Minnesota Law Review Volume 91, Number 3 (February 2007) pages 592-656 Daniel J. Sharfstein, Professor of Law Vanderbilt University “It ain’t no lie, it’s a natural fact, / You could have been colored without being so black…” —Sung by deck hands, Auburn, Alabama, 1915–161…

  • How Mixed-Race Politics Entered the United States: Lydia Maria Child’s ‘Appeal’

    How Mixed-Race Politics Entered the United States: Lydia Maria Child’s ‘Appeal’ ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance Volume 56, Number 1, 2010 (Nos. 218 O.S.) pages 71-104 DOI: 10.1353/esq.0.0043 Robert Fanuzzi, Assistant Chair and Associate Professor of English St. Johns University, Queens, New York For scholars of the colonial and early national United States,…

  • “Tell the Court I Love My [Indian] Wife” Interrogating Race and Self-Identity in Loving v. Virginia

    “Tell the Court I Love My [Indian] Wife” Interrogating Race and Self-Identity in Loving v. Virginia Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture, and Society Volume 8, Issue 1 (April 2006) pages 67-80 DOI: 10.1080/10999940500516983 Arica L. Coleman, Assistant Professor of Black American Studies Unverisity of Delaware The article reexamines the Loving V. Virginia…

  • Understanding Race: The Evolution of the Meaning of Race in American Law and the Impact of DNA Technology on its Meaning in the Future

    Understanding Race: The Evolution of the Meaning of Race in American Law and the Impact of DNA Technology on its Meaning in the Future Albany Law Review Volume 72, Issue 4 (2009) Pages 1113-1143 William Q. Lowe Albany Law School Race has played a decisive role in nearly all aspects of American society, yet its…

  • Race and Censuses From Around the World

    Race and Censuses From Around the World Sociological Images: Inspiring Sociological Imaginations Everywhere 2009-03-29 Lisa Wade, Assistant Professor of Sociology Occidental College Different countries formalize different racial categories.  Below are examples of the ”race” questions on the Censuses of 9 different countries.   They illustrate just how diverse ideas about race are and challenge the notion…

  • What Does “Black” And “White” Look Like Anyway?

    What Does “Black” And “White” Look Like Anyway? Sociological Images: Inspiring Sociological Imaginations Everywhere 2008-10-24 Lisa Wade, Assistant Professor of Sociology Occidental College Gwen Sharp, Assistant Professor of Sociology Nevada State College These two photos—one of Barack Obama as an adult and one of a young Obama and his Grandfather, Stanley Dunham—are a great opportunity…

  • The Census and the Social Construction of Race

    The Census and the Social Construction of Race Sociological Images: Inspiring Sociological Imaginations Everywhere 2010-03-29 Lisa Wade, Assistant Professor of Sociology Occidental College Social and biological scientists agree that race and ethicity are social constructions, not biological categories.  The U.S. government, nonetheless, has an official position on what categories are “real.”  You can find them…

  • Does the British State’s Categorisation of ‘Mixed Race’ Meet Public Policy Needs?

    Does the British State’s Categorisation of ‘Mixed Race’ Meet Public Policy Needs? Social Policy & Society Volume 9, Number 1 (January 2010) pages 55-69 DOI:10.1017/S1474746409990194 Peter J. Aspinall, Reader in Population Health at the Centre for Health Services Studies University of Kent, UK The England and Wales 2001 Census was the first to include ‘Mixed’…