Mixed Race Studies

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  • The Myth of Latin American Multiracialism

    Latin American critics have begun to argue that multiracialism, like racial democracy, functions as an ideology that masks enduring racial injustice and thus blocks substantial political, social, and economic reform.

  • Counting Multiracial People in the Census: The Unfulfilled Wish for More Data

    Counting Multiracial People in the Census: The Unfulfilled Wish for More Data Racism Review 2010-03-26 Jenifer L. Bratter, Assistant Professor of Sociology and Associate Director of the Institute for Urban Research Rice University People who study the multiracial population are constantly confronted with the problem of small numbers to work with.  A recent article I co-authored…

  • Jared Sexton: People of Color-Blindness: Notes on the Afterlife of Slavery

    Jared Sexton: People of Color-Blindness: Notes on the Afterlife of Slavery University of Northern Arizona Gardner Auditorium, W.A. Franke College of Business, NAU 2010-03-25, 17:30 to 19:00 CDT (Local Time) Jared Sexton, Associate Professor of African American Studies and Film & Media Studies University of California, Irvine   This lecture explores the significance of the…

  • Crises of Whiteness and Empire in Colonial Indochina: The Removal of Abandoned Eurasian Children From the Vietnamese Milieu, 1890–1956

    Crises of Whiteness and Empire in Colonial Indochina: The Removal of Abandoned Eurasian Children From the Vietnamese Milieu, 1890–1956 Journal of Social History Volume 43, Number 3 (Spring 2010) pages 587-613 E-ISSN: 1527-1897 Print ISSN: 0022-4529 DOI: 10.1353/jsh.0.0304 Christina Firpo, Assistant Professor of History California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo From 1890–1956, non-governmental welfare…

  • 2010 Association for Asian American Studies Conference

    2010 Association for Asian American Studies Conference Omni Austin Hotel Downtown Austin, Texas 2010-04-07 through 2010-04-10 Theme: Emergent Cartographies: Asian American Studies in the Twenty-first Century Selected programs from the conference schedule: Panel Transnational Perspectives on Beauty and Skin Color: China, Indonesia, and the Philippines Friday 2010-04-09, 08:30-10:00 CDT (Local Time) Chair: Paul Spickard, University…

  • White Negritude: Race, Writing, and Brazilian Cultural Identity

    White Negritude: Race, Writing, and Brazilian Cultural Identity Palgrave Macmillan December 2007 208 pages Size 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 Hardcover ISBN: 1-4039-7595-7 Alexandra Isfahani-Hammond, Associate Professor of Luso-Brazilian Literature University of California, San Diego White Negritude analyzes the discourse of mestiçagem (mestizaje, métissage, or “mixing”) in Brazil. Focused on Gilberto Freyre‘s sociology of plantation…

  • The Pacific Sociological Association Annual Meeting 2010

    The Pacific Sociological Association Annual Meeting 2010 81st Annual PSA Meeting 2010-04-08 through 2010-04-11 Marriott Oakland City Center Oakland, California Theme: Revitalizing the Sociological Imagination: Individual Troubles & Social Issues in a Turbulent World Selected programs from the Preliminary Program Guide include: Friday, 2010-04-09, 12:00-13:10 PDT (Local Time) 86) Roundtables Table 3: Mixed Race & Identity:…

  • Assessing Shifting Racial Boundaries: Racial Classification of Biracial Asian Children in the 2000 Census

    Assessing Shifting Racial Boundaries: Racial Classification of Biracial Asian Children in the 2000 Census Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University 2009-12-07 77 pages Sara Megan McDonough Thesis submitted to the faculty of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in Sociology. This…

  • DEEP: A Photo-Essay by Clement Cooper

    DEEP: A Photo-Essay by Clement Cooper Clement Cooper DEEP explores the contentious issue surrounding British Mixed-Race identity through image & oral testimony. From 1992 to 1997, Clement Cooper journeyed to and lived in several port cities throughout the UK. Locations where: Toxteth, Liverpool, St Paul’s, Bristol; Butetown, Cardiff & Manchester. Using available natural light and…

  • The Complexities of the Visible: Mexican Women’s Experiences of Racism, Mestizaje and National Identity

    The Complexities of the Visible: Mexican Women’s Experiences of Racism, Mestizaje and National Identity Goldsmiths College, University of London 2006 Monica Moreno Figueroa, Lecturer in Sociology Newcastle University, United Kingdom The thesis analyses the contemporary practices of racism in relation to discourses of mestizaje in Mexico. It focuses on the qualities of women’s experiences of…