Mixed Race Studies

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  • Biracial Sensitive Practice: Expanding Social Services to an Invisible Population

    Biracial Sensitive Practice: Expanding Social Services to an Invisible Population Journal of Human Behavior in the Social Environment Volume 5, Issue 2 (March 2002) pages 29 – 44 DOI: 10.1300/J137v05n02_03 Ronald E. Hall, Professor of Social Work Michigan State University Although literature acknowledges the existence of a biracial population, there has been minimal discussion of…

  • From Narratives of Miscegenation to Post-Modernist Re-Imagining: Toward a Historiography of Coloured Identity in South Africa

    From Narratives of Miscegenation to Post-Modernist Re-Imagining: Toward a Historiography of Coloured Identity in South Africa African Historical Review Volume 40, Issue 1 (June 2008) pages 77 – 100 DOI: 10.1080/17532520802249472 Mohamed Adhikari, Associate Professor of History University of Cape Town, South Africa This article traces changing interpretations of the nature of Coloured identity and…

  • A White Side of Black Britain: The Concept of Racial Literacy

    A White Side of Black Britain: The Concept of Racial Literacy Ethnic and Racial Studies Volume 27, Issue 6 November 2004 pages 878 – 907 DOI: 10.1080/0141987042000268512 France Winddance Twine, Professor of Sociology University of California, Santa Barbara Opposition to transracial adoption on both sides of the Atlantic, has been based, in part, on the…

  • Brave new world: The complicated side-effects of Britain’s mixed-race households

    Brave new world: The complicated side-effects of Britain’s mixed-race households The Independent (UK) 2009-08-22 Yasmin Alibhai-Brown Bev is beautiful, with silky black skin and thick hair she ties in a bunch at the top, spurting like a fountain. At 15, her face reminds me of the young and feisty Winnie Mandela. Dressed in denim, she…

  • Racial Slur Development Not Keeping Pace With Mixed-Race Births, Nation’s Bigots Report

    Racial Slur Development Not Keeping Pace With Mixed-Race Births, Nation’s Bigots Report The Onion 2010-03-13 WASHINGTON—A coalition of the nation’s most fervent bigots convened in Washington Monday to address growing concerns that the production of hateful new racial slurs has failed to keep pace with the rise in mixed-race births. According to representatives from the…

  • White Over Black: American Attitudes Toward the Negro, 1550-1812

    White Over Black: American Attitudes Toward the Negro, 1550-1812 University of North Carolina Press 1968-09-25 (Republished: September 1995) 671 pages 8.9 x 6 x 1.4 inches ISBN: 978-0-8078-4550-9 Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia Winthrop D. Jordan (1931-2007) Winner of the 1968 Francis Parkman Prize, Society of American…

  • Miscegenation, Eugenics, and Racism: Historical Footnotes to Loving v. Virginia

    Miscegenation, Eugenics, and Racism: Historical Footnotes to Loving v. Virginia University of California, Davis Law Review Volume 21, Number 2 (1988) pages 421-452 Paul A. Lombardo, Bobby Lee Cook Professor of Law Georgia State University This Essay explores private correspondence contained in a restricted manuscript collection along with contemporary news accounts and government documents to…

  • Race and Genetics: Attempts to Define the Relationship

    Race and Genetics: Attempts to Define the Relationship BioSocieties Volume 2, Issue 2 (June 2007) pages 221-237 DOI: 10.1017/S1745855207005625 Duana Fullwiley, Associate Professor Anthropology Stanford University Many researchers working in the field of human genetics in the United States have been caught between two seemingly competing messages with regard to racial categories and genetic difference. As…

  • Race – The Power of an Illusion

    Race – The Power of an Illusion California Newsreel – Film and video for social change since 1968 2003 3 Episodes, 56 minutes each DVD and VHS The division of the world’s peoples into distinct groups – “red,” “black,” “white” or “yellow” peoples – has became so deeply imbedded in our psyches, so widely accepted, many…

  • Race and Reification in Science

    Race and Reification in Science Science Magazine Volume 307 2005-02-18 pages 1050-1051 Troy Duster, Professor of Sociology New York University Alfred North Whitehead warned many years ago about “the fallacy of misplaced concreteness” (1), by which he meant the tendency to assume that categories of thought coincide with the obdurate character of the empirical world.…