Mixed Race Studies

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  • Race in a Genetic World

    “I am an African American,” says Duana Fullwiley, “but in parts of Africa, I am white.” To do fieldwork as a medical anthropologist in Senegal, she says, “I take a plane to France, a seven- to eight-hour ride. My race changes as I cross the Atlantic. There, I say, ‘Je suis noire,’ and they say,…

  • Pathways to Permanence for Black, Asian and Mixed Ethnicity Children: Delemmas, Decision-Making and Outcomes

    Pathways to Permanence for Black, Asian and Mixed Ethnicity Children: Delemmas, Decision-Making and Outcomes Research Brief DCSF-RBX-13-08 October 2008 8 pages Julie Selwyn Hadley Centre for Adoption and Foster Care Studies University of Bristol P. Harris Hadley Centre for Adoption and Foster Care Studies University of Bristol David Quinton Hadley Centre for Adoption and Foster…

  • Vulnerable Multiracial Families and Early Years Services: Concerns, Challenges and Opportunities

    Vulnerable Multiracial Families and Early Years Services: Concerns, Challenges and Opportunities Children & Society Volume 10, Issue 4 (December 1996) Pages 305 – 316 DOI: 10.1111/j.1099-0860.1996.tb00598.x Margaret Boushel Department of Social Work and Social Care University of Sussex In Britain, very young mixed-parentage children are more likely to receive state care than any other children.…

  • Deconstructing Binary Race and Sex Categories: A Comparison of the Multiracial and Transgendered Experience

    Deconstructing Binary Race and Sex Categories: A Comparison of the Multiracial and Transgendered Experience San Diego Law Review Volume 39, Number 3 (2002) pages 917-942 Julie A. Greenberg, Professor of Law Thomas Jefferson School of Law, San Diego This Article explores the potential difficulties that exist as legal institutions develop a classification of transgendered people,…

  • Beyond Just Black and White: Why I was so eager to claim my biracial son for my own side

    Beyond Just Black and White: Why I was so eager to claim my biracial son for my own side Newsweek.com 2009-01-24 Raina Kelley, Weekly Columnist When I took my newly born son from the nurse’s arms, I did the expected counting of his fingers and toes. I checked under his cap for hair and flexed…

  • The End of Black History: A Postscript to My Son

    The End of Black History: A Postscript to My Son Newsweek.com 2010-02-28 00:13:57 Raina Kelley, Weekly Columnist In trying to understand what black history will mean to my son when he’s old enough to wonder, I went in search of the purpose of Black History Month. (Video: Raina Kelly, Jon Groat; Additional material courtesy Angelique…

  • Marcia Dawkins to be Featured Guest on Mixed Chicks Chat

    Marcia Dawkins to be Featured Guest on Mixed Chicks Chat Mixed Chicks Chat (The only live weekly show about being racially and culturally mixed. Also, founders of the Mixed Roots Film & Literary Festival) Hosted by Fanshen Cox and Heidi W. Durrow Website: TalkShoe™ (Keywords: Mixed Chicks) Episode: #153 – Marcia Dawkins When: Wednesday, 2010-05-19…

  • Communication, Race, and Family: Exploring Communication in Black, White, and Biracial Families

    Communication, Race, and Family: Exploring Communication in Black, White, and Biracial Families Routledge 1999-08-01 Pages: 264 Trim Size: 6 x 9 Hardback ISBN: 978-0-8058-2938-9 Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8058-2939-6 Edited by: Thomas J. Socha Rhunette C. Diggs This groundbreaking volume explores how family communication influences the perennial and controversial topic of race. In assembling this collection, editors…

  • The Idea of Race in Latin America, 1870-1940

    The Idea of Race in Latin America, 1870-1940 University of Texas Press 1990 143 pages 10 b&w illus. 6 x 9 in. ISBN: 978-0-292-73857-7 Edited by Richard Graham, Emeritus Frances Higginbotham Nalle Centennial Professor of History University of Texas, Austin With chapters by Thomas E. Skidmore, Aline Helg, and Alan Knight From the mid-nineteenth century…

  • Myth of Post-Racial America: Biracial novelist says America still has a long way to go

    Myth of Post-Racial America: Biracial novelist says America still has a long way to go Northwestern University News Center 2010-03-08 Wendy Leopold, Education Editor EVANSTON, Illinois — In a speech titled “The Myth of Post-Racial America,” writer Danzy Senna warned members of the packed audience in Fisk Hall against the urge to view America as…