Mixed Race Studies

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  • Blended Nation: Portraits and Interviews of Mixed-Race America

    Blended Nation: Portraits and Interviews of Mixed-Race America Channel Photographics 2009-08-11 140 pages 11 x 11 inches Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-9773399-2-1 Mike Tauber Pamela Singh What are you? On the 2000 U.S. Census, for the first time, multiracial individuals were allowed to indicate more than one race. Nearly seven million Americans did so. Blended Nation: Portraits…

  • Mixed Race Americans Picture A ‘Blended Nation’

    Mixed Race Americans Picture A ‘Blended Nation’ Weekend Edition Sunday National Public Radio 2009-11-08 Liane Hansen, Host The 2000 U.S. census was the first to give Americans the option to check more than one box for race. Nearly 7 million people declared themselves to be multiracial that year, a number that’s expected to shoot up…

  • Generation Mixed: Breaking the Race Barrier

    Generation Mixed: Breaking the Race Barrier Yes! Magazine 2010-03-04 Adrienne Maree Brown “I have to be a healer… my ancestral colonizer’s blood runs through my veins.” —Cara Page I’ve never been into identity politics. I’ve long felt that people spent too much time analyzing the labels of past generations and too little time feeling part…

  • How Will Barack Obama Fill Out His Census Form?: The Future of “Miscegenation” in America

    How Will Barack Obama Fill Out His Census Form?: The Future of “Miscegenation” in America FSB Media 2009 Rich Benjamin The President says publicly that he is “African-American.”But will he check “black” or “two or more races” on his 2010 Census form? My parents, two dark-skinned blacks, married in 1967, a year when miscegenation —…

  • Malaga Island’s place in Maine history preserved

    Malaga Island’s place in Maine history preserved The Times Record Published: 2009-08-18, 18:08Z Seth Koenig, Times Record Staff PHIPPSBURG — The site of perhaps the most striking case of racial injustice in Maine history was the focus of a Saturday ceremony aimed at preserving the land and its lessons for future generations. Malaga Island, off…

  • Malaga Island: A Story Best Left Untold

    Malaga Island: A Story Best Left Untold WMPG-FM (Portland, Maine) and The Salt Institute 2009 Rob Rosenthal, Radio Producer Kate Philbrick, Photographer WMPG-FM, in collaboration with the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies, announces the premier of “Malaga Island: A Story Best Left Untold”, a radio and photo documentary recounting this infamous event and its impact on several…

  • Keeping up with the Joneses

    …Like many families of mixed ancestry and interracial families in the Northeast, the Joneses seemed to live in an ambiguous space in the American system of racial classification.  They seemed to be neither denying nor actively claiming a black racial identity.  Sociologists of the time and current historians have documented a number of cases—indeed a…

  • Multiracial Men in Toronto: Identities, Masculinities and Multiculturalism

    Multiracial Men in Toronto: Identities, Masculinities and Multiculturalism Masters Thesis of Education Department of Sociology and Equity Studies in Education Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto 2009-12-11 Danielle Lafond University of Toronto This thesis draws from ten qualitative semi-structured interviews with multiracial men in Toronto. It is an exploratory study that examines…

  • Mixed-ethnic girls and boys as similarly powerless and powerful: embodiment of attractiveness and grotesqueness

    Mixed-ethnic girls and boys as similarly powerless and powerful: embodiment of attractiveness and grotesqueness Discourse Studies Volume 11, Number 3 (June 2009) pages 329-352 DOI: 10.1177/1461445609102447 Laurel D. Kamada Tohoku University, Japan An ongoing study examining the discursive negotiation of ethnic and gendered embodied identities of adolescent girls in Japan with Japanese and `white’ mixed-parentage…

  • Social Work Practice and Lone White Mothers of Mixed-Parentage Children

    Social Work Practice and Lone White Mothers of Mixed-Parentage Children British Journal of Social Work Volume 40, Number 2 pages 391-406 DOI:10.1093/bjsw/bcn164 Vicki Harman, Lecturer in Social Policy and Social Work Royal Holloway, University of London This paper reports on empirical research involving focus groups with social workers in order to provide insight into their…