Mixed Race Studies

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  • “Remarkable” Mixed-Race Family in 20th Century Is Subject of Book Discussion [with Book Signing by the Author]

    “Remarkable” Mixed-Race Family in 20th Century Is Subject of Book Discussion [with Book Signing by the Author] James Madison Building Dining Room A, Sixth Floor, J 101 Independence Aveune, SE Washington, DC 2010-03-03, 12:30 EST (Local Time) Webcast Time: 00:59:24 Adele Logan Alexander, Professor of History George Washington University “Parallel Worlds” Focuses on “the Enduring (In)significance…

  • Race and the “One Drop Rule” in the Post-Reconstruction South

    Race and the “One Drop Rule” in the Post-Reconstruction South Renegade South: Histories of Unconventional Southerners 2009-03-17 Victoria E. Bynum, Emeritus Professor of History Texas State University, San Marcos Many people, perhaps most, think of “race” as an objective reality. Historically, however, racial categorization has been unstable, contradictory, and arbitrary. Consider the term “passing.” Most of…

  • The Sorcery of Color: Identity, Race, and Gender in Brazil

    The Sorcery of Color: Identity, Race, and Gender in Brazil Temple University Press November 2006 336 pages 6×9 6 tables Paper EAN: 978-1-59213-351-2; ISBN: 1-59213-351-7 Cloth EAN: 978-1-59213-350-5; ISBN: 1-59213-350-9 Electronic Book EAN: 978-1-59213-352-9 Elisa Larkin Nascimento, Director IPEAFRO Afro-Brazilian Studies and Research Institute, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Originally published in 2003 in Portuguese, The…

  • Ambiguous Lives: Free Women of Color in Rural Georgia, 1789-1879

    In this innovative work, Adele Logan Alexander chronicles there heretofore undocumented dilemmas of one of nineteenth-century America’s most marginalized groups—free women of color in the rural South.

  • Kilombismo, Virtual Whiteness, and the Sorcery of Color

    Kilombismo, Virtual Whiteness, and the Sorcery of Color Journal of Black Studies Volume 34, Number 6 (2004) pages 861-880 DOI: 10.1177/0021934704264009 Elisa Larkin Nascimento Afro-Brazilian Studies and Research Institute This article explores the legacy and current presence of racism in Brazil, particularly their unique expression in the juxtaposition of the miscegenation ideology of nonracism with…

  • Husband And Wife Duo Paved The Way For Blacks In Diplomacy [Interview with Adele Logan Alexander]

    Husband And Wife Duo Paved The Way For Blacks In Diplomacy [Interview with Adele Logan Alexander] Tell Me More National Public Radio 2010-02-10 Michel Martin, Host of Tell Me More with Adele Logan Alexander, Professor of History George Washington University Tell Me More continues its Black History Month series with a conversation with Adele Logan…

  • Homelands and Waterways: The American Journey of the Bond Family, 1846-1926

    This monumental history traces the rise of a resolute African American family (the author’s own) from privation to the middle class. In doing so, it explodes the stereotypes that have shaped and distorted our thinking about African Americans–both in slavery and in freedom.

  • Socially Embedded Identities: Theories, Typologies, and Processes of Racial Identity among Black/White Biracials

    Socially Embedded Identities: Theories, Typologies, and Processes of Racial Identity among Black/White Biracials Sociological Quarterly Volume 43 Issue 3, (2002) Pages 335 – 356 DOI: 10.1111/j.1533-8525.2002.tb00052.x David L. Brunsma, Professor of Sociology Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Kerry Ann Rockquemore, Associate Professor of Sociology University of Illinois at Chicago Current research on racial identity…

  • Public Categories, Private Identities: Exploring Regional Differences in the Biracial Experience

    Public Categories, Private Identities: Exploring Regional Differences in the Biracial Experience Social Science Research Volume 35, Issue 3, September 2006 Pages 555-576 David L. Brunsma, Professor of Sociology Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Empirical research on multiraciality and the development of richer models of racial identity have increased in the last decade. Increased attention…

  • What Does “Black” Mean? Exploring the Epistemological Stranglehold of Racial Categorization

    What Does “Black” Mean? Exploring the Epistemological Stranglehold of Racial Categorization Critical Sociology Vol. 28, No. 1-2 (2002) pages 101-121 DOI: 10.1177/08969205020280010801 David L. Brunsma, Professor of Sociology Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Kerry Ann Rockquemore, Associate Professor of Sociology University of Illinois at Chicago The “check all that apply” approach to race on the…