Mixed Race Studies

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  • A new paradigm of race: Visit to Brazil prompts the question: Can mixing everyone up solve the race problem?

    A new paradigm of race: Visit to Brazil prompts the question: Can mixing everyone up solve the race problem? Bloomington Herald-Times 2004-08-29 Courtesy of: Black Film Center/Archive Indiana University Audrey T. McCluskey, Director Neal-Marshall Black Culture Center Indiana University If Tiger Woods lived in Brazil he would not have had to coin the word “Cablanasian”…

  • Reconstructing Hybridity: Post-Colonial Studies in Transition

    Reconstructing Hybridity: Post-Colonial Studies in Transition Rodopi 2007 330 pages Hardback: 978-90-420-2141-9 / 90-420-2141-1 Edited by: Joel Kuortti, Adjunct Professor of Contemporary Culture University of Jyväskylä, Finland Jopi Nyman, Acting Professor of English University of Joensuu, Finland This interdisciplinary collection of critical articles seeks to reassess the concept of hybridity and its relevance to post-colonial…

  • Sociohistorical Constructions of Race and Language: Impacting Biracial Identity

    Sociohistorical Constructions of Race and Language: Impacting Biracial Identity A chapter in The Psychology of Prejudice and Discrimination. By Jean Lau Chin (Editor). (Santa Barbara, California. Praeger Publishers, 2004. 1,000 pages. ISBN: 0-275-98234-3, ISBN-13: 978-0-275-98234-8) Matthew J. Taylor, Assistant Professor of Psychology University of Missouri, St. Louis Historically, race has been constructed within the American psyche…

  • Suspect Relations: Sex, Race, and Resistance in Colonial North Carolina (Review)

    Suspect Relations: Sex, Race, and Resistance in Colonial North Carolina (Review) William and Mary Quarterly Volume LX, Number 1 (January 2003) Reviews of Books Richard Godbeer, Professor of History University of Miami Suspect Relations: Sex, Race, and Resistance in Colonial North Carolina. By Kirsten Fischer. (Ithaca, N. Y.: Cornell University Press, 2002. Pp. xiv, 265.)…

  • I’m Color-blind But What Are You, Anyway?

    I’m Color-blind But What Are You, Anyway? Electronic Journal of Sociology (2007) ISSN: 1198 3655 Kathleen Korgen, Professor of Sociology William Paterson University Eileen O’Brien, Assistant Professor of Sociology Christopher Newport University Using primary data from interviews conducted with 1) close black-white friends and 2) biracial Americans, we examine the relationship between the traditional fixation…

  • Tiger Woods Is Not the End of History: or, Why Sex across the Color Line Won’t Save Us All

    Tiger Woods Is Not the End of History: or, Why Sex across the Color Line Won’t Save Us All The American Historical Review Volume 108, Number 5 December 2003 Henry Yu, Professor of History University of California, Los Angeles In December 1996, several months after Tiger Woods left Stanford University to become a professional golfer,…

  • The Politics of Biracialism [Issue]

    The Politics of Biracialism [Issue] The Black Scholar Journal of Black Studies and Research Fall 2009 (2009-09-22) Volume 39, No. 3/4 Guest Editors: Laura Chrisman, Professor of English University of Washington Habiba Ibrahim, Assistant Professor of English University of Washington Ralina Joseph, Assistant Professor of Communications University of Washington Why a biracial issue, and why now? As…

  • Skin Deep: How Race and Complexion Matter in the “Color-Blind” Era

    Skin Deep: How Race and Complexion Matter in the “Color-Blind” Era Univerisity of Illinois Press October 2003 256 pages Dimensions: 6 x 9 in.  Illustrations: 11 Line Drawings, 11 Tables Paper ISBN: 978-1-929011-26-1 Edited by: Cedric Herring, Professor of Sociology Univeristy of Illinois, Chicago Verna M. Keith, Professor of Socilology Florida State University Hayward Derrick…

  • In the Mix: Issue of Mixed Race Stirs Controversy for Census [Interview with Ralina L. Joseph]

    In the Mix: Issue of Mixed Race Stirs Controversy for Census [Interview with Ralina L. Joseph] International Examiner Volume 32, Number 2 2010-01-21 Yayoi Lena Winfrey A highly anticipated event for mixed-race people takes place this year. Although it may seem officious and routine for most, the upcoming U.S. Census is actually an exciting undertaking…

  • Multiracial Identity and Affirmative Action

    Multiracial Identity and Affirmative Action Asian Pacific American Law Journal University of California, Los Angeles Volume 12, Fall 2006 – Spring 2007 32 pages Nancy Leong, Assistant Professor of Law Sturm College of Law, Denver University The classification of multiracial individuals has long posed a challenge in a number of legal contexts, and the affirmative…