Mixed Race Studies

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  • “Being Raised by White People”: Navigating Racial Difference Among Adopted Multiracial Adults

    “Being Raised by White People”: Navigating Racial Difference Among Adopted Multiracial Adults Journal of Marriage and Family Volume 71, Issue 1, February 2009 Pages 80-94 DOI: 10.1111/j.1741-3737.2008.00581.x Gina Miranda Samuels, Associate Professor School of Social Service Administration University of Chicago There are increasing numbers of multiracial families created through marriage, adoption, birth, and a growing…

  • Communicative Correlates of Satisfaction, Family Identity, and Group Salience in Multiracial/Ethnic Families

    Communicative Correlates of Satisfaction, Family Identity, and Group Salience in Multiracial/Ethnic Families Journal of Marriage and Family Volume 71, Issue 4 Pages 819-832 Published Online: 2009-10-23 DOI: 10.1111/j.1741-3737.2009.00637.x Jordan Soliz, Assistant Professor of Communication Studies University of Nebraska, Lincoln Allison R. Thorson, Assistant Professor, Communication Studies University of San Francisco Christine E. Rittenour, Assistant Professor…

  • Freedom School: Which box do I check?

    Freedom School: Which box do I check? Ursinus College, Collegeville, Pennsylvania Olin 101 Tuesday 2010-01-26, 19:00-20:00 EST (Local Time) Speaker: Fernando Jones, Class of 2010   An informal discussion on Mixed-Race identity as we see it in educational and social structures. For more information, click here.

  • Times writer talks ‘construction’ of race

    Times writer talks ‘construction’ of race Yale Daily News 2009-01-23 Conrad Lee, Contributing Reporter For any Yale student who has taken English 120, chances are he or she has come across Brent Staples and his popular essay “Black Men and Public Space.” Thursday afternoon, Staples — an author and editorial writer for the New York…

  • “Obama’s People”: A New Identity for Biracials and Mixed Heritage

    “Obama’s People”: A New Identity for Biracials and Mixed Heritage Xlibris Press 2009 102 Pages ISBN: 1-4363-9510-0 (Trade Paperback 6×9 ) ISBN13: 978-1-4363-9510-6 (Trade Paperback 6×9 ) ISBN: 1-4363-9511-9 (Trade Hardback 6×9 ) ISBN13: 978-1-4363-9511-3 (Trade Hardback 6×9 ) Phillip MacFarland Since President Barack Obama is from a biracial heritage and is now the leader…

  • IndiVisible – African-Native American Lives in the Americas

    IndiVisible – African-Native American Lives in the Americas National Museum of the American Indian 4th Street and Independence Avenue, SW Washington, DC 2009-11-09 through 2010-05-31 Comanche family, early 1900s Here is a family from the Comanche Nation located in southwestern Oklahoma. The elder man in Comanche traditional clothing is Ta-Ten-e-quer. His wife, Ta-Tat-ty, also wears…

  • Critical Whiteness Studies Symposium: Call for Papers

    Critical Whiteness Studies Symposium: Call for Papers Critical Whiteness Studies Symposium University of Iowa 2010-09-23 through 2010-09-24 Abstract Deadline: 2010-03-12 Keynote Speakers: David Roediger, Kendrick C. Babcock Professor of History University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Karyn McKinney, Assistant Professor of Sociology and Criminal Justice, Education, Human Development, & Social Sciences Penn State University, Altoona Abstract deadline…

  • The Myth of the Human Races

    The idea that human races exist is a socially constructed myth that has no grounding in science. Regardless of skin, hair, or eye color, stature or physiognomy, we are all of one species. Nonetheless, scientists, social scientists, and pseudo-scientists have, for three centuries, tried vainly to prove that distinctive and separate “races” of humanity exist.

  • Being Māori-Chinese: Mixed Identities (Book Review)

    Being Māori-Chinese: Mixed Identities (Book Review) Sites: a journal of social anthropology and cultural studies University of Otago, New Zealand Volume 5, Number 2 (2008) pages 180-182 Kate Bagnall Being Māori-Chinese: Mixed Identities, Manying Ip, Auckland University Press, Auckland, 2008, 255pp. ISBN 978-1-86940-399-7 Manying Ip makes it clear from the outset that Being Māori-Chinese: Mixed Identities…

  • Santiago de Guatemala, 1541-1773: City, Caste, and the Colonial Experience

    Santiago de Guatemala, 1541-1773: City, Caste, and the Colonial Experience University of Oklahoma Press 1997 368 pages 9.09″ x 6.02″ x 0.83″ 14 illus, 6 maps, 1 figure Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8061-2911-2; ISBN(10): 0-8061-2911-5 Christopher H. Lutz Santiago de Guatemala was the colonial capital and most important urban center of Spanish Central America from its establishment…