Mixed Race Studies

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  • Who And What You Are

    Who And What You Are Contexts Fall 2009 Vol. 8, No. 4 Pages 64–65 DOI 10.1525/ctx.2009.8.4.64 Sangyoub Park, Assistant Professor of Sociology Washburn University Barack Obama‘s presidency and changes in how the U.S. Census tracks race underline the importance of the social construction of race and ethnicity in the United States. Changes in our racial…

  • Mixing It Up

    Mixing It Up Contexts Volume  4, Number 4 (Fall 2005) Pages 15–16 DOI 10.1525/ctx.2005.4.4.15 Kimberly McClain DaCosta, Associate Professor Gallatin School of Individualized Study, New York University Jamie Tibbetts is a member of the Generation Mix National Awareness Tour. He and four other mixed-race young adults are driving across the country, making stops in sixteen…

  • Crossing Boundaries, Claiming a Homeland: The Mexican Chinese Transpacific Journey to Becoming Mexican, 1930s–1960s

    Crossing Boundaries, Claiming a Homeland: The Mexican Chinese Transpacific Journey to Becoming Mexican, 1930s–1960s Pacific Historical Review Volume 78, Number 4 (November 2009) pages 545–577 DOI 10.1525/phr.2009.78.4.545 Julia María Schiavone Camacho, Assistant Professor of History University of Texa, El Paso This article follows Mexican Chinese families from Mexico, across the Mexican-U.S. border, to China, and…

  • Whiteness as Stigma: Essentialist Identity Work by Mixed-Race Women

    Whiteness as Stigma: Essentialist Identity Work by Mixed-Race Women Symbolic Interaction Volume 22, Number 3 (1999) Pages 187–212 DOI 10.1525/si.1999.22.3.187 Debbie Storrs, Professor of Sociology University of Idaho Historically, in both the social sciences and the general public, racial mixing has been stigmatized. This stigmatization was fueled by whites’ desire to protect their racial privileges…

  • “What are You?”: Explaining Identity as a Goal of the Multiracial Hapa Movement

    “What are You?”: Explaining Identity as a Goal of the Multiracial Hapa Movement Social Problems Volume 56, Number 4 (November 2009) Pages 722–745 DOI 10.1525/sp.2009.56.4.722 Mary Bernstein, Associate Professor of Sociology University of Connecticut Marcie De la Cruz Empirical Education Inc. This article uses the Hapa movement as a case study in order to provide…

  • An interview with Henry Wiencek: Slaves and Slavery in George Washington’s World

    An interview with Henry Wiencek: Slaves and Slavery in George Washington’s World Common-Place: Common Reading Volume 6, Number 4 July 2006 William Costin (c. 1780-1842), the Washingtons’ mixed-race grandson/nephew. He was the son of Ann Dandridge, enslaved half sister of Martha Washington, and Jacky Custis, Martha’s son. Courtesy of the Library of Congress, Prints and…

  • An Imperfect God: George Washington, His Slaves, and the Creation of America

    An Imperfect God: George Washington, His Slaves, and the Creation of America Farrar, Straus and Giroux an imprint of Macmillan 2003 416 pages 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches 16 Pages of Black-and-White Illustrations/Map/Notes/Index Paperback ISBN: 978-0-374-52951-2, ISBN10: 0-374-52951-5 Henry Wiencek L.A. Times Book Prize – Winner, History A major new biography of Washington, and…

  • Barack Obama’s America: How New Conceptions of Race, Family, and Religion Ended the Reagan Era

    Barack Obama’s America: How New Conceptions of Race, Family, and Religion Ended the Reagan Era The University of Michgan Press 2009 320 pages 6 x 9 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-472-11450-4 Paper ISBN: 978-0-472-03391-1 Ebook Formats ISBN: 978-0-472-02179-6 John Kenneth White, Professor of Politics Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C Research and reflections on the American demographic…

  • Brown Skinned White Girls: class, culture and the construction of white identity in suburban communities

    Brown Skinned White Girls: class, culture and the construction of white identity in suburban communities Gender, Place & Culture Volume 3, Issue 2 July 1996 pages 205 – 224 DOI: 10.1080/09663699650021891 France Winddance Twine, Professor of Sociology University of California, Santa Barbara Feminist scholars theorizing about whiteness and white identity have not examined the pivotal…

  • The Ethics of Identity

    But to what extent do “identities” constrain our freedom, our ability to make an individual life, and to what extent do they enable our individuality?