Mixed Race Studies

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  • Mixed Race in the United States (Lecture Series)

     Mixed Race in the United States Simpson Center for The Humanities at the University of Washington Dates (Local Time: 19:30 PST): 2010-01-06, 2010-01-20, 2010-02-03, 2010-02-17, and 2010-03-03 Location: Kane Hall 220 Is it coincidence that the first nonwhite president of the United States comes from a multiracial background? Or was his election, in fact, partially…

  • Racial ambiguity among the Brazilian population

    Racial ambiguity among the Brazilian population Ethnic and Racial Studies Volume 25, Issue 3 (May 2002) pages 415-441 DOI: 10.1080/01419870252932133 Edward E. Telles, Professor of Sociology Princeton University I investigate the extent to which interviewers and respondents in a 1995 national survey consistently classify race in Brazil, overall and in particular contexts. Overall, classification as…

  • Being Multiracial in a Country that Sees Black and White

    Being Multiracial in a Country that Sees Black and White Interpolations: A Journal of First Year Writing Deparment of English, University of Maryland Fall 2009 Lavisha McClarin University of Maryland In America mixed race individuals are becoming more prominent in the media, politics and sports throughout the country. Some of the most popular mixed race…

  • Firsthand multlicultural experience

    Firsthand multlicultural experience The Daily Independent (Ashland, Kentucky) 2009-10-22 Mike James Ashland — When he brings up the fact that he is biracial, Elliott Lewis most often hears platitudes. Some of them are flattering, others not so much. The one that drives him nuts is the question, “What are you?” It’s one of the things he…

  • Fade: My Journeys in Multiracial America

    Fade: My Journeys in Multiracial America Basic Books an imprint of The Perseus Books Group 2006-12-28 302 pages ISBN: 9780786718825 ISBN-10: 078671882X Elliott Lewis Television journalist Elliott Lewis weaves his memoirs as a black-and-white biracial American with the voices of dozens of multiracial people who are challenging how we think and speak about race today.…

  • The American Melting Pot? Miscegenation Laws in the United States

    The American Melting Pot? Miscegenation Laws in the United States Organization of American Historians Magazine of History Volume 15, Number 4, Summer 2001 pages 80-84 Bárbara C. Cruz, Associate Professor of Social Science Education University of South Florida, Tampa Michael J. Berson, Associate Professor of Social Science Education University of South Florida People of mixed heritage have…

  • Post-Race on America’s Next Top Model

    Post-Race on America’s Next Top Model International Communication Association, TBA 2007 Conference San Francisco, CA 2007-05-23 Ralina L. Joseph, Assistant Professor of Communications, American Ethnic Studies and Women Studies University of Washington African American supermodel Tyra Banks’s popular reality show for aspiring young models, America’s Next Top Model, both reflects and produces twenty-first century ideals…

  • Sexual Naturalization: Asian Americans and Miscegenation

    Sexual Naturalization: Asian Americans and Miscegenation Stanford University Press 2005 224 pages Cloth ISBN-10: 0804747288; ISBN-13: 9780804747288 Paper ISBN-10: 0804747296; ISBN-13: 9780804747295 Susan Koshy, Associate Professor of English and Asian American Studies University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Sexual Naturalization offers compelling new insights into the racialized constitution of American nationality. In the first major interdisciplinary study…

  • Mixed Blood: Intermarriage and Ethnic Identity in Twentieth-Century America

    Mixed Blood: Intermarriage and Ethnic Identity in Twentieth-Century America University of Wisconsin Press December 1989 544 pages 6 x 9, 4 tables Paperback ISBN-10: 0-299-12114-3 Paperback ISBN-13: 978-0-299-12114-3 Paul R. Spickard, Professor of History University of California, Santa Barbara Named an “Outstanding Book on Human Rights in the United States” by the Gustavus Myers Center…

  • More Than Black? Humanitis Series

    More Than Black? Humanitis Series University of California Television February 2003 00:50:32 G. Reginald Daniel, Professor of Sociology University of California, Santa Barbara Introduced by: Paul R. Spickard, Professor of History University of California, Santa Barbara In the United States, anyone with even a trace of African American ancestry has been considered Black. Even as the…