Mixed Race Studies

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  • Phillip Handy examines how children form racial identities in multiracial families

    Phillip Handy examines how children form racial identities in multiracial families Research Highlights Rutgers University 2009-04-22 The election of America’s first mixed-race president has created new interest in what it’s like to grow up as a multiracial child. A Rutgers senior majoring in sociology and psychology has already received input from about 930 multiracial people…

  • Racial Formation in the New Millennium

    Racial Formation in the New Millennium Routledge  2008-03-01 256 pages Trim Size: 6 x 9 Hardback ISBN: 978-0-415-95025-1 Michael Omi, Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies University of California, Berkeley Howard Winant, Professor of Sociology University of California, Santa Barbara First published in 1986, and then again in 1994, Omi and Winant’s Racial Formation in the…

  • Racial Formation in the United States: From the 1960s to the 1990s, 2nd Edition

    Racial Formation in the United States: From the 1960s to the 1990s, 2nd Edition Routledge Publication Date: 1994-03-22 240 pages Trim Size: 6 x 9 Paperback ISBN: 978-0-415-90864-1 Michael Omi, Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies University of California, Berkeley Howard Winant, Professor of Sociology University of California, Santa Barbara First published in 1986, Racial Formation…

  • A Reader on Race, Civil Rights, and American Law: A Multiracial Approach

    A Reader on Race, Civil Rights, and American Law: A Multiracial Approach Carolina Academic Press 2001 864 pages ISBN-10: 0-89089-735-2 ISBN: 978-0-89089-735-5 LCCN: 2001092052 Timothy Davis, W. and Ruth H. Turnage Professor of Law Wake Forest University Kevin R. Johnson, Dean and Mabie-Apallas Professor of Public Interest Law and Chicana/o Studies University of California, Davis…

  • How Did You Get to Be Mexican? A White/Brown Man’s Search for Identity

    How Did You Get to Be Mexican? A White/Brown Man’s Search for Identity Temple University Press 1999 264 pages 6×9 EAN: 978-1-56639-651-6 ISBN: 1-56639-651-4 Kevin R. Johnson, Dean and Mabie-Apallas Professor of Public Interest Law and Chicana/o Studies University of California, Davis This compelling account of racial identity takes a close look at the question…

  • The New Color Complex: Appearances and Biracial Identity

    The New Color Complex: Appearances and Biracial Identity Identity: An International Journal of Theory and Research 2001 Volume 3, Number 1 Pags 29-52 David L. Brunsma, Associate Professor of Sociology University of Missouri, Columbia Kerry Ann Rockquemore, Associate Professor of Sociology University of Illinois at Chicago Ethnic identity research has largely focused on the identity…

  • The Multiracial Experience: Racial Borders as the New Frontier

    In her bold new edited volume, The Multiracial Experience, Maria P. P. Root challenges current theoretical and political conceptualizations of race by examining the experience of mixed-race individuals.

  • Author Dr. Bonnie M. Davis Guest on Mixed Chicks Chat

    Author Dr. Bonnie M. Davis Guest on Mixed Chicks Chat Mixed Chicks Chat (The only live weekly show about being racially and culturally mixed.  Also, founders of the Mixed Roots Film & Literary Festival) Website: TalkShoe™ (Keywords: Mixed Chicks) Episode: #135 – Bonnie M. Davis, Ph.D. When: Wednesday, 2010-01-06, 22:00Z Bonnie M. Davis, Ph.D., Author…

  • La Mulata: Cuba’s National Symbol

    La Mulata: Cuba’s National Symbol Focus Anthropology: A Publication of Undergraduate Research Issue IV: 2004-2005 20 pages Tamara Kneese Kenyon College This essay provides a discourse analysis of la mulata as an ambivalent symbol of Cuban national identity. In many ways, la mulata is representative of Cuba’s sexual, racial, and economic hierarchies. On the one…

  • Multiculturalism in Brazil, Bolivia and Peru

    Multiculturalism in Brazil, Bolivia and Peru Race & Class (2008) Vol. 49, No. 4 pages 1-21 DOI: 10.1177/0306396808089284 Felipe Arocena (farocena@fcs.edu.uy), Professor of Sociology Universidad de la República-Uruguay The different strategies of resistance deployed by discriminated ethnic groups in Brazil, Peru and Bolivia are analysed here. In Brazil, Afro movements and indigenous populations are increasingly…