Mixed Race Studies

Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.

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  • Sab and Autobiography

    Sab and Autobiography University of Texas Press 1993 185 pages 6 x 9 in. ISBN: 978-0-292-70442-8 Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda y Arteaga Translated and introduced by Nina M. Scott Eleven years before Uncle Tom’s Cabin fanned the fires of abolition in North America, an aristocratic Cuban woman told an impassioned story of the fatal love…

  • The History of White People

    A mind-expanding and myth-destroying exploration of “whiteness”—an illuminating work on the history of race and power.

  • Bi-racial U.S.A. vs. Multi-racial Brazil: Is the Contrast Still Valid?

    Bi-racial U.S.A. vs. Multi-racial Brazil: Is the Contrast Still Valid? Journal of Latin American Studies Volume 25, Issue 2 (May 1993) pages 373-386 DOI: 10.1017/S0022216X00004703 Thomas E. Skidmore, Carlos Manuel de Céspedes Professor of History Emeritus Brown University In the last two decades the comparative analysis of race relations in the U.S.A. and Brazil has…

  • Lumbee Indians in the Jim Crow South: Race, Identity, and the Making of a Nation

    With more than 50,000 enrolled members, North Carolina’s Lumbee Indians are the largest Native American tribe east of the Mississippi River. Malinda Maynor Lowery, a Lumbee herself, describes how, between Reconstruction and the 1950s, the Lumbee crafted and maintained a distinct identity in an era defined by racial segregation in the South and paternalistic policies…

  • Hybridity, So What? The Anti-Hybridity Backlash and the Riddles of Recognition

    Hybridity, So What? The Anti-Hybridity Backlash and the Riddles of Recognition Theory, Culture & Society Volume 18, Numbers 2-3 (June 2001) pages 219-245 DOI: 10.1177/026327640101800211 Jan Nederveen Pieterse, Mellichamp Professor of Global Studies and Sociology University of California, Santa Barbara Take just about any exercise in social mapping and it is the hybrids, those that…

  • The Attitudes Toward Multiracial Children Scale

    The Attitudes Toward Multiracial Children Scale Journal of Black Psychology 2001 Vol. 27, No. 1 pages 86-99 DOI: 10.1177/0095798401027001005 Charmain F. Jackman University of Southern Mississippi William G. Wagner, Professor University of Southern Mississippi J. T. Johnson University of Southern Mississippi The Attitudes Toward Multiracial Children Scale (AMCS) was developed to measure adults’ attitudes concerning…

  • Beyond Black: Biracial Identity in America (Book Review)

    Beyond Black: Biracial Identity in America (Book Review) Pychiatric Services May 2003 Volume 54 Page 751 Published by The American Psychiatric Association Maureen Slade, R.N., M.S., Director of Psychiatry Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago Brendan Slade-Smith Illinois Wesleyan University, Bloomington Beyond Black: Biracial Identity in America by Kerry Ann Rockquemore and David L. Brunsma; Thousand Oaks,…

  • African Mexicans and the Discourse on Modern Nation

    African Mexicans and the Discourse on Modern Nation University Press of America June 2004 136 pages Paper ISBN: 0-7618-2858-3 / 978-0-7618-2858-7 Marco Polo Hernández Cuevas, Asssociate Professor of Spanish North Carolina Central University In African Mexicans and the Discourse on Modern Nation, author Marco Polo Hernández-Cuevas explores how the Africaness of Mexican mestizaje was erased…

  • Winnefred and Agnes: The Story of Two Women

    Winnefred and Agnes: The Story of Two Women Independent Publishing Group September 2002 288 pages, Cloth, 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 6 B/W Photos, 1 Chart, 1 Map ISBN: 9780795701139 (0795701136) Agnes Lottering This is a rare, possibly the first, first-person account of being part of the group of mixed-race families who came into existence…

  • “The New Kubla Khan: Mixed Race Multi-Nationalism”

    “The New Kubla Khan: Mixed Race Multi-Nationalism” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Studies Association 2009-05-24 Michele Elam, Martin Luther King, Jr. Centennial Professor of English, Professor, Director of African & African American Studies Stanford University This paper examines how, and to what ends, people of the “mixed race experience” are being…