Mixed Race Studies

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  • Love’s Revolution: Interracial Marriage

    “Love’s Revolution” traces the social changes that account for the growth of intermarriage as well as the lingering prejudices and false beliefs that oppress racially mixed families.

  • AAST 398M – Multi-Racial Asian Americans

    AAST 398M – Multi-Racial Asian Americans University of Maryland Spring 2010 The multiracial American population is increasing exponentially, as are available services and organizations to support it. With these shifts in mind, this class will examine multiracial America yesterday, today, and tomorrow, with an emphasis on multiracial Asian America in particular. Some questions of interest:…

  • Sixth Annual Ray Warren Multicultural Symposium (2009): Mixed: The Politics of Hybrid Identities

    Sixth Annual Ray Warren Multicultural Symposium (2009): Mixed: The Politics of Hybrid Identities Lewis and Clark College Portland, Oregon 2009-11-11 through 2009-11-13 Events “Obama and the Biracial Factor: Race, Sexuality, and the Battle for a New America” – Andrew Jolivétte (Introduced by Brenda Salas Neves, L&C student and symposium co-chair) “Secrets of a Mixed Race…

  • Dispatches from the Color Line: The Press and Multiracial America

    Dispatches from the Color Line: The Press and Multiracial America State University of New York Press July 2007 295 pages Hardcover ISBN10: 0-7914-7099-7; ISBN13: 978-0-7914-7099-2 Paperback ISBN10: 0-7914-7100-4; ISBN13: 978-0-7914-7100-5 Catherine R. Squires, Cowles Professor of Journalism, Diversity and Equality University of Minnesota Explores contemporary news media coverage of multiracial people and identities. When modern…

  • Race in the Making: Cognition, Culture, and the Child’s Construction of Human Kinds

    “Race in the Making” provides a new understanding of how people conceptualize social categories and shows why this knowledge is so readily recruited to create and maintain systems of unequal power.

  • Race Bending: “Mixed” Youth Practicing Strategic Racialization in California

    Race Bending: “Mixed” Youth Practicing Strategic Racialization in California Anthropology & Education Quarterly Volume 35 Issue 1 (March 2004) Pages 30-52 DOI: 10.1525/aeq.2004.35.1.30 Mica Pollock, Associate Professor of Education Harvard University As more U.S. youth claim “mixed” heritages, some adults are proposing to erase race words altogether from the nation’s inequality analysis. Yet such proposals, as…

  • The Inheritability of Identity: Children’s Understanding of the Cultural Biology of Race

    The Inheritability of Identity: Children’s Understanding of the Cultural Biology of Race Child Development Volume 66 Issue 5 (October 1995) Pages 1418 – 1437 DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.1995.tb00943.x Lawrence A. Hirschfeld, Professor, Anthropology & Psychology Eugene Lang College, The New School for Liberal Arts 4 experiments explored adult and grade school children’s beliefs about inheritability of identity,…

  • A New Look at an Old Notion: Lawrence Hirchfeld Discusses Race in Society

    A New Look at an Old Notion: Lawrence Hirchfeld Discusses Race in Society Michigan Today University of Michigan June 1996 John Woodford Talk of race is everywhere and incessant in America, the din of discourse emanating from all ranks and stations, all age groups, all creeds, all parts of the political spectrum and all manner…

  • `For Venus smiles not in a house of tears’: Interethnic relations in European cinema

    `For Venus smiles not in a house of tears’: Interethnic relations in European cinema European Journal of Cultural Studies 2003 Vol. 6, No. 1 pages 55-74 DOI: 10.1177/1367549403006001470 Anneke Smelik University of Nijmegen In the 1990s, several European filmmakers addressed the Romeo and Juliet motif of `impossible love’ in the context of multiculturalism. A heterosexual…