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  • ‘After all, I am partly Māori, partly Dalmatian, but first of all I am a New Zealander’

    ‘After all, I am partly Māori, partly Dalmatian, but first of all I am a New Zealander’ Ethnography Volume 6, Number 4 (December 2005) pages 517-542 DOI: 10.1177/1466138105062477 Senka Božić-Vrbančić The University of Auckland, New Zealand This article explores the complexity of the processes of identity construction for ‘mixed-race’ individuals in New Zealand. It focuses…

  • Maya Ethnolinguistic Identity: Violence, Cultural Rights, and Modernity in Highland Guatemala

    Maya Ethnolinguistic Identity: Violence, Cultural Rights, and Modernity in Highland Guatemala University of Arizona Press 2010 192 pages 6.0 x 9.0 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8165-2767-0 Brigittine M. French, Assistant Professor of Anthropology Grinnell College In this valuable book, ethnographer and anthropologist Brigittine French mobilizes new critical-theoretical perspectives in linguistic anthropology, applying them to the politically charged…

  • Collecting and tabulating race/ethnicity data with diverse and mixed heritage populations: A case-study with US high school students

    Collecting and tabulating race/ethnicity data with diverse and mixed heritage populations: A case-study with US high school students Ethnic and Racial Studies September 2003 Vol. 26 No. 5 pp. 931–961 Alejandra M. Lopez-Torkos, Social Scientist SRI International The increasing diversity of the US coupled with the continuing need for information gathered about race/ethnicity require us…

  • Mixed-Race School-Age Children: A Summary of Census 2000 Data

    Mixed-Race School-Age Children: A Summary of Census 2000 Data Educational Researcher Volume 32, Number 6 (2003) pages 25-37 DOI: 10.3102/0013189X032006025 Alejandra M. Lopez-Torkos, Social Scientist SRI International On the 2000 Census, people were allowed to identify themselves and their children by more than one race. This article examines these data to document the mixed-race population…

  • Living Proof: Is Hawaii the Answer?

    Living Proof: Is Hawaii the Answer? The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science Volume 530, Number 1 (November 1993) pages 137-154 DOI: 10.1177/0002716293530001010 Glen Grant Dennis M. Ogawa, Professor and Department Chair of American Studies University of Hawaii Hawaii has often been heralded for its relatively harmonious race relations, which encompass…

  • Are Mestizos Hybrids? The Conceptual Politics of Andean Identities

    Are Mestizos Hybrids? The Conceptual Politics of Andean Identities Journal of Latin American Studies Volume 37, Issue 02 May 2005 pp 259-284 DOI: 10.1017/S0022216X05009004 Marisol de la Cadena, Associate Professor of Anthropology University of California, Davis Through a genealogical analysis of the terms mestizo and mestizaje, this article reveals that these voices are doubly hybrid.…

  • Individuals versus Group? The Moral Conundrum of Blurred Racial Boundaries

    Individuals versus Group? The Moral Conundrum of Blurred Racial Boundaries Chapter for publication in Social Science and Ethics, ed. Kristen Monroe. Book manuscript being prepared for review. 2008-08-26 Jennifer L. Hochschild, Henry LaBarre Jayne Professor of Government and Professor of African and African American Studies Harvard University A classic moral conundrum, especially though not uniquely…

  • Race and Ethnicity: Culture, Identity and Representation

    Race and Ethnicity: Culture, Identity and Representation Routledge 2006-03-02 296 pages Hardback ISBN: 978-0-415-35124-9 Paperback ISBN: 978-0-415-35125-6 Trim Size: 234X156 Stephen Spencer, Senior Lecturer in Sociology Sheffield Hallam University Broad-ranging and comprehensive, this incisive new textbook examines the shifting meanings of ‘race’ and ethnicity and collates the essential concepts in one indispensable companion volume. From…

  • Interracial Intimacy: The Regulation of Race and Romance

    Interracial Intimacy: The Regulation of Race and Romance The University of Chicago Press 2001 232 pages 6 x 9 Paper ISBN: 9780226536637 Rachel F. Moran, Michael J. Connell Distinguished Professor of Law University of California, Los Angeles As late as the 1960s, states could legally punish minorities who either had sex with or married persons…

  • Interracial Intimacy and the Potential for Social Change

    Interracial Intimacy and the Potential for Social Change Berkeley Women’s Law Journal University of California, Berkeley Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper Series 2002 pp. 153-164 Stephanie M. Wildman, Professor of Law and Director of Center for Social Justice and Public Service Santa Clara University School of Law Moran, Rachel F.  (2001).  Interracial Intimacy: The Regulation…