Mixed Race Studies

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  • Visible Identities: Race, Gender, and the Self

    In the heated debates over identity politics, few theorists have looked carefully at the conceptualizations of identity assumed by all sides. “Visible Identities” fills this gap.

  • Race, Hybridity, and Miscegenation

    Volumes 1 and 2 of this 3 volume set collect the major contributions to the scientific debate on the unity of the human race in the 1850s, focusing particularly on the idea of hybridity. Volume 3 republishes the major contributions to the political debate on miscegenation.

  • The Idea Of Race

    The Idea Of Race Hackett Publishing Company 2000 256 pages Cloth ISBN: 0-87220-459-6, ISBN-13: 978-0-87220-459-1 Paper ISBN: 0-87220-458-8, ISBN-13: 978-0-87220-458-4 Edited by Robert Bernasconi, Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Philosophy Pennsylvania State University Tommy L. Lott, Professor of Philosophy San José State University A survey of the historical development of the idea of race, this…

  • Dr. Rainier Spencer Guest on Mixed Chicks Chat

    Dr. Rainier Spencer 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: #131 – Dr. Rainier Spencer Wednesday, 2009-12-09  22:00Z Rainier Spencer, Director and Professor of Afro-American Studies; Professor…

  • Stanford profs examine mixed race in U.S. society

    Stanford profs examine mixed race in U.S. society The Dartmouth Victoria Boggiano, The Dartmouth Staff 2008-04-18 In 2000, the U.S. Census gave Americans the chance to identify themselves by more than one race for the first time. Almost seven million people — over 80 percent of whom were under 25 — checked more than one…

  • Inexacting Whiteness: Blanqueamiento as a Gender-Specific Trope in the Nineteenth Century

    Inexacting Whiteness: Blanqueamiento as a Gender-Specific Trope in the Nineteenth Century Cuban Studies Volume 36, 2005 pages 105-128 E-ISSN: 1548-2464 Print ISSN: 0361-4441 DOI: 10.1353/cub.2005.0033 Gema R. Guevara, Associate Professor, Languages & Literature and Associate Professor, Spanish Section University of Utah In Cuba, race, nation, and popular music were inextricably linked to the earliest formulations…

  • Anomaly: A New Documentary Film About Mixed Race Identity

    Anomaly: A New Documentary Film About Mixed Race Identity African Diaspora Film Festival Tuesday, 2009-12-01 at 17:50 EST (Local Time) – Anthology Film Archives, 2nd St. and 2nd Ave., New York, New York Wednesday, 2009-12-09 at 19:30 EST (Local Time) – Cowin Center, Columbia University Teachers College, 525 W. 120th St., New York, New York…

  • Who Counts?: Science, Demography and the Social “‘There’s No One as Irish as Barack O’Bama’: The Policy and Politics of American Multiracialism”

    Who Counts?: Science, Demography and the Social “‘There’s No One as Irish as Barack O’Bama’: The Policy and Politics of American Multiracialism” Lecture 2009-11-17 21:00Z Mencoff Hall, 68 Waterman St. Jennifer L. Hochschild, Henry LaBarre Jayne Professor of Government and Professor of African and African-American Studies Harvard University For the first time in American history,…

  • Interracial Relationships in the 21st Century

    Interracial Relationships in the 21st Century Carolina Academic Press 2009 160 pp Paper ISBN: 978-1-59460-571-0 LCCN: 2009001612 Earl Smith, Professor of Sociology and Rubin Professor and Director of Ethnic Studies Wake Forest University Angela J. Hattery, Professor of Sociology Wake Forest University Interracial Relationships in the 21st Century is a unique set of essays—both personal…

  • The Creolization Reader: Studies in Mixed Identities and Cultures

    The Creolization Reader: Studies in Mixed Identities and Cultures Routledge 2009-09-10 416 pages Paperback ISBN: 978-0-415-49854-8 Hardback ISBN: 978-0-415-49713-8 Edited by Robin Cohen, Professor of Development Studies and Director of the International Migration Institute University of Oxford Paola Toninato, Research Fellow in Sociology and Italian Studies University of Warwick Increasingly, ‘creolization’ is used to analyse…