Mixed Race Studies

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  • The Politics of Bisexual/Biracial Identity: A study of Bisexual and Mixed Race Women of Asian/Pacific Islander Descent

    The Politics of Bisexual/Biracial Identity: A study of Bisexual and Mixed Race Women of Asian/Pacific Islander Descent San Diego State University First Published: 1999 Reprint: 2006 120 pages ISBN 1-23456-789-0 Beverly Yuen Thompson, Assistant Professor of Women’s Studies Texas Woman’s College The construction of certain behaviors and physical characteristics into an acceptable and recognized “identity”…

  • Labeling People: French Scholars on Society, Race, and Empire, 1815-1848

    Labeling People: French Scholars on Society, Race, and Empire, 1815-1848 McGill-Queen’s University Press 2003-08-20 264 pages 6 x 9 15 drawings Cloth ISBN: (0773525807) 9780773525801 Martin S. Staum, Professor of History University of Calgary An examination of techniques used by scholarly societies to classify people that constructed the image of an inferior “Other” to promote…

  • Situating “Race” And Racisms In Space, Time, And Theory: Critical Essays for Activists and Scholars

    Situating “Race” And Racisms In Space, Time, And Theory: Critical Essays for Activists and Scholars McGill-Queen’s University Press 2005-04-27 256 pages 6 x 9 Paper: (0773528873) 9780773528871 Cloth: (0773528865) 9780773528864 Edited by Jo-Anne Lee, Associate Professor of Women’s Studies University of Victoria John Sutton Lutz, Associate Professor of History University of Victoria A resource for…

  • “Real” Indians and Others: Mixed-Blood Urban Native Peoples and Indigenous Nationhood

    “Real” Indians and Others: Mixed-Blood Urban Native Peoples and Indigenous Nationhood University of Nebraska Press 2004 303 pages Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8032-8037-3 Bonita Lawrence, Associate Professor York University, Ontario, Canada Mixed-blood urban Native peoples in Canada are profoundly affected by federal legislation that divides Aboriginal peoples into different legal categories. In this pathfinding book, Bonita Lawrence…

  • Racial Union: Law, Intimacy, and the White State in Alabama, 1865-1954

    A stunning exploration of America’s attitudes on interracial marriage.

  • Legalizing Identities: Becoming Black or Indian in Brazil’s Northeast

    Legalizing Identities: Becoming Black or Indian in Brazil’s Northeast University of North Carolina Press June 2009 272 pages 6.125 x 9.25, 18 illus., 2 maps, notes, bibl., index Cloth ISBN  978-0-8078-3292-9 Paper ISBN  978-0-8078-5951-3 Jan Hoffman French, Assistant Professor of Anthropology University of Richmond Anthropologists widely agree that identities—even ethnic and racial ones—are socially constructed.…

  • The Interracial Experience: Growing Up Black/White Racially Mixed in the United States

    The Interracial Experience: Growing Up Black/White Racially Mixed in the United States Praeger Publishers 2000-11-30 168 pages Paperback ISBN: 978-0-275-97046-8 Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-275-97046-8 eBook ISBN: 978-0-313-00033-1 Ursula M. Brown, Psychotherapist in Private Practice Montclair, New Jersey, USA The number of black-white mixed marriages increased by 504% in the last 25 years. By offering relevant demographic,…

  • The Coexistence of Race and Racism: Can They Become Extinct Together?

    The Coexistence of Race and Racism: Can They Become Extinct Together? University Press of America June 2005 204 pages Paper 0-7618-3213-0 / 978-0-7618-3213-3 Janis Faye Hutchinson, Associate Professor of Anthropology University of Houston Race and racism are interconnected historically and in the modern world. This connection is related to changing social, political, and economic conditions…

  • The Gap Between Whites and Whiteness: Interracial Intimacy and Racial Literacy

    The Gap Between Whites and Whiteness: Interracial Intimacy and Racial Literacy Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race September 2006 Volume 3, Issue 2 pages 341-363 DOI: 10.1017/S1742058X06060231 France Winddance Twine, Professor of Sociology University of California, Santa Barbara Amy C. Steinbugler, Assistant Professor of Sociology Dickinson University How do White members of Black-White…

  • Understanding interracial relationships

    Understanding Interracial Relationships Russell House Publishing June 2009 160 pages ISBN:978-1-905541-53-9 Toyin Okitikpi, Professor University of Bedfordshire It is no longer a novelty to see people of different races and ethnicity holding hands and going about their daily lives. Between 1991 and 2001, the British population grew by 4.0 per cent, while the mixed population…