Mixed Race Studies

Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.

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  • New book highlights the needs of Mixed Parentage children

    New book highlights the needs of Mixed Parentage children London South Bank University News 2005-06-02 Dr Toyin Okitikpi with his challenging new book [Working with Children of Mixed Parentage] Proportionately a higher percentage of mixed parentage children end up in care and in Britain we only statistically classify mixed parentage for children where one parent…

  • White Mothers, Mixed-Parentage Children and Child Welfare

    White Mothers, Mixed-Parentage Children and Child Welfare British Journal of Social Work Volume 29, Number 2 (1999) pages 269-284 Ravinder Barn, Professor of Social Policy and Social Work Royal Holloway, University of London It is now well documented that the majority of mixed-parentage children who enter the public care system in Britain have a white…

  • Eurocentrism in Social Work Education: From Race to Identity Across the Lifespan as Biracial Alternative

    Eurocentrism in Social Work Education: From Race to Identity Across the Lifespan as Biracial Alternative Journal of Social Work Volume 5, Number 1 (April 2005) pages 101-114 DOI: 10.1177/1468017305051238 Ronald E. Hall, Professor of Social Work Michigan State University, East Lansing Summary: Consequent to Eurocentric hegemony, race has been erroneously validated as the standard identity…

  • Working with children of mixed parentage

    Working with children of mixed parentage Russell House Publishing 2005-03-01 160 Pages ISBN:978-1-903855-64-5 Edited by Toyin Okitikpi, Professor University of Bedfordshire Table of Contents Introduction: mixed responses: working with children of mixed parentage. Looking at numbers and projections: making sense of the census, emerging trends. Mulatto, marginal man, half-caste, mixed race: the one-drop rule in…

  • Walking A Tightrope: Towards a Social History of the Coloured People of Zimbabwe

    Walking A Tightrope: Towards a Social History of the Coloured People of Zimbabwe Africa World Press May 2004 300 pages SKU: 1592212648 ISBN: 1592212648 James Muzondidya, Senior Research Specialist of Democracy and Governance Human Sciences Research Council This book examines the history of the Coloured or “mixed race” community of Zimbabwe, a group that has…

  • A Beautiful Lie: Exploring Rhinelander v. Rhinelander as a Formative Lesson on Race, Marriage, Identity, and Family

    A Beautiful Lie: Exploring Rhinelander v. Rhinelander as a Formative Lesson on Race, Marriage, Identity, and Family California Law Review Volume 95, Issue 6 (2007) pages 2393-2458 Angela Onwuachi-Willig, Professor of Law and Charles M. and Marion J. Kierscht Scholar University of Iowa College of Law During the mid-1920s, the story of the courtship, marriage,…

  • The Racial Contract

    “The Racial Contract” puts classic Western social contract theory, deadpan, to extraordinary radical use. With a sweeping look at the European expansionism and racism of the last five hundred years, Charles W. Mills demonstrates how this peculiar and unacknowledged “contract” has shaped a system of global European domination: how it brings into existence “whites” and…

  • Ape to Apollo: Aesthetics and the Idea of Race in the 18th Century

    Ape to Apollo: Aesthetics and the Idea of Race in the 18th Century Cornell University Press 2002 264 pages 6 x 9, 12 color illustrations, 65 halftones ISBN: 978-0-8014-4085-4 David Bindman, Emeritus Professor of the History of Art University College London Ape to Apollo is the first book to follow the development in the eighteenth…

  • Suspect Relations: Sex, Race, and Resistance in Colonial North Carolina

    Suspect Relations: Sex, Race, and Resistance in Colonial North Carolina Cornell University Press 2001 288 pages 6 1/8 x 9 1/4, 2 maps, 13 halftones, 1 line drawing Paper ISBN: 978-0-8014-8679-1 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8014-3822-6 Kirsten Fischer, Associate Professor of History University of Minnesota Over the course of the eighteenth century, race came to seem as…

  • Is Parental Love Colorblind? Allocation of Resources within Mixed-Race Families (Preliminary Version)

    Is Parental Love Colorblind? Allocation of Resources within Mixed-Race Families (Preliminary Version) Prepared for the Labor and Population Workshop, Department of Economics, Yale University May, 2007 53 pages Marcos A. Rangel, Assistant Professor Harris School of Public Policy Studies University of Chicago Recent studies have shown that differences in wage-determinant skills between blacks and whites…