Mixed Race Studies

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  • Conversation with Rev. Dr. Frederick J. Streets

    Conversation with Rev. Dr. Frederick J. Streets The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance & Abolition Yale University 1990-02-02 Frederick J. Streets, University Chaplain and Senior Pastor Church of Christ, Yale University A conversation with Rev. Dr. Frederick J. Streets, University Chaplain and Senior Pastor of the Church of Christ, Yale University.…

  • An Unexpected Blackness

    An Unexpected Blackness Transition: An International Review Feb 2009 No. 100 Pages 112-132 Naomi Pabst, Assistant Professor of African American Studies and American Studies Yale University What does it mean to be of African descent while residing in Canada, where the hypodescent rule does not hold sway?  Naomi Pabst reflects upon the complexity of life…

  • Black Europe and the African Diaspora

    Black Europe and the African Diaspora University of Illinois Press 2009 368 pages 6 x 9 in.  15 black & white photographs, 1 map Cloth: ISBN 978-0-252-03467-1 Paper: ISBN 978-0-252-07657-2 Edited by Darlene Clark Hine, Board of Trustees Professor of African American Studies Northwestern University Trica Danielle Keaton, Associate Professor of African American and Diaspora…

  • On Being Amorphous: Autoethnography, Genealogy, and a Multiracial Identity

    On Being Amorphous: Autoethnography, Genealogy, and a Multiracial Identity Qualitative Inquiry Volume 9, Number 1 (2003) pages 20-48 DOI: 10.1177/1077800402239338 Sarah N. Gatson, Associate Professor of Sociology Texas A&M University The article is a sociologically informed approach to understanding the author’s own place and identity. Questions of personal identity serve to highlight larger insights about…

  • A New Multicultural Population: Creating Effective Partnerships With Multiracial Families

    A New Multicultural Population: Creating Effective Partnerships With Multiracial Families Intervention in School and Clinic Published: 2009-11-01 Vol. 45, No. 2, pp. 124-131 DOI: 10.1177/1053451209340217 Monica R. Brown, Assistant Professor (mobrown@nmsu.edu) Department of Special Education/Communication Disorders New Mexico State University Multiracial families make up the fastest growing demographic in the United States.  Approximately 9% of…

  • New Perspectives on Racial Identity Development: A Theoretical and Practical Anthology

    New Perspectives on Racial Identity Development: A Theoretical and Practical Anthology New York University Press Paperback 2001 296 pages Paperback ISBN: 9780814793435 Edited by Charmaine Wijeyesinghe Bailey W. Jackson, Associate Professor of Education University of Massachusetts, Amherst Decades have passed since our original theories of racial identity development were formed, bringing with them changes in…

  • Rise and Fall of the Cosmic Race: The Cult of Mestizaje in Latin America

    Rise and Fall of the Cosmic Race: The Cult of Mestizaje in Latin America University of Texas Press 2004 6 x 9 in. 216 pp., 3 b&w illus. ISBN: 978-0-292-70596-8 Marilyn Grace Miller, Assistant Professor of Spanish and Portuguese Tulane University, New Orleans Latin America is characterized by a uniquely rich history of cultural and…

  • Genealogy as Social Memory: Making the Public Personal

    Genealogy as Social Memory: Making the Public Personal The 7th Annual Committee on Historical Studies, Sociology Department and International Labor Working Class History Journal Joint Conference History Matters: Spaces of Violences, Spaces of Memory New School for Social Research 2004-04-23 through 2004-04-24 Karla Hackstaff, Associate Professor of Sociology Northern Arizona University “Race, like nature and…

  • Undoing Empire: Race and Nation in the Mulatto Caribbean

    A revelatory account that places mulatto experience at the center of Caribbean history.

  • Multiracial America: A Resource Guide on the History and Literature of Interracial Issues

    Multiracial America: A Resource Guide on the History and Literature of Interracial Issues The Scarecrow Press, Inc. March 2005 264 pages Paper ISBN: 0-8108-5199-7; ISBN-13: 978-0-8108-5199-3 Edited by Karen Downing, Foundation and Grants Librarian Hatcher Graduate Library, University of Michigan Darlene Nichols, Psychology Librarian and Coordinator of Instruction Hatcher Graduate Library, University of Michigan Kelly…