Mixed Race Studies

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  • Raiding The Gene Pool: The Social Construction of Mixed Race

    Raiding The Gene Pool: The Social Construction of Mixed Race Pluto Press an imprint of MacMillan Publishing February 2002 ISBN: 978-0-7453-1764-9 ISBN10: 0-7453-1764-2 5.5 x 8.25 inches 224 pages Jill Olumide, Researcher Swansea University, School of Health Science High profile ‘mixed race’ stars like Tiger Woods have brought the politics of identity into the mainstream.…

  • Mixed-Race, Post-Race: Gender, New Ethnicities and Cultural Practices

    Focusing on mixed-race and inter-ethnic families, this book not only explores current understandings of ‘race’, but it shows, using innovative research techniques with children, how we come to read race.

  • Mixed Feelings: The Complex Lives of Mixed-Race Britons

    Mixed Feelings: The Complex Lives of Mixed-Race Britons The Women’s Press 2001 336 pages 9.1 x 6.1 x 0.7 inches Paperback ISBN-10: 0704347067; ISBN-13: 978-0704347069 Yasmin Alibhai-Brown Yasmin Alibhai-Brown’s new book offers the sharpest and most informed insight yet on mixed-race Britain. Opening with an historical perspective, she traces up to the twenty-first century the…

  • Teaching and Learning Guide for: Ethnographic approaches to race, genetics and genealogy

    Teaching and Learning Guide for: Ethnographic approaches to race, genetics and genealogy Sociology Compass Volume 3 Issue 5 Pages 847 – 852 2009-07-29 DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-9020.2009.00231.x Katharine Tyler, Lecturer in Race and Ethnicity University of Surrey Over the last 20 years, there has been a technological advance and commercial boom in genetic technologies and projects. These…

  • Hybridity and its Discontents: Politics, Science, Culture

    Hybridity and its Discontents: Politics, Science, Culture Routledge 2000-08-24 320 pages Trim Size: 234×156 Hardback ISBN: 978-0-415-19402-0 Paperback ISBN: 978-0-415-19403-7 Edited by Avtar Brah, Professor in Sociology Birbek University of London Annie Coombes, Professor of Material and Visual Culture Birkbeck University of London Hybridity and its Discontents explores the history and experience of ‘hybridity’ –…

  • A Premonition of Obama: La Raza Cosmica in America

    A Premonition of Obama: La Raza Cosmica in America New Perspectives Quarterly (NPQ) Volume 26 Issue 4 Pages 100 – 110 Published Online: 2009-10-26 DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-5842.2009.01119.x Ryszard Kapuscinski Ryszard Kapuscinski, who died in 2007, was one of the 20th century’s greatest literary journalists. He personally witnessed the dramatic post-World War II upheavals of decolonization and…

  • Racial Mixture and Affirmative Action: The Cases of Brazil and the United States

    Racial Mixture and Affirmative Action: The Cases of Brazil and the United States The American Historical Review Volume 108, Number 5 December 2003 Thomas E. Skidmore, Carlos Manuel de Céspedes Professor of History Emeritus Brown University For me, as a historian of Brazil, North America’s “one-drop rule” has always seemed odd. No other society in…

  • The Mulatto Advantage: The Biological Consequences of Complexion in Rural Antebellum Virginia

    The Mulatto Advantage: The Biological Consequences of Complexion in Rural Antebellum Virginia Journal of Interdisciplinary History Volume 33, Number 1 (Summer 2002) pp. 21-46 E-ISSN: 1530-9169; Print ISSN: 0022-1953 DOI: 10.1162/00221950260029002 Howard Bodenhorn, Professor of Economics Clemson University Although historians have long noted that African-Americans of mixed-race in the antebellum Lower South were given economic…

  • The Significance of Color Declines: A Re-Analysis of Skin Tone Differentials in Post-Civil Rights America

    The Significance of Color Declines: A Re-Analysis of Skin Tone Differentials in Post-Civil Rights America Social Forces Volume 84, Number 1 September 2005 pp. 157-180 Aaron Gullickson, Assistant Professor University of Oregon Skin tone variation within the United States’ black population has long been associated with intraracial stratification. Skin tone differentials in socioeconomic status reflect…

  • Racial Boundary Formation at the Dawn of Jim Crow: The Determinants and Effects of Black/Mulatto Occupational Differences in the United States, 1880

    Racial Boundary Formation at the Dawn of Jim Crow: The Determinants and Effects of Black/Mulatto Occupational Differences in the United States, 1880 Department Colloquium Series University of Washington, Department of Sociology Savery Hall 2009-10-06 15:30 PDT (Local Time) Aaron Gullickson, Assistant Professor University of Oregon Much of the literature within sociology regarding mixed-race populations focuses…