Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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- The Routledge International Handbook of Interracial and Intercultural Relationships and Mental Health
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- You were either Black or white. To claim whiteness as a mixed child was to deny and hide Blackness. Our families understood that the world we were growing into would seek to denigrate this part of us and we would need a community that was made up, always and already, of all shades of Blackness.
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Category: Social Science
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Ethnicity and family – Relationships within and between ethnic groups: An analysis using the Labour Force Survey Equality and Human Rights Commission 2009-01-19 Lucinda Platt, Professor of Sociology Institute of Education, University of London This paper outlines the ethnic composition of families in Britain today using the Labour Force Survey household data. That is, it…
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Racial Ideas and Gendered Intimacies: the Regulation of Interracial Relationships in North America Social & Legal Studies Volume 18, Number 3 (September 2009) DOI: 10.1177/0964663909339087 pages 353-371 Debra Thompson, Assistant Professor of Political Science Ohio University This article compares the regulation of interracial intimacies in North America, contending that anti-miscegenation laws in the United States…
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Tilting at Windmills: The Paradox of Researching Mixed-Race Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association (New Orleans, LA, 2000-04-24 through 2000-04-28) Kristen A. Renn, Associate Professor Michigan State University This paper addresses the growing interest among social scientists in studying the experiences of so-called mixed-race (or multiracial, biracial, or mixed…
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Black/White Biracial Identity: The Influence of Colorblindness and the Racialization of Poor Black Americans Theory in Action Volume 2, Number 1 (January 2009) DOI: 10.3798/tia.1937-0237.08027 Kathleen Odell Korgen, Professor of Sociology William Paterson University, Wayne, New Jersey This article focuses on the influence of colorblindness, the interaction of class and culture, and the racialization of…
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Signs of Race in Poststructuralism: Toward a Transformative Theory of Race University Press of America, Inc. March 2009 176 pages 6 1/2 x 9 1/2 Hardback ISBN: 978-0-7618-4505-8 Paperback ISBN: 978-0-7618-4506-5 Robert Young, Associate Professor of English University of Alabama This book presents a class-based analysis of poststructuralism and race. The author positions this fundamental…
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The friendship networks of multiracial adolescents Social Science Research Volume 38, Issue 2, June 2009 pages 279-295 DOI: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2008.09.002 Lincoln Quillian, Associate Professor Department of Sociology Northwestern University Rozlyn Redd Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy Columbia University, USA We investigate the friendship networks of multiracial adolescents through a comparison of the size…
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Mixed Race Peoples in the Korean National Imaginary and Family Korean Studies Volume 32 (2008) pages 56-85 DOI: 10.1353/ks.0.0010 E-ISSN: 1529-1529; Print ISSN: 0145-840X Mary Lee, Director Pacific Policy Research Center, Honolulu, Hawaii This article discusses the production of “mixed-race” subjectivity in South Korea. It asks: how can we understand the lived experiences and histories of…
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Assessing Multiracial Identity Theory and Politics: The Challenge of Hypodescent Ethnicities Volume 4, Number 3 (September 2004) pages 357-379 DOI: 10.1177/1468796804045239 Rainier Spencer, Professor Department of Anthropology & Ethnic Studies University of Nevada, Las Vegas It is increasingly possible to detect a split in regard to current analyses of multiracial identity in the United States. On the…
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A ‘Marginal Man’ is a fictional archetype created in 1927 by sociologist Robert Ezra Park (1864-1944) (and further developed by Everett Stonequist (1901-1979)) as a way to describe a person descended from two “opposing” ethnic or racial groups. He stated, “The marginal man…is one whom fate has condemned to live in two societies and in two, not…
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Policing the Borderlands: White- and Black-American Newspaper Perceptions of Multiracial Heritage and the Idea of Race, 1996–2006 Journal of Social Issues Volume 65, Number 1 (March 2009) pages 105-127 DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-4560.2008.01590.x Michael C. Thornton University of Wisconsin-Madison By employing a new policy of “check all that apply,” the Census Bureau accommodated a mushrooming multiracial lobby…