Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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Category: Social Science
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“Brown and Black” argues that Afro-Brazilian activists’ continued exploration of blackness confronts anti-blackness while complicating understandings of what it means to be black. Blending linguistic and ethnographic accounts, this book raises complex questions about current black struggles in Brazil and beyond, including the black movements’ political initiatives and antiracist agenda.
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“Métis Rising” draws on a remarkable cross-section of perspectives to tell the histories, stories, and dreams of people from varied backgrounds, demonstrating that there is no single Métis experience – only a common sense of belonging and a commitment to justice.
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Canada’s history of slavery has had a profound impact on how we view cross-racial couples
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This article examines monoracialization through historical processes of Mexican–American identity formations. Over the twentieth century, this shifted from White to Brown, but without any acknowledgment of African ancestry.
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The article discusses how and under which circumstances mixed children become visible in Switzerland and Morocco using a comparative and intersectional approach to mixedness. Based on 23 biographical narrative interviews, I analyze three situations of stigmatization: racialization, language practices and othering due to religious affiliation.
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In contrast, research reported in this article indicates strong similarities in the construction and the operation race the entire Americas. Genotype, or African ancestry, is shown to matter in Latin America; phenotype, or appearance, is shown to matter in the United States.
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Special Issue “Multiracial Identities and Experiences in/under White Supremacy” Social SciencesVolume 11, Number 2, Special Issue “Multiracial Identities and Experiences in/under White Supremacy”Published 2022-02-21 Guest Editors: David L. Brunsma, Professor of SociologyVirginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia Jennifer Sims, Assistant Professor of SociologyUniversity of Alabama, Huntsville Dear Colleagues, Social scientific scholarship on Multiracial experiences and processes of…
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Nitasha Tamar Sharma: Hawai’i Is My Haven: Race and Indigeneity in the Black Pacific New Books Network 2022-03-30 Hawai’i Is My Haven: Race and Indigeneity in the Black Pacific (Duke UP, 2021) maps the context and contours of Black life in the Hawaiian Islands. This ethnography emerges from a decade of fieldwork with both Hawaiʻi-raised…
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“What are you?” Reactions to American Racial Rhetoric among Mixed and Multiracial Caribbeans Charisse L’Pree, Ph.D.: Media Made Me Crazy 2014-08-19 Charisse L’Pree, Associate Professor of Communications S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York Historically, the United States has had tumultuous relationship with mixed and multiracial individuals within its borders; interracial…
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A Dialectic of Race Discourses: The Presence/Absence of Mixed Race at the State, Institution, and Civil Society and Voluntary and Community Sector Levels in the United Kingdom Chinelo L. Njaka, Independent Researcher London, United Kingdom Social Sciences Volume 11, Number 2, Special Issue “Multiracial Identities and Experiences in/under White Supremacy” Published 2022-02-21 DOI: 10.3390/socsci11020086 For…