Mixed Race Studies

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  • Racial identity is a biological nonsense, says Reith lecturer

    Philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah says race and nationality are social inventions being used to cause deadly divisions

  • America’s obsession with multiracial beauty reveals our ongoing bias against blackness

    America’s obsession with multiracial beauty reveals our ongoing bias against blackness Quartz 2016-10-06 Robert L. Reece, Ph.D. Candidate Duke University Last month, rapper Kanye West posted a controversial casting call for his clothing line, Yeezy, mandating “multiracial women only.” Many objected, arguing that West had insulted darker-skinned black women. But Kanye was only adhering to…

  • Colin Kaepernick, Racial Identity and the Power of Protest

    Colin Kaepernick, Racial Identity and the Power of Protest Racism Review 2016-09-06 Alyssa Lyons Department of Sociology The Graduate Center, City University of New York NFL player Colin Kaepernick has made headlines recently by refusing to stand for the national anthem before football games in protest. It’s a protest linked to racial identity and politics, as…

  • Inequality and African-American Health: How Racial Disparities Create Sickness

    Inequality and African-American Health: How Racial Disparities Create Sickness Policy Press 2016-10-05 224 pages 6¾ x 9½ Cloth ISBN-13: 978-1-4473-2281-8 Paper ISBN-13: 978-1-4473-2282-5 Shirley A. Hill, Professor of Sociology Univeristy of Kansas This book shows how living in a highly racialized society affects health through multiple social contexts, including neighborhoods, personal and family relationships, and…

  • Slavery’s legacies

    American thinking about race is starting to influence Brazil, the country whose population was shaped more than any other’s by the Atlantic slave trade

  • ‘Pigmentocracy’ a Major Factor in Brazil, Venezuela Turmoil

    ‘Pigmentocracy’ a Major Factor in Brazil, Venezuela Turmoil Fordham Law News: From New York City To You 2016-08-11 Ray Legendre A global audience watched Brazil unveil the 2016 Olympics earlier this month with a flashy, jubilant opening ceremony that celebrated its racial diversity and belied its ongoing political and economic strife. But acting President Michel…

  • A hidden bias against interracial couples

    A hidden bias against interracial couples The Seattle Times 2016-09-23 Allison Skinner, Postdoctoral Researcher Institute for Learning and Brain Sciences University of Washington Although most white Americans self-report little to no racial bias against black people, they tend to show robust implicit, or unconscious, biases. NEXT year marks the 50th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme…

  • Trans: Gender and Race in an Age of Unsettled Identities

    In the summer of 2015, shortly after Caitlyn Jenner came out as transgender, the NAACP official and political activist Rachel Dolezal was “outed” by her parents as white, touching off a heated debate in the media about the fluidity of gender and race. If Jenner could legitimately identify as a woman, could Dolezal legitimately identify…

  • A Qualitative Analysis of Multiracial Students’ Experiences With Prejudice and Discrimination in College

    A Qualitative Analysis of Multiracial Students’ Experiences With Prejudice and Discrimination in College Journal of College Student Development Volume 57, Number 6, September 2016 pages 680-697 DOI: 10.1353/csd.2016.0068 Samuel D. Museus, Associate Professor of Higher Education and Student Affairs Indiana University Susan A. Lambe Sariñana, Clinical Psychologist Cambridge, Massachusetts April L. Yee University of Pennsylvania…

  • A comparative study of familial racial socialization and its impact on black/white biracial siblings

    A comparative study of familial racial socialization and its impact on black/white biracial siblings Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey May 2014 134 pages DOI: 10.7282/T33N21PQ Monique Anne Porow A Dissertation submitted to the Graduate School-New Brunswick Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of…