Mixed Race Studies

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Meet the Man Who Proved That Discrimination Can Make You Physically Sick

2016-09-18

Meet the Man Who Proved That Discrimination Can Make You Physically Sick Colorlines 2016-09-13 Miriam Zoila Pérez Dr. David Williams pioneered three ways to prove the links between discrimination and poor health. An ever-growing body of research in the fields of public health, sociology and medicine is presenting a strong case for something you may personally know…
Study finds bias, disgust toward mixed-race couples

2016-09-13

Study finds bias, disgust toward mixed-race couples UW Today 2016-08-17 Deborah Bach Interracial marriage has grown in the United States over the past few decades, and polls show that most Americans are accepting of mixed-race relationships. A 2012 study by the Pew Research Center found that interracial marriages in the U.S. had doubled between 1980…
What is Afro-Latin America?

2016-09-06

What is Afro-Latin America? African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS) 2016-09-04 Devyn Spence Benson, Assistant Professor of Africana Studies and Latin American Davidson College, Davidson, North Carolina From Mexico to Brazil and beyond, Africans and people of African descent have fought in wars of independence, forged mixed race national identities, and contributed politically and culturally…
Love Sees No Color? Chinese American Intermarriage

2016-09-04

Love Sees No Color? Chinese American Intermarriage AsAmNews 2014-07-10 Karen Ye Editor’s Note: The following is a question and answer between reporter Karen Ye and Dr. Larry Hajime Shinagawa, Executive Director of New World Research Institute, a non-profit think tank focusing on research on new immigrants to the United States. Among his research areas are…
All Mixed Up: What Do We Call People Of Multiple Backgrounds?

2016-09-01

It’s the summer of 1998 and I’m at the mall with my mom and my sister Anna, who has just turned 5. I’m 7. Anna and I are cranky from being too hot, then too cold, then too bored. We keep touching things we are not supposed to touch, and by the time Mom drags…
The Trouble with Post-Blackness

2016-08-25

The Trouble with Post-Blackness Columbia University Press February 2015 288 pages Paperback ISBN: 9780231169356 Hardcover ISBN: 9780231169349 E-book ISBN: 9780231538503 Edited by: Houston A. Baker, Distinguished University Professor Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee K. Merinda Simmons, Associate Professor of Religious Studies University of Alabama An America in which the color of one’s skin no longer matters…
Essentialism and Racial Bias Jointly Contribute to the Categorization of Multiracial Individuals

2016-08-24

Essentialism and Racial Bias Jointly Contribute to the Categorization of Multiracial Individuals Psychological Science Volume 26, Number 10 (October 2015) pages 1639-1645 DIO: 10.1177/0956797615596436 Arnold K. Ho, Assistant Professor of Psychology and Organizational Studies University of Michigan Steven O. Roberts, Ph.D. Candidate Department of Psychology University of Michigan Susan A. Gelman, Distinguished University Professor of…
Skin Color Still Plays Big Role In Ethnically Diverse Brazil

2016-08-22

Skin Color Still Plays Big Role In Ethnically Diverse Brazil All Things Considered National Public Radio 2013-09-19 Audie Cornish, Host Melissa Block visits a historic section of Rio de Janeiro that pays homage to Afro-Brazilian history and the many slaves that came ashore there. She talks with Brazilian filmmaker Joel Zito Araujo about what it…
“I identify as a black woman”

2016-08-21

“I identify as a black woman” Kings Review King’s College, Cambridge 2016-08-09 Tanisha Spratt Department of Sociology Cambridge University Rachel Dolezal poses with her interracial family in 2013 Source: Facebook. In the United States race transcends physicality. A black person can look physically white but identify as black if he or she is supported by…
“Yuck, you disgust me!” Affective bias against interracial couples

2016-08-19

“Yuck, you disgust me!” Affective bias against interracial couples Journal of Experimental Social Psychology Volume 68, January 2017 pages 68–77 DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2016.05.008 Allison L. Skinner, Postdoctoral Researcher University of Washington Caitlin M. Hudac, Senior Post-doctoral Fellow University of Washington Highlights Bias against interracial romance is correlated with self-reported feelings of disgust. Interracial couples elicit a…

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