Mixed Race Studies

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  • Dangerous Ideas

    PIK Professor Dorothy Roberts exposes how the myth of biologically distinct races—forged in the era of slavery—continues to poison the present, affecting attitudes and policies on everything from child welfare to medical treatment.

  • The Black Presidency: Barack Obama and the Politics of Race in America

    The Black Presidency: Barack Obama and the Politics of Race in America The Aspen Institute 2016-07-02 As Michael Eric Dyson notes in the introduction to his 2016 book, “[President] Obama provoked great hope and fear about what a black presidency might mean to our democracy. White and black folk, and brown and beige ones, too…

  • MSU faculty contribute to book on white privilege

    MSU faculty contribute to book on white privilege Mississippi State University 2016-07-01 Contact: Allison Matthews STARKVILLE, Miss.—Two Mississippi State faculty members helped lead a literary effort examining the basis and scope of racial identity as an American social structure. Stephen Middleton, professor of history and director for African American Studies at MSU, along with associate…

  • Inclusion Policies and the Future of Racial Relations in Brazil

    Inclusion Policies and the Future of Racial Relations in Brazil The Futures We Want: Global Sociology and the Struggles for a Better World 3rd ISA Forum of Sociology 2016-07-10 through 2016-07-14 Vienna, Austria Tuesday, 2016-07-12, 09:30 CEST (Local Time) Room: Hörsaal 34 Oral Presentation Valter Silvério, Associate Professor of Sociology Universidade Federal de Sao Carlos,…

  • Multiracial People and the Socialization of Their Children in Britain

    Multiracial People and the Socialization of Their Children in Britain The Futures We Want: Global Sociology and the Struggles for a Better World 3rd ISA Forum of Sociology 2016-07-10 through 2016-07-14 Vienna, Austria Tuesday, 2016-07-12, 14:15 CEST (Local Time) Room: Hörsaal 31 Oral Presentation Miri Song, Professor of Sociology University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent, United…

  • Barack Obama, the President of Black America?

    Barack Obama, the President of Black America? The New York Times 2016-06-24 Michael Eric Dyson, Professor of Sociology Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. What the haters and the hagiographers get wrong. It was a crucial speech, high-stakes even for a man used to giving important speeches: The first black president of the United States had to…

  • Confounding Anti-racism: Mixture, Racial Democracy, and Post-racial Politics in Brazil

    Confounding Anti-racism: Mixture, Racial Democracy, and Post-racial Politics in Brazil Critical Sociology July 2016, Volume 42, Numbers 4-5 pages 495-513 DOI: 10.1177/0896920513508663 Alexandre Emboaba Da Costa, Assistant Professor, Theoretical, Cultural and International Studies in Education University of Alberta, Canada In this article, I analyze the particularity of post-racial ideology in Brazil. I examine recent deployments…

  • Beauty and the Bleach: This Issue is More than Skin Deep

    Beauty and the Bleach: This Issue is More than Skin Deep Ebony 2016-06-20 Yaba Blay, Dan Blue Endowed Chair in Political Science North Carolina Central University Skin bleaching is a billion-dollar industry. Considering its global reach, Dr. Yaba Blay says we have to stop treating bleaching as just a matter of self-hate. Over the past…

  • Part-Latinos and Racial Reporting in the Census: An Issue of Question Format?

    Part-Latinos and Racial Reporting in the Census: An Issue of Question Format? Sociology of Race and Ethnicity July 2016, Volume 2, Number 3 pages 289-306 DOI: 10.1177/2332649215613531 Michael Hajime Miyawaki, Assistant Professor of Sociology Hendrix College, Conway, Arkansas In this study, the author examines the racial reporting decisions of the offspring of Latino/non-Latino white, black,…

  • Brazil, Mixture Or Massacre? Essays in the Genocide of a Black People

    Brazil, Mixture Or Massacre? Essays in the Genocide of a Black People The Majority Press 1989 214 pages 5.5 x 0.4 x 8.5 inches Paperback ISBN: 978-0912469263 Abdias do Nascimento (1914-2014) Translated by Elisa Larkin Nascimento Nascimento explodes the myth of a “racial democracy” in Brazil. The author is a major figure in Afro-Brazilian arts,…