Mixed Race Studies

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  • Becoming Black Political Subjects: Movements and Ethno-Racial Rights in Colombia and Brazil

    Becoming Black Political Subjects: Movements and Ethno-Racial Rights in Colombia and Brazil Princeton University Press 2016 328 pages 6 x 9 Hardcover ISBN: 9780691169385 eBook ISBN: 978140088107 Tianna S. Paschel, Assistant Professor of African American Studies University of California, Berkeley After decades of denying racism and underplaying cultural diversity, Latin American states began adopting transformative…

  • Dreaming Equality: Color, Race, and Racism in Urban Brazil

    Dreaming Equality: Color, Race, and Racism in Urban Brazil Rutgers University Press November 2001 278 pages 6 x 9 Paper ISBN: 978-0-8135-3000-0 Web PDF ISBN: 978-0-8135-5602-4 Robin E. Sheriff, Associate Professor of Anthropology University of New Hampshire In the 1933 publication The Masters and the Slaves, Brazilian scholar and novelist Gilberto Freyre challenged the racist…

  • “What are you?”: Mixed race responses to the racial gaze

    “What are you?”: Mixed race responses to the racial gaze Ethnicities Published online before print 2015-12-16 DOI: 10.1177/1468796815621938 Jillian Paragg Department of Sociology University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada Mixed race scholarship considers the deployment of the term “mixed race” as an identification and theorizes that the operation of the external racial gaze is signaled through…

  • The Racism-Race Reification Process: A Mesolevel Political Economic Framework for Understanding Racial Health Disparities

    The Racism-Race Reification Process: A Mesolevel Political Economic Framework for Understanding Racial Health Disparities Sociology of Race and Ethnicity Published online before print 2016-02-08 DOI: 10.1177/2332649215626936 Abigail A. Sewell, Assistant Professor of Sociology Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia The author makes the argument that many racial disparities in health are rooted in political economic processes that…

  • Essential Measures: Ancestry, Race, and Social Difference

    Essential Measures: Ancestry, Race, and Social Difference American Behavioral Scientist April 2016, Volume 60, Number 4 pages 498-518 DOI: 10.1177/0002764215613398 Aaron Gullickson, Associate Professor of Sociology University of Oregon Race and ancestry are both popularly viewed in the United States as different but intertwined reflections on a person’s essentialized identity that answer the question of…

  • The Changing Face of Whiteness

    When Guido Menzio sat down on a regional jet for a short flight from Philadelphia to Syracuse, New York, he certainly couldn’t have guessed what was going to happen. The 40-year-old economist was profiled as a terror suspect for being focused too intently on a math problem.

  • Race isn’t biologically real. That doesn’t mean racism doesn’t exist.

    Race isn’t biologically real. That doesn’t mean racism doesn’t exist. Vox 2016-06-11 Victoria M. Massie The first step to fixing a problem is acknowledging it exists. And in the latest episode of MTV’s Decoded, host Franchesca Ramsey breaks down exactly why being colorblind to someone’s race not only doesn’t fix racism but, if anything, she…

  • Decoding Racial Ideology in Genomics

    This book investigates how racism makes genomics and how genomics makes racism and ‘race,’ and the consequences of these constructions. Specifically, Williams explores how racial ideology works in genomics.

  • Necessarily Black: Cape Verdean Youth, Hip-Hop Culture, and a Critique of Identity

    “Necessarily Black”is an ethnographic account of second-generation Cape Verdean youth identity in the United States and a theoretical attempt to broaden and complicate current discussions about race and racial identity in the twenty-first century. P. Khalil Saucier grapples with the performance, embodiment, and nuances of racialized identities (blackened bodies) in empirical contexts.

  • Searching for Identity: Race, adoption and awareness in the millennial generation

    Searching for Identity: Race, adoption and awareness in the millennial generation Medium 2016-05-19 Dwight Smith What happens when a black boy is adopted at birth into a white world where race and racism are ghosts of the past and racial identity is a silly thing to waste time thinking about? As a transracial adult adoptee…