Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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Category: Social Science
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Preference and prejudice: Does intermarriage erode negative ethno-racial attitudes between groups in Spain? Ethnicities Published online before print 2016-03-28 DOI: 10.1177/1468796816638404 Dan Rodríguez-García, Associate Professor Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology Autonomous University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain Miguel Solana-Solana Department of Geography Autonomous University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain Miranda J. Lubbers, Ramón y Cajal Researcher…
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Voices of Diversity Presents “One Drop of Love” at the Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center Jeanné Wagner Theatre Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center 138 West 300 South Salt Lake City, Utah 84101 Tuesday, 2016-03-29, 18:00-20:00 MDT (Local Time) 10th Anniversary of the Social Justice Lecture Series: Allies for Equity Presented by Voices of Diversity of The University of…
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Screening and Discussion of Race: The Power of an Illusion, Episode 1 Brooklyn Historical Society 128 Pierrepont Street Brooklyn, New York 11201 Monday, 2016-03-28, 18:30-21:00 EDT (Local Time) Join us for the first in a series of screenings and discussions of the thought-provoking PBS series Race: The Power of An Illusion, which uses science, history,…
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Acknowledging that they are certainly not the first to do so, four scientists, Michael Yudell, Dorothy Roberts, Rob Desalle, and Sarah Tishkoff recently called for the phasing out of the use of the concept/term “race” in biological science…
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Multiracial people and their partners in Britain: Extending the link between intermarriage and integration? Ethnicities Published online 2016-03-21 DOI: 10.1177/1468796816638399 Miri Song, Professor of Sociology University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent, United Kingdom There are now a growing number of studies on intermarriage in Western multi-ethnic societies, especially in countries with post-colonial migrants (and their descendants).…
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“For seven days in June 2015, Rachel Dolezal captured the news cycle,” writes University of Montana professor, Tobin Shearer, for “Reflections West.”
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Respectability Politics: When Mixed Race People Police Each Other Mixed Race Feminist Blog 2016-03-17 Nicola Codner Leeds, Yorkshire, United Kingdom Respectability politics relates to the efforts of people in marginalized groups to convince their own group members to conform to the thoughts, values and practices of those in the dominant group, instead of challenging those…
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On the Boundaries of Race: Identification of Mixed-heritage Children in the United States, 1960 to 2010 Sociology of Race and Ethnicity Published online before print 2016-03-17 DOI: 10.1177/2332649216632546 Carolyn A. Liebler, Professor of Sociology University of Minnesota Socially constructed race groups have boundaries that define their membership. I study temporal trends and group-specific patterns in…
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The ‘R’ Word Biteback Publishing 2015-11-27 224 pages Hardback ISBN: 9781849549424 eBook ISBN: 9781785900099 Kurt Barling, Professor of Journalism Middlesex University, London, United Kingdom Race and racism remain an inescapable part of the lives of black people. Daily slights, often rooted in fears and misperceptions of the ‘other’, still damage lives. But does race matter…
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The Brain Likes Categories. Where Should It Put Mixed-Race People? Shots: Health News from NPR National Public Radio 2016-03-15 Katherine Du Humans like to place things in categories and can struggle when things can’t easily be categorized. That also applies to people, a study finds, and the brain’s visual biases may play a role in…