Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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Category: Social Science
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Daughters of Interracial Couples are More Likely To Say They are Multiracial TIME Magazine 2016-01-28 Carey Wallace Study suggests it’s because they’re considered “intriguing.” One of the fastest growing racial groups in the country isn’t a single racial group–it’s people from multiracial backgrounds, the children of interracial unions. A new study has found however, that…
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Racial attachments are understood to be socially constructed and endogenous to gender, socioeconomic, and religious identities. Yet we know surprisingly little about the effect of such identities on the particular racial labels that individuals self-select. In this article, I investigate how social identities shape the racial labels chosen by biracial individuals in the United States,…
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Ethics generally commends telling the truth. But in a situation in which our ordinary ways of thinking are at odds with reality, there can be no easy truth to be had. When it comes to race, confusion is the most intellectually defensible position.
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Why Race Policy must include Multiracial Americans Policy Press Blog at the University of Bristol 2016-01-27 Kathleen Odell Korgen, Professor of Sociology William Paterson University, Wayne, New Jersey Today’s guest blog by Kathleen Odell Korgen, whose book Race policy and multi-racial Americans published this month, examines the much overlooked issue of including multiracial Americans in…
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“Race Policy and Multiracial Americans” is the first book to look at the impact of multiracial people on race policies—where they lag behind the growing numbers of multiracial people in the U.S. and how they can be used to promote racial justice for multiracial Americans.
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The enduring function of caste: colonial and modern Haiti, Jamaica, and Brazil The economy of race, the social organization of caste, and the formulation of racial societies Comparative American Studies Volume 2, Issue 1 (01 March 2004) pages 61-73 DOI: 10.1177/1477570004041288 Tekla Ali Johnson, Professional Public Historian Southern Preservation Center in Charlotte, North Carolina Modern…
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Race Talk and the Conspiracy of Silence: Understanding and Facilitating Difficult Dialogues on Race Wiley January 2015 304 pages Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-118-95872-8 Paperback ISBN: 978-1-119-24198-0 E-book ISBN: 978-1-118-95965-7 Derald Wing Sue, Professor of Psychology and Education Columbia University, New York, New York Turn Uncomfortable Conversations into Meaningful Dialogue If you believe that talking about race…
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This book is the first in-depth examination of the 25 million Americans with the most intense hatred of President Obama—arguably the most Republican-friendly of recent Democratic presidents—and what the mindsets of these “Obama Haters” teach us about race and ethnicity in America today.
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UNF professor explores the impact of skin tone on the everyday lives of African-American women The Florida Times-Union 2016-01-18 Rhema Thompson JeffriAnne Wilder always knew African-Americans came in many shades. She saw it in her own family, from her light-skinned older sister to her two dark-skinned brothers. Her complexion fell somewhere in the middle. “I…
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Color Stories: Black Women and Colorism in the 21st Century Praeger October 2015 198 pages 6.125 x 9.25 Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4408-3109-6 eBook ISBN: 978-1-4408-3110-2 JeffriAnne Wilder, Associate Professor of Sociology University of North Florida, Jacksonville, Florida Colorism continues to impact women of African descent in a new generation and century. This book offers an in-depth…