Mixed Race Studies

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  • Reflections on Multiracial Identity on Another Thanksgiving Passed

    Reflections on Multiracial Identity on Another Thanksgiving Passed Black Agenda Report: News, information and analysis from the black left. 2015-12-01 Danny Haiphong The U.S. imperial domain floats on raw force and fairy tales. One myth “paints the U.S. as a safe haven for people of different backgrounds instead of the genocidal settler state that it…

  • People Of Color With Albinism Ask: Where Do I Belong?

    People Of Color With Albinism Ask: Where Do I Belong? Code Switch: Frontiers of Race, Culture and Ethnicity National Public Radio 2015-12-07 Anjuli Sastry Growing up, Natalie Devora always questioned how she fit into her African-American family. “Everyone was brown, and then there was me,” Devora says. “I’m a white-skinned black woman. That’s how I…

  • Are multiracial millennials leading the way towards an inclusive society?

    While the nation’s multiracial population is growing – does that make our culture more understanding of issues of diversity?

  • White Debt: Reckoning with what is owed — and what can never be repaid — for racial privilege.

    So far, my debt is surprisingly comfortable, and that’s one quality of debt that I’ve been pondering lately — how easy it can be.

  • OPINION: Mixed raced children will not fix racism

    Danielle Bowler says being a visibly mixed-raced person is often to encounter yourself as a perpetual question.

  • Love in the face of racism: Being an interracial family

    Love in the face of racism: Being an interracial family Cable News Network (CNN) 2015-11-25 Jareen Imam, Social Discovery Producer CNN)—When Karen Garsee picked her 5-year-old daughter up from kindergarten in September, she wasn’t prepared for what Kaylee had to say. The kids at school wouldn’t play with me today. Why? Because I’m brown. Those…

  • 128 RACE MIXTURE POLTCS

    128 RACE MIXTURE POLTCS University of California, Irvine School of Humanities Winter Quarter 2016 Jared Sexton, Associate Professor of African American Studies and Film & Media Studies This course explores the politics of race, class, gender, and sexuality in the United States from the antebellum period to the post-civil rights era, paying specific attention to…

  • Shades of Race: How Phenotype and Observer Characteristics Shape Racial Classification

    Shades of Race: How Phenotype and Observer Characteristics Shape Racial Classification American Behavioral Scientist Published online before print 2015-10-28 DOI: 10.1177/0002764215613401 Cynthia Feliciano, Associate Professor of Sociology; Associate Professor of Chicano/Latino Studies University of California, Irvine Although race-based discrimination and stereotyping can only occur if people place others into racial categories, our understanding of this…

  • Race, Ethnicity, and Human Appearance

    Race, Ethnicity, and Human Appearance Chapter in Encyclopedia of Body Image and Human Appearance 2012 Pages 707–710 DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-384925-0.00111-5 S. McClure Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio M. Poole Emery University, Atlanta, Georgia E.P. Anderson-Fye Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio This article examines the intersection of race, ethnicity, and the body. Standards of beauty,…

  • A Change Has Come: Race, Politics, and the Path to the Obama Presidency

    A Change Has Come: Race, Politics, and the Path to the Obama Presidency Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race Volume 6, Issue 01, Spring 2009 pages 1-14 DOI: 10.1017/S1742058X09090018 Lawrence D. Bobo, W. E. B. Du Bois Professor of the Social Sciences Harvard University Michael C. Dawson, John D. MacArthur Professor of Political…