Mixed Race Studies

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  • Who Is Multiracial? Depends on How You Ask

    Who Is Multiracial? Depends on How You Ask Pew Research Center 2015-11-06 Eileen Patten, Research Analyst In 2014, as Pew Research Center prepared to conduct the first major study of the views of multiracial Americans—a group that, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, is poised to triple by 2060—we faced a fundamental and unavoidable methodological…

  • Colored Perceptions: Racially Distinctive Names and Assessments of Skin Color

    Colored Perceptions: Racially Distinctive Names and Assessments of Skin Color American Behavioral Scientist Published online before print 2015-10-28 DOI: 10.1177/0002764215613395 Denia Garcia Department of Sociology Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey Maria Abascal Department of Sociology Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey Scholars are increasingly employing skin color measures to investigate racial stratification beyond the dimensions of…

  • Sense of Place with Guest Sharon H. Chang

    Sense of Place with Guest Sharon H. Chang Sense of Place Roundhouse Radio 98.3 FM Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada November 2015 Minelle Mahtani, Host Minelle Mahtani and Sharon H. Chang (Source: Facebook) Author, scholar, sociologist, and activist Sharon H. Chang discusses her new book Raising Mixed Race: Multiracial Asian Children in a Post-Racial World. Listen…

  • Vanishing Eden: White Construction of Memory, Meaning, and Identity in a Racially Changing City

    Vanishing Eden: White Construction of Memory, Meaning, and Identity in a Racially Changing City Temple University Press November 2015 198 pages 6 x 9 Paper ISBN: 978-1-43991-119-8 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-43991-118-1 eBook ISBN: 978-1-43991-120-4 Michael T. Maly, Associate Professor of Sociology; Director of the Policy Research Collaborative Roosevelt University, Chicago, Illinois Heather M. Dalmage, Professor of…

  • “Mixed Race” Identities in Asia and the Pacific: Experiences from Singapore and New Zealand

    “Mixed race” is becoming an important area for research, and there is a growing body of work in the North American and British contexts. However, understandings and experiences of “mixed race” across different countries and regions are not often explored in significant depth. New Zealand and Singapore provide important contexts for investigation, as two multicultural,…

  • BU community urged to increase open, uncomfortable conversation

    BU community urged to increase open, uncomfortable conversation The Daily Free Press The independent student newspaper at Boston University ISSN 1094-7337 2015-11-03 Joe Becker Keynote speaker and comedian W. Kamau Bell speaks about his mixed race children during “Let’s Talk About It,” a dialogue about race, identity and social action, on Monday night. PHOTO BY…

  • Author Meets Reader: Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics and Big Business Recreate Race in the Twenty-First Century by Dorothy Roberts

    Author Meets Reader: Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics and Big Business Recreate Race in the Twenty-First Century by Dorothy Roberts University of California, Irvine School of Law 401 E. Peltason Drive Irvine, California Room 3500 Monday, 2015-11-02, 18:30 PST (Local Time) Sponsored by the Center for Biotechnology and Global Health Policy and the Center on…

  • Is race a choice?

    Is race a choice? VOX: CEPR’s Policy Portal Research-based policy analysis and commentary from leading economists Centre for Economic Policy Research 2015-01-26 Emily Nix, PhD candidate in Economics Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut Nancy Qian, Associate Professor of Economics Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut Race is usually treated as a fixed, exogenous characteristic in academic…

  • Race Relations In Brazil

    Race Relations In Brazil Odyssey 2015-10-12 Evan Mextorf Is racial democracy real? If one was to ask a member of the Brazilian government if racism exists within the country, they would more than likely say no. They might say “Brazil is a racial democracy. Sure, there are social factors such as gender and class that…

  • Professor Minelle Mahtani on ‘Raising Mixed Race’ in Canada

    Professor Minelle Mahtani on ‘Raising Mixed Race’ in Canada Multiracial Asian Families 2015-10-29 Sharon H. Chang Following are closing remarks given by Minelle Mahtani after the premiere of my new book Raising Mixed Race: Multiracial Asian Children In a Post-Racial World at Hapa-Palooza Festival 2015, Vancouver B.C. Minelle Mahtani is Associate Professor of Human Geography…