Mixed Race Studies

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  • La melaza que llora: How to Keep the Term Afro-Latino from Losing Its Power

    La melaza que llora: How to Keep the Term Afro-Latino from Losing Its Power Latino Rebels 2015-10-16 Jason Nichols, Lecturer in African American Studies University of Maryland Me quiere hacer pensar/ que soy parte de una trilogía racial/ donde todo el mundo es igual/ sin trato especial/ se perdonar/ eres tú que no sabe disculpar/…

  • White by Law 10th Anniversary Edition: The Legal Construction of Race

    White by Law was published in 1996 to immense critical acclaim, and established Ian Haney López as one of the most exciting and talented young minds in the legal academy. The first book to fully explore the social and specifically legal construction of race, White by Law inspired a generation of critical race theorists and…

  • The Spectacle of the Races: Scientists, Institutions, and the Race Questions in Brazil, 1870-1930 (review)

    The Spectacle of the Races: Scientists, Institutions, and the Race Questions in Brazil, 1870-1930 (review) Bulletin of the History of Medicine Volume 75, Number 1, Spring 2001 pages 152-153 DOI: 10.1353/bhm.2001.0014 J. D. Goodyear, Senior Lecturer and Associate Director, Public Health Studies Program Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland Lilia Moritz Schwarcz. The Spectacle of the…

  • Blackness and Mestizaje in Mexico and Central America

    Blackness and Mestizaje in Mexico and Central America Africa World Press 2013 176 pages ISBN: 978-1592219339 Edited by: Elisabeth Cunin, Sociologist Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, France Odile Hoffmann, Geographer Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, France American configurations, because of their originality, force us to adopt plural visions, toward the margins, with particular…

  • Multiracial Teens Talk About Their Identity Rip Tides

    Multiracial Teens Talk About Their Identity Rip Tides Women’s eNews 2015-10-27 Stephanie Geier, Teen Voices for Women’s eNews The pressures and rejections come from within, from peers, from different sides of their families. “No matter how hard I tried I was always too white for the black kids and too black for the white kids,”…

  • The myth of race

    The myth of race The Cripplegate 2015-10-22 Jesse Johnson, Teaching Pastor Immanuel Bible Church, Springfield, Virginia One of the most harmful effects of evolutionary theory is the concept of race. Despite having zero scientific validity to it, the idea that human beings can be categorized into general “races” that are supposedly connected to their biology…

  • Caribbean Racisms: Connections and Complexities in the Racialization of the Caribbean Region

    This book identifies and engages with an analysis of racism in the Caribbean region, providing an empirically-based theoretical re-framing of both the racialisation of the globe and evaluation of the prospects for anti-racism and the post-racial.

  • what we talk about when we talk about whiteness

    Sometimes I engage in conversations about whiteness that make people bristle. Questions are often raised like: so is “white” automatically wrong? Why is “whiteness” evil? Are you saying “white people” are inherently bad? My impression is that there is a bit of talking past one another that happens in these discussions, so it is my…

  • Race, Class, and Gender in the United States: An Integrated Study

    Race, Class, and Gender in the United States: An Integrated Study Macmillan Ninth Edition 2014 732 pages Paper Text ISBN-10: 1-4292-4217-5; ISBN-13: 978-1-4292-4217-2 Paula S. Rothenberg, Senior Fellow; The Murphy Institute, City University of New York Professor Emerita; William Patterson University of New Jersey Like no other text, this best-selling anthology effectively introduces students to…

  • Human Variation: A Genetic Perspective on Diversity, Race, and Medicine

    Human Variation: A Genetic Perspective on Diversity, Race, and Medicine Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press 2014 131 pages (21 4C, 5B&W), index Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-621820-90-1 Paperback ISBN: 978-1-936113-25-5 Edited by: Aravinda Chakravarti, Professor of Medicine, Pediatrics, Molecular Biology & Genetics, and, Biostatistics Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Institute of Genetic Medicine Since the appearance…