Mixed Race Studies

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  • Does It Matter If Black + White Equals Black or Multiracial?

    Does It Matter If Black + White Equals Black or Multiracial? Northwestern University News Evanston, Illinois 2008-10-17 Pat Vaughan Tremmel, Associate Director and Social Sciences Editor According to a new Northwestern study, racial characterizations do matter. EVANSTON, Ill. — “Is Barack Obama Black or Biracial?” a recent CNN.com headline asks. The question of whether Obama…

  • Rewriting the History of American Sociology

    Rewriting the History of American Sociology Northwestern University News Evanston, Illinois 2015-08-26 Hilary Hurd Anyaso, Law and Social Sciences Editor Groundbreaking book argues W.E.B. Du Bois is primary founder of modern sociology EVANSTON, Ill. — In his groundbreaking new book, Northwestern University’s Aldon Morris has done no less than rewrite the history of sociology by…

  • The Scholar Denied: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Birth of Modern Sociology

    The Scholar Denied: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Birth of Modern Sociology University of California Press August 2015 320 pages Hardcover ISBN: 9780520276352 Adobe PDF E-Book ISBN: 9780520960480 ePUB Format ISBN: 9780520960480 Aldon D. Morris, Leon Forrest Professor of Sociology and African American Studies Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois In this groundbreaking book, Aldon…

  • Inconsistency within Expressed and Observed Racial Identifications: Implications for Mental Health Status

    Inconsistency within Expressed and Observed Racial Identifications: Implications for Mental Health Status Sociological Perspectives Published online before print 2015-08-29 DOI: 10.1177/0731121415602133 Whitney N. Laster Pirtle, Assistant Professor of Sociology University of California, Merced Tony N. Brown, Associate Professor of Sociology Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee The present study extends previous work on distress that arises from…

  • Priming Race: Does the Mind Inhibit Categorization by Race at Encoding or Recall?

    Priming Race: Does the Mind Inhibit Categorization by Race at Encoding or Recall? Social Psychological and Personality Science Published online before print: 2015-08-27 DOI: 10.1177/1948550615602934 David Pietraszewski Center for Adaptive Rationality Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany Recent research shows that racial categorization can be reduced by contexts in which race does not…

  • Study investigates whether blind people characterize others by race

    Study investigates whether blind people characterize others by race EurekAlert! The Global Source for Science News American Association for the Advancement of Science 2015-08-25 American Sociological Association CHICAGO — Most people who meet a new acquaintance, or merely pass someone on the street, need only a glance to categorize that person as a particular race.…

  • Mixed Race Male and Female Participants Needed to Take Part in a Research Project

    Mixed Race Male and Female Participants Needed to Take Part in a Research Project ESRC Centre on Dynamics of Ethnicity (CoDE) The University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom 2015-07-25 Karis Campion, Ph.D. Doctoral Researcher and Graduate Teaching Assistant Do you have Mixed White and Black Caribbean heritage? Were you born between 1955-1970 or 1980-1995? Did…

  • Biological Determinism and Racial Essentialism

    Biological Determinism and Racial Essentialism The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science Volume 661, Number 1, September 2015 pages 8-22 DOI: 10.1177/0002716215591476 W. Carson Byrd, Assistant Professor of Pan-African Studies University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky Matthew W. Hughey, Professor of Sociology University of Connecticut In August 2012, nine months after being…

  • The Risks of Turning Races Into Genes

    The Risks of Turning Races Into Genes The Huffington Post 2015-08-20 Matthew W. Hughey, Professor of Sociology University of Connecticut From 22-25 August, sociologists from around the nation and world will descend upon the Windy City of Chicago to discuss sundry issues as they participate in the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association. One…

  • ETHS 306 : Politics of Mixed Racial Identity

    ETHS 306 : Politics of Mixed Racial Identity Metropolitan State University, Saint Paul, Minnesota 2002-08-24 to Present This course focuses on the phenomenon of mixed race descent in the United States. For comparative purposes, the course also explores the topic in relation to other nations. Included in the course are historical perspectives, and exploration of…