Mixed Race Studies

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  • The Invention of Hispanics

    The Invention of Hispanics Latino USA 2015-05-22 Hosts: Marlon Bishop, Producer Camilo Vargas, Producer Guest: G. Cristina Mora, Assistant Professor of Sociology University of California, Berkeley Before 1970, the US Census Bureau classified Mexican, Cuban and Puerto Rican immigrants as whites. Each community of Latin American origin would go by their nationality and by the…

  • What’s Radical About “Mixed Race”?

    On April 20, 2015, the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU hosted “What’s Radical About ‘Mixed Race’?”. Eschewing an apolitical “celebration” of mixed race, this panel examined the movement’s implications for multiracial coalition and the future of race in the US and Canada, asking: does the multiracial movement challenge—or actually reinforce—the logics of structural racism?

  • Expats Find Brazil’s Reputation For Race-Blindness Is Undone By Reality

    Expats Find Brazil’s Reputation For Race-Blindness Is Undone By Reality Parallels: Many Stories, One World National Public Radio 2015-05-22 Lourdes Garcia-Navarro, South America Correspondent There is a joke among Brazilians that a Brazilian passport is the most coveted on the black market because no matter what your background — Asian, African or European — you…

  • Brazilian Racial Democracy: Reality or Myth?

    Brazilian Racial Democracy: Reality or Myth? Humboldt Journal of Social Relations Volume 10, Number 1, (Fall/Winter 1982/83): Race & Ethnic Relations: Cross-Cultural Perspectives pages 129-142 Carlos Hasenbalg, Professor of Sociology Instituto Universitário de Pesquisas do Rio de Janeiro Suellen Huntington University of California, Berkeley The Brazilian claim to “racial democracy” is examined historically. and in…

  • What’s Radical About “Mixed Race?”

    What’s Radical About “Mixed Race?” Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU 8 Washington Mews New York, New York 10003 Phone: (212) 998-3700 Monday, 2015-04-20, 18:00-20:00 EDT (Local Time) | Free Since the 1990s, mainstream media has heralded the growing population of self-identified “mixed race” people in the US and Canada as material proof of a post-racial era…

  • Mixed Race in Australia and the region

    Mixed Race in Australia and the region University of Western Australia (UWA) 2015-06-08 through 2015-06-10 Conveners: Farida Fozdar People of ‘mixed race’ are often seen as marginal individuals managing cultural and psychological tensions, or alternatively valorised as the vanguard of an integrated, post-racial, cosmopolitan world (Edwards et al. 2012). Such dichotomies ignore the complex lived…

  • What is Systemic Racism?

    What is Systemic Racism? Race Forward 2015-05-13 Rinku Sen President of Race Forward & Publisher of Colorlines introduces the “What Is Systemic Racism?” video series featuring our very own Jay Smooth. Watch the entire video series here.

  • ‘Typical American Families’ photo exhibit to be unveiled at Emory

    ‘Typical American Families’ photo exhibit to be unveiled at Emory Emory News Center Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia 2015-05-04 Kimber Williams “Typical American Families” highlights the many configurations that family life can take in America. Photos in the exhibit will be unveiled at a public reception at the Center for Ethics on May 7. Photo by…

  • The Somatechnics of Whiteness and Race: Colonialism and Mestiza Privilege

    The Somatechnics of Whiteness and Race: Colonialism and Mestiza Privilege Ashgate May 2015 186 pages 234 x 156 mm Hardback ISBN: 978-1-4724-5307-5 eBook PDF ISBN: 978-1-4724-5308-2 eBook ePUB ISBN: 978-1-4724-5309-9 Elaine Marie Carbonell Laforteza, Lecturer in Cultural Studies Macquarie University, Australia Investigating the emergence of a specific mestiza/mestizo whiteness that facilitates relations between the Philippines…

  • The First Black President: Barack Obama, Race, Politics, and the American Dream

    “The First Black President” is a critical and passionate reflection on the political and historical implications of an Obama administration concerning the issue of race in America.