Mixed Race Studies

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  • Land of the Cosmic Race

    Land of the Cosmic Race Sociological Forum Volume 30, Issue 1 (March 2015) pages 248-251 DOI: 10.1111/socf.12157 Martha King Graduate Center City University of New York Land of the Cosmic Race: Race Mixture, Racism, and Blackness in Mexico. Christina A. Sue. New York: University of Oxford Press, 2013. In Land of the Cosmic Race: Race…

  • Interracial Intimacies: An Examination of Powerful Men and Their Relationships across the Color Line

    Unique among books on interracial relationships, this book examines the lives of high profile men who have produced public discourses on race and interracial relationships and who themselves, often contradictory to their rhetoric, were or continue to be involved in love relationships across the color line.

  • Being Mixed Race

    Being Mixed Race Women of the World Festival 2015 Blue Bar at Royal Festival Hall Southbank Center Belvedere Road, London Saturday, 2015-03-07, 13:30-15:00Z Building on the findings of the Being Mixed Race panel discussions during WOW 2013 and WOW 2014, this workshop expands on issues identified during the previous conversations and focuses specifically on issues…

  • Multiracial Community Organizations Response to #Ferguson

    Multiracial Community Organizations Response to #Ferguson 2014-11-26 As members of the multiracial community, we want to express our concern and compassion for the family of Michael Brown Jr. We are connected to these events and stand in solidarity with the many individuals and communities that have been harmed by the legacies of white supremacy, privilege, and…

  • Bio Science: Genetic Genealogy Testing and the Pursuit of African Ancestry

    Bio Science: Genetic Genealogy Testing and the Pursuit of African Ancestry Social Studies of Science Volume 38, Number 5 (October 2008) pages 759-783 DOI: 10.1177/0306312708091929 Alondra Nelson, Professor of Sociology and Gender Studies; Director, Institute for Research on Women, Gender, and Sexuality Columbia University, New York, New York This paper considers the extent to which…

  • A Look at Race as a Social Construct

    A Look at Race as a Social Construct The Huffington Post 2015-02-03 Kimberly Cooper Sometimes a picture is truly worth a thousand words. For those of us from the “multiracial” or mixed race community, photos of our population — our people, our families, our children — aren’t as shocking as they are an affirmation of…

  • Roundtable: Global Mixed Race

    Roundtable: Global Mixed Race University of California, Santa Barbara Department of Political Science The Lane Room (Ellison 3824) Monday, 2015-03-02, 16:00 PST (Local Time) The authors of the new book Global Mixed Race (New York University Press) will participate in a Roundtable on the subject. The authors are: G. Reginald Daniel, UCSB Sociology Adrienne Edgar,…

  • Mestizaje and Public Opinion in Latin America

    Mestizaje and Public Opinion in Latin America Latin American Research Review Volume 48, Number 3 (2013) pages 130-152 DOI: 10.1353/lar.2013.0045 Edward Telles, Professor of Sociology Princeton University Denia Garcia Department of Sociology Princeton University Latin American elites authored and disseminated ideologies of mestizaje or race mixture, but does the general population value them today? Using the…

  • One Drop of Love at Iowa State University

    One Drop of Love at Iowa State University Great Hall, Memorial Union Iowa State University Ames, Iowa 2015-03-01, 19:00 CST (Local Time), Doors open at 18:30 One Drop of Love produced by Ben Affleck and Matt Damon, performed by Fanshen Cox Digiovanni is a multimedia solo show that tells the story of how the notion…

  • Waking from Mixed Dreams

    Waking from Mixed Dreams Mixed Dreams: towards a radical multiracial/ethnic movement 2015-02-26 Nicole Asong Nfonoyim-Hara Let me begin, if I may, by introducing this rather belated post with the powerful words of some scholars, poets, writers, and activists to set our scene: “American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than…