Mixed Race Studies

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  • Mixed Race Amnesia: Resisting the Romanticization of Multiraciality

    Mixed Race Amnesia is an ambitious and critical look at how multiraciality is experienced in the global north. Drawing on a series of interviews she conducted with twenty-four women of mixed race, acclaimed geographer Minelle Mahtani explores some of the assumptions and attitudes people have around multiraciality.

  • Discussing Race and Education in Brazil

    Discussing Race and Education in Brazil HASTAC: Humanities, Arts, Science and Technology Alliance and Collaboratory 2014-09-12 Christina Davidson Department of History Duke University, Durham, North Carolina Yesterday at lunch, Maria Lúcia and I sat with a graduate of UFRRJ and an Educação a Distancia tutor for the university, who was headed to the Universidade Federal…

  • One Drop: Drexel professor’s new book explores what determines blackness

    One Drop: Drexel professor’s new book explores what determines blackness The Philadelphia Inquirer 2013-11-26 UNLESS YOU want an earful, don’t get Drexel University professor Yaba Blay talking about colorism. She sees examples of discrimination based on skin color everywhere – from drug stores that stock skin-bleaching creams to the online chatter that erupts when photos…

  • Skin tone, biracial stratification and tri-racial stratification among sperm donors

    Skin tone, biracial stratification and tri-racial stratification among sperm donors Ethnic and Racial Studies Volume 37,  Issue 3, 2014 (Special Issue: Race, Migration and Identity: Shifting Boundaries in the USA) pages 517-536 DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2012.696666 Carol S. Walther, Assistant Professor of Sociology Northern Illinois University Conception through donor insemination is an attractive option for many couples and…

  • Dorothy Roberts Lecture: “Fatal Invention: The New Biopolitics of Race”

    Dorothy Roberts Lecture: “Fatal Invention: The New Biopolitics of Race” McMaster University CIBC Hall, McMaster University Student Centre (MUSC 319) 280 Main Street West Hamilton, Ontario, L8S4L9, Canada 2014-10-23, 19:00-21:00 EDT (Local Time) The Bourns Lectureship in Bioethics and the McMaster Centre for Scholarship in the Public Interest present a lecture by Dorothy Roberts, George…

  • Ebola has exposed America’s fear, and Barack Obama’s vulnerability

    Ebola has exposed America’s fear, and Barack Obama’s vulnerability The Guardian 2014-10-19 Gary Younge The virus is a metaphor for all that conservatives loathe, and sees the president’s policies under renewed attack In a column ostensibly explaining why moderates struggle in the Republican party, Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen last year wrote: “People with conventional…

  • The Whiteness Project will make you wince. Because white people can be rather awful

    The Whiteness Project will make you wince. Because white people can be rather awful The Guardian 2014-10-15 Steven W. Thrasher, Weekly Columnist You’ve never seen privilege quite like this: ‘You can’t even talk about fried chicken or Kool-Aid without wondering if someone’s going to get offended’ White and black Americans see race from radically different…

  • Does Diversity Breed Intolerance?

    Does Diversity Breed Intolerance? BU Today Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts 2014-09-25 Rich Barlow, Staff Writer Telephone: 617-358-3877 Some whites fear impending minority status, research says “Diversity” is said to be the sun of our civic solar system, shining bright harmony everywhere from society at large to university campuses. Katherine Levine Einstein is certainly an apostle…

  • Divergence or Convergence in the U.S. and Brazil: Understanding Race Relations Through White Family Reactions to Black-White Interracial Couples

    Divergence or Convergence in the U.S. and Brazil: Understanding Race Relations Through White Family Reactions to Black-White Interracial Couples Qualitative Sociology March 2014, Volume 37, Issue 1 pages 93-115 DOI: 10.1007/s11133-013-9268-2 Chinyere Osuji, Assistant Professor of Sociology Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Camden Different approaches to race mixture in the U.S. and Brazil…

  • Racial ‘Boundary-policing’: Perceptions of Black-White Interracial Couples in Los Angeles and Rio de Janeiro

    Racial ‘Boundary-policing’: Perceptions of Black-White Interracial Couples in Los Angeles and Rio de Janeiro Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race Volume 10 / Issue 01 / Spring 2013 pages 179-203 DOI: 10.1017/S1742058X13000118 Chinyere K. Osuji, Assistant Professor of Sociology Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Camden As people who cross racial boundaries…