Mixed Race Studies

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  • One drop or two: Mixed-race identity and politics in America with Sharon H. Chang

    One drop or two: Mixed-race identity and politics in America with Sharon H. Chang Rabble Podcast Network 2014-09-09 Charlene Sayo, Co-host Andrew Sayo, Co-host Eirene Cloma, Co-host When Seattle-based researcher and writer Sharon H. Chang wrote an essay that detailed why she tells her mixed-race son that he’s Asian and not white, many readers were…

  • Chinese culture fails to make the grade for today’s mixed-race children

    Chinese culture fails to make the grade for today’s mixed-race children South China Morning Post Hong Kong, China 2014-09-08 Lijia Zhang, Writer, Journalist, Social Commentator Lijia Zhang recounts her struggle to instill pride and love of all things Chinese in her daughters May, my 17-year-old elder daughter, told me the results of her school exams…

  • Between two worlds

    Between two worlds The Guardian/The Observer 2003-04-05 Geraldine Bedell Britain has one of the fastest-growing mixed-race populations – but many people are still hostile towards interracial couples. We asked some of them how their lives have been affected During the 1991 Gulf war, Richard Littlejohn wrote in the Sun that British women married to Iraqis…

  • The complicity cost of racial inclusion

    The complicity cost of racial inclusion Al Jazeera America 2014-08-24 Julia Carrie Wong Oakland, California When Brook Soso, a new Asian-American character in the second season of “Orange Is the New Black,” arrives at the federal prison in Litchfield, New York, a fellow inmate named Lorna Morello provides her with a toothbrush and bar of…

  • Direct-to-Consumer Racial Admixture Tests and Beliefs About Essential Racial Differences

    Direct-to-Consumer Racial Admixture Tests and Beliefs About Essential Racial Differences Social Psychology Quarterly Volume 77, Number 3 (September 2014) pages 296-318 DOI: 10.1177/0190272514529439 Jo C. Phelan, Associate Professor of Sociomedical Sciences Columbia University, New York, New York Bruce G. Link, Professor of Epidemiology and Sociomedical Sciences Columbia University, New York, New York; New York State…

  • Land of the cosmic race: race mixture, racism, and blackness in Mexico [Villarreal Review]

    Land of the cosmic race: race mixture, racism, and blackness in Mexico [Villarreal Review] Ethnic and Racial Studies Volume 37, Issue 10, 2014 Special Issue: Ethnic and Racial Studies Review pages 1989-1991 DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2014.920094 Andrés Villarreal, Professor of Sociology University of Maryland, College Park Land of the cosmic race: race mixture, racism, and blackness in…

  • Paint the White House black: Barack Obama and the meaning of race in America [Haltinner Review]

    Paint the White House black: Barack Obama and the meaning of race in America [Haltinner Review] Ethnic and Racial Studies Volume 37, Issue 10, 2014 Special Issue: Ethnic and Racial Studies Review pages 1938-1941 DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2013.871314 Kristin Haltinner, Assistant Professor of Sociology and Anthropology University of Idaho Paint the White House black: Barack Obama and…

  • The biopolitics of mixing: Thai multiracialities and haunted ascendancies [England Review]

    The biopolitics of mixing: Thai multiracialities and haunted ascendancies [England Review] Ethnic and Racial Studies Volume 37, Issue 10, 2014 Special Issue: Ethnic and Racial Studies Review pages 1923-1926 DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2014.925129 Sara England, Associate Professor of Anthropology Soka University of America, Aliso Viejo, California The biopolitics of mixing: Thai multiracialities and haunted ascendancies, by Jinthana…

  • The collection of race-based data in the USA: a call for radical change

    The collection of race-based data in the USA: a call for radical change Ethnic and Racial Studies Volume 37, Issue 10, 2014 Special Issue: Ethnic and Racial Studies Review pages 1839-1846 DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2014.932407 Peter Aspinall, Emeritus Reader in Population Health University of Kent, United Kingdom Carter, Greg, The United States of the United Races: A Utopian…

  • “What Are You?”: Racial Ambiguity, Stigma, and the Racial Formation Project

    “What Are You?”: Racial Ambiguity, Stigma, and the Racial Formation Project Deviant Behavior Volume 35, Issue 12, 2014 pages 1006-1022 DOI: 10.1080/01639625.2014.901081 Tiffanie Grier, Career Placement Director & Garden to Groceries Project Director Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Memphis, Memphis Tennessee Carol Rambo, Associate Professor of Sociology University of Memphis, Memphis Tennessee Marshall A.…