Mixed Race Studies

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  • Skewing the Data: Mixed-Race Identity & the Problem of Counting for Race

    Skewing the Data: Mixed-Race Identity & the Problem of Counting for Race Lucia Lorenzi: the body politic: musings and meanderings 2014-04-13 Lucia Lorenzi University of British Columbia A few weeks ago, I attended a panel hosted by the Institute for Gender, Race, and Sexuality at the University of British Columbia, entitled “CWILA and the Problem…

  • A phenomenological study of racial identity development of black-white mixed-race children in the United States

    A phenomenological study of racial identity development of black-white mixed-race children in the United States Texas Woman’s University, Denton, Texas 2013 142 pages ISBN: 9781303661433 ProQuest Document ID: 1496772753 Cherly Gary-Furdge, Ph.D This study examines how black-white mixed-race children develop their racial identity and how black-white parents of mixed-race children help their children with developing…

  • Multi-Racial In Wisconsin…And The “What Are You?” Question

    Multi-Racial In Wisconsin…And The “What Are You?” Question Wisconsin Public Radio Central Time 2014-06-02 Rob Ferrett, Host Jennifer Patrice Sims Department of Sociology University of Wisconsin, Madison A sociology researcher looks at multi-racial identity in Wisconsin–and how people deal with the questions “what are you?” and “where are you from?” Listen to the interview here.…

  • Race in a Baby’s Face

    Race in a Baby’s Face Psychology Today 2014-07-28 Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu, Ed.D, Psychologist and Co-founder Stanford University LifeWorks program for Integrative Learning Crawling the color line Race is supposedly something objective, even biological, that we’re ascribed at birth and marks us through our whole lives, assigning us to a group that separates us from others. But…

  • Race & Its Categories in Historical Perspective

    Race & Its Categories in Historical Perspective Crossing Borders, Bridging Generatons Brooklyn Historical Society June 2014 Ann Morning, Associate Professor of Sociology New York University A native New Yorker, Ann Morning is an associate professor of sociology at New York University and the author of The Nature of Race: How Scientists Think and Teach about…

  • Study: Interracial marriages involving Asian-Americans still can leave racial barriers

    Study: Interracial marriages involving Asian-Americans still can leave racial barriers University of Kansas News Lawrence, Kansas 2014-07-15 George Diepenbrock, Contact KU News Service LAWRENCE — A University of Kansas researcher says the high rate of interracial marriages among Asian-Americans should not simply be interpreted as a litmus test of assimilation for the minority group. Second-generation…

  • Race and the Obama Phenomenon: The Vision of a More Perfect Multiracial Union

    Race and the Obama Phenomenon: The Vision of a More Perfect Multiracial Union University Press of Mississippi 2014-07-17 432 pages 6 X 9 inches 3 B&W photographs Hardcover ISBN: 9781628460216 Edited by: G. Reginald Daniel, Professor of Sociology University of California, Santa Barbara Hettie V. Williams, Lecturer of African American History Monmouth University, West Long…

  • The racist face of Brazil’s miscegenation

    The racist face of Brazil’s miscegenation Black Women of Brazil: The site dedicated to Brazilian women of African descent 2013-05-22 Jarid Arraes Cariri, Ceará, Brasil The issue of miscegenation in Brazil is often oversimplified and romanticized. It is not uncommon to hear that Brazil is a mestiço (mixed race) and plural country and, consequently, all…

  • Colour-blind love is the mark of a healthy and dynamic society

    Colour-blind love is the mark of a healthy and dynamic society The Guardian/The Observer 2014-07-05 Anushka Asthana, Political Correspondent Sky News In Britain, there are ever more ‘mixed’ marriages such as mine. And society is enriched by this trend A friend tells me her mother is “fully Chinese”, while her father is slightly Spanish, a…