Mixed Race Studies

Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.

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  • Bi-racial Africans: “diluted” Africans?

    One’s nationality can be determined by where you were born, where your parents are from, where you hold citizenship – politics, geography, circumstance and even choice. There is nothing complicated about where I am from, until I’m challenged to prove it.

  • ‘Stretching out the categories’: Chinese/European narratives of mixedness, belonging and home in Singapore

    ‘Stretching out the categories’: Chinese/European narratives of mixedness, belonging and home in Singapore Ethnicities Volume 14, Number 2 (April 2014) pages 279-302 DOI: 10.1177/1468796813505554 Zarine L. Rocha, Research Scholar Department of Sociology National University of Singapore Racial categorization is important in everyday interactions and state organization in Singapore. Increasingly, the idea of ‘mixed race’ and…

  • The Journal of Critical Mixed Race Studies inaugural issue is now available

    The Journal of Critical Mixed Race Studies inaugural issue is now available Journal of Critical Mixed Race Studies Volume 1, Number 1 (2014-01-30) ISSN: 2325-4521 Laura Kina, Associate Professor Art, Media and Design and Director Asian American Studies DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois G. Reginald Daniel, Professor of Sociology University of California at Santa Barbaral Saya…

  • ‘Mixed race’, ‘mixed origins’ or what? Generic terminology for the multiple racial/ethnic group population

    A broad range of terms have been proposed and debated for the ‘mixed race’ population. Dissatisfaction with ‘mixed race’, the term most widely used but contested on the grounds that it references the now discredited concept of ‘race’, has led to the search for an alternative.

  • Concepts, terminology, and classifications for the ‘mixed’ ethnic or racial group

    Concepts, terminology, and classifications for the ‘mixed’ ethnic or racial group Journal of Epidemiolgy and Community Health Volume 64, Issue 6 (2010) Pages 557-560 DOI: 10.1136/jech.2009.088294 Peter J. Aspinall, Reader in Population Health Centre for Health Services Studies University of Kent, United Kingdom Background: The way to categorise people born of inter-ethnic and racial unions…

  • On Mixed Privilege

    I’ve been thinking a lot lately about whether there is such a thing as ‘mixed privilege’.

  • Betwixt, Between and Beyond: Racial formation and “mixed race” identities in New Zealand and Singapore

    Betwixt, Between and Beyond: Racial formation and “mixed race” identities in New Zealand and Singapore National University of Singapore 2013 345 pages Zarine Lia Rocha A THESIS SUBMITTED FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY “Mixed race” identities are increasingly important for academics and policy makers around the world. In many multicultural…

  • Being Mixed Race

    Being Mixed Race Women of the World Festival 2014 Southbank Centre Belvedere Road, London Blue Room, Spirit Level at Royal Festival Hall Saturday, 2014-03-08, 13:30-15:00Z What is being ‘mixed race’? Is there such a thing as a mixed-race identity? In the 2011 census, over a million people in the UK ticked the ‘mixed race’ box—double…

  • News Nation with Tamron Hall (with guest Yaba Blay)

    News Nation with Tamron Hall (with guest Yaba Blay) News Nation with Tamron Hall 2014-02-25 Drexel University Professor Yaba Blay discusses her new book (1)ne Drop: Shifting the Lens on Race with host Tamron Hall. Watch the interview here.

  • Dynamic representations of race: processing goals shape race decoding in the fusiform gyri

    Dynamic representations of race: processing goals shape race decoding in the fusiform gyri Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience Volume 9 Issue 3 (March 2014) pages 326-332 DOI: 10.1093/scan/nss138 Christian Kaul Department of Psychology and Center for Neural Science New York University Kyle G. Ratner Department of Psychology New York University Jay J. Van Bavel, Assistant…