Mixed Race Studies

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  • Study: Stereotypes Drive Perceptions Of Race

    Study: Stereotypes Drive Perceptions Of Race Morning Edition National Public Radio 2014-02-11 Steve Inskeeep, Host Shankar Vedantam, Science correspondent Aliya Saperstein, Assistant Professor of Sociology Stanford University Governments, schools and companies all keep track of your race. The stats they collect are used to track the proportion of blacks and whites who graduate from school,…

  • Stuart Hall – obituary

    Stuart Hall – obituary The Telegraph London, England 2014-02-11 Stuart Hall was a cultural theorist who coined the term ‘Thatcherism’ and profoundly influenced New Labour Stuart Hall, who has died aged 82, came to Britain from his native Jamaica in 1951 and established himself as a leading cultural theorist and as a hero of the…

  • In meetings with young black men, Obama tries to leave a mark

    In meetings with young black men, Obama tries to leave a mark The Washington Post 2014-02-09 Zachary A. Goldfarb, Staff Writer CHICAGO – Kerron Turner sat with more than a dozen other teenagers in a classroom at Hyde Park Academy High School on this city’s troubled South Side, nervously settling in for an unusual meeting…

  • Migrating race: migration and racial identification among Puerto Ricans

    Migrating race: migration and racial identification among Puerto Ricans Ethnic and Racial Studies Volume 37, Number 3 (2014-02-23) pages 383-404 DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2012.672759 Carlos Vargas-Ramos, Research Associate Center for Puerto Rican Studies Hunter College, City University of New York The pattern of racial identification among Puerto Ricans is not uniform. It varies depending on where they…

  • Into the melting pot

    Into the melting pot The Economist 2014-02-08 The rapid rise of mixed-race Britain is changing neighbourhoods—and perplexing the authorities ZADIE SMITH, a novelist born to a black Jamaican mother and a white British father, recently recalled that when she was growing up in Willesden Green, a London district with a large immigrant population, “nothing could…

  • Where Is My Family on TV?

    Where Is My Family on TV? The New York Times 2014-02-08 Jenna Wortham, Technology Reporter One of my earliest memories is of sitting in an idling car with my mom and sister outside a convenience store in Virginia. Dad’s inside, buying cigarettes and scratch-off lottery tickets. Suddenly, a wild-eyed man appears at the driver-side window,…

  • Mixed: Multiracial College Students Tell Their Life Stories

    “Mixed” presents engaging and incisive first-person experiences of what it is like to be multiracial in what is supposedly a postracial world. Bringing together twelve essays by college students who identify themselves as multiracial, this book considers what this identity means in a reality that occasionally resembles the post-racial dream of some and at other…

  • 12 Beautiful Portraits Of Black Identity Challenging the “One-Drop” Rule

    12 Beautiful Portraits Of Black Identity Challenging the “One-Drop” Rule PolicyMic New York, New York 2014-02-06 Amirah Mercer What are you?” they’d ask, head tilted and eyes squinted. “Black,” I’d reply. “No … but like, what else are you? I know it’s not all black.” So went a typical interrogation by my peers as a…

  • Skin color remains big barrier

    Skin color remains big barrier The Korea Times 2014-01-27 Park Si-soo Min Kyung-joon (alias) is a “good boy” in many aspects. The freshman at a middle school in Ansan, Gyeonggi Province, has been acknowledged by his teachers for his outstanding academic achievement and affable personality. Min is also very actively engaged in sports, which explains…

  • Research Project on “Mixed Race” Identity: Call for Edmonton, Canada Area Participants

    Research Project on “Mixed Race” Identity: Call for Edmonton, Canada Area Participants University of Alberta Edmonton, Canada 2014-01-31 Jillian Paragg, Ph.D. Student Department of Sociology Are you of mixed racial background? Do you/have you identified as “mixed race”, “multiracial”, or with other “mixed” self-identifications (i.e. biracial, mulatto, eurasian, happa, creole etc.)? Do other people identify…