Mixed Race Studies

Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.

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A new paradigm of race: Visit to Brazil prompts the question: Can mixing everyone up solve the race problem?

2010-02-07

A new paradigm of race: Visit to Brazil prompts the question: Can mixing everyone up solve the race problem? Bloomington Herald-Times 2004-08-29 Courtesy of: Black Film Center/Archive Indiana University Audrey T. McCluskey, Director Neal-Marshall Black Culture Center Indiana University If Tiger Woods lived in Brazil he would not have had to coin the word “Cablanasian”…
Winnefred and Agnes: The Story of Two Women

2009-12-19

Winnefred and Agnes: The Story of Two Women Independent Publishing Group September 2002 288 pages, Cloth, 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 6 B/W Photos, 1 Chart, 1 Map ISBN: 9780795701139 (0795701136) Agnes Lottering This is a rare, possibly the first, first-person account of being part of the group of mixed-race families who came into existence…
Bessie Head: Thunder Behind Her Ears – Her Life and Writings

2009-12-03

This biography details the life of Bessie Head – a life which echoes so many of the aspects of the distressing history of South Africa in the last half century. She was born in an asylum to a mother who was considered mad because her father was black. Despite the disadvantages of being both a…
Stanford profs examine mixed race in U.S. society

2009-12-01

Stanford profs examine mixed race in U.S. society The Dartmouth Victoria Boggiano, The Dartmouth Staff 2008-04-18 In 2000, the U.S. Census gave Americans the chance to identify themselves by more than one race for the first time. Almost seven million people — over 80 percent of whom were under 25 — checked more than one…
‘No Such Thing as a Mulatto Slave’: Legal Pluralism, Racial Descent and the Nuances of Slave Women’s Sexual Vulnerability in the Legal Odyssey of Steyntje van de Kaap, c.1815-1822

2009-11-06

‘No Such Thing as a Mulatto Slave’: Legal Pluralism, Racial Descent and the Nuances of Slave Women’s Sexual Vulnerability in the Legal Odyssey of Steyntje van de Kaap, c.1815-1822 Fiona Vernal Department of History University of Connecticut Slavery & Abolition Volume 29, Issue 1 January 2008 pages 23 – 47 DOI: 10.1080/01440390701841034 In 1815, a…
The New Colored People: The Mixed-Race Movement in America

2009-10-23

Focusing specifically on mixed-race blacks, Spencer argues that the mixed-race movement in the United States would benefit from consideration of how multiracial categories have evolved in South Africa.
Crimes of ‘Blood’: A comparative analysis of South Africa’s Immorality Act (1927 & 1950) and Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act (1949), and Miscegenation Laws in North America

2009-10-19

Crimes of ‘Blood’: A comparative analysis of South Africa’s Immorality Act (1927 & 1950) and Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act (1949), and Miscegenation Laws in North America W.E.B. DuBois Insitute for African and African American Research at Harvard University Date: Spring 2010 Zimitri Erasmus, Senior Lecturer in Sociology University of Cape Town This study compares…
New Faces in a Changing America: Multiracial Identity in the 21st Century

2009-10-16

New Faces in a Changing America: Multiracial Identity in the 21st Century SAGE Publications, Inc. Paperback ISBN: 9780761923008 2001 432 pages Edited by Loretta I. Winters California State University, Northridge Herman L. DeBose California State University, Northridge How multiracial people identify themselves can have major consequences on their positions in their families, communities and society.…

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