Mixed Race Studies

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  • The Politics of Bisexual/Biracial Identity: A study of Bisexual and Mixed Race Women of Asian/Pacific Islander Descent

    The Politics of Bisexual/Biracial Identity: A study of Bisexual and Mixed Race Women of Asian/Pacific Islander Descent San Diego State University First Published: 1999 Reprint: 2006 120 pages ISBN 1-23456-789-0 Beverly Yuen Thompson, Assistant Professor of Women’s Studies Texas Woman’s College The construction of certain behaviors and physical characteristics into an acceptable and recognized “identity”…

  • Fence Sitters, Switch Hitters, and Bi-Bi Girls: An Exploration of “Hapa” and Bisexual Identities

    Fence Sitters, Switch Hitters, and Bi-Bi Girls: An Exploration of “Hapa” and Bisexual Identities Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies Vol. 21, No. 1/2 (2000) Asian American Women pp. 171-180. Beverly Yuen Thompson, Assistant Professor of Women’s Studies Texas Woman’s College I had been wondering about taking part in a student theatre project about being…

  • Multiracial America: A Resource Guide on the History and Literature of Interracial Issues

    Multiracial America: A Resource Guide on the History and Literature of Interracial Issues The Scarecrow Press, Inc. March 2005 264 pages Paper ISBN: 0-8108-5199-7; ISBN-13: 978-0-8108-5199-3 Edited by Karen Downing, Foundation and Grants Librarian Hatcher Graduate Library, University of Michigan Darlene Nichols, Psychology Librarian and Coordinator of Instruction Hatcher Graduate Library, University of Michigan Kelly…

  • Hybrid: Bisexuals, Multiracials, and Other Misfits Under American Law

    In “Hybrid,” Ruth Colker argues that our bipolar classification system obscures a genuine understanding of the very nature of subordination. Acknowledging that categorization is crucial and unavoidable in a world of practical problems and day-to-day conflicts, Ruth Colker shows how categories can and must be improved for the good of all.

  • Queer in Black and White: Interraciality, Same Sex Desire, and Contemporary African American Culture

    This book analyzes representative works of African American fiction, film, and music in which interracial desire appears in the context of same sex desire. In close readings of these “texts,” Stefanie K. Dunning explores the ways in which the interracial intersects with queerness, blackness, whiteness, class, and black national identity.

  • Mixed Race Gay Men and HIV: A Community History

    Mixed Race Gay Men and HIV: A Community History Format: Single Authored Book Anticipated Publication Date: 2010 Andrew Jolivétte, Associate Professor of American Indian Studies (Also see biographies at Speak Out! and Native Wiki.) San Fransisco State University Center for Health Disparities Research and Training Mixed Race Gay Men and HIV: A Community History will…

  • Forgetting the Alamo, Or, Blood Memory: A Novel

    Forgetting the Alamo, Or, Blood Memory: A Novel University of Texas Press September 2009 198 pages 6 x 9 in.; 1 map ISBN: 978-0-292-71920-0 (hardcover, no dust jacket) ISBN: 978-0-292-72128-9 (paperback) Emma Pérez, Associate Professor and Chair of Ethnic Studies University of Colorado This literary adventure takes place in nineteenth-century Texas and follows the story…