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  • Is racial mismatch a problem for young ‘mixed race’ people in Britain? The findings of qualitative research

    Is racial mismatch a problem for young ‘mixed race’ people in Britain? The findings of qualitative research Ethnicities Volume 12, Number 6 (December 2012) pages 730-753 DOI: 10.1177/1468796811434912 Miri Song, Professor of Sociology University of Kent, UK Peter Aspinall, Reader in Population Health at the Centre for Health Services Studies University of Kent, UK Recent…

  • Interracial Love Is No Societal Cure-All

    Interracial Love Is No Societal Cure-All truthdig 2012-02-17 Marcia Alesan Dawkins, Visiting Scholar Brown University A recently released report by the Pew Center is a belated Valentine’s Day gift to interracial families. The report indicates that intermarriage across racial and ethnic lines continues to be on the rise in the U.S. and the change is…

  • The Rise of Intermarriage: Rates, Characteristics Vary by Race and Gender

     The Rise of Intermarriage: Rates, Characteristics Vary by Race and Gender Pew Social and Demographic Trends Pew Research Center Washington, DC 2012-02-16 56 pages Wendy Wang, Research Associate Note from Steven F. Riley: The Pew Social and Demographic Trends data is report from 2010-06-04 for the year 2008, titled “Marrying Out: One-in-Seven New U.S. Marriages is…

  • Onerous passions: colonial anti-miscegenation rhetoric and the history of sexuality

    Onerous passions: colonial anti-miscegenation rhetoric and the history of sexuality Patterns of Prejudice Volume 45, Issue 4, 2011 pages 319-340 DOI: 10.1080/0031322X.2011.605843 Nadine Ehlers, Visiting Assistant Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. Ehlers’s analysis revisits Foucauldian conceptualizations of the history of sexuality in order to map the inextricability of race, gender…

  • Making the Chinese Mexican: Global Migration, Localism, and Exclusion in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands

    “Making the Chinese Mexican” is the first book to examine the Chinese diaspora in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands. It presents a fresh perspective on immigration, nationalism, and racism through the experiences of Chinese migrants in the region during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

  • Obama Has Shattered America’s Racial Ceiling

    Obama Has Shattered America’s Racial Ceiling San Diego Union-Tribune 2012-02-12 Constance M. Carroll, Chancellor San Diego Community College District If he could visit 21st-century America, Alexis de Tocqueville would be amazed to find Barack Obama, an African-American, as president of the United States. However, he would not be surprised to find that, despite this powerful…

  • Not White Enough, Not Black Enough

    Not White Enough, Not Black Enough International Herald Tribune (The Global Edition of the New York Times) 2012-02-15 Eusebius McKaiser, political Analyst Wits University, Johannesburg, South Africa JOHANNESBURG – A few weeks ago, a British friend of mine served a sumptuous confession as a starter for dinner, “I only realized recently that you’re not actually…

  • Ancestry DNA and the Manipulation of Afro-Indian Identity

    Ancestry DNA and the Manipulation of Afro-Indian Identity Chapter in: The First and the Forced: Essays on the Native American and African American Experience 2007 285 pages University of Kansas, Hall Center for the Humanities Edited by James N. Leiker, Kim Warren, and Barbara Watkins Chapter pages: pages 141-155 Arica L. Coleman, Assistant Professor of…

  • The Real American Love Story: Why America is a lot less white than it looks

    The Real American Love Story: Why America is a lot less white than it looks Slate 1999-10-05 Brent Staples The PBS broadcast last month of An American Love Story—a 10-hour film about an interracial family—spawned a great deal of chatter to the effect that mixed-race couplings were the wave of the future. In fact, they…

  • Brazil in black and white? Race categories, the census, and the study of inequality

    Brazil in black and white? Race categories, the census, and the study of inequality Ethnic and Racial Studies Volume 35, Number 8, August 2012 pages 1466-1483 DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2011.607503 Mara Loveman, Associate Professor of Sociology University of Wisconsin, Madison Jeronimo O. Muniz, Assistant Professor of Sociology Federal University of Minas Gerais Stanley R. Bailey, Associate Professor…