Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
recent posts
- The Routledge International Handbook of Interracial and Intercultural Relationships and Mental Health
- Loving Across Racial and Cultural Boundaries: Interracial and Intercultural Relationships and Mental Health Conference
- Call for Proposals: 2026 Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference at UCLA
- Participants Needed for a Paid Research Study: Up to $100
- You were either Black or white. To claim whiteness as a mixed child was to deny and hide Blackness. Our families understood that the world we were growing into would seek to denigrate this part of us and we would need a community that was made up, always and already, of all shades of Blackness.
about
Category: Media Archive
-
Ethnogenesis and Ethnohistory of the Seminole Maroons Journal of World History Volume 4, Number 2 (Fall 1993) pages 287-305 Kevin Mulroy, Associate University Librarian University of California, Los Angeles At what historic moment and by what means does a ‘people’ spring into being?” ask Jacqueline Peterson and Jennifer Brown in their introduction to the 1985…
-
Situating mixed-race households in neighborhood contexts University of Georgia May 2007 Margaret Anne Hudson Census 2000 counted approximately 1.7 million White/Latino mixed-race/multiethnic households in the US. Unfortunately, most research is limited to similar statistical accounting. Very little research moves beyond frequency counts to describe racial and ethnic identities in White/Latino households or the relationships of…
-
ENLT 252 Mestizas, Halfies, and Others University of Virginia Fall 2008 How does your family background affect the way that the way that you see yourself? How others in the United States see you? In this class we will investigate novels, short stories, and poems that foreground the multicultural and intercultural make-up of the United…
-
335. Comparative Studies in Racial and cultural Identities St. Lawrence University, Canton, New York Cultural Encounters Courses This is a senior seminar designed to fulfill the goals of the Cultural Encounters program: to prompt students to synthesize and re-evaluate their academic study of cultures, their experiential learning off campus and their own social locations and…
-
Marriages between African and Native Americans produced many children Louisiana Weekly 2012-01-02 (Healthy Living News) —Native Americans with African ancestry produced more children than ‘full bloods’ in the early 1900s, despite the odds being against them, a new study demonstrates. Research by Michael Logan, Ph.D., of the University of Tennessee shows that increased fertility occurred…
-
American Indians with African Ancestry: Differential Fertility and the Complexities of Social Identity Human Ecology Volume 39, Number 6 (December 2011) page 727-742 DOI: 10.1007/s10745-011-9439-2 Michael H. Logan, Professor of Anthropology University of Tennessee, Knoxville Interethnic marriage represents a major trend in the demographic history of American Indians. While the majority of these unions involved Indian…
-
Perspective on Mixed-Blood Natives: The Silence of Indian Country Native News Network Native Condition: Analysis and Opinion 2011-09-22 Mike Raccoon Eyes Eastern Band of the Cherokee Quallah, North Carolina SAN FRANCISCO—Cherokee culture was steeped deeply into the great Meso-American pyramid temple cities as early as 800 AD. When the Olmecs, Toltecs, Mayans and Aztecs were…
-
28. Hapa Issues: Asian Americans of Mixed Racial Descent Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts Spring 2010 Growing numbers of inter-racial marriages and the products of these marriages—children of mixed racial descent—have contributed to the increasing diversity of America in the 21st century. Reflecting this heterogeneity, the 2000 Census allowed people to claim more than one background…