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  • The Effects of Mixed-Race Households on Residential Segregation

    The Effects of Mixed-Race Households on Residential Segregation Journal Urban Geography Issue Volume 28, Number 6, August 16-September 30, 2007 Online Date: 2007-11-27 Pages 554-577 ISSN: 0272-3638 DOI 10.2747/0272-3638.28.6.554 Mark Ellis University of Washington Steven R. Holloway University of Georgia Richard Wright Dartmouth College Margaret East The University of Texas, Arlington This paper investigates how…

  • New Faces in a Changing America: Multiracial Identity in the 21st Century

    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.…

  • Mixed Heritage – Identity, Policy and Practice

    Mixed Heritage – Identity, Policy and Practice Runnymede Trust ISBN-10: 0-9548389-6-3 ISBN-13: 978-0-9548389-6-6 EAN: 9780954838966 40 pages September 2007 Edited by Jessica Mai Sims Although they are often invisible in debates on race and ethnicity, the 2001 census reveals that the ‘Mixed’ population is the third largest ethnic category in the UK, with predictions that…

  • Rethinking ‘Mixed Race’

    Rethinking ‘Mixed Race’ Pluto Press an imprint of MacMillan May 2001 5.5 x 8.25 inches, 208 pages, 4 figures ISBN: 978-0-7453-1567-6 ISBN10: 0-7453-1567-4 Edited by David Parker, Lecturer and Faculty of Social Sciences School of Sociology and Social Policy University of Nottingham Miri Song, Professor of Sociology University of Kent One of the fastest growing…

  • The Sum of Our Parts: Mixed-Heritage Asian Americans

    With an entire section devoted to the Asian diaspora, The Sum of Our Parts suggests that questions of multiracial and multiethnic identity are surfacing around the globe. This timely and provocative collection articulates them for social scientists and students.

  • Thomas Satterwhite Noble’s Mulattos: From Barefoot Madonna to Maggie the Ripper

    Thomas Satterwhite Noble’s Mulattos: From Barefoot Madonna to Maggie the Ripper Journal of American Studies Volume 41, Issue 1 (April 2007) pages 83-114 DOI: 10.1017/S0021875806002763 Jo-Ann Morgan, Associate Professor of Art History and African American Studies Western Illinois University With emancipation a fait accompli by 1865, one might ask why Kentucky-born Thomas Satterwhite Noble (1835–1907), former Confederate…

  • Raising Eurasia: Race, Class, and Age in French and British Colonies

    Raising Eurasia: Race, Class, and Age in French and British Colonies Comparative Studies in Society and History Volume 51, Issue 2 (April 2009) pages 314-343 DOI: 10.1017/S0010417509000140 David M. Pomfret, Associate Professor The University of Hong Kong Sexual relationships between European men and indigenous women produced racially mixed offspring in all of Europe’s empires. Recent…

  • Neither Black Nor White Yet Both: Thematic Explorations of Interracial Literature

    Why can a “white” woman give birth to a “black” baby, while a “black” woman can never give birth to a “white” baby in the United States? What makes racial “passing” so different from social mobility? Why are interracial and incestuous relations often confused or conflated in literature, making “miscegenation” appear as if it were…

  • The Effects of Black Identity on Candidate Evaluations: An Exploratory Study

    The Effects of Black Identity on Candidate Evaluations: An Exploratory Study Journal of Black Studies Volume 40, Number 2 (2009) pages 215-237 DOI: 10.1177/0021934707309430 Jas M. Sullivan, Assistant Professor of Political Science Louisiana State University Keena N. Arbuthnot, Associate Professor of Education Louisiana State University Although Barack Obama’s entrance into the 2008 presidential campaign has…

  • Racially Mixed People in America

    America has been the breeding ground of a “biracial baby boom” for the past 25 years. Unfortunately, there has been a dearth of information regarding how racially mixed people identify and view themselves and how they relate to one another. “Racially Mixed People in America” steadily bridges this gap and offers a comprehensive look at…