Mixed Race Studies

Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.

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In Brazil, the death of a poor black child in the care of rich white woman brings a racial reckoning

2020-06-30

The alleged negligence of a wealthy white woman entrusted with a poor black child has helped kindle a nationwide reckoning over racism in a country that has traditionally claimed to be largely free of it.
Imagining the Mulatta: Blackness in U.S. and Brazilian Media

2020-05-26

Mixed-race women and popular culture in Brazil and the United States
Fateful Triangles in Brazil: A Forum on Stuart Hall’s The Fateful Triangle: Race, Ethnicity, Nation, Part II

2020-02-03

In ‘Fateful Triangles in Brazil,’ Part II of Contexto Internacional’s forum on The Fateful Triangle, three scholars work with and against Hall’s arguments from the standpoint of racial politics in Brazil.
The Black Butterfly: Brazilian Slavery and the Literary Imagination

2020-01-31

“The Black Butterfly” focuses on the slavery writings of three of Brazil’s literary giants—Machado de Assis, Castro Alves, and Euclides da Cunha.
The Palgrave International Handbook of Mixed Racial and Ethnic Classification

2020-01-31

This handbook provides a global study of the classification of mixed race and ethnicity at the state level, bringing together a diverse range of country case studies from around the world.
Interracial Marriage and the Meaning of Race

2020-01-10

Dr. Chinyere Osuji discusses her book, “Boundaries of Love: Interracial Marriage and the Meaning of Race”. It’s an amazing work of scholarship rooted in comparing and contrasting black/white marriages in Rio de Janeiro and Los Angeles.
Context-dependence of race self-classification: Results from a highly mixed and unequal middle-income country

2019-10-19

We investigated the association between genomic ancestry, the racial composition of census tracts and individual socioeconomic factors and self-declared race/colour in a cohort of 15,105 Brazilians. Results show that the probability of self-declaring as black or brown increases according to the proportion of African ancestry and varies widely among cities.
How States Make Race: New Evidence from Brazil

2019-10-19

In this article, we ask whether the Brazilian state’s policy turnabout has affected racial subjectivities on the ground, specifically toward mirroring the categories used by the state.
Racial Intermarriage in the Americas

2019-10-19

We propose a theory of intergenerational mixture and intermarriage and discuss implications for the role of preferences versus structure, universalism and education, and mulato escape-hatch theory.
Freedom and Frustration: Rachel Dolezal and the Meaning of Race

2019-08-18

The meanings of who is White and who is Black in the United States have shifted over centuries, and who gets slotted into what category changes across societies.

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