Mixed Race Studies

Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.

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Black, white or multicultural: constructing race in two countries

2017-09-20

New study compares how people in U.S. and Brazil determine someone’s race
To Be or Not to Be (Black or Multiracial or White): Cultural Variation in Racial Boundaries

2017-09-20

Culture shapes the meaning of race and, consequently, who is placed into which racial categories. Three experiments conducted in the United States and Brazil illustrated the cultural nature of racial categorization.
Brazil In Black And White

2017-08-27

Two radically different ways of seeing race come into sudden conflict in Brazil, provoking a national conversation about who is Black? And who is not Black enough?
Not There Yet

2017-08-10

A conversation with six Fordham Law professors about civil rights.
The limits of affirmative action in Brazil

2017-08-07

Brazil has the highest proportion of so-called “mixed race” people in the world. Yet only 13% of people aged 18 to 24 in that category are enrolled at university. Back in 2012, the government decided to introduce quotas for universities. But recently, the system appears to have stalled.
One Woman’s Fight to Claim Her ‘Blackness’ in Brazil

2017-07-25

The experience of a young lawyer raises difficult questions about race, belonging, and the bureaucracy of affirmative action in a country lauded for its egalitarian history.
Study investigates marks of racism in “interracial families”

2017-07-14

One hundred and twenty-nine years after the abolition of slavery in Brazil, and despite the myth of racial democracy, race-based prejudice is still widespread in Brazilian society – so much so that it can be found even in “interracial families”. This is the conclusion of a study by social psychologist Lia Vainer Schucman.
Brazil’s Ongoing Race Problem: Recent Study Uncovers Shocking Treatment of Darker-Skinned Children in Interracial Families

2017-07-10

Social psychologist finds Black Brazilian children in interracial families face shocking racism.
‘Bleach bath’, clothes pins on the nose and ‘black monkey’: Study exposes racism in interracial families debunking one of Brazil’s greatest myths

2017-06-29

What happens when there is racism in the home? In what way does it manifest? How can interracial marriages generate children who are segregated in their own home environment because of their color?
Research investigates marks of racism in “interracial families”

2017-06-09

The final pillar of the debunked ‘racial democracy’? Post-doctorate research project exposes racism and racial hierarchies within interracial families

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