Category: Dissertations

  • Assessing Shifting Racial Boundaries: Racial Classification of Biracial Asian Children in the 2000 Census Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University 2009-12-07 77 pages Sara Megan McDonough Thesis submitted to the faculty of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in Sociology. This…

  • The Complexities of the Visible: Mexican Women’s Experiences of Racism, Mestizaje and National Identity Goldsmiths College, University of London 2006 Monica Moreno Figueroa, Lecturer in Sociology Newcastle University, United Kingdom The thesis analyses the contemporary practices of racism in relation to discourses of mestizaje in Mexico. It focuses on the qualities of women’s experiences of…

  • Mutants, mudbloods, and futureheroes: Mixed race identity in contemporary narrative The University of New Mexico May 2008 327 pages Publication Number: AAT 3318087 ISBN: 9780549676652 Felecia Rose Caton-Garcia A Dissertation Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy American Studies The University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico At…

  • Race marks: Miscegenation in nineteenth-century American fiction University of Massachusetts, Amherst 1997 195 pages Kimberly Anne Hicks This dissertation examines the process of miscegenation in the work of four authors who occupy pivotal positions in American writing about race. It is concerned with a variety of fictional and non-fictional texts produced by William Wells Brown,…

  • My People Will Sleep for One Hundred Years: Story of a Métis Self University of Victoria 2004 106 pages Sylvia Rae Cottell, B.F.A. Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts in the Department of Educational Psychology and Leadership Studies…

  • Multiracial Men in Toronto: Identities, Masculinities and Multiculturalism Masters Thesis of Education Department of Sociology and Equity Studies in Education Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto 2009-12-11 Danielle Lafond University of Toronto This thesis draws from ten qualitative semi-structured interviews with multiracial men in Toronto. It is an exploratory study that examines…

  • Emerging whole from Native-Canadian relations: mixed ancestry narratives: a thesis University of British Columbia 1999-04-25 Dawn Marsden Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Masters of Arts in the Department of Educational Stuides. After hundreds of years of contact, the relationships between the people of Native Nations and the Canadian Nation…

  • Living, writing and staging racial hybridity University of British Columbia January 2006 380 pages 37 photographs/illustrations Lisa Michelle La Flamme A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements of the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Faculty of Graduate Studies. Contemporary Canadian literature and drama that features racial hybridity represents the racially hybrid…

  • Multiracial Politics or the Politics of Being Multiracial?: Racial Theory, Civic Engagement, and Political Participation in a Contemporary Society Jungmiwha Bullock University of Southern California This dissertation is an interdisciplinary, multi-method, and multi-site project that investigates where race as a social construction and outdated biological explanations of race contradict in the twenty-first century, using grassroots…

  • Coloring the Caribbean: Agostino Brunias and the Painting of Race in the British West Indies, 1765-1800 Mia L. Bagneris, Doctoral Candidate in the Department of African and African American Studies Harvard University This dissertation explores interracial themes in the work of Agostino Brunias, a little known but fascinating Italian artist who painted for British patrons…