Mixed Race Studies

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  • Visualizing a Critical Mixed-Race Theory

    This paper argues that the visually mixed-race person has a certain direct ability to challenge the binary and its racist logic. Furthermore, this paper goes on to offer a unique interpretation of where power for working against a racially oppressive system lies within critical mixed-race theory.

  • Obama’s Presidential (Mixed) Race: Framing and Ideological Analysis of Blogs and News

    Obama’s Presidential (Mixed) Race: Framing and Ideological Analysis of Blogs and News University of New Mexico, Albuquerque July 2011 217 pages Iliana P. Rucker DISSERTATION Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy Communication The election of Barack Obama as President of the United States brought a heightened awareness…

  • Tent of Miracles: Myth of racial democracy

    Tent of Miracles: Myth of racial democracy Jump Cut: A Review of Contemporary Media Number 21 (November 1979) pages 20-22 Joan R. Dassin Tent of Miracles (Tenda dos Milagres), says its director Nelson Pereira dos Santos, is a clear direct film that confronts a human question—that of racial discrimination—with great frankness and humor. Completed in…

  • The Politics of Multiracialism with Dr. Ralina Joseph

    The Politics of Multiracialism with Dr. Ralina Joseph Voxunion 2010-03-23 Jared A. Ball, Host and Associate Professor of Communication Studies Morgan State University, Baltimore, Maryland Ralina L. Joseph, Associate Professor of Communications University of Washington The struggles surrounding the politics of identity seem at new heights these days and to help bring some historical context…

  • “My Daughter Married a Negro”: Interracial Relationships in the United States as Portrayed in Popular Media, 1950-1975

    “My Daughter Married a Negro”: Interracial Relationships in the United States as Portrayed in Popular Media, 1950-1975 Journal of Undergraduate Research University of Wisconsin, La Crosse Volume VIII (2005) 13 pages Melissa Magnuson-Cannady Between 1948 and 1967, thirty states either repealed their anti-miscegenation laws or the states’ laws themselves were struck down as unconstitutional by…

  • Marcia Dawkins to be Featured Guest on Mixed Chicks Chat

    Marcia Dawkins to be Featured Guest on Mixed Chicks Chat Mixed Chicks Chat (The only live weekly show about being racially and culturally mixed. Also, founders of the Mixed Roots Film & Literary Festival) Hosted by Fanshen Cox and Heidi W. Durrow Website: TalkShoe™ (Keywords: Mixed Chicks) Episode: #217 – Marcia Dawkins When: Wednesday, 2011-07-27…

  • Manufacturing citizenship: Metapragmatic framings of language competencies in media images of mixed race men in South Korea

    Manufacturing citizenship: Metapragmatic framings of language competencies in media images of mixed race men in South Korea Discourse & Society Volume 22, Number 4 (July 2011) pagesw 440-457 DOI: 10.1177/0957926510395834 Adrienne Lo, Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Asian American Studies University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Jenna Kim Department of Educational Psychology University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign This…

  • Oreo, Topdeck and Eminem: Hybrid identities and global media flows

    Oreo, Topdeck and Eminem: Hybrid identities and global media flows International Journal of Cultural Studies Volume 14, Nubmer 2 (March 2011) pages 153-172 DOI: 10.1177/1367877910387971 Jane Stadler, Senior Lecturer in Film and Media Studies University of Queensland, Australia The slang terms Oreo (someone who looks black but acts white) and Topdeck (someone who looks white…

  • The Missing Bi-racial Child in Hollywood

    The Missing Bi-racial Child in Hollywood Canadian Review of American Studies Volume 37, Number 2 (2007) pages 239-263 E-ISSN: 1710-114X; Print ISSN: 0007-7720 Naomi Angel The growing interest in issues pertaining to “mixed-race” identities and communities, as well as a surge in films with “mixed-race” characters has prompted this examination of representations of “mixedrace” characters…

  • Mediating Blackness: Afro Puerto Rican Women and Popular Culture

    Mediating Blackness: Afro Puerto Rican Women and Popular Culture University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign 2011-06-14 145 pages Maritza Quiñones-Rivera A Dissertation Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Communications in the Graduate College of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign In my dissertation I discuss how blackness, femaleness…