Day: September 24, 2009

  • Spurious Issues: Race And Multiracial Identity Politics In The United States Westview Press 1999-08-12 240 pages Hardcover ISBN-10: 0813336775; ISBN-13: 978-0813336770 Rainier Spencer, Director and Professor of Afro-American Studies; Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies University of Nevada, Las Vegas Recent times have seen the rise of a movement lobbying for explicit recognition of multiracial identity as…

  • Shifting Whiteness: A Life History Approach to U.S. White Parents of “Biracial” or “Black” Children Dissertation submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate School of the University of Maryland, College Park in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. Joshua Carter Woodfork, Doctor of Philosophy, 2005 This research examines how…

  • Beautiful beasts: Ambivalence and distinction in the gender identity negotiations of multiracialised women of Thai descent Women’s Studies International Forum Volume 30, Issue 5 (September-October 2007) Pages 391-403 DOI: 10.1016/j.wsif.2007.07.003 Jin Haritaworn, Assistant Professor in Gender, Race and Environment at the Faculty of Environmental Studies York University, Canada This qualitative analysis of interviews with women of…

  • Beyond Racial Exceptionalism: Explaining the Convergence of Mixed-Race Census Categorizations in Canada, the U.S. and Great Britain Canadian Political Science Association 81th Annual Conference 2009-05-27 through 2009-05-29 Debra Thompson, Assistant Professor of Political Science Ohio University By examining racial classifications in national censuses this paper will explore moments of policy convergence that defy domestic explanations…

  • Interrogating the Hyphen-Nation: Canadian Multicultural Policy and ‘Mixed Race’ Identities Social Identities: Journal for the Study of Race, Nation and Culture Volume 8, Number 1, 2002 pages 67-90 Minelle Mahtani, Associate Professor Department of Geography & Planning University Toronto This paper examines the ways ‘mixed race’ women in Canada contemplate their relationship to national identity. Through…

  • Jayne Ifekwunigwe discusses the testimonies of women of ‘mixed race’ parentage in the English-African diaspora.

  • Nation and Miscegenation: Comparing Anti-Miscegenation Regulations in North America Canadian Political Science Association 80th Annual Conference 2008-06-04 through 2008-06-06 Paper Dated: 2008-05 Debra Thompson, Assistant Professor of Political Science Ohio University Nearly forty years after Loving v. Virginia, the historical prohibition of interracial relationships in the United States exemplifies the state’s regulation of intimate life.…

  • The (Mono-) Racial Contract: Mixed-Race Implications Canadian Political Science Association 79th Annual Conference 2007-05-30 through 2007-06-01 Paper Dated: 2007-05-17 Debra Thompson, Assistant Professor of Political Science Ohio University Nearly a decade ago, Charles Mills brought ‘race’ into mainstream political theory through his theory of the Racial Contract; namely, that all social contracts are underwritten by the…