Mixed Race Studies

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Month: October 2009

  • Passing

    Passing W. W. Norton & Company September 2007 584 pages 5.2 × 8.4 in Paperback ISBN: 978-0-393-97916-9 Nella Larsen Edited by Carla Kaplan, Davis Distinguished Professor of American Literature Northeastern University Nella Larsen is a central figure in African American, Modernist, and women’s literature. Larsen’s status as a Harlem Renaissance woman writer was rivaled by…

  • The Plight of Mixed Race Adolescents

    The Plight of Mixed Race Adolescents First Draft: August 2005 This Version: July 2008 Roland G. Fryer, Jr., Professor of Economics Harvard University and NBER Lisa Kahn, Assistant Professor of Economics Yale School of Management Steven D. Levitt, William B. Ogden Distinguished Service Professor of Economics University of Chicago and American Bar Foundation Jörg L.…

  • Racial Mixture and Affirmative Action: The Cases of Brazil and the United States

    Racial Mixture and Affirmative Action: The Cases of Brazil and the United States The American Historical Review Volume 108, Number 5 December 2003 Thomas E. Skidmore, Carlos Manuel de Céspedes Professor of History Emeritus Brown University For me, as a historian of Brazil, North America’s “one-drop rule” has always seemed odd. No other society in…

  • The Mulatto Advantage: The Biological Consequences of Complexion in Rural Antebellum Virginia

    The Mulatto Advantage: The Biological Consequences of Complexion in Rural Antebellum Virginia Journal of Interdisciplinary History Volume 33, Number 1 (Summer 2002) pp. 21-46 E-ISSN: 1530-9169; Print ISSN: 0022-1953 DOI: 10.1162/00221950260029002 Howard Bodenhorn, Professor of Economics Clemson University Although historians have long noted that African-Americans of mixed-race in the antebellum Lower South were given economic…

  • The Significance of Color Declines: A Re-Analysis of Skin Tone Differentials in Post-Civil Rights America

    The Significance of Color Declines: A Re-Analysis of Skin Tone Differentials in Post-Civil Rights America Social Forces Volume 84, Number 1 September 2005 pp. 157-180 Aaron Gullickson, Assistant Professor University of Oregon Skin tone variation within the United States’ black population has long been associated with intraracial stratification. Skin tone differentials in socioeconomic status reflect…

  • Racial Boundary Formation at the Dawn of Jim Crow: The Determinants and Effects of Black/Mulatto Occupational Differences in the United States, 1880

    Racial Boundary Formation at the Dawn of Jim Crow: The Determinants and Effects of Black/Mulatto Occupational Differences in the United States, 1880 Department Colloquium Series University of Washington, Department of Sociology Savery Hall 2009-10-06 15:30 PDT (Local Time) Aaron Gullickson, Assistant Professor University of Oregon Much of the literature within sociology regarding mixed-race populations focuses…

  • Students Create Course About Mixed Identities

    Students Create Course About Mixed Identities A&S Perspectives College of Arts and Sciences University of Washington Editor: Nancy Joseph July 2009 Last fall, students in the UW Mixed Club—a campus group for students of mixed race—discussed how rarely mixed-race issues were being addressed in their courses. Then they decided to do something about it. That…

  • Identity and Health in the Narratives of People of Mixed Race

    Identity and Health in the Narratives of People of Mixed Race Center for the Advancement of Health Disparities Research 2nd Annual Teach-In: Health Disparities Awareness 2004-05-21 Cathy J. Tashiro, PhD, MPH, RN Nursing Program University of Washington, Tacoma …Why Study People of Mixed Race? A rapidly growing part of the population Seldom acknowledged in studies,…

  • Salt-sweat & Tears

    Salt-sweat & Tears Cinnamon Press March 2007 80 pages 21 x 14 x 0.8 cm Paperback ISBN 10: 1905614187; ISBN-13: 978-1905614189 Louisa Adjoa Parker Of Ghanaian-British descent Louisa Adjoa Parker explores issues of identity, belonging, family and relationships in raw, honest, but crafted pieces. Mulatto Girl See the mulatto girl walking down country lanes and…

  • Toward a Sociology of Racial Conceptualization for the 21st Century

    Toward a Sociology of Racial Conceptualization for the 21st Century Social Forces Volume 87, Number 3, 2009 Pages: 1167-1192 DOI: 10.1353/sof.0.0169 Ann J. Morning, Associate Professor of Sociology New York Univeristy Despite their longstanding interest in race, American sociologists have conducted little empirical research on sociodemographic patterns or longitudinal trends in “racial conceptualization” – that…