Mixed Race Studies

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Month: October 2009

  • Thinking Outside the White Box

    Thinking Outside the White Box University of Southern California USC News Cristy Lytal On: 2009-10-12 18:31 “I am not part this or part that but whole. I am me.” That’s how one of USC’s multiracial students described herself at the Face It!: Project ReMiX Kickoff event at El Centro Chicano on Sept. 22. More than…

  • From Jamestown 1607 to 2007, the American Mosaic: A Multicultural Society

    From Jamestown 1607 to 2007, the American Mosaic: A Multicultural Society National Association of Independent Schools (NAIS) People of Color Conference 2006 Christine Madsen Rocky Mount Academy (North Carolina) Some of the original settlers in colonial Virginia formed self-sustaining mixed race communities. The history of these communities will be used as an entrance point to…

  • What Are You? The Changing Face of America with Kip Fulbeck

    What Are You? The Changing Face of America with Kip Fulbeck National Association of Independent Schools (NAIS) 2010 Annual Conference Dates: 2010-02-24 through 2010-02-26 Moscone Convention Center West San Francisco, California, USA Adapt, Survive, Thrive: Unleashing the Superpowers Within Kip Fulbeck, Professor of Performative Studies, Video University of California, Santa Barbara Friday, 2010-02-26 13:30 –…

  • Parenting ‘mixed’ children: difference and belonging in mixed race and faith families

    Parenting ‘mixed’ children: difference and belonging in mixed race and faith families Joseph Rowntree Foundaton 2008-06-20 Chamion Caballero, Senior Research Fellow Families & Social Capital Research Group London South Bank University  Rosalind Edwards, Professor in Social Policy Families and Social Capital Research Group London South Bank University Shuby Puthussery, Senior Research Fellow Family and Parenting…

  • The House at the End of the Road: The Story of Three Generations of an Interracial Family in the American South

    In 1914, in defiance of his middle-class landowning family, a young white man named James Morgan Richardson married a light-skinned black woman named Edna Howell. Over more than twenty years of marriage, they formed a strong family and built a house at the end of a winding sandy road in South Alabama, a place where…

  • Scattered Belongings: Cultural Paradoxes of Race, Nation and Gender

    When the American golfer Tiger Woods proclaimed himself a “Caublinasian”, affirming his mixed Caucasian, Black, Native American and Asian ancestry, a storm of controversy was created.  This book is about people faced by the strain of belonging and not belonging within the narrow confines of the terms ‘Black’ or ‘White’.

  • Black, White or Mixed Race? Race and Racism in the Lives of Young People of Mixed Parentage, 2nd Edition

    Black, White or Mixed Race? Race and Racism in the Lives of Young People of Mixed Parentage, 2nd Edition Routledge an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group 2001-11-22 272 pages ISBN: 978-0-415-25982-8 Binding: Paperback (also available in Hardback) Trim Size: 216 x 138 Ann Phoenix, Professor and Co-Director of the Thomas Coram Research Unit…

  • Race Mixture in Nineteenth-Century U.S. and Spanish American Fictions: Gender, Culture, and Nation Building

    Race mixture has played a formative role in the history of the Americas, from the western expansion of the United States to the political consolidation of emerging nations in Latin America. Debra J. Rosenthal examines nineteenth-century authors in the United States and Spanish America who struggled to give voice to these contemporary dilemmas about interracial…

  • Mixing Race, Mixing Culture: Inter-American Literary Dialogues

    Mixing Race, Mixing Culture: Inter-American Literary Dialogues University of Texas Press 2002 6 x 9 in. 324 pp., 4 photos, 1 chart ISBN: 978-0-292-74348-9 Print-on-demand title Edited by Monika Kaup, Assistant Professor of English University of Washington, Seattle Debra Rosenthal, Assistant Professor of English John Carroll University Over the last five centuries, the story of…

  • Demystifying the Tragic Mulatta: The Biracial Woman as Spectacle

    Demystifying the Tragic Mulatta: The Biracial Woman as Spectacle Stanford Black Arts Quarterly Volume 2, Issue 3 (Summer/Spring 1997) pages 12-14 Stefanie Dunning, Associate Professor Miami University (of Ohio) To talk about the complexities of subjectivity is to enter into a discussion which necessarily locates itself at the intersection of race, clans, gender and sexuality.…