Mixed Race Studies

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Day: October 21, 2009

  • 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.…

  • Mixing It Up: Multiracial Subjects

    Mixing It Up: Multiracial Subjects University of Texas Press 2004 6 x 9 in. 225 pages ISBN: 978-0-292-74345-8 Print-on-demand title Edited by: SanSan Kwan, Associate Professor of Dance, Performance Studies University of California, Berkeley and Kenneth Speirs (1964-2013), Professor of English University of California, Berkeley Foreword by Naomi Zack, Professor of Philosophy University of Oregon The…

  • Queer in Black and White: Interraciality, Same Sex Desire, and Contemporary African American Culture

    This book analyzes representative works of African American fiction, film, and music in which interracial desire appears in the context of same sex desire. In close readings of these “texts,” Stefanie K. Dunning explores the ways in which the interracial intersects with queerness, blackness, whiteness, class, and black national identity.