Mixed Race Studies

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Month: January 2010

  • Part Asian, 100% Hapa: Portraits by Kip Fulbeck

    Part Asian, 100% Hapa — Originally a derogatory label derived from the Hawaiian word for half, Hapa is now being embraced as a term of pride by many people of Asian or Pacific Rim mixed-race heritage. Award-winning film producer and artist Kip Fulbeck has created a forum in word and image for Hapas to answer…

  • The American Melting Pot? Miscegenation Laws in the United States

    The American Melting Pot? Miscegenation Laws in the United States Organization of American Historians Magazine of History Volume 15, Number 4, Summer 2001 pages 80-84 Bárbara C. Cruz, Associate Professor of Social Science Education University of South Florida, Tampa Michael J. Berson, Associate Professor of Social Science Education University of South Florida People of mixed heritage have…

  • Shades of Citizenship: Race and the Census in Modern Politics

    Shades of Citizenship: Race and the Census in Modern Politics Stanford University Press 2000 256 pages 4 tables. Cloth ISBN-10: 0804740135 Cloth ISBN-13: 9780804740135 Paper ISBN-10: 0804740593 Paper ISBN-13: 9780804740593 Melissa Nobles, Arthur and Ruth Sloan Professor of Political Science Massachusetts Institute of Technology This book explores the politics of race, censuses, and citizenship, drawing…

  • Post-Race on America’s Next Top Model

    Post-Race on America’s Next Top Model International Communication Association, TBA 2007 Conference San Francisco, CA 2007-05-23 Ralina L. Joseph, Assistant Professor of Communications, American Ethnic Studies and Women Studies University of Washington African American supermodel Tyra Banks’s popular reality show for aspiring young models, America’s Next Top Model, both reflects and produces twenty-first century ideals…

  • Sexual Naturalization: Asian Americans and Miscegenation

    Sexual Naturalization: Asian Americans and Miscegenation Stanford University Press 2005 224 pages Cloth ISBN-10: 0804747288; ISBN-13: 9780804747288 Paper ISBN-10: 0804747296; ISBN-13: 9780804747295 Susan Koshy, Associate Professor of English and Asian American Studies University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Sexual Naturalization offers compelling new insights into the racialized constitution of American nationality. In the first major interdisciplinary study…

  • Mixed Blood: Intermarriage and Ethnic Identity in Twentieth-Century America

    Mixed Blood: Intermarriage and Ethnic Identity in Twentieth-Century America University of Wisconsin Press December 1989 544 pages 6 x 9, 4 tables Paperback ISBN-10: 0-299-12114-3 Paperback ISBN-13: 978-0-299-12114-3 Paul R. Spickard, Professor of History University of California, Santa Barbara Named an “Outstanding Book on Human Rights in the United States” by the Gustavus Myers Center…

  • More Than Black? Humanitis Series

    More Than Black? Humanitis Series University of California Television February 2003 00:50:32 G. Reginald Daniel, Professor of Sociology University of California, Santa Barbara Introduced by: Paul R. Spickard, Professor of History University of California, Santa Barbara In the United States, anyone with even a trace of African American ancestry has been considered Black. Even as the…

  • Negotiating Social Contexts: Identities of Biracial College Women

    This book examines the identification choices of a group of biracial college women and explores how these identifications relate to their choices and constructions of different social contexts.

  • Working with Multiracial Students: Critical Perspectives on Research and Practice

    Working with Mixed Heritage Students offers a collection of writings that bridges the social science and educational literature related to mixed heritage identity development and schooling in diverse contexts.

  • Counseling Multiracial Families

    Counseling Multiracial Families SAGE Publications 1999 208 pages Paperback ISBN: 9780761915911 Hardcover ISBN: 9780761915904 Bea Wehrly, Professor Emeritus of Counselor Education Western Illinois University Kelley R. Kenney, Professor of Counseling & Human Services Kutztown University, Kutztown, Pennsylvania Multicultural Education and Consulting, Sinking Spring, Pennsylvania Mark Kenney, Adjunct Professor Kutztown University, Kutztown, Pennsylvania Multicultural Education and…