Mixed Race Studies

Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.

recent posts

about

Month: February 2010

  • The Bluest Eye [Review of The Girl Who Fell from the Sky]

    The Bluest Eye [Review of The Girl Who Fell from the Sky] The New York Times 2010-02-25 Louisa Thomas, Contributing Editor Newsweek Magazine The Girl Who Fell from the Sky. By Heidi W. Durrow. (Chapel Hill, North Carolina: Algonquin Books, 2010. 264 pages. Cloth ISBN-13: 9781565126800) There’s a reason many great social justice novels are…

  • The Voices Project Screening and Discussion: Multi-Racial Identities, Part 1

    The Voices Project Screening and Discussion: Multi-Racial Identities, Part 1 Oregon State University Wednesday, 2010-03-03 12:00-13:00 PST (Local Time) Memorial Union Room: Journey Room Contact: Diane Davis OSU students, staff and faculty share their experiences and challenges of being multiracial at OSU and in life. They address issues such as their identity and when they…

  • Deterritorialised Blackness: (Re)making coloured identities in South Africa

    Deterritorialised Blackness: (Re)making coloured identities in South Africa postamble Volume 2, Number 1 2006 Janette Yarwood, Doctoral Candidate Department of Anthropology City University of New York “When I was a kid in the early eighties, this music [hip-hop] was the first I’d heard that I could relate to. You know, ‘Fuck da Police’, and all…

  • Dominic Mhiripiri ’12: Please. Mr. Obama is not black

    Dominic Mhiripiri ’12: Please. Mr. Obama is not black The Brown Daily Herald 2010-02-03 Dominic Mhiripiri, Opinions Columnist Recently, the United States marked the first anniversary of Barack Obama’s historic ascent to the apex of American politics. For a candidate who electrified a whole generation of American youth and whose promise gave the whole world…

  • Blood-Lines That Waver South: Hybridity, the “South,” and American Bodies

    Blood-Lines That Waver South: Hybridity, the “South,” and American Bodies Southern Quarterly Volume 41, Number 1 (Fall 2003) pages 39-52 Tace Hedrick, Associate Professor of English University of Florida In the paper I investigate a certain kind of imaginative response, especially on the part of mixed-race artists, to the prevalence of racialized discourses of modernity…

  • Sociology Noir: Studies at the University of Chicago in Loneliness, Marginality and Deviance, 1915–1935

    Sociology Noir: Studies at the University of Chicago in Loneliness, Marginality and Deviance, 1915–1935 McFarland Publishers 2007 196 pages 7 photos, bibliography, index softcover ISBN: 978-0-7864-2990-5 Roger A. Salerno, Professor of Sociology Pace University, New York Between 1915 and 1935 the University of Chicago was the center for the production of innovative sociological research that…

  • Place, scale and the racial claims made for multiracial children in the 1990 US Census

    Place, scale and the racial claims made for multiracial children in the 1990 US Census Ethnic and Racial Studies Volume 32, Issue 3 (March 2009) pages 522 – 547 Steven R. Holloway, Professor of Geography University of Georgia Richard Wright, Orvil E. Dryfoos Professor of Geography and Public Affairs and Geography Department Chair Dartmouth College…

  • “Remarkable” Mixed-Race Family in 20th Century Is Subject of Book Discussion [with Book Signing by the Author]

    “Remarkable” Mixed-Race Family in 20th Century Is Subject of Book Discussion [with Book Signing by the Author] James Madison Building Dining Room A, Sixth Floor, J 101 Independence Aveune, SE Washington, DC 2010-03-03, 12:30 EST (Local Time) Webcast Time: 00:59:24 Adele Logan Alexander, Professor of History George Washington University “Parallel Worlds” Focuses on “the Enduring (In)significance…

  • Race and the “One Drop Rule” in the Post-Reconstruction South

    Race and the “One Drop Rule” in the Post-Reconstruction South Renegade South: Histories of Unconventional Southerners 2009-03-17 Victoria E. Bynum, Emeritus Professor of History Texas State University, San Marcos Many people, perhaps most, think of “race” as an objective reality. Historically, however, racial categorization has been unstable, contradictory, and arbitrary. Consider the term “passing.” Most of…

  • The Sorcery of Color: Identity, Race, and Gender in Brazil

    The Sorcery of Color: Identity, Race, and Gender in Brazil Temple University Press November 2006 336 pages 6×9 6 tables Paper EAN: 978-1-59213-351-2; ISBN: 1-59213-351-7 Cloth EAN: 978-1-59213-350-5; ISBN: 1-59213-350-9 Electronic Book EAN: 978-1-59213-352-9 Elisa Larkin Nascimento, Director IPEAFRO Afro-Brazilian Studies and Research Institute, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Originally published in 2003 in Portuguese, The…