Mixed Race Studies

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Month: March 2010

  • Commentary: Living in a Mixed-Race America

    Commentary: Living in a Mixed-Race America Essence.com Essence Magazine 2009-10-20 June Cross, Assistant Professor of Journalism Columbia University As if being married had anything to do with Blacks and Whites producing mixed-race children. That was my first thought upon reading that an elected official in Louisiana had refused to marry a Black man and a…

  • Letter from The Census Bureau

    2010-03-09 Steven F. Riley Like most Americans, we received a letter in the mail yesterday from the US Census Bureau notifying us of the forthcoming census… Most relevant to this website is the option on the form for individuals to select one or more racial designations the potential consequences for public policy.  As a result in…

  • The Girl Who Fell from the Sky: A Novel

    The Girl Who Fell from the Sky: A Novel Algonquin Books 2010 256 pages ISBN-13: 9781565126800 Heidi W. Durrow This debut novel tells the story of Rachel, the daughter of a Danish mother and a black G.I. who becomes the sole survivor of a family tragedy. With her strict African American grandmother as her new…

  • 2010 Census: Think Twice, Check Once

    2010 Census: Think Twice, Check Once The Huffington Post 2010-03-08 Michele Elam, Martin Luther King, Jr. Centennial Professor of English and Olivier Nomellini Family University Fellow in Undergraduate Stanford University The federal government is taking a road trip, dubbed the 2010 Census Portrait of America Road Tour, to try to convince “hard-to-count audiences” to participate…

  • Integrating Multiple Identities: Multiracials and Asian-Americans in the United States (Review Essay)

    Integrating Multiple Identities: Multiracials and Asian-Americans in the United States (Review Essay) Canadian Journal of Sociology Volume 33, Number 2 (2008) pages 397-403 Wendy D. Roth, Assistant Professor of Sociology University of British Columbia, Canada Kimberly McClain DaCosta, Making Multiracials: State, Family, and Market in the Redrawing of the Color Line. Stanford: Stanford University Press,…

  • The End of the One-Drop Rule? Labeling of Multiracial Children in Black Intermarriages

    The End of the One-Drop Rule? Labeling of Multiracial Children in Black Intermarriages Sociological Forum Volume 20, Number 1 (March, 2005) pages 35-67 Print ISSN: 0884-8971, Online ISSN: 1573-7861 DOI: 10.1007/s11206-005-1897-0 Wendy D. Roth, Assistant Professor of Sociology University of British Columbia, Canada The identity choices of multiracial individuals with Black heritage have traditionally been…

  • Fixing the Color Line: The Mulatto, Southern Courts, and Racial Identity

    Fixing the Color Line: The Mulatto, Southern Courts, and Racial Identity American Quarterly Volume 53, Number 3 (September 2001) pages 420-451 E-ISSN: 1080-6490 Print ISSN: 0003-0678 DOI: 10.1353/aq.2001.0033 Teresa Zackodnik, Professor of English University of Alberta, Canada In July 1857 Abby Guy sued for her freedom and that of her four children in an Arkansas…

  • Mapping Race through Admixture

    Mapping Race through Admixture The International Journal of Technology, Knowledge and Society Volume 4, Issue 4 (2008) pages 79-84 Catherine Bliss, Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Race and Science Studies Department of Africana Studies Brown University Mapping Admixture Linkage Disequilibrium (MALD) is a technology that separates genomic ancestral lineages to identify disease genes. In the…

  • Researching Mixed Heritage: Professors Study Racial Identification Questions

    Researching Mixed Heritage: Professors Study Racial Identification Questions inside California State University, Fullerton 2009-11-02 Mikel Hogan, Anthropologist, Chair and Professor of Human Services California State University, Fullerton H. Rika Houston, Professor of Marketing California State University, Los Angeles Although racial identification has been a part of the U.S. Census policy since its inception, neither race…

  • Passing as Mixed Race

    Passing as Mixed Race Open Salon 2010-03-03 Marcia Dawkins, Assistant Professor of Human Communication California State University, Fullerton Alexandre Dumas has always been one of my favorite writers. Works like The Three Musketeers, The Count of Monte Cristo and Georges took me on countless adventures in worlds and times much different from my own. But…