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Day: August 27, 2010

  • Mexipino: A History of Multiethnic Identity and the Formation of the Mexican and Filipino Communities of San Diego, 1900-1965

    Mexipino: A History of Multiethnic Identity and the Formation of the Mexican and Filipino Communities of San Diego, 1900-1965 (From T-RACES: a Testbed for the Redlining Archives of California’s Exclusionary Spaces) University of California, Santa Barbara June 2007 488 pages Rudy P. Guevarra, Jr., Assistant Professor, Asian Pacific American Studies, School of Social Transformation, College…

  • Between Hoax and Hope: Miscegenation and Nineteenth-Century Interracial Romance

    Between Hoax and Hope: Miscegenation and Nineteenth-Century Interracial Romance Literature Compass Volume 3, Issue 4 (July 2006) pages 648–657 DOI: 10.1111/j.1741-4113.2006.00345.x Katharine Nicholson Ings, Associate Professor of English Manchester College, North Manchester, Indiana This essay surveys recent scholarship on interracial romance during the nineteenth century using the hoax Miscegenation pamphlet of 1863 as a lens.…

  • Illegal fictions : white women writers and the miscegenated imagination 1857-1869 (E. D. E. N. Southworth, Louisa May Alcott, Rebecca Harding Davis, Lydia Maria Child)

    Illegal fictions : white women writers and the miscegenated imagination 1857-1869 (E. D. E. N. Southworth, Louisa May Alcott, Rebecca Harding Davis, Lydia Maria Child) Indiana University 2000 Katharine Nicholson Ings, Associate Professor of English Manchester College, North Manchester, Indiana This dissertation examines how popular nineteenth-century white women writers depicted interracial romance in their fiction.…

  • School Racial Composition and Biracial Adolescents’ School Attachment

    School Racial Composition and Biracial Adolescents’ School Attachment Sociological Quarterly Volume 51, Issue 1 (Winter 2010) Published Online: 2010-01-15 Pages 150 – 178 DOI: 10.1111/j.1533-8525.2009.01166.x Simon Cheng, Associate Professor of Sociology University of Connecticut Joshua Klugman, Assistant Professor of Sociology and Psychology Temple University Despite extensive research on multiracial youth in recent years, to date, no…

  • Demographic Knowledge and Nation-Building: The Peruvian Census of 1940

    Demographic Knowledge and Nation-Building: The Peruvian Census of 1940 Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte Published online 2010-08-03 DOI: 10.1002/bewi.201001471 Raúl Necochea López McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada Demographic Knowledge and Nation-Building: The Peruvian Census of 1940. The demographers who organized the 1940 census of Peru portrayed the increasingly mixed-race Peruvian population as indicative of the breaking down…

  • What’s in a name? An exploration of the significance of personal naming of ‘mixed’ children for parents from different racial, ethnic and faith backgrounds

    What’s in a name? An exploration of the significance of personal naming of ‘mixed’ children for parents from different racial, ethnic and faith backgrounds The Sociological Review Volume 56, Issue 1, February 2008 pages 39–60 DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-954X.2008.00776.x Rosalind Edwards, Professor in Social Policy Families & Social Capital Research Group London South Bank University Chamion Caballero,…

  • The Racial Politics of Mixed Race

    The Racial Politics of Mixed Race Journal of Social Philosophy Volume 30, Issue 2, Summer 1999 pages 276–294 DOI: 10.1111/0047-2786.00018 Lisa Tessman, Associate Professor of Philosophy and Women’s Studies Binghamton University, State University of New York Recently there has been an increasing amount of attention given in academic, political, and popular settings in the United…

  • The Geography of a Mixed-Race Society

    The Geography of a Mixed-Race Society Growth and Change: A Journal of Urban And Regional Policy Volume 40, Issue 4 (December 2009) Pages 565 – 593 DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-2257.2009.00501.x William A. V. Clark, Professor of Geography University of California, Los Angeles Reagan Maas University of California, Los Angeles The pattern and level of separation among ethnic…