Mixed Race Studies

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Day: September 13, 2010

  • Soul Search

    Soul Search The Post Cork, Ireland 2010-09-05 Nadine O’Regan When poet and novelist Jackie Kay started the search for her birth parents, she didn’t realise how traumatic a journey it would be, though she doesn’t regret doing it. Jackie Kay met her birth father for the first time in a hotel room in Abuja, Nigeria,…

  • Mentality of Racial Hybrids

    Mentality of Racial Hybrids American Journal of Sociology Volume 36, Number 4 (January 1931) pages 534-551 DOI: 10.1086/215474 Robert E. Park (1864-1944), Professor of Sociology University of Chicago Racial hybrids are one of the natural and inevitable results of migration and the consequent mingling of divergent racial stocks.  The motives bringing peoples of divergent races…

  • Race and Marriage

    Race and Marriage American Journal of Sociology Volume 15, Number 4 (January 1910) pages 433-453 DOI: 10.1086/211800 Ulysses G. Weatherly (1865-1940), Associate Professor of History, Economics and Sociology Indiana University The aversion exhibited by most animals to pairing with individuals of another species has been attributed by Westermarck to the selective power of hereditary instinct.  those…

  • The Problem of the Marginal Man

    The Problem of the Marginal Man American Journal of Sociology Volume 41, Number 1 (July 1935) Pages 1-12 DOI: 10.1086/217001 Everett V. Stonequist (1901-1979), Professor of Sociology Skidmore College The marginal man arises in a bi-cultural or multi-cultural situation.  The natural desire of the mixed-blood is to advance toward the group occupying the higher status.  He…

  • AMCV 1611J – Sex, Love, Race: Miscegenation, Mixed Race and Interracial Relations

    AMCV 1611J – Sex, Love, Race: Miscegenation, Mixed Race and Interracial Relations Brown University Fall 2010 Ulli K. Ryder This class will explore the conditions and consequences for crossing racial boundaries in North America. We will take a multidisciplinary approach, exploring literary, anthropological, and historical writings along with several feature and documentary film treatments of…

  • In mixed-race couples, fathers profoundly influence their children’s racial identifications

    In mixed-race couples, fathers profoundly influence their children’s racial identifications Research@Rice 2006-09-15 In mixed-race couples, fathers profoundly influence their children’s racial identifications. Interracial marriage increased seven-fold from 1970 to 2000, and how the children of these marriages view their racial identity has a lot to do with their father’s race and the number of father-child…