Mixed Race Studies

Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.

Day: April 9, 2011

Mixed Blood: An analytical look at methods of classifying race

2011-04-09

Mixed Blood: An analytical look at methods of classifying race Psyhcology Today 1995-11-01 Jefferson M. Fish, Professor Emeritus of Psychology St. John’s University, New York, New York An analytical look at methods of classifying race. Race is an immutable biological given, right? So how come the author’s daughter can change her race just by getting…
“Mulata, Hija de Negro y India”: Afro-Indigenous Mulatos in Early Colonial Mexico

2011-04-09

“Mulata, Hija de Negro y India”: Afro-Indigenous Mulatos in Early Colonial Mexico Journal of Social History Volume 44, Number 3 (Spring 2011) pages 889-914 E-ISSN: 1527-1897; Print ISSN: 0022-4529 DOI: 10.1353/jsh.2011.0007 Robert C. Schwaller, Lecturer of History University of North Carolinia, Charlotte Since the fifteenth century, the term “mulato” has been used to describe individuals…
The Limits of the Choice of Identity

2011-04-09

“A tree, whatever the circumstances, does not become a legume, a vine, or a cow,” explains Kwame Anthony Appiah in The Ethics Of Identity. “The reasonable middle view is that constructing an identity is a good thing (if self-authorship is a good thing) but that the identity must make some kind of sense. And for…