Day: August 8, 2011

  • My academic research is on racial categories in national censuses.  When I first started reading about the push to get a “mixed-race” category on the U.S. census in the 1990s, I was absolutely on the side of the multiracial movement. I thought the census should recognize our identities, no matter how complicated they may be. …

  • In contrast to Blacks and Asians, anti-miscegenation laws were seldom applied to Native Americans and never mentioned Latinos. The reasons for the lenient treatment of Latinos and Native Americans are quite similar. In both cases, these groups first came into contact with Whites when frontiers were being settled. At the outset, Whites had much to…

  • Latinos are “Mixed,” Too News Taco: The Latino Daily 2011-07-14 Chantilly Patiño, blogger Bicultural Mom Most times, Americans don’t think of Latinos as being mixed or multicultural, but in reality Latinos are leaders of multiculturalism and mixed families.  Start off with the fact that most Latinos come from a combination of European and Native ancestry,…

  • Mixed Race Season BBC Press Office BBC Two Summer & Autumn 2011 Diverse, stimulating and rewarding television on BBC Two 2011-06-22 Mixed-race Britain is put under the spotlight this autumn in a collection of revealing new programmes. With a mix of drama and documentaries, the season provides a window into the varied lives of mixed-race…

  • Mulatto Theology: Race, Discipleship, and Interracial Existence Duke University 2009 290 pages Brian Keith Bantum, Assistant Professor of Theology Seattle Pacific University Dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Department of Religion in the Graduate School of Duke University To exist racially “in-between,” being neither…