Month: October 2011

  • Mixed-race numbers double since 2000 The Tuscaloosa News Tuscaloosa, Alabama 2011-10-04 Dana Beyerle, Montgomery Bureau Chief More than twice as many people in Alabama say they are of two races than 10 years earlier MONTGOMERY | Alabama’s black population increased slightly between 2000 and 2010, but the number of people claiming mixed-race status more than…

  • This paper argues that the visually mixed-race person has a certain direct ability to challenge the binary and its racist logic. Furthermore, this paper goes on to offer a unique interpretation of where power for working against a racially oppressive system lies within critical mixed-race theory.

  • ‘Going out of stock’: Mulattoes and Levantines in Italian literature and cinema of the Fascist period University of Connecticut 2008 255 pages Publication Number: AAT 3329116 ISBN: 9780549826118 Rosetta Giuliani Caponetto A Dissertation Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Connecticut My dissertation examines,…

  • Race and Class in Political Science Michigan Journal of Race and Law Volume 11, Issue 1 (Fall 2005) pages 99-114 Jennifer L. Hochschild, Henry LaBarre Jayne Professor of Government and Professor of African and African American Studies Harvard University As a discipline, political science tends to have a split personality on the issue of whether…

  • Who Will You Let Me Be? Race, Ethnicity, and Me: Autobiographical Reflections by Trinity University Students Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas Fall 2008 Claire Murphy-Cook Race, Ethnicity, and Me is a collection of autobiographical essays written by Trinity University students as an assignment for a course taught by Professor David Spener in the Department of…

  • The right colour Index on Censorship Volume 28, Issue 1, 1999 Special Issue: The Last Empire pages 110-114 DOI: 10.1080/03064229908536514 Daniela Cestarollo Five hundred years after the arrival of the Portuguese, Brazilians are only Just beginning to address the legacy of slavery Brazil is at last revealing its other face. After 500 years of seeking…

  • Brazil’s unfinished battle for racial democracy The Economist 2000-04-20 JOSILENE SALES’S career is typical of Brazil’s emerging middle class. She spent seven years working in a petrochemical plant, while studying for a degree at night classes. Having moved to a better paid job in marketing, she saved enough to start her own telemarketing firm in…

  • Britain: More mixed than we thought British Broadcasting Corporation 2011-10-07 Mark Easton, Home editor New figures seen by the BBC suggest our mixed race population may be twice the size of official figures—numbering up to two million people Looking at some new figures on ethnic minorities in Britain the other day, I glanced at a…

  • Human Genetic Diversity and the Nonexistence of Biological Races Human Biology Volume 75, Number 4, August 2003 pages 449-471 Rich Kittles, Associate Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology and Biostatistics University of Illinois, Chicago Jeffrey C. Long, Professor of Anthropology University of New Mexico, Albuquerque Sewall Wright’s population structure statistic, FST, measured among samples of world…

  • This article examines a controversial report that focused negatively on mixed heritage children born and raised in the city of Liverpool. The official title was: “Report on an Investigation into the Colour Problem in Liverpool and Other Ports.”  The social researcher was Muriel E. Fletcher, who had been trained in the Liverpool School of Social…