Mixed Race Studies

Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.

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Month: November 2011

  • My hero: Audre Lorde by Jackie Kay

    Refusal to be defined by single categories: Lorde in 1983.

  • AAS 310: Mixed Race And The Media

    AAS 310: Mixed Race And The Media University of Texas, Austin Center for Asian American Studies Spring 2012 Alexander Cho, Assistant Instructor What is “race,” and what does it mean to be “mixed”? How is mass media responsible for channeling fears, desires, and anxieties about “mixed” bodies? Why are “mixed race” bodies suddenly desirable and…

  • Pacific children of US servicemen for study

    Pacific children of US servicemen for study Otago Daily Times University of Otago, New Zealand 2010-01-05 Allison Rudd World War 2 brought two million United States servicemen to New Zealand and many Pacific Islands. Inevitably, many formed liaisons with local women and fathered possibly several thousand children. What happened to those babies, and, more than…

  • Families on the color-line: patrolling borders and crossing boundaries

    Families on the color-line: patrolling borders and crossing boundaries Race and Society Volume 5, Issue 2, 2002 Pages 139-161 DOI: 10.1016/j.racsoc.2004.01.001 Erica Chito-Childs, Associate Professor of Sociology Hunter College, City University of New York Multiracial couples and families are becoming increasingly more common, yet opposition to these relationships still exists even if it is often…

  • The Enculturated Gene: Sickle Cell Health Politics and Biological Difference in West Africa

    The Enculturated Gene: Sickle Cell Health Politics and Biological Difference in West Africa Princeton University Press 2011 368 pages 6 x 9; 7 halftones. 1 line illus. 4 maps Paper ISBN: 9780691123172 Cloth ISBN: 9780691123165 eBook ISBN: 9781400840410 Duana Fullwiley, Associate Professor of African and African American studies and of Medical Anthropology Harvard University In…

  • Racial identity and the spatial assimilation of Mexicans in the United States

    Racial identity and the spatial assimilation of Mexicans in the United States Social Science Research Volume 21, Issue 3 (September 1992) pages 235-260 DOI: 10.1016/0049-089X(92)90007-4 Douglas S. Massey, Henry G. Bryant Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs Princeton University Nancy A. Denton, Professor of Sociology Center for Social and Demographic Analysis State University of New…

  • I wouldn’t, But You Can: Attitudes toward Interracial Relationships

    I wouldn’t, But You Can: Attitudes toward Interracial Relationships Social Science Research Published online: 2011-11-18 DOI: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2011.11.007 Melissa R. Herman, Visiting Researcher of the Research Unit Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung also Assistant Professor, Sociology, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire Mary E. Campbell, Associate Professor of Sociology University of Iowa Using the 2008 Cooperative Congressional Election…

  • Exploring Gloria Anzaldúa’s Methodology in Borderlands/La Frontera—The New Mestiza

    Exploring Gloria Anzaldúa’s Methodology in Borderlands/La Frontera—The New Mestiza Human Architecture: Journal of the Sociology of Self-Knowledge Volume IV, Special Issue, Summer 2006 pages 87-94 ISSN: 1540-5699 Jorge Capetillo-Ponce, Associate Professor of Sociology University of Massachusetts, Boston Gloria Anzaldúa’s Borderlands/La Frontera—The New Mestiza does not fit into the usual critical categories simply because she follows…

  • An Immigrant Neighborhood: Interethnic and Interracial Encounters in New York before 1930

    How the crowded neighborhoods of New York’s Lower East Side gave rise to cross-racial and cross ethnic bonds before 1930

  • …we argue that this knowledge has haunted Americans, who have always almost known about their biracial past.

    We argue that evidence of America’s biracial heritage exists in discursive clues that always almost remind Americans that race was never as pure a distinction as the lexicographers and teachers of official language and histories once inculcated. Though recent scholarship has recovered some of this heritage, we argue that this knowledge has haunted Americans, who…