Mixed Race Studies

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Day: January 21, 2012

  • Racial/Ethnic Categories: Do They Matter?

    Racial/Ethnic Categories: Do They Matter? Poverty & Race November/December 1994 Lawrence Wright Chester Hartman, Director of Research Poverty & Race Research Action Council Last fall, the House Subcommittee on Census, Statistics and Postal Personnel, chaired by Rep. Thomas Sawyer (D-OH), held a series of hearings on modification of the existing racial categories used by the…

  • Mixing it up: Multiracialism redefines Asian American identity

    Mixing it up: Multiracialism redefines Asian American identity San Francisco Chronicle 2011-02-11 Jeff Yang, Special to SF Gate How the mainstreaming of multiracialism is forcing a more fluid definition of Asian American identity   Like many immigrants, my parents see identity as a bucket. My mother and father had come to America carefully bearing a…

  • For black Americans, multi-racialism is not new

    For black Americans, multi-racialism is not new The Daily Voice 2008-12-17 Sitafa Harden Clearly President-elect Barack Obama, the son of a white American mother and a black Kenyan father, is multi-racial. The only question is what’s so new about that? In a recent article, AP race and ethnicity writer Jesse Washington explored the issue of…

  • Creating a New Racial Order: How Immigration, Multiracialism, Genomics, and the Young Can Remake Race in America

    Creating a New Racial Order: How Immigration, Multiracialism, Genomics, and the Young Can Remake Race in America Princeton University Press March 2012 282 pages 6 x 9; 17 halftones. 14 line illus. 10 tables Cloth ISBN: 9780691152998 eBook ISBN: 9781400841943 Jennifer L. Hochschild, Henry LaBarre Jayne Professor of Government and Professor of African and African…

  • Envisioning Chinese Identity and Managing Multiracialism in Singapore

    Envisioning Chinese Identity and Managing Multiracialism in Singapore International Association of Societies of Design Research Conference 2009-10-18 through 2009-10-22 Coex, Seoul, Korea 9 pages Leong Koon Chan, Associate Professor School of Design Studies University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia Multiracialism and bilingualism are key concepts for national ideology and policy in the management of…

  • The History of the Idea of Race… And Why it Matters

    The position taken by many anthropologists, both biological and social, and increasingly many other scholars in the social sciences is that “race is a cultural construct.” It should be clear that this is not a definition or even a characterization of “race,” but an assertion about the scholarly or existential domain in which we can…

  • The Chinese in Mexico, 1882-1940

    An estimated 60,000 Chinese entered Mexico during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, constituting Mexico’s second-largest foreign ethnic community at the time. “The Chinese in Mexico” provides a social history of Chinese immigration to and settlement in Mexico in the context of the global Chinese diaspora of the era.

  • Mixed Race Studies with Steve Riley

    Mixed Race Studies with Steve Riley BlogtalkRadio: Is That Your Child? 2012-01-20, 19:30 EST/16:30 PST; [2012-01-21, 00:30Z] Michelle McCrary, Host ITYC welcomes creator, founder and editor of the site Mixed Race Studies.org Steve Riley to the podcast this week. In his words, Riley began Mixed Race Studies in April of 2009 “in recognition of our…