Mixed Race Studies

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Month: December 2012

Staged Bodies: Passing, Performance, and Masquerade in Charles W. Chesnutt’s The House Behind the Cedars

2012-12-17

Staged Bodies: Passing, Performance, and Masquerade in Charles W. Chesnutt’s The House Behind the Cedars MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the U.S. Volume 37, Number 4, Winter 2012 pages 69-91 DOI: 10.1353/mel.2012.0062 Margaret Toth, Assistant Professor of English Manhattan College, Riverdale, New York Henry Louis Gates, Jr., claims that “one of the ironies” of the New…
Dr. Yaba Blay Explores ‘One-Drop’ Rule [VIDEO]

2012-12-16

Dr. Yaba Blay Explores ‘One-Drop’ Rule [VIDEO] NewsOne: For Black America 2012-12-14 Jeff Mays Remember when President Barack Obama won in 2008 and pundits started asking if the United States was post-racial because we had a Black man in the White House? Well, people like Dr. Yaba Blay (pictured) knew better. Blay, an…
Demographic, residential, and socioeconomic effects on the distribution of nineteenth-century African-American stature

2012-12-16

Demographic, residential, and socioeconomic effects on the distribution of nineteenth-century African-American stature Journal of Population Economics Volume 24, Issue 4 (October 2011) pages 1471-1491 DOI: 10.1007/s00148-010-0324-x Scott Alan Carson, Professor of Economics The University of Texas of the Permian Basin Nineteenth-century mulattos were taller than their darker-colored African-American counterparts. However, traditional explanations that attribute the…
Association of Contextual Factors with Drug Use and Binge Drinking among White, Native American, and Mixed-Race Adolescents in the General Population

2012-12-16

Association of Contextual Factors with Drug Use and Binge Drinking among White, Native American, and Mixed-Race Adolescents in the General Population Journal of Youth and Adolescence Volume 41, Issue 11 (November 2012) pages 1426-1441 DOI: 10.1007/s10964-012-9789-0 Hsing-Jung Chen Department of Social Work Fu-Jen Catholic University, New Taipei City, Taiwan Sundari Balan, Postdoctoral Research Associate Department of…
The Life Narrative of a Mixed-Race Man in Recovery from Addiction: A Case-Based Psychosocial Approach to Researching Drugs, ‘Race’ and Ethnicity

2012-12-16

The Life Narrative of a Mixed-Race Man in Recovery from Addiction: A Case-Based Psychosocial Approach to Researching Drugs, ‘Race’ and Ethnicity Journal of Social Work Practice: Psychotherapeutic Approaches in Health, Welfare and the Community Published online: 2012-12-06 DOI: 10.1080/02650533.2012.745841 Alastair Roy, Senior Lecturer Psychosocial Research Unit, School of Social Work University of Central Lancashire This…
People cannot simply choose an identity of their own making…

2012-12-16

So while it is important to understand self-identification in thinking about race and ethnicity, people cannot simply choose an identity of their own making, nor can they escape the views and prejudices in others in navigating the world. Dr. Omar Khan, “Who are we? Census 2011 reports on ethnicity in the UK,” Runnymede Trust: Intelligence…
Rather, Obama’s identity is informed by his social experience…

2012-12-16

That Barack Obama self-identifies as African American rather than ‘Mixed’ has probably little to do with a rejection of his mother’s heritage or a radical kind of separatist politics. Rather, Obama’s identity is informed by his social experience, and the reality of racism is evidenced not simply in his experiences in the 1970s or 1980s,…
Britain is now a better place to grow up mixed race. But don’t celebrate yet

2012-12-16

Britain is now a better place to grow up mixed race. But don’t celebrate yet The Guardian 2012-12-15 Lanre Bakare, The Guide’s Previews Editor Prejudices have receded significantly in the past 20 years, but a report out this week shows racist attitudes remain Growing up as a mixed race child, with a mother from Leeds…
Creating a New Racial Order: How Immigration, Multiracialism, Genomics, and the Young Can Remake Race in America [Eisenberg Review]

2012-12-14

Creating a New Racial Order: How Immigration, Multiracialism, Genomics, and the Young Can Remake Race in America [Eisenberg Review] Ethnic and Racial Studies Volume 36, Issue 5 (May 2013) pages 923-925 DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2012.748214 Martin Eisenberg Department of Urban Studies Queens College, City University of New York Jennifer Hochschild, Vesla Weaver and Tract Burch. Creating a New…
Mixed race children and young people are individual nation states. They defy classification

2012-12-14

Mixed race children and young people are individual nation states. They defy classification The Independent 2012-12-012 Shyama Perea This week we learned that the number of mixed race people in the UK has doubled to 1.2 million. I’m adding my children to the arsenal of weapons for change n the late 1940s, the Eurasian poet…

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