Mixed Race Studies

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Month: March 2013

  • Mixed-Race Chic

    Mixed-Race Chic The Chronicle Review The Chronicle of Higher Education 2009-05-19 Rainier Spencer, Associate Vice Provost for Academic Affairs University of Nevada, Las Vegas Popular wisdom suggests that we are in the midst of a transformation in the way race is constructed in the United States. Indeed, so strong and so inevitable is this shift…

  • The Difficulty of Defining “mixed-race”

    The very definition of a “mixed-race” society is fraught with difficulty, and this is one of the problems of acknowledgement, even in Liverpool. All the current terms are inadequate: The term “half-caste” has long been discredited, but even newer terms; “mixed-race” and “dual heritage” have their own problems. “Dual heritage” suggests a child living with…

  • At school I was called a half-caste. Today I’m proud: As census reveals over a million Britons were born to inter-racial relationships, one woman’s moving story

    At school I was called a half-caste. Today I’m proud: As census reveals over a million Britons were born to inter-racial relationships, one woman’s moving story The Daily Mail 2012-12-11 Tanith Carey Whenever the moment comes when I have to choose the box on the Census that asks me to describe my national identity, my…

  • From Colour-Blindness to Recognition? Political Paths to New Identity Practices in Brazil and France

    From Colour-Blindness to Recognition? Political Paths to New Identity Practices in Brazil and France Prepared for presentation at the conference: Le multiculturalisme a-t-il un avenir? Paris 1-Panthéon Sorbonne University 2010-02-26 through 2010-02-27 25 pages Karen Bird, Associate Professor of Political Science McMaster University, Canada Jessica Franklin Department of Political Science McMaster University, Canada For decades,…

  • In Brazil, a mix of racial openness and exclusion

    In Brazil, a mix of racial openness and exclusion Nordonia Hills News-Leader Kent, Ohio 2013-03-14 Jenny Barchfield Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Many Brazilians cast their country as racial democracy where people of different groups long have intermarried, resulting in a large mixed-race population. But you need only turn on the TV, open…

  • Brazilian Population ‘Color’ Self-Descriptors

    Source: National Survey by Household Sample (PNAD). Extracted from: Lilia Moritz Schwarcz, “Not black, not white: just the opposite. Culture, race and national identity in Brazil,” Centre for Brazilian Studies, Working Paper Number CBS-47-03, (2003): 5.

  • The Melanin Millennium: Skin Color as 21st Century International Discourse

    The Melanin Millennium: Skin Color as 21st Century International Discourse Springer 2013 348 pages 32 illustrations Hardcover ISBN 978-94-007-4607-7 eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-4608-4 DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-4608-4 Edited by: Ronald E. Hall, Professor of Social Work Michigan State University Addresses the issue of skin color in a worldwide context Discusses the introduction of new forms of visual media…

  • The addition of a ‘mixed-race’ category on the census does nothing to challenge the racial hierarchy and this is one of the reasons I reject it.

    While contemporary academic discourse acknowledges the existence of multiple identities, and it is possible to talk about having identities that are both/and rather than either/or (Collins 1990) for a child with one black and one white parent, this is usually restricted to a choice of being both mixed race and black. You can never claim…

  • Disparate Diasporas: Identity and Politics in an African-Nicaraguan Community

    Disparate Diasporas: Identity and Politics in an African-Nicaraguan Community University of Texas Press August 1998 320 pages ISBN-10: 0292728190; ISBN-13: 978-0292728196 Edmund Gordon, Associate Professor of Anthropology University of Texas, Austin This book is out of print. Based on a decade the author spent among the African-Caribbean “Creole” people on Nicaragua’s southern Caribbean coast, Disparate…

  • IU Libraries Film Archive a treasure chest of educational, rare films

    IU Libraries Film Archive a treasure chest of educational, rare films inside IU Bloomington Weekly news for faculty and staff from the Indiana University Bloomington campus 2013-03-07 Lynn Schoch, Office of the Vice President for International Affairs Many of a certain age—particularly those who were in elementary school in the ’50s and ’60s—will remember 16…