Mixed Race Studies

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Month: March 2013

  • Multiracial Identity: An International Perspective

    Multiracial Identity: An International Perspective Palgrave Macmillan September 2000 186 pages 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches ISBN: 978-0-312-23219-1 ISBN10: 0-312-23219-5 Mark Christian, Professor of African & African American Studies Lehman College, City University of New York Multiracial Identity provides an accessible account of the social construction of racialized groups. Using both primary (in-depth interviews)…

  • Race and the Census: The “Negro” Controversy

    Race and the Census: The “Negro” Controversy Pew Research: Social & Demographic Trends Pew Research Center 2010-01-21 D’Vera Cohn, Senior Writer The topic of racial identification on census forms has a long, fascinating history, which has generated fresh debate as the 2010 Census begins. Why, some ask, does the form include the word “Negro,” along…

  • kiyâm

    kiyâm Athabasca University Press May 2012 144 pages Paperback ISBN: 978-1-926836-69-0 eBook (PDF) ISBN: 978-1-926836-70-6 eBook (EPub) ISBN: 978-1-926836-71-3 Naomi McIlwraith Through poems that move between the two languages, McIlwraith explores the beauty of the intersection between nêhiyawêwin, the Plains Cree language, and English, âkayâsîmowin. Written to honour her father’s facility in nêhiyawêwin and her…

  • Mixed Race Identities

    This book investigates the ethnic and racial options exercised by young mixed race people in higher education in Britain, and it is the first to explore the identifications and experiences of various types of mixed race individuals. It reveals the diverse ways in which these young people identify and experience their mixed status, the complex…

  • Paralegal claims discrimination by law firm because of mixed-race heritage

    Paralegal claims discrimination by law firm because of mixed-race heritage The Southeast Texas Record: Southeast Texas’ Legal Journal Beaumont, Texas 2013-03-25 John Suayan, Galveston Bureau HOUSTON – Montgomery County resident Darren Chew claims he was subjected to racial discrimination while working for a collections law firm and has filed a lawsuit. Recent court papers filed…

  • Mixing it Up

    Mixing it Up Salon 2001-03-08 Suzy Hansen Alabama just legalized black-white marriage. An expert talks about why it took so long and the American obsession with racial purity. In November 2000, after a statewide vote in a special election, Alabama became the last state to overturn a law that was an ugly reminder of America’s…

  • AAS 550: Asian Americans of Mixed Heritages

    AAS 550: Asian Americans of Mixed Heritages San Francisco State University Spring 2012 Wei Ming Dariotis, Associate Professor of Asian American Studies This is an interactive, dynamic course taught in a seminar style with an expectation of active student participation. Group work and interaction are emphasized in order to provide students with real life problem…

  • There’s nothing wrong in passing…

    Peola: “There’s nothing wrong in passing. The wrong is the world that makes it necessary.” Fannie Hurst, Imitation of Life, P. F. Collier, (1933): 244.

  • The word “Negro” is, biologically, a misnomer…

    The word “Negro” is, biologically, a misnomer, for the African Negroes, brought to the United States as slaves, have crossed in breeding with the dominant White population, as well as with the aboriginal American Indian types with whom they came into contact, so that there is today only a small percentage of the American Negroes…

  • Obama’s mixed ancestry generates some of the new uncertainty about blackness…

    Obama’s mixed ancestry generates some of the new uncertainty about blackness. The white part of his genetic inheritance is not socially hidden, as it often is for “light-skinned blacks” who descend from black women sexually exploited by white slaveholders and other white males. Rather, Obama’s white ancestry is right there in the open, visible in…