Mixed Race Studies

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Month: September 2013

  • Multiple Social Categorization: Processes, Models and Applications

    ‘Ethnic cleansing’, ‘institutional racism’, and ‘social exclusion’ are just some of the terms used to describe one of the most pressing social issues facing today’s societies: prejudice and intergroup discrimination. Invariably, these pervasive social problems can be traced back to differences in religion, ethnicity, or countless other bases of group membership: the social categories to…

  • One Drop of Love: A Multimedia Solo Performance on Racial Identity by Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni at James R. Fitzgerald Theater

    One Drop of Love: A Multimedia Solo Performance on Racial Identity by Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni at James R. Fitzgerald Theater James R. Fitzgerald Theater Cambridge Rindge & Latin School 459 Broadway Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138 Friday, 2013-08-30, 19:30 EDT (Local Time) Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni, Playwright, Producer, Actress, Educator Jillian Pagan, Director Produced by: Ben Affleck, Matt…

  • Esther J. Cepeda: Debate grows over Hispanics and the 2020 Census

    Esther J. Cepeda: Debate grows over Hispanics and the 2020 Census San Jose Mercury News San Jose, California 2013-09-07 Esther J. Cepeda, Columnist The Washington Post CHICAGO—A debate is raging about whether the U.S. Census Bureau should offer Hispanics the option of identifying themselves as a separate race in the 2020 count. But let’s instead…

  • Vietnam Legacy: Finding G.I. Fathers, and Children Left Behind

    Vietnam Legacy: Finding G.I. Fathers, and Children Left Behind The New York Times 2013-09-16 James Dao, Military and Veterans Affairs Reporter SALTILLO, Miss. — Soon after he departed Vietnam in 1970, Specialist James Copeland received a letter from his Vietnamese girlfriend. She was pregnant, she wrote, and he was the father. He re-enlisted, hoping to…

  • Mixed emotions: Reflections on researching racial mixing and mixedness

    Mixed emotions: Reflections on researching racial mixing and mixedness Emotion, Space and Society Volume 11, May 2014 pages 79–88 DOI: 10.1016/j.emospa.2013.07.002 Chamion Cabellero, Senior Research Fellow Social Capital Research Group London South Bank University Researching racial and ethnic issues can involve entering a highly emotive terrain and the subject of ‘mixed race’ is no exception.…

  • “It’s Only Other People Who Make Me Feel Black”: Acculturation, Identity, and Agency in a Multicultural Community

    “It’s Only Other People Who Make Me Feel Black”: Acculturation, Identity, and Agency in a Multicultural Community Political Psychology Published online: 2013-02-18 DOI: 10.1111/pops.12020 Caroline Howarth, Senior Lecturer in Social Psychology London School of Economics, United Kingdom Wolfgang Wagner, Professor of Psychology Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria University of the Basque Country, San Sebastián, Spain…

  • SO224: The Sociology of Race and Ethnicity

    SO224: The Sociology of Race and Ethnicity London School of Economics 2013/2014 session Helen Kim The course provides an introduction to theoretical, historical and contemporary debates around race, racism and ethnicity. It firstly explores the main theoretical perspectives which have been used to analyse racial and ethnic relations, in a historical and contemporary framework. It…

  • AAAS 348 (Fall 2013): Class, Race, and Gender—“Hapas, Hafus, Mestizos, and Muggles”

    AAAS 348 (Fall 2013): Class, Race, and Gender—“Hapas, Hafus, Mestizos, and Muggles” California State University, Los Angeles Asian and Asian American Studies Program Fall 2013 Michelle Har Kim HAPA (from the Hawai‘ian Dictionary, Māmaka Kaiao) Portion, fragment, part, fraction, installment; to be partial, less. (Eng. half) Cf. hapahā, hapalua, etc. Ka ’ike hapa, limited knowledge.…

  • Don’t miss Hapa-Palooza 2013: Celebrate mixed ethnicity and third culture in Vancouver

    Don’t miss Hapa-Palooza 2013: Celebrate mixed ethnicity and third culture in Vancouver Vancouver Observer Vancouver, British Columbia 2013-09-13 Jordan Yerman Celebrate the whole you with literature, film, art, and dance. This is Hapa-Palooza. The third annual Hapa-Palooza Festival kicks off on September 18, once again bringing three days of art and culture to Vancouver. Focusing…

  • Liminality in the works: The novels of Charles Chesnutt

    Liminality in the works: The novels of Charles Chesnutt University of Massachusetts, Amherst September 1996 154 pages Publication Number: AAT 9709591 ISBN: 9780591169812 Susan Jane Doyle Submitted to the Graduate School of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY Charles Chesnutt is perhaps best…