Mixed Race Studies

Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.

When examining the issue of multiracial identity, it is important to understand the legacy of white supremacy. It is a theory and practice based on the irrational opinion that white Europeans (mainly Anglo-Saxon and Northern European origin) are inherently superior to non-Anglo-Saxon origin peoples—particularly those of African and Asian ancestry. Moreover, it is also a theory and practice that hover over the subject and analysis of miscegenation. Absurd as it is, we have an approximate 500-year history of European domination and subjugation of African and Asian peoples, yet wherever Europeans have colonised they have sexually intermingled with the indigenous populations. Apart from this obvious paradox, it is a taboo subject that should be exposed, yet rarely does this occur in an academic sense.

Mark Christian. Multiracial Identity: An International Perpective (Palgrave: Hampshire, England, 2000), p 105.

Letter from The Census Bureau

2010-03-09

Steven F. Riley

Like most Americans, we received a letter in the mail yesterday from the US Census Bureau notifying us of the forthcoming census…

Most relevant to this website is the option on the form for individuals to select one or more racial designations the potential consequences for public policy. As a result in the heightened interest in the upcoming 2010 US Census and census demographic data in general, I have created a new category titled Census/Demographics to accommodate the multitude of articles, papers, and books that are now available.

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