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  • The JCMRS inaugural issue will be released Summer, 2013

    The JCMRS inaugural issue will be released on Summer, 2013 Journal of Critical Mixed Race Studies c/o Department of Sociology SSMS Room 3005 University of California, Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, California  93106-9430 E-Mail: socjcmrs@soc.ucsb.edu 2012-10-10 The Journal of Critical Mixed Race Studies (JCMRS) is a peer-reviewed online journal dedicated to developing the field of Critical Mixed…

  • this project is less concerned with ending racism than with responding to the racialization of all people of African descent in the United States as black…

    The presence of a biracial race would certainly disrupt popular ideas about race, but as scholars supporting biracial identity root it in biological notions of race “mixture,” it seems unlikely that such a disruption would result in the end of racial classifications. Work on race in the Caribbean and Latin America shows that a racially…

  • Will new age of mixed-race identities loosen the hold of race or tie it up in tighter knots?

    Ward Connerly, who describes himself as a roughly equal mix of French Canadian, Choctaw, African and Irish ancestry and who is married to a white woman, spent much of the last decade campaigning to end race-based affirmative action. Susan Graham, a white woman married to a black man, has spent that same decade working tirelessly…

  • Don’t Pass on Context: The Importance of Academic Discourses in Contemporary Discussions on the Multiracial Experience

    Don’t Pass on Context: The Importance of Academic Discourses in Contemporary Discussions on the Multiracial Experience Mixed Roots Film & Literary Festival Japanese American National Museum Los Angeles, California 2011-06-11 Steven F. Riley The following is the slightly modified text from my opening remarks. As we commemorate the 150th anniversary of the start of the…

  • Reconstructing Race: A Discourse-Theoretical Approach to a Normative Politics of Identity

    Reconstructing Race: A Discourse-Theoretical Approach to a Normative Politics of Identity The Philosophical Forum Volume 43, Issue 1 (Spring 2012) pages 27–49 DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9191.2011.00409.x Andrew J. Pierce Loyola University, Chicago The claim that race is “socially constructed” has become something of a platitude in social science and philosophy. At a minimum, such a claim means to…

  • Reflections: An Anthology of African-American Philosophy, 1st Edition

    Reflections: An Anthology of African-American Philosophy, 1st Edition Cengage Learning 2000 464 pages Paperback ISBN-10: 0534573932  ISBN-13: 9780534573935 Edited by: James Montmarquet, Professor of Philosophy Tennessee State University William Hardy, Associate Professor of Philosophy and Religion Tennessee State University This anthology provides the instructor with a sufficient quantity, breadth, and diversity of materials to be…

  • Visualizing a Critical Mixed-Race Theory

    This paper argues that the visually mixed-race person has a certain direct ability to challenge the binary and its racist logic. Furthermore, this paper goes on to offer a unique interpretation of where power for working against a racially oppressive system lies within critical mixed-race theory.

  • The Amalgamation Waltz: Race, Performance, and the Ruses of Memory [Review: Zack]

    The Amalgamation Waltz: Race, Performance, and the Ruses of Memory [Review: Zack] American Nineteenth Century History Volume 11, Issue 2 (2010) pages 269-270 DOI: 10.1080/14664658.2010.481885 Naomi Zack, Professor of Philosophy University of Oregon The Amalgamation Waltz: Race, Performance, and the Ruses of Memory Tavia Nyong’o Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2009 Pp. 230. ISBNs 978…

  • Toward a Philosophy of Race in Education

    Toward a Philosophy of Race in Education University of Tennessee, Knoxville May 2011 221 pages Corey V. Kittrell A Dissertation Presented for the Doctorate of Philosophy Degree The University of Tennessee, Knoxville There is a tendency in education theory to place the focus on the consequences of racial hegemony (racism, Eurocentric education, low performance by…

  • The dangers of insisting on black and white mixed-race political recognition

    The dangers of insisting on black and white mixed-race political recognition in a system in which blacks are disadvantaged is that a mixed-race group could act as a buffer between blacks and whites and re-inscribe that disadvantage. It is interesting to note that under apartheid in South Africa, there was not only a robust mixed population known…