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  • Taken Identity

    Taken Identity The UC Santa Barbara Current Santa Barbara, California 2015-12-21 Jim Logan A new book by a UC Santa Barbara historian traces the bright and fuzzy lines of race in America The United States’ long record on race is, shall we say, checkered. Even in a time when an African-American sits in the White…

  • Race in Mind: Critical Essays

    “Race in Mind” presents fourteen critical essays on race and mixed race by one of America’s most prolific and influential ethnic studies scholars. Collected in one volume are all of Paul Spickard’s theoretical writings over the past two decades.

  • The Japanese women who married the enemy

    The Japanese women who married the enemy BBC News Magazine 2015-08-16 Vanessa Barford Seventy years ago many Japanese people in occupied Tokyo after World War Two saw US troops as the enemy. But tens of thousands of young Japanese women married GIs nonetheless – and then faced a big struggle to find their place in…

  • “The Illogic of American Racial Categories”

    “The Illogic of American Racial Categories” Jefferson’s Blood: Thomas Jefferson, his slave & mistress Sally Hemings, their descendants, and the mysterious power of race. Frontline Public Broadcasting Service 2000 Paul R. Spickard, Professor of History University of California, Santa Barbara Excerpted from the chapter “The Illogic of American Racial Categories” in Racially Mixed People in…

  • Roundtable: Global Mixed Race

    Roundtable: Global Mixed Race University of California, Santa Barbara Department of Political Science The Lane Room (Ellison 3824) Monday, 2015-03-02, 16:00 PST (Local Time) The authors of the new book Global Mixed Race (New York University Press) will participate in a Roundtable on the subject. The authors are: G. Reginald Daniel, UCSB Sociology Adrienne Edgar,…

  • “Global Mixed Race,” the 3rd biennial Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference, was held at DePaul University in Chicago Nov 13-15, 2014.

    “Global Mixed Race,” the 3rd biennial Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference, was held at DePaul University in Chicago Nov 13-15, 2014. News from the Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference 2014-11-18 Camilla Fojas, Vincent de Paul Professor of Latin American and Latino Studies DePaul University Photograph by Ken Tanabe A big thank you to the over…

  • Historical Origins of the One-Drop Racial Rule in the United States

    Winthrop Jordan, one of the most honored of US historians, wrote about racial mixing a generation before there was a field of mixed race studies. At the time of his death, he left an unfinished manuscript: “Historical Origins of the One-Drop Racial Rule in the United States.” For this inaugural issue of the JCMRS, Jordan’s…

  • Global Mixed Race

    Global Mixed Race New York University Press March 2014 357 pages Cloth ISBN: 9780814770733 Paper ISBN: 9780814789155 Edited by: Rebecca Chiyoko King-O’Riain, Senior Lecturer National University of Ireland, Maynooth Stephen Small, Associate Professor of African American Studies University of California, Berkeley Minelle Mahtani, Associate Professor in the Department of Human Geography and the Program in…

  • Race and the Obama Phenomenon: The Vision of a More Perfect Multiracial Union

    Race and the Obama Phenomenon: The Vision of a More Perfect Multiracial Union University Press of Mississippi 2014-07-17 432 pages 6 X 9 inches 3 B&W photographs Hardcover ISBN: 9781628460216 Edited by: G. Reginald Daniel, Professor of Sociology University of California, Santa Barbara Hettie V. Williams, Lecturer of African American History Monmouth University, West Long…

  • The Journal of Critical Mixed Race Studies inaugural issue is now available

    The Journal of Critical Mixed Race Studies inaugural issue is now available Journal of Critical Mixed Race Studies Volume 1, Number 1 (2014-01-30) ISSN: 2325-4521 Laura Kina, Associate Professor Art, Media and Design and Director Asian American Studies DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois G. Reginald Daniel, Professor of Sociology University of California at Santa Barbaral Saya…