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  • Miscegenation Blues: Voices of Mixed Race Women

    Miscegenation Blues: Voices of Mixed Race Women is a stunning and long awaited collection of some of the most poignant writing by more than forty women of mixed racial heritage.

  • Multiracial Identity [Film]

    Multiracial Identity Bullfrog Films 2010 77 minutes/56 minutes DVD ISBN: 1-59458-913-5 Directed by Brian Chinhema Produced by Abacus Production Narrated by Dieter Weber Director of Photography: Jay Cornelius Editor: Jay Cornelius Music: Ed Beceril, Elizabeth Nicholson Explores the social, political and religious impact of the multiracial movement. Note: There are two versions of this program…

  • The New Nadir: The Political Economy of the Contemporary Black Racial Formation

    The New Nadir: The Political Economy of the Contemporary Black Racial Formation The Black Scholar 2010-03-22 Sundiata Keita Cha-Jua, Associate Professor of History and African American Studies University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign IN “THE NEW NADIR: The Political Economy of the Contemporary Black Racial Formation,” using the Marxist method of historical materialism analyze the period after…

  • Multiracial Identity [Movie] to be screened at the Portland, Maine International Film Festival

    Multiracial Identity [Movie] to be screened at the  Portland, Maine International Film Festival Portland, Maine International Film Festival Saturday, 2010-08-21, 12:00 – 13:30 EDT (Local Time) Space Gallery 538 Congress Street, Portland, Maine 04101 Phone: 207.828.5600 Year: 2010 Director: Brian Chinhema Writer: Brian Chinhema Producer: Brian Chinhema (Abacus Production) Running Time: 01:22:00 Multiracial people are the fastest…

  • Mixed Black and White Race and Public Policy

    Mixed Black and White Race and Public Policy Hypatia Volume 10, Issue 1 (February 1995) Pages 120 – 132 Special Issue: Feminist Ethics and Social Policy, Part 1 DOI: 10.1111/j.1527-2001.1995.tb01356.x Naomi Zack, Professor of Philosophy University of Oregon The American folk concept of race assumes the factual existence of races. However, biological science does not…

  • Multiracial Identity [Movie], World Premiere Screening

    Multiracial Identity [Movie], World Premiere Screening Politics on Film 2010 Festival Saturday, 2010-05-08, 13:30 EDT (Local Time) E Street Cinema (Purchase tickets on-line here.) 555 11th Street, NW Washington, DC Year: 2010 Director: Brian Chinhema Writer: Brian Chinhema Producer: Brian Chinhema (Abacus Production) Running Time: 01:22:00 Multiracial people are the fastest growing demographic in America, yet…

  • Barack Obama’s rise marks America’s first multiracial decade

    Barack Obama’s rise marks America’s first multiracial decade Yahoo News 2009-12-09 Thomas Kelley Everyone has a day of awakening when it comes to race. For me, it was a cool September day when I was eight years old. My family had recently moved to Colorado from Tennessee and like any child starting a new school,…

  • The Multiracial Experience: Racial Borders as the New Frontier

    In her bold new edited volume, The Multiracial Experience, Maria P. P. Root challenges current theoretical and political conceptualizations of race by examining the experience of mixed-race individuals.

  • “The New Kubla Khan: Mixed Race Multi-Nationalism”

    “The New Kubla Khan: Mixed Race Multi-Nationalism” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Studies Association 2009-05-24 Michele Elam, Martin Luther King, Jr. Centennial Professor of English, Professor, Director of African & African American Studies Stanford University This paper examines how, and to what ends, people of the “mixed race experience” are being…

  • Philosophical aspects of the ‘AAA Statement on “Race”’

    Philosophical aspects of the ‘AAA Statement on “Race”’ Anthropological Theory Volume 1, Number 4 (December 2001) pages 445-465 DOI: 10.1177/14634990122228836 Naomi Zack, Professor of Philosophy University of Oregon I apply philosophical analysis to the ‘AAA Statement on “Race”’ (American Anthropological Association, 1998) and the commentary on its earlier draft published in the Anthropology Newsletter (1997).…