Mixed Race Studies

Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.

recent posts

about

Tag: Tiger Woods

  • Color outside the lines

    Color outside the lines Columbia Missourian 2006-06-11 Sara Fernández Cendon The boundaries between traditional racial categories shift as more people identify themselves as multiracial. The term adds another dimension to the complex issue of race in America. Some say Tiger Woods started it all. After winning the Masters Tournament in 1997, the golf star described…

  • Through Mixed Eyes: The Biracial Experience and The Current State of Race in America

    Through Mixed Eyes: The Biracial Experience and The Current State of Race in America Williams College 2009-05-22 163 pages Riki McDermott Thesis submitted in partial fulfillment Of the requirement for the Degree of Bachelor of Arts with Honors In Sociology President Barack Obama became the 44th president of the United States on January 20, 2009.…

  • Star-Light, Star-Bright, Star Damn Near White: Mixed-Race Superstars

    Star-Light, Star-Bright, Star Damn Near White: Mixed-Race Superstars The Journal of Popular Culture Volume 40, Issue 2 (April 2007) pages 217–237 DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-5931.2007.00376.x Sika Alaine Dagbovie, Professor of English Florida Atlantic University In an episode of the “Chris Rock Show,” comedian Chris Rock searches the streets of Harlem to find out what people think of…

  • Tiger Woods: Black, white, other

    Tiger Woods: Black, white, other The Guardian 2010-05-29 Gary Younge, Feature Writer and Columnist Before he was engulfed in a sex scandal Tiger Woods was a poster boy for a multiracial America. Gary Younge on the real legacy of golf’s fallen hero On 13 April 1997 Tiger Woods putted his way to golfing history in…

  • A new paradigm of race: Visit to Brazil prompts the question: Can mixing everyone up solve the race problem?

    A new paradigm of race: Visit to Brazil prompts the question: Can mixing everyone up solve the race problem? Bloomington Herald-Times 2004-08-29 Courtesy of: Black Film Center/Archive Indiana University Audrey T. McCluskey, Director Neal-Marshall Black Culture Center Indiana University If Tiger Woods lived in Brazil he would not have had to coin the word “Cablanasian”…

  • Tiger Woods Is Not the End of History: or, Why Sex across the Color Line Won’t Save Us All

    Tiger Woods Is Not the End of History: or, Why Sex across the Color Line Won’t Save Us All The American Historical Review Volume 108, Number 5 December 2003 Henry Yu, Professor of History University of California, Los Angeles In December 1996, several months after Tiger Woods left Stanford University to become a professional golfer,…

  • Multiracial Identity and the U.S. Census

    Multiracial Identity and the U.S. Census ProQuest Discovery Guides January 2010 Tyrone Nagai, Supervising Editor of Social Sciences ProQuest Introduction: What is Multiracial Identity?   Back on April 23, 1997, 21-year-old golfer Tiger Woods made headlines on the Oprah Winfrey Show when he described his racial background as “Cablinasian,” an abbreviation representing his “Caucasian,” “Black,”…

  • Being Multiracial in a Country that Sees Black and White

    Being Multiracial in a Country that Sees Black and White Interpolations: A Journal of First Year Writing Deparment of English, University of Maryland Fall 2009 Lavisha McClarin University of Maryland In America mixed race individuals are becoming more prominent in the media, politics and sports throughout the country. Some of the most popular mixed race…

  • Making Multiracials: State, Family, and Market in the Redrawing of the Color Line

    “Making Multiracials” tells the story of the social movement that emerged around mixed race identity in the 1990s. Organizations for interracial families and mixed race people—groups once loosely organized and only partially aware of each other—proliferated.

  • Raiding The Gene Pool: The Social Construction of Mixed Race

    Raiding The Gene Pool: The Social Construction of Mixed Race Pluto Press an imprint of MacMillan Publishing February 2002 ISBN: 978-0-7453-1764-9 ISBN10: 0-7453-1764-2 5.5 x 8.25 inches 224 pages Jill Olumide, Researcher Swansea University, School of Health Science High profile ‘mixed race’ stars like Tiger Woods have brought the politics of identity into the mainstream.…