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  • Covering Multiracial America Requires Historical Perspective

    Covering Multiracial America Requires Historical Perspective Maynard Media Center on Structural Inequity Maynard Institute 2012-11-14 Nadra Kareem Nittle Although people of mixed races have lived in the United States for centuries, authorities on multiracial identity say mainstream media continue to report on these people as if they are a new phenomenon. In 1619, the first…

  • Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference 2012 Recap

    Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference 2012 Recap 2012-11-13 Camilla Fojas, (CMRS 2012 organizer) Associate Professor and Chair Latin American and Latino Studies DePaul University Laura Kina, (Mixed Roots Midwest 2012 co-organizer) Associate Professor Art, Media and Design and Director Asian American Studies DePaul University Despite being sandwiched between Halloween, Superstorm Sandy, and the presidential elections,…

  • 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…

  • Multiracial Health Risk Claims

    The claim that persons identifying as multiracial suffer health risks due to the lack of a federal multiracial category is without foundation. On March 1 and 2, 1993, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry conducted their Workshop on the Use of Race and Ethnicity in…

  • As Racist as We Wish to Be: Project RACE, “The Talk”, Obama and the Fear of Blackness

    As Racist as We Wish to Be: Project RACE, “The Talk”, Obama and the Fear of Blackness MixedRaceStudies.org 2012-04-10 Steven F. Riley Late last year, I opined about the inability of some activists in the multiracial identity movement to combat racism.  It is difficult to combat racism if you are not anti-racist and quite impossible…

  • Postracial Possibilities? Deconstructing Contemporary Discourse on Multiraciality

    Postracial Possibilities? Deconstructing Contemporary Discourse on Multiraciality American College Personnel Association ACPA 2012 Annual Convention Louisville, Kentucky 2012-03-24 through 2012-03-28 Session Information: Monday, 2012-03-26 16:15-17:15 EDT (Local Time) Kentucky International Convention Center, 107 Marc Johnston University of California, Los Angeles Prema Chaudhari Asian & Pacific Islander American Scholarship Fund (APIASF) Although multiracial individuals have been…

  • The Multiracial Identity Movement: Countless Ways to Misunderstand Race

    The Multiracial Identity Movement: Countless Ways to Misunderstand Race MixedRaceStudies.org 2011-11-04 Steven F. Riley In Jen Chau’s essay, “Multiracial Families: Counted But Still Misunderstood,” in the October 31, 2011 issue of Racialiscious, reveals just how much race is misunderstood by some activists within the multiracial identity movement and exemplifies why the movement—in its current form—is…

  • Reproducing Race: The Paradox of Generation Mix [Review: Glazier]

    Reproducing Race: The Paradox of Generation Mix [Review: Glazier] Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries Volume 49, Number 2 (October 2011) Steven D. Glazier, Adjunct Professor of Anthropology University of Nebraska, Lincoln Spencer, Rainier. Reproducing Race: The Paradox of Generation Mix. L. Rienner, 2011. 355p bibl index afp ISBN 9781588267511. Spencer’s insightful analysis and critique…

  • Reproducing Race: The Paradox of Generation Mix [Review: Harman]

    Reproducing Race: The Paradox of Generation Mix [Review: Harman] Ethnic and Racial Studies Available online: 2011-10-21 DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2011.623133 Vicki Harman, Lecturer in the Centre for Criminology and Sociology Royal Holloway, University of London Rainier Spencer. Reproduction Race: The Paradox of Generation Mix, Boulder, CO: Lyne Rienner Publishers, 2010, 355 pp. From the outset, Reproducing Race…

  • Race and Ethnicity in Society: The Changing Landscape, 3rd Edition

    Race and Ethnicity in Society: The Changing Landscape, 3rd Edition Cengage Learning 2012 480 pages ISBN-10: 1111519536; ISBN-13: 9781111519537 Edited by Elizabeth Higginbotham, Professor of Sociology, Women’s Studies, and Criminology University of Delaware Margaret L. Andersen, Edward F. and Elizabeth Goodman Rosenberg Professor of Sociology University of Delaware This engaging reader is organized in four…