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  • More Than Black? Multiracial Identity and the New Racial Order

    In the United States, anyone with even a trace of African American ancestry has been considered black. Even as the twenty-first century opens, a racial hierarchy still prevents people of color, including individuals of mixed race, from enjoying the same privileges as Euro-Americans. In this book, G. Reginald Daniel argues that we are at a…

  • The contrast between the multigenerational and first-generation experiences

    The contrast between the multigenerational and first-generation experiences is further underscored by the fact that the latter is frequently viewed as a more legitimate basis for multiracial identity. The reasons for this are related to the repeal of anti-miscegenation laws in 1967 and the liberalization of social attitudes on race over the past three decades…

  • 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…

  • Chats: Is Obama Black, Bi-racial, or Post-racial?

    As the son of a black Kenyan and a white American, President Obama is biracial. As a symbol of our times, he’s also called post-racial. On his census form, he classifies himself as black. Whatever he is, the categories obsess many Americans. So in advance of Randall Kennedy’s visit to Zócalo, we put the question…

  • Cultural Imperialism and the Transformation of Race Relations in Brazil

    Cultural Imperialism and the Transformation of Race Relations in Brazil Latin American Perspectives Issue 178, Volume 38, Number 3 (May 2011) pages 194-208 DOI: 10.1177/0094582X10390624 Bernadete Ramos Beserra, Professor Federal University of Ceará Edward E. Telles, Race in Another America: The Significance of Skin Color in Brazil. Princeton, NJ, and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2006.…

  • Critical Mixed Race Studies: Research and Teaching on the Margins in the Mainstream

    Critical Mixed Race Studies: Research and Teaching on the Margins in the Mainstream University of California, Los Angeles Haines Hall 279 Friday, 2013-02-15, 12:00-13:30 PST (Local Time) G. Reginald Daniel, Professor of Sociology University of California, Santa Barbara In the early 1980s, there emerged several important unpublished doctoral dissertations on multiraciality and the mixed race…

  • Betwixt & Between~Multiracial Identity=A Denial of Blackness

    Betwixt & Between~Multiracial Identity=A Denial of Blackness Mixed Race Radio 2013-02-06, 17:00Z (12:00 EST) Tiffany Rae Reid, Host G. Reginald Daniel, Professor of Sociology University of California, Santa Barbara G. Reginald Daniel, Professor of Sociology, teaches courses exploring comparative race and ethnic relations. Since 1989, he has taught “Betwixt and Between,” which is one of…

  • Machado de Assis: Multiracial Identity and the Brazilian Novelist

    Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (1839–1908) was Brazil’s foremost novelist of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. As a mulatto, Machado experienced the ambiguity of racial identity throughout his life. Literary critics first interpreted Machado as an embittered misanthrope uninterested in the plight of his fellow African Brazilians.

  • 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…

  • Race, Theory, and Scholarship in the Biracial Project

    Race, Theory, and Scholarship in the Biracial Project Chapter in: Race Struggles University of Illinois Press 2009 352 pages 6.125 x 9.25 in.; 4 tables Paper ISBN: 978-0-252-07648-0 Edited by: Theodore Koditschek, Professor of History University of Missouri, Columbia Sundiata Keita Cha-Jua, Associate Professor of History; Associate Professor of African American Studies University of Illinois,…