Mixed Race Studies

Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.

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The Slave SouthThe racial character of American slavery and the commitment to white supremacy fostered a widespread antipathy toward race mixture in southern society.

2010-01-25

The restrictive policy toward intermixture that emerged before the Civil War, however, was not all-encompassing. Miscegenation laws sought not so much to eliminate interracial sexual contacts as to channel them.
Sex, Love, Race: Crossing Boundaries in North American History

2009-12-05

Since pre-colonial days, America has been both torn apart and united by love, sex, and marriage across racial boundaries. Whether motivated by violent conquest, economics, lust, or love, such unions have disturbed some of America’s most sacred beliefs and prejudices.
New Perspectives on Racial Identity Development: A Theoretical and Practical Anthology

2009-11-11

New Perspectives on Racial Identity Development: A Theoretical and Practical Anthology New York University Press Paperback 2001 296 pages Paperback ISBN: 9780814793435 Edited by Charmaine Wijeyesinghe Bailey W. Jackson, Associate Professor of Education University of Massachusetts, Amherst Decades have passed since our original theories of racial identity development were formed, bringing with them changes in…
Hybrid: Bisexuals, Multiracials, and Other Misfits Under American Law

2009-11-04

In “Hybrid,” Ruth Colker argues that our bipolar classification system obscures a genuine understanding of the very nature of subordination. Acknowledging that categorization is crucial and unavoidable in a world of practical problems and day-to-day conflicts, Ruth Colker shows how categories can and must be improved for the good of all.
Mixed Race Hollywood

2009-10-30

Since the early days of Hollywood film, portrayals of interracial romance and of individuals of mixed racial and ethnic heritage have served to highlight and challenge fault lines within Hollywood and the nation’s racial categories and borders.
Mixed Race America and the Law: A Reader

2009-10-23

Mixed Race America and the Law: A Reader New York Univeristy Press 2003-02-01 512 pages ISBN: 9780814742570 Edited by: Kevin R. Johnson, Mabie-Apallas Professor of Public Interest Law and Chicano/a Studies University of California Davis For the first time in United States history, the Year 2000 census allowed people to check more than one box to identify…
The New Colored People: The Mixed-Race Movement in America

2009-10-23

Focusing specifically on mixed-race blacks, Spencer argues that the mixed-race movement in the United States would benefit from consideration of how multiracial categories have evolved in South Africa.

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