Mixed Race Studies

Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.

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“you can’t actually defeat racism by merely opposing racism. You have to actually start opposing the categories of race if you want to transcend the hierarchies and caste systems they impose.”

2020-07-19

“I’m not saying that everybody, or even most people, who are inspired by [Robin] DiAngelo or want to hear what she’s saying are cynical. But I do think that what people like Barbara and Karen Fields are asking of us in their book Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life; what Paul Gilroy in…
Black as We Wanna Be

2016-09-18

Trying to remedy racism on its own intellectual terrain is like trying to extinguish a fire by striking another match. The fiction must be unbelieved, the fire stamped out.
There is an important difference between identity and identification… …Mistaken identification can put an end to one’s identity by terminating the human being it’s attached to.

2015-07-10

“There is an important difference between identity and identification, which Karen and I have talked about in our book Racecraft. Rachel Dolezal was able to define her identity well enough to become what she said she was in her environment, in Spokane. And that’s something available to her partly because of the way that we…
How Race Is Conjured

2015-06-29

The fiction of race hides the real source of racism and inequity in America today.
Racecraft: Stories of Racial Passing

2014-12-12

THE VERY NOTION of racial “passing” implies a test. Those who believed clear racial categorization was possible might test for race by measuring physical traits to indicate “blood purity”: slight physical traits that could be identified, such as the half-moon of a nail bed or the whites of ones eyes.
Brute Ideology

2014-12-11

Brute Ideology Dissent Fall 2014 Walter Johnson, Winthrop Professor of History; Professor of African and African American Studies; Director, Charles Warren Center for the Study of American History Harvard University Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life by Barbara J. Fields and Karen E. Fields. Verso, 2012, 310 pp. The Problem of Slavery in…
Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life

2014-12-11

Most people assume that racism grows from a perception of human difference: the fact of race gives rise to the practice of racism. Sociologist Karen E. Fields and historian Barbara J. Fields argue otherwise: the practice of racism produces the illusion of race, through what they call “racecraft.”
Of Rogues and Geldings

2010-06-20

Of Rogues and Geldings The American Historical Review AHR Forum: Amalgamation and the Historical Distinctiveness of the United States Volume 108, Number 5 (December 2003) Barbara J. Fields, Professor of History Columbia University David Hollinger has performed a valuable service by insisting on the historical uniqueness of the Afro-American experience, rejecting the false history, spurious…

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