Mixed Race Studies

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JewAsian: race, religion, and identity for America’s Newest Jews [Review]

2018-11-01

JewAsian: race, religion, and identity for America’s Newest Jews [Review] Ethnic and Racial Studies Volume 40, 2017 – Issue 13 pages 2380-2382 DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2017.1329544 Hasia R. Diner, Paul And Sylvia Steinberg Professor of American Jewish History New York University Helen Kiyong Kim and Noah Samuel Leavitt, JewAsian: Race, Religion, and Identity for America’s Newest Jews…
Generational change and how we conceptualize and measure multiracial people and “mixture”

2018-11-01

With demographic changes such as generational change, who counts as multiracial or mixed race? This question has yet to receive significant attention. Although mixing is becoming more commonplace, the question of who counts as multiracial is far from straightforward, especially as we look down the generational pipeline.
“Race” and “post-colonialism”: should one come before the other?

2018-01-28

One unsettled analytical question in race scholarship concerns the relationship between categories of race and categories of post-colonialism. These are often run together or are used interchangeably; sometimes an implicit hierarchy of one over the other is assumed without explicit discussion.
What kind of mixed race/ethnicity data is needed for the 2020/21 global population census round: the cases of the UK, USA, and Canada

2017-07-27

In western countries the mixed race/ethnicity population is experiencing a rapid increase in numbers and growing diversity, raising challenges for its capture in censuses and surveys.
Unsettling intersectional identities: historicizing embodied boundaries and border crossings

2017-07-13

At a time when the pace of global change has led to unprecedented shifts in, and unsettling of, identities, Brubaker brings “trans/gender” and “trans/racial” creatively into conversation to theorize the historical location of identity claims and to examine the question of whether identities are optional, self-consciously chosen and subject to political claims rather than biologically…
With images of people of various skin tones, urban Afro-Colombians as well as farmers and people in traditional clothes, and music in the background that was not easily identifiable with any specific region in the country, the commercial’s message was clear: they were all AfroColombian.

2017-01-10

The Beautiful Faces commercial was about thirty seconds long: ‘I am negro, morena, mulata, zamba. I am Afro-descendant. I count. Palenquero, raizal, mulato, negra, I count. Afro-descendant, morena, negra. I’m zambo, raizal. I count. Palenquero, negro.’ It ended with the confident words of Maria Eugenia Arboleda, a famous AfroColombian actress: ‘My people, in this census,…
‘The Beautiful Faces of my Black People’: race, ethnicity and the politics of Colombia’s 2005 census

2017-01-06

‘The Beautiful Faces of my Black People’: race, ethnicity and the politics of Colombia’s 2005 census Ethnic and Racial Studies Volume 36, 2013 – Issue 10: Rethinking Race, Racism, Identity, and Ideology in Latin America Pages 1544-1563 DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2013.791398 Tianna S. Paschel, Assistant Professor of African American Studies University of California, Berkeley The recent multicultural…
Book Review: Mixed-race youth and schooling: the fifth minority

2016-06-04

Book Review: Mixed-race youth and schooling: the fifth minority Ethnic and Racial Studies Published online: 2016-06-01 DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2016.1190852 Remi Joseph-Salisbury University of Leeds Mixed-race youth and schooling: the fifth minority, by Sandra Winn Tutwiler, Abingdon, Routledge, 2016, xv + 241 pp., £29.95 (paperback), ISBN-13 978-1138021938 Mixed-race youth and schooling offers a welcome contribution to a sparse…
The multiple dimensions of race

2016-04-04

The multiple dimensions of race Ethnic and Racial Studies Published online 2016-03-21 DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2016.1140793 Wendy D. Roth, Associate Professor of Sociology University of British Columbia, Vancouver Increasing numbers of people in the United States and beyond experience ‘race’ not as a single, consistent identity but as a number of conflicting dimensions. This article distinguishes the…
Pigmentocracies: Ethnicity, Race, and Color in Latin America [Brunsma Review]

2016-01-16

Pigmentocracies: Ethnicity, Race, and Color in Latin America [Brunsma Review] Ethnic and Racial Studies Volume 39, Issue 3, 2016 pages 492-494 DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2015.1095308 David L. Brunsma, Professor of Sociology Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia Pigmentocracies: Ethnicity, Race, and Color in Latin America, by Edward Telles and the Project on Ethnicity and Race…

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