Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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Tag: Ethnicities
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With a specific focus on secondary schooling, the article draws upon accounts from semi-structured interviews in order to demonstrate how Black mixed-race men perceive their families as offering a source of strength and support.
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Attitudes toward interracial marriages and the role of interracial contacts in Sweden Ethnicities Volume 16, Number 4, August 2016 pages 568-588 DOI: 10.1177/1468796816638400 Sayaka Osanami Törngren Malmo University, Sweden; Sophia University, Japan This paper examines attitudes toward interracial marriages and the relationship between the amount of prior interracial contact and attitudes in Sweden. The analysis…
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“What are you?”: Mixed race responses to the racial gaze Ethnicities Published online before print 2015-12-16 DOI: 10.1177/1468796815621938 Jillian Paragg Department of Sociology University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada Mixed race scholarship considers the deployment of the term “mixed race” as an identification and theorizes that the operation of the external racial gaze is signaled through…
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Toward building a conceptual framework on intermarriage Ethnicities Volume 16, Number 4, August 2016 pages 497-520 DOI: 10.1177/1468796816638402 Sayaka Osanami Törngren Malmö University, Sweden; Sophia University, Japan Nahikari Irastorza, Marie Curie Research Fellow Malmö Institute for Studies of Migration, Diversity, and Welfare Malmö University, Sweden Miri Song, Professor of Sociology University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent,…
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Preference and prejudice: Does intermarriage erode negative ethno-racial attitudes between groups in Spain? Ethnicities Published online before print 2016-03-28 DOI: 10.1177/1468796816638404 Dan Rodríguez-García, Associate Professor Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology Autonomous University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain Miguel Solana-Solana Department of Geography Autonomous University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain Miranda J. Lubbers, Ramón y Cajal Researcher…
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Multiracial people and their partners in Britain: Extending the link between intermarriage and integration? Ethnicities Published online 2016-03-21 DOI: 10.1177/1468796816638399 Miri Song, Professor of Sociology University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent, United Kingdom There are now a growing number of studies on intermarriage in Western multi-ethnic societies, especially in countries with post-colonial migrants (and their descendants).…
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‘Stretching out the categories’: Chinese/European narratives of mixedness, belonging and home in Singapore Ethnicities Volume 14, Number 2 (April 2014) pages 279-302 DOI: 10.1177/1468796813505554 Zarine L. Rocha, Research Scholar Department of Sociology National University of Singapore Racial categorization is important in everyday interactions and state organization in Singapore. Increasingly, the idea of ‘mixed race’ and…
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‘It’s not written on their skin like it is ours’: Greek letter organizations in the age of the multicultural imperative Ethnicities Volume 13, Number 5 (October 2013) pages 519-543 DOI: 10.1177/1468796812471127 Joanna S. Hunter, Assistant Professor of Sociology Radford University, Radford, Virginia Matthew W. Hughey, Associate Professor of Sociology University of Connecticut Today’s students wrestle…
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What’s in a name? Exploring the employment of ‘mixed race’ as an identification Ethnicities Volume 2, Number 4 (December 2002) pages 469-490 DOI: 10.1177/14687968020020040201 Minelle Mahtani, Professor of Geography and Journalism University of Toronto In the last 20 years, we have witnessed an explosion in scholarship and popular media accounts about the experience of ‘mixed race’…
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(An)Other English city: Multiethnicities, (post)modern moments and strategic identifications Ethnicities Volume 2, Number 3 (2002) pages 321-348 DOI: 10.1177/14687968020020030301 Jayne O. Ifekwunigwe, Visiting Associate Professor of African and African American Studies Duke University The interpretive turn in urban studies signals a heightened emphasis on the locus of the city as the site for both the…