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  • Mixed Race 3.0: Risk and Reward in the Digital Age

    Mixed Race 3.0: Risk and Reward in the Digital Age USC Annenberg Press 2015-01-30 113 pages ISBN: 9781625175564 Edited by: Ulli K. Ryder Department of Gender and Women’s Studies University of Rhode Island Marcia Alesan Dawkins, Clinical Assistant Professor Annenberg School for Communication and Jounalism University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California Have you been…

  • Is Interracial Marriage Still Scandalous?

    Is Interracial Marriage Still Scandalous? Room For Debate The New York Times 2013-06-13 Kevin Noble Maillard, Professor of Law Syracuse University Gary B. Nash, Professor Emeritus of History University of California, Los Angeles Heidi W. Durrow, Author and Co-Founder Mixed Roots Film and Literary Festival Diane Farr, Actress and Writer Rose Cuison Villazor, Professor of…

  • Let our settlements and theirs meet and blend together, to intermix, and become one people…

    In the third year of his presidency, Thomas Jefferson pleaded “to let our settlements and theirs [Indians] meet and blend together, to intermix, and become one people.” Six years later, just before returning to Monticello, Jefferson promised a group of western Indian chiefs, “you will unite yourselves with us,… and we shall all be Americans;…

  • 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…

  • We Need to Learn More About Our Colorful Past

    We Need to Learn More About Our Colorful Past The New York Times 2004-07-31 Maurice A. Barboza, Founder Black Patriots Foundation Gary B. Nash, Professor Emeritus of History University of California, Los Angeles Back in 1925, American society tended not to advise young white males about the consequences of intimacy with the black maid. Even…

  • The Hidden History of Mestizo America

    The Hidden History of Mestizo America The Journal of American History Volume 82, Number 3 (December, 1995) pages 941-964 5 illustrations Gary B. Nash, Professor Emeritus of History University of California, Los Angeles This essay was delivered as the presidential address at the national meeting of the Organization of American Historians in Washington, March 31,…

  • Asian Indian Men and Hispanic Women in California

    …Between 1913 and 1948–the latter date the abrogation of California’s law prohibiting racial intermarriage–80 percent of the Asian Indian men in California married Hispanic women.  To this day, several thousand of the children and grandchildren of these Punjabi-Hispanic marriages, which involved vows between Muslims and Catholics or Hindus and Catholics, can be found in Imperial…

  • Images of Latin American mestizaje and the politics of comparison

    Images of Latin American mestizaje and the politics of comparison Bulletin of Latin American Research Volume 23, Number 3 (2004) pp. 355–366 DOI: 10.1111/j.0261-3050.2004.00113.x Peter Wade, Professor of Social Anthropology University of Manchester In a presidential address to the Organization of American Historians, Gary Nash (1995) reveals ‘the hidden history of mestizo America’ (by which…