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  • Books in Brief: Nonfiction

    Books in Brief: Nonfiction The New York Times 1997-10-26 Douglas A. Sylva The New Colored People: The Mixed-Race Movement in America. By Jon Michael Spencer. New York University, $24.95. Many members of minority groups have long argued that society must recognize and accept an individual’s racial identity for that individual to enjoy feelings of self-esteem.…

  • The New Colored People: The Mixed Race Movement in America (Book Review)

    The New Colored People: The Mixed Race Movement in America (Book Review) Mixed American Life 2012-11-15 Charles T. Franklin The New Colored People: The Mixed Race Movement in America by Jon Michael Spencer (1997) makes the argument that the US multi-cultural movement, like other movements in the past, is something that we need to pay…

  • Amalgamation Schemes: Antiblackness and the Critique of Multiracialism [Review: Spickard]

    Amalgamation Schemes: Antiblackness and the Critique of Multiracialism [Review: Spickard] American Studies Volume 50, No. 1/2: Spring/Summer 2009 pages 125-127 Paul Spickard, Professor of History University of California, Santa Barbara Amalgamation Schemes: Antiblackness and the Critique of Multiracialism. Jared Sexton. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. 2008. One of the major developments in ethnic studies over…

  • Review of Spencer, Jon Michael, The New Colored People: The Mixed-Race Movement in America

    Review of Spencer, Jon Michael, The New Colored People: The Mixed-Race Movement in America H-Net Reviews January 1998 Richard L. Hughes The Census, Race, and… Amid a racial climate which includes a presidential advisory board on race and a discussion of slavery within the popular media, there lies an increasingly prominent dialogue on race in…

  • “The New Kubla Khan: Mixed Race Multi-Nationalism”

    “The New Kubla Khan: Mixed Race Multi-Nationalism” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Studies Association 2009-05-24 Michele Elam, Martin Luther King, Jr. Centennial Professor of English, Professor, Director of African & African American Studies Stanford University This paper examines how, and to what ends, people of the “mixed race experience” are being…

  • The New Colored People: The Mixed-Race Movement in America

    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.