Mixed Race Studies

Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.

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How the mixed-race mestizo myth warped science in Latin America

2021-12-21

Researchers are trying to dismantle the flawed concept of homogeneous racial mixing that has fostered discrimination in Mexico, Brazil and other countries.
The Palgrave International Handbook of Mixed Racial and Ethnic Classification

2020-01-31

This handbook provides a global study of the classification of mixed race and ethnicity at the state level, bringing together a diverse range of country case studies from around the world.
Is race mixture an antidote to racism?

2019-06-19

Is race mixture an antidote to racism? Monitor: Global Intelligence on Racism 2018-12-03 Monica Moreno-Figueroa, Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Cambridge; Fellow in Social Sciences at Downing College, Cambridge Peter Wade, Professor of Social Anthropology University of Manchester There is a tendency for commentators situated towards the political right to claim that…
Racism ‘won’t go away’ even if we’re all mixed-race in the future

2019-06-19

The increased visibility of the mixed-race population may have the potential to ‘positively shift racial attitudes’ but, as study author Duke University psychologist Sarah E. Gaither has said, ‘trying to ignore race effectively means trying to ignore racism, which lets the current racial inequities continue’.
Afro-Latin American Studies: An Introduction

2018-05-30

Alejandro de la Fuente and George Reid Andrews offer the first systematic, book-length survey of humanities and social science scholarship on the exciting field of Afro-Latin American studies.
Race and Ethnicity: Constancy in Change (First Edition)

2017-07-05

“Race and Ethnicity: Constancy in Change” uses both classic readings and new research on contemporary racial inequality to create a logical progression through the primary issues of race and ethnicity.
Degrees of Mixture, Degrees of Freedom: Genomics, Multiculturalism, and Race in Latin America

2017-05-03

In “Degrees of Mixture, Degrees of Freedom,” Peter Wade draws on a multidisciplinary research study in Mexico, Brazil, and Colombia. He shows how Latin American elites and outside observers have emphasized mixture’s democratizing potential, depicting it as a useful resource for addressing problems of racism (claiming that race mixture undoes racial difference and hierarchy), while…
Paradoxically, the same genomic arguments about the nonexistence of biologically differentiated racial categories can work in a different way to re-racialize Brazilian society.

2016-08-07

Paradoxically, the same genomic arguments about the nonexistence of biologically differentiated racial categories can work in a different way to re-racialize Brazilian society. The genetic data are used to argue that everyone is more or less mixed and that Brazil is a heterogeneously mestiço nation. But this argument easily resonates, in the wider public sphere,…
The analysis of these examples from Brazil, Colombia, and Mexico reveals how crucial the nation is as a frame for understanding the way racialized concepts get reiterated and reworked in genomic science, in ways that make race both disappear and reappear.

2016-08-07

The analysis of these examples from Brazil, Colombia, and Mexico reveals how crucial the nation is as a frame for understanding the way racialized concepts get reiterated and reworked in genomic science, in ways that make race both disappear and reappear. Public health, multiculturalism, and forensics are all political and policy domains that directly invoke…
Genetics against race: Science, politics and affirmative action in Brazil

2016-08-07

Genetics against race: Science, politics and affirmative action in Brazil Social Studies of Science Volume 45, Number 6 (December 2015) pages 816-838 DOI: 10.1177/0306312715610217 Peter Wade, Professor of Social Anthropology University of Manchester Michael Kent, Honorary Research Fellow in Social Anthropology School of Social Sciences University of Manchester This article analyses interrelations between genetic ancestry…

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