Mixed Race Studies

Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.

I have the right to identify myself differently than strangers expect me to identify.
I have the right to identify myself differently than how my parents identify me.
I have the right to identify myself differently than my brothers and sisters.
I have the right to identify myself differently in different situations…

Fanshen Cox. “Mixed Minute: Bill of Rights for People of Mixed Heritage” (from Maria P. P. Root’s “Bill of Rights for People of Mixed Heritage”),” You Tube, February 27, 2009. 00:00:28-00:00:43. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZgELKdb8Ns.

He’s [SilverSpringSteve] is saying that [Barack] Obama says “he is a black man with a white mother.”

Yes… I think as we continue to speak that way… we will see though, the fallacy in saying that a “black man with a white mother” doesn’t work either. And that works for him now in this day and age, and the way he grew up and the way he had to grow up. But I don’t think it’s something we should applaud for the future or encourage for the future.

Fanshen Cox. “Episode 204: Mixed Bag,” Mixed Chicks Chat, May 5, 2011. 00:27:16-00:27:49. http://recordings.talkshoe.com/TC-34257/TS-482022.mp3.

who and what you are

Posted in Articles, Census/Demographics, Media Archive, Social Science, United States on 2011-01-02 02:50Z by Steven

who and what you are

Contexts
Volume 8, Number 4 (Fall 2009)
Pages 64–65
DOI: 10.1525/ctx.2009.8.4.64

Sangyoub Park, Assistant Professor of Sociology
Washburn University

Barack Obama’s presidency and changes in how the U.S. Census tracks race underline the importance of the social construction of race and ethnicity in the United States. Changes in our racial landscape, including increases in interracial marriage and childbearing, pose intriguing questions about how future generations will respond to the growth of multiracial identities.

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Who And What You Are

Posted in Articles, Barack Obama, Identity Development/Psychology, New Media, Politics/Public Policy, Social Science, United States on 2010-01-07 21:22Z by Steven

Who And What You Are

Contexts
Fall 2009
Vol. 8, No. 4
Pages 64–65
DOI 10.1525/ctx.2009.8.4.64

Sangyoub Park, Assistant Professor of Sociology
Washburn University

Barack Obama‘s presidency and changes in how the U.S. Census tracks race underline the importance of the social construction of race and ethnicity in the United States. Changes in our racial landscape, including increases in interracial marriage and childbearing, pose intriguing questions about how future generations will respond to the growth of multiracial identities.

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