Mixed Race Studies

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  • Critical ‘Mixed Race’?

    Critical ‘Mixed Race’? Social Identities: Journal for the Study of Race, Nation and Culture Volume 1, Issue 2, 1995 pages 381-395 DOI: 1080/13504630.1995.9959443 Lewis R. Gordon, Laura H. Carnell Professor of Philosophy, Director of the Institute for the Study of Race and Social Thought and Director of the Center for Afro-Jewish Studies Temple University An…

  • Facts of Blackness: Brazil is not Quite the United States… and Racial Politics in Brazil?

    Facts of Blackness: Brazil is not Quite the United States… and Racial Politics in Brazil? Social Identities: Journal for the Study of Race, Nation and Culture Volume 4, Issue 2, 1998 pages 201-234 DOI: 10.1080/13504639851807 Denise Ferreira Da Silva, Professor in Ethics Queen Mary University of London Studies of racial subordination in Brazil usually stress…

  • The Consequence of Race Mixture: Racialised Barriers and the Politics of Desire

    These epigraphs should be considered heretical to the project of the contemporary multiracial movement in the United States Insofar as its proponents and intellectuals speak of the ‘the end(s) of race’, the concept of multiraciality prides itself on the trouble it supposedly causes to the white supremacist rage for order, that is, its ostensible violation…

  • Institutions, Inculcation, and Black Racial Identity: Pigmentocracy vs. the Rule of Hypodescent

    Institutions, Inculcation, and Black Racial Identity: Pigmentocracy vs. the Rule of Hypodescent Social Identities Volume 14, Issue 5 (September 2008) pages 567-585 DOI: 10.1080/13504630802343390 Richard T. Middleton IV, Associate Professor of Political Science University of Missouri, St. Louis This research paper investigates the effect political institutions have on black racial identity. In particular, I study…

  • Multiracial Identity in the Post-Civil Rights Era

    Multiracial Identity in the Post-Civil Rights Era Social Identities Volume 11, Issue 5 (September 2005) pages 531-549 DOI: 10.1080/13504630500408164 Gino Michael Pellegrini, Adjunct Assistant Professor of English Pierce College, Woodland Hills, California This article, which utilizes personal experience as well as other perspectives and theories on race and mixed race, suggests that multiracial identity is…

  • Interrogating the Hyphen-Nation: Canadian Multicultural Policy and ‘Mixed Race’ Identities

    Interrogating the Hyphen-Nation: Canadian Multicultural Policy and ‘Mixed Race’ Identities Social Identities: Journal for the Study of Race, Nation and Culture Volume 8, Number 1, 2002 pages 67-90 Minelle Mahtani, Associate Professor Department of Geography & Planning University Toronto This paper examines the ways ‘mixed race’ women in Canada contemplate their relationship to national identity. Through…