Mixed Race Studies

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  • The Marketization of Identity Politics

    The Marketization of Identity Politics Sociology Volume 47, Number 5 (October 2013) pages 1011-1025 DOI: 10.1177/0038038513495604 Catherine Bliss, Assistant Professor of Sociology University of California, San Francisco Sociology has begun to question how new genetic sciences affect older ways of constructing and contesting social identity, including forms of identity politics that have brought women and…

  • We Need to Talk about Race

    We Need to Talk about Race Sociology Volume 48, Number 6 (December 2014) pages 1107-1122 DOI: 10.1177/0038038514521714 Bethan Harries, Research Associate Centre on Dynamics of Ethnicity University of Manchester, United Kingdom It is not easy to name racism in a context in which race is almost entirely denied. Despite a recent focus on the ‘silencing’…

  • Answer Formats in British Census and Survey Ethnicity Questions: Does Open Response Better Capture ‘Superdiversity’?

    Answer Formats in British Census and Survey Ethnicity Questions: Does Open Response Better Capture ‘Superdiversity’? Sociology Volume 46, Number 2 (April 2012) pages 354-364 DOI: 10.1177/0038038511419195 Peter J. Aspinall, Reader in Population Health at the Centre for Health Services Studies University of Kent, UK During a period of unprecedented ethnicity data collection in Britain, an…

  • Finding, and correcting, my mistakes

    Finding, and correcting, my mistakes Sociology Volume 39, Number 3 (July 2005) pages 483–499 DOI: 10.1177/0038038505052488 Michael Banton, Emeritus Professor of Sociology Univeristy of Bristol Mistakes are inherent in the process of research but can illuminate it. Some of the author’s mistakes have been false assumptions shared with others of his generation. His early work…