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  • Memories of race: representations of mixed race people in girls’ comic magazines in post-occupation Japan

    As the number of mixed race people grows in Japan, anxieties about miscegenation in today’s context of intensified globalization continue to increase. Indeed, the multiracial reality has recently gotten attention and led to heightened discussions surrounding it in Japanese society, specifically, in the media.

  • Health Care, Research Failing to Adapt to U.S.’s Growing Multiracial Population

    Health Care, Research Failing to Adapt to U.S.’s Growing Multiracial Population School of Social Work University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign 2015-10-12 Data collection methods in research and health care settings have lagged behind in adapting to the rapidly growing population of multiracials, according to studies led by social work professor Karen M. Tabb Dina Multiracial people…

  • Racial Democracy: The Sociological History of a Concept

    Racial Democracy: The Sociological History of a Concept Center for Latin American & Caribbean Studies Lemann Institute for Brazilian Studies University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign 2013-02-15 Antonio Sergio Guimarães, Professor of Sociology Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil I will examine the coining, the uses, and meanings of the expression “racial democracy” from the 1930’s onwards including…

  • The Skin We’re In: A Literary Analysis of Representations Of Mixed Race Identity in Children’s Literature

    This study systematically analyzed novels of contemporary and historical fiction with mixed race content intended for readers age 9-14. In the context of an increasingly multiracial and multicultural society, this study was primarily concerned with the question of identity representation: What is contemporary children’s literature saying about the experience of being racially mixed? This question…

  • Mining the garrison of racial prejudice: The fiction of Charles W. Chesnutt and turn-of-the-century White racial discourse

    Mining the garrison of racial prejudice: The fiction of Charles W. Chesnutt and turn-of-the-century White racial discourse University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign 1995 Robert Carl Nowatzki This dissertation analyzes the fiction of Charles Waddell Chesnutt (1858-1932), the first black fiction writer published by a major American firm and widely reviewed and read by white critics and…

  • Branding Blasians: Mixed Race Black/Asian Americans in the Celebrity Industrial Complex

    Branding Blasians: Mixed Race Black/Asian Americans in the Celebrity Industrial Complex University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign May 2012 235 pages Myra Washington, Assistant Professor of Communication & Journalism University of New Mexico Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Communications in the Graduate College of the University…

  • Parading Respectability: An Ethnography of the Christmas Bands movement in the Western Cape, South Africa

    Parading Respectability: An Ethnography of the Christmas Bands movement in the Western Cape, South Africa University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign May 2012 238 pages Sylvia R. Bruinders The Christmas Bands march through Adderley Street late at night during the “festive season” in Cape Town, 2001. Picture by Henry Trotter. The author releases it to the public…

  • Lecture Series. Multiculturalism and Miscegenation in the Construction of Latin America’s Cultural Identity

    Lecture Series. Multiculturalism and Miscegenation in the Construction of Latin America’s Cultural Identity   Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign 101 International Studies Building 910 S. Fifth Street, Champaign, Illinois 2012-02-23, 12:00 CST (Local Time) Eduardo Coutihno, Distinguished Lemann Visiting Professor of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign…

  • Mediating Blackness: Afro Puerto Rican Women and Popular Culture

    Mediating Blackness: Afro Puerto Rican Women and Popular Culture University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign 2011-06-14 145 pages Maritza Quiñones-Rivera A Dissertation Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Communications in the Graduate College of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign In my dissertation I discuss how blackness, femaleness…

  • CRN 47519/47520-Mixed Race Asian Americans

    CRN 47519/47520-Mixed Race Asian Americans University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Fall 2008 Kent Ono, Professor of Asian American Studies, Communication, and Institute of Communications Research Part of Asian American Ethnic Groups (AAS-450) This course provides an introduction to the study of mixed race Asian Americans. From discussions of famous mixed race people, such as Tiger Woods,…