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Mixed race studies is one of the fastest growing, as well as one of the most important and controversial areas in the field of race and ethnic relations. Bringing together pioneering and controversial scholarship from both the social and the biological sciences, as well as the humanities, this reader charts the evolution of debates on 'race' and 'mixed race' from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century. The book is divided into three main sections:tracing the origins: miscegenation, moral degeneracy and geneticsmapping contemporary and foundational discourses: 'mixed race', identities polit

A review essay on books by (1) Jill Olumide, Raiding the Gene Pool: The Social Construction of Mixed Race & (2) Parker & Song (Eds), Rethinking "Mixed Race" (both, Pluto, 2001). 21 References.

Introduction -- 1. Race and Ideology -- 2. Mixed-Race Cinema Histories -- 3. Interrogating Terminology -- 4. Methodology and Frameworks -- 5. Mixed-Race Spaces in French and American Cinema -- 6. Franco-American Narratives and Beur Cinema -- 7. Summary of Chapters -- Chapter One: the Mixed Question -- 1. Language, Representation and Casting -- 2. The Historical Mulatta Screen Stereotype in America -- 3. The Historical Mulatta Screen Stereotype in France -- Chapter Two: Hollywood's 'Passing' Narratives -- 1. 'Passing' Representations as Ideological Construct -- 2. The Dichotomies of Post-War Mixed-Race Women Onscreen -- 3. Gender, 'Passing' and Love -- Chapter Three: The Limits of the Classic Hollywood 'Tragic Mulatta' -- 1. Imitation of Life (1934): Interrogating Mixed Identities -- 2. Casting and Representation -- 3. Shadows and the Interracial Family -- 4. Imitation of Life, 1959: Gender, Difference and Voiced Rebellion -- 5. Performative Identities: Sara Jane, Dandridge and Monroe -- Chapter Four: Cultural Shifts: New Waves in Racial Representation -- 1. Representing 'Mixed-Race France' -- 2. Reimagining the Nation: Mixed Families -- 3. Questioning Mixed Masculinity: Les Trois frères -- 4. Melodrama, Motherhood and Masks: Métisse -- 5. Racial-Sexual Mythology and the Interracial Family -- Chapter Five: Transnational Families in Drôle de Félix -- 1. A Search for Identity on the Road -- 2. Citizenship, Violence and Scopophilia -- 3. Trauma and Redemption -- 4. Destabilising the Primary Authority of the Father -- 5. Reuniting Transnational Families -- Conclusion -- 1. 'Post-Race' Politics in America and France -- 2. Enduring Stereotypes -- 3. Mixed-Race Sci-Fi -- 4. Mixed Representational Potentials -- Bibliography -- Index

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Editor's Introductory Note -- SYMPOSIUM: RACE AND DEMOCRACY IN THE AMERICAS -- Race and Democracy in the Americas Project -- Race and Democracy in the U.S. and Brazil: The Evolution of a Program -- Project Conference Opening Remarks: International Cooperation on Higher Education -- Changing Racial Attitudes in Brazil: Retrospective and Prospective Views -- Self-directed" Activism between the U.S. African and Afro-Brazilian Communities: On the Nature of an Activist Relationship [A Response to Brazilian Activist Sueli Carneiro] -- Comparable or Connected? Afro-Diasporic Subjectivity and State Response in 1920s São Paulo and Chicago -- Racial Intimacy and Racial Politics: Adoption in the U.S. and Brazil -- Racism: A Contradiction within the Brazilian Democratic System -- Fear as the Commodity Blacks Own the Most: An Essay on Police Violence Against Black People and the Poor in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil -- Race Relations among University Students in Rio de Janeiro -- Rewriting the Black Subject: "History" and "Culture" in the Black Brazilian Emancipatory Text -- Racial Cycles? A Dynamic Approach to the Study of Race in Post-Revolutionary Cuba and Beyond -- The Pan-African Initiative in the Americas: Culture, Common Struggle, and the Odu Ifa -- Linking Two Theoretical Traditions: Toward Conceptualizing the American Racial State in a Globalized Milieu -- AMERICAN POLITICS: LOCAL AND NATIONAL PERSPECTIVES -- Race, Regime, and Redevelopment: Opportunities for Community Coalitions in Detroit, 1985-1993 -- Presidential Impeachment, Ideology, and Party Politics: Comparing 1868 to 1999 -- A TRIBUTE TO MACK HENRY JONES OF ATLANTA UNIVERSITY -- An Assessment of the Works of Mack Jones on the Development of Black Political Science: Introduction to a Symposium

Data from the CA Vital Statistics Birth Records are drawn on to analyze patterns of multiracial-multiethnic births in that state, 1982-1999, in terms of racial/ethnic group size & maternal age & education, & to construct a profile of the proportion of these newborns by ethnic-racial group. The impact of the continuation of CA's high rate of immigration on multiracial-multiethnic births is explored, acknowledging the influence of factors such as country of origin, generational effects, residential segregation, group size, & intermarriage. Analysis reveals the rapid & continuing growth of the state's multiracial Hispanic population; implications of this & other trends for the future of the state's demographic composition -- & policies based on it -- are discussed. 8 Figures, 22 References. K. Hyatt Stewart

This paper builds a Critical Race Theory approach to consider how mixed-race American Indian college students conform to, or resist, dominant black/non-black ideology.Current research on multiracials in the U.S. lacks the perspectives of mixed-race American Indians on the heightened disputes of "Indianness," tribal enrollment, and tribal self-determination. Also under-explored is how mixed-race American Indian persons perceive themselves in racial terms, how they wish to be perceived, and how economic and historical perspectives inform their choices about racial self-identification.This paper provides an overview of the identity politics of mixed-race American Indians at a tribal college and highlights the need for tribal colleges to embrace a growing mixed-race population through self-determination education policies.

Mixed-race subjects have long posed an invisible threat to the stability of racial categories in America. Given that racialization has influenced government policies since the country's inception, the subordination of various ethnic groups based on their physiognomy has served to control non-white people deemed socially inferior while attempting to keep white bloodlines "pure." Influenced by the human "scientific" taxonomy proposed by Carrolus Linneaus and Johann Blumenbach, among others, Western hegemonic discourse has historically centered on the assumption that human beings are rightfully divided into different races, which places white Europeans at the top of the hierarchy and non-white people from various ethnic groups scattered among the different classes below. This social stratification also functions through the belief in naturalized hypodescent, which forces mixed-race people to identify as monoracials, who are only able to claim their non-white parentage. Evelyn Alsultany calls this structure of racialization a "monoracial cultural logic" that dictates monoracial designations to the body politic. Imposed monoraciality has erased the majority of historical narratives about mixed-race people in the United States. The resulting lack of documentation seems to suggest that interracial marriages and their mixed-race offspring are anomalies in society, rare in previous generations, and only recently on the rise. In previous decades, however, social mores denounced interracial unions as impure and often erased them from the discourse. These silenced histories have been replaced by tropes in the social imaginary that depict mixed-race children as defective, deviant, and tragically trapped between two worlds. Nonetheless, Americans have been mixing and marrying individuals from other ethnic backgrounds for generations, and instances of interracial marriages have taken place in significant numbers between various ethnic groups. In this dissertation, I examine the experiences of mixed-race individuals with one Asian and one non-Asian parent as represented in performance, and I argue that one of the most critically important ways these mixed-Asian American histories have survived is through theatrical texts. These dramas elucidate the external social pressures and cultural limitations that have played a key role in the development of mixed-race identity. Further, plays written since the new millennium present mixed-race subjectivity in a different light, which, I assert, is due to the government's formal acknowledgment of the mixed-race population on the 2000 United States census. As a result, the mixed-race narrative in theater has begun to shift from one of the tragic Eurasian to that of a wholly integrated identity, one who shape shifts to resist the rigidity of racial designations.This dissertation traces the depiction of mixed-race Amerasians in American theater from the late-nineteenth century to the new millennium and investigates a new canon of politically-charged mixed-race Asian American plays. Through archival research, ethnographic methods, and cultural materialist readings of theatrical texts and their performances, I suggest that an understanding of this "doubly liminal" hapa consciousness, constructed and embodied in a liminal space outside of monoracial binaries, is crucial for the examination of the mixed-Asian American stories. These narratives, when transformed into performance texts, can often dismantle the social and cultural assignments that are imposed upon mixed-race bodies. They complete a historical narrative that begins in the nineteenth century and delivers us to the present day—to an age in which a post-racial society remains ever elusive.