Mixed Race Studies

Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.

Ultimately though, I identify as a daughter of the Diaspora. The descendants of the millions of Africans taken to the new world share a similar heritage to mine; black African and white European, and I feel an affinity with these fellow Diasporians. I reject a racist hierarchy of value and worth and refuse to position myself as separate from other black people in a bid to try and position myself that little bit closer to whiteness. The historical processes, of which we Diasporians are a part, stem from the same source: the European slave trade and the subsequent European colonisation of Africa. And it is for this reason that I locate myself within this historical continuum rather than buy into an ideologically problematic, a-historical approach which constructs being ‘mixed-race’ as something new.

Emma Dabiri, “Why I see myself as a daughter of the Diaspora rather than mixed-race,” Black Girl Dancing at Lughnasa (March 12, 2013). http://thediasporadiva.tumblr.com/post/45223779733/why-i-see-myself-as-a-daughter-of-the-diaspora-rather.

Interracial Families: Current Concepts and Controversies

Posted in Books, Family/Parenting, Media Archive, Monographs, Social Science on 2010-08-22 06:40Z by Steven

Interracial Families: Current Concepts and Controversies

Routledge
2008-11-26
176 pages
Paperback ISBN: 978-0-415-99034-9

George Alan Yancey, Associate Professor of Sociology
University of North Texas

Richard Lewis, Jr., Special Assistant to the President and Associate Professor of Sociology
University of Texas, San Antonio

A unique book offering both a research overview and practical advice for its readers, this text allows students to gain a solid understanding of the research that has been generated on several important issues surrounding multiracial families, including intimate relations, family dynamics, transracial adoptions, and other topics of personal and scholarly interest.

Table of Contents

List of Figures and Tables
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Overview of Intergroup Relations and Their Impact on Interethnic and Interracial Marriages
Chapter 3: Interracial Dating
Chapter 4: Interracial Marriage
Chapter 5: Multiracial Identity
Chapter 6: The Multiracial Movement and the U.S. Census Controversy
Chapter 7: Transracial Adoption
Chapter 8: Multiracial Families: Conclusions and Looking Ahead
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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