Multicultural Initiatives: Mixed Race Studies

What's this blog about?

I teach several courses under the broad topic of "Multicultural Education," prioritizing social justice issues of access, power/privilege, & narrowing the academic achievement gap. I am a person of color and I almost always have a white co-teacher. We include topics, such as: racism, sexism, heterosexism, ableism, ethnocentrism, deculturalization, transforming curriculum, etc. This is a place where I post information that we teach; lesson plans for activities; and resources we use and/or which are shared with me by my adult students.

Saturday, April 23, 2011

Mixed Race Studies

Mixed Race Studies http://www.mixedracestudies.org/wordpress/?page_id=4495: A non-commercial website that provides a gateway to contemporary interdisciplinary (sociology, psychology, history, law, anthropology, etc.) English language scholarship about the relevant issues surrounding the topic of multiracialism.

The goals of the site are to:

Provide visitors with links to books, articles, dissertations, multimedia and any other resources to enable them to further their (and my) knowledge on the topic.
Remind visitors that so-called “racial mixing” has been occurring in the Americas for over five centuries and in fact, all of the founding nations of the Americas were mixed-race societies at their inception.
Ultimately support a vision of the irrelevance of race.

This is by no means an exhaustive listing of discourses on ‘mixed race’ scholarship. Some examples of the scholarship that is not available on this site are as follows:

Non-English language resources.
Out-of-print resources. (This includes important texts such as Everett V. Stonequist‘s The Marginal Man: A Study in Personality and Culture Conflict (1937) and other works.)
Non-web-based resources.

I created the site in April 2009 in recognition of our family members and friends who are ‘mixed-race’ and/or raising ‘mixed-race’ children, in response the growing number self-identifying ‘mixed-race’ living here in the Washington, DC area, and finally in celebration of my interracial marriage to my loving wife of 16 years.