I am an undergraduate student at Rice University majoring in Political Science and Asian Studies while pursuing a minor in Poverty, Justice, and Human Capabilities. My studies focus on the formation of transnational activist networks, diasporic identities, and women's movements in the Global South.
On Wikipedia, I've contributed to articles assessing the theoretical and social implications for multiracial individuals in different societies. In addition to extensively restructuring the multiracialism article, I've started stubs on multiracial experiences in Brazil and the United States.
Multiracialism as a lived experience is something that is close to my heart. Prior to recent edits, Wikipedia's article on this topic needed significant buttressing and widening of purview. The article as it currently stands builds off of the notion of race as a social construct, and is structured to invite other editors to elaborate on how the connotations associated with racial identity differ across societies.
Although there have been improvements, there is still much work to do on this topic!! I've compiled a list of references that will aid in future edits of this article, please feel free to look through. More information about my specific plans for this article in my sandbox.
References for Multiracialism
Hooker, Juliet. Theorizing Race in the Americas : Douglass, Sarmiento, Du Bois, and Vasconcelos / Juliet Hooker. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2017.
Ibrahim, Habiba. Troubling the Family : the Promise of Personhood and the Rise of Multiracialism / Habiba Ibrahim. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2012.
Olson, Gary A., and Worsham, Lynn. Race, Rhetoric, and the Postcolonial Edited by Gary A. Olson, Lynn Worsham. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1999.
Mahtani, Minelle. Mixed Race Amnesia : Resisting the Romanticization of Multiraciality / Minelle Mahtani. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2014.
Martin, Lori Latrice, Horton, Hayward Derrick, Herring, Cedric, Keith, Verna M., and Thomas, Melvin. Color Struck : How Race and Complexion Matter in the “Color-Blind” Era / Edited by Lori Latrice Martin, Hayward Derrick
Parker, David, and Song, Miri. Rethinking “Mixed Race” / Edited by David Parker and Miri Song. London ;: Pluto Press, 2001.
Sexton, Jared. Amalgamation Schemes : Antiblackness and the Critique of Multiracialism / Jared Sexton. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2008.
Multiracialism in the United States
Davenport, Lauren. Politics Beyond Black and White : Biracial Identity and Attitudes in America / Lauren Davenport. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press, 2018.
Martin, Lori Latrice, Horton, Hayward Derrick, Herring, Cedric, Keith, Verna M., and Thomas, Melvin. Color Struck : How Race and Complexion Matter in the “Color-Blind” Era / Edited by Lori Latrice Martin, Hayward Derrick
Spencer, Jon Michael. The New Colored People : the Mixed-Race Movement in America / Jon Michael Spencer ; with a Foreword by Richard E. van Der Ross. New York: New York University Press, 1997.
Su, Phung. “Anti-Asian Miscegenation Laws”, 2014.
Multiracialism in the Philippines
Kramer, Paul A. (Paul Alexander). The Blood of Government : Race, Empire, the United States, and the Philippines / Paul A. Kramer. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006.
Molnar, Nicholas Trajano. American Mestizos, the Philippines, and the Malleability of Race : 1898-1961 / Nicholas Trajano Molnar. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2017.
Shirlita Africa Espinosa. “Reading the Gendered Body in Filipino-Australian Diaspora Philanthropy.” PORTAL: Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies 9, no. 2 (July 1, 2012).
Sugaya, N. “The ‘Chinese’ in the Spanish Philippines: The ‘Sangleyes,’ the ‘Mestizos,’ and the ‘Indios’ in Historical Context and Perspective.” Southeast Asian Studies43, no. 4 (March 2006): 374–396.
Multiracialism in Brazil
Dávila, Jerry. “Race and Multiraciality in Brazil and the United States: Converging Paths? (review).” The Americas, 2007. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/223741.
Gouveia, Ana Carolina Miguel, and Université d’Ottawa / University of Ottawa; Université d’Ottawa / University of Ottawa. Multiracial Identity Recognition – Why Not? A Comparison Between Multiracialism in the United States and Brazil. Université d’Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2014.
Graham, Jessica, Holt, Thomas C., Borges, Dain, Bederman, Gail, and Fikes, Kesha. “Representations of Racial Democracy: Race, National Identity, and State Cultural Policy in the United States and Brazil, 1930–1945”. ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2010. http://search.proquest.com/docview/822626544/.
Horton, Cedric Herring, Verna M. Keith and Melvin Thomas. Rotterdam: Sense Publishers, 2017.Santos, Sales Augusto Dos. “Who Is Black in Brazil? A Timely or a False Question in Brazilian Race Relations in the Era of Affirmative Action?” Latin American Perspectives 33, no. 4 (July 2006): 30–48.
Lovell, Peggy. “Development and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in Brazil: 1950-1991.” The Journal of Developing Areas 33, no. 3 (April 1, 1999): 395–418. http://search.proquest.com/docview/1311634514/.
Silva, Graziella Moraes D, and Reis, Elisa P. “The Multiple Dimensions of Racial Mixture in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: From Whitening to Brazilian Negritude.” Ethnic and Racial Studies 35, no. 3 (March 1, 2012): 382–399.
