Essays on Multiracial

Question I:

The use of social categories to rationalizing or justifying the treatment of one group over another In America before the 1880, social categories were the norm. They found use in rationalizing and justifying the treatment of one group over another. An excellent example of this is evident in slavery, as well as, the slave trade that thrived during this period. Social categories were used to justify the need for Africans drawn from Africa into the new world. It is estimated that about 10 to 11 million African slaves were drawn from Africa and brought to the new world in ...

Gender is a very powerful category and one that many different people have used in order to explain culture and society. The role of women in society had for the longest time been constricted to the private sphere, the home, taking care of the children and being the primary Linchpin that could take care of the family and be the emotional and often moral center of the family. Women in the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries have gained more rights and have fought for equality with men. When Korean families immigrated to the United States in the ...

Abstract

Notably, interracial couples and their families have faced various challenges including rejection and being stereotyped. These challenges have resulted in increased trauma and developmental delays among interracial people. The most common misperception about interracial couples is that one partner is black while the other one is white. The rate at which interracial marriages are growing in the US has increased steadily. Considering that the United States legalized interracial marriages, a high growth rate in interracial marriage is a significant move. The demand for interracial counseling is expected to rise as the number of multicultural couples increase. Education of counselors ...

Question 1: Monographs

1A- Andrews, George Reid. Blacks & Whites in São Paulo, Brazil, 1888-1988. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1991.

Holland/Terrell Libraries Stacks (F2631 .A58 1991) Permalink URL: http://alliance-primo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/WSU:WSU_everything:CP71171440010001451 1B- Scott, Rebecca. The Abolition of Slavery and the Aftermath of Emancipation in Brazil. Durham: Duke University Press, 1988.

Holland/Terrell Libraries (HT1128 .A29 1988)

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Question 2: History Scholarly Journal Articles

2A- Soares Glaucio Ary Dillon and Nelson do Valle Silva. "Urbanization, Race, and Class in Brazilian Politics." Latin American Research Review 22, no. 2 (1987): 155-176. JSTOR (2503489). 2B- Welch, Cliff. "Globalization and the Transformation of Work in Rural Brazil: Agribusiness, Rural Labor Unions, and Peasant Mobilization." International Labor ...

Abstract

The paper explores the history of interracial marriages within the United States, from both a legal and sociological perspective. The aim is to identify the reason why intermingling between races was illegal and considered a crime until the 1960s, in a country where Abolition and racial discrimination had been brought to an end a century ago. The one-drop-rule governs the status of how people descending from parents who belong to different races are seen in the eyes of the law and dates to a 1662 law in Virginia . The controversy surrounding the law stems from the fact that children ...

Introduction

The Bona and Paul story brings about various themes in its narration. Themes identified include character complexity, language complexity and fascination. This essay relates these themes to the black artists during the Harlem Renaissance and modern social phenomenon of multiracial ancestry.

Themes in Bona and Paul

Major themes addressed by Jean in Bona and Paul include the complexity of the characters as it addresses the incorporation of Black Americans into the life of Northern urban Jazz. Additionally, the story characters hardly seem to know each other. An example is that of Helen trying to explain Paul to herself through information passed on to her ...

Race, sex and appearance are some of the easiest ways to segregate people. Whatever goes up against the status quo, whatever goes against what the majority of the population expects, whatever it is that is simply “unnatural” from a person’s point of view will always be called into question. In this case, the topic of the report is race. Like many other species on the planet, the human race is divided into different appearances based on where they were born. Today the world is getting smaller, a single country no longer holds one form of citizenship alone, and a person ...

The study of critical mixed theory is not only a complex field of study, but also a field that must be examined in a multidimensional view. The mixed race theory entangles itself with political, social, and economic implication in the study of racial identities and the ‘race problem’. People with a multiracial background may experience difficulties in identifying with a particular class of people. This is because racial identities give a person the sense of belongingness. Moreover, one tends to develop a sense of self that is crucial to self-acceptance. However, even where there is a defined mixed race, a sense of belongingness can only be realized if ...