...From Biracial to Multiracial to Mixed-Race to Critical Mixed-Race Studies ...

... Chapter 1 argues that it was the medieval Roman Church’s pastoral “government of souls,” its management of the flock of Christendom through a regime of instruction, inspection, confession, and interrogation, that provided the governmental tool kit through which “race” would eventually...

... The work of John Dewey has been widely invoked in recent endeavors to harness habit to progressive programs of social change, particularly in relation to questions of race. While acknowledging the significance of Dewey's work, this chapter also probes its limitations, particularly when his...

..., police departments, the press, or universities who thought collectively about ways of addressing crime in the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century city. These thinkers not only built a department that explicitly centered race and ethnicity in its operations but they also laid the foundation...