G. Reginald Daniel

G. Reginald Daniel

G. REGINALD DANIEL

Department of Sociology

University of California, Santa Barbara

Santa Barbara, California 93106-9430

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805-893-3118/FAX 805-893-3324

EDUCATION

Ph.D.University of California, Los Angeles, 1987.

M.A.Indiana University, 1973.

B.A.Indiana University, 1971.

AREAS OF PROFESSIONAL INTEREST

Race and ethnic relations, critical mixed race studies, comparative race and culture, comparative and historical sociology.

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS

2009–presentProfessor. Department of Sociology, University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB).

2003–2008Associate Professor. Department of Sociology, University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB).

1998–2003Assistant Professor. Department of Sociology, University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB).

1992–1998Lecturer. Department of Sociology, University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB).

2008–presentAffiliated Faculty. Department of History. University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB).

2006–presentAffiliated Faculty. Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies. University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB).

2006–presentAffiliated Faculty. Department of Black Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB).

1998–presentAffiliated Faculty. Asian American Studies Department, University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB).

1998–presentAffiliated Faculty. Latin American and Iberian Studies Center, University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB).

1988–1996Lecturer. Latin American Studies/African American Studies. University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).

HONORS AND AWARDS

2012The 2012 Loving Prize, Mixed Roots Film and Literary Festival

2005K & F Baxter Family Foundation Research Grant

2001Regents Junior Faculty Fellowship

2001UCSB ISBER Humanistic Social Science Research Grant

2000UCSB Academic Senate General Research Grant

1999UCSB Academic Senate General Research Grant

1998UCSB Academic Senate General Research Grant

1998“Top 100 Classses” The Student Survival Guide, UCSB

1998UCSB Alpha Lambda Delta Mortar Board Professor of the Year Award

1997UC-AFT Teaching Excellence Award, Honorable Mention

1993UCLA Mortar Board Senior Honor Society Faculty Excellence Award Recipient

1990UCLA Mortar Board Senior Honor Society Faculty Excellence Award Nominee

1979–1984UCLA Graduate Division Academic Fellowship

1977–1978Fulbright-Hayes Fellowship

1973–1980Ford Foundation Graduate Study Fellowship

1971Gulbenkian Foundation Fellowship

BOOKS

More Than Black? Multiracial Identity and the New Racial Order. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2002.

Racial Thinking in the United States: Uncompleted Independence, with P. Spickard (eds.), Fort Wayne, Ind.: Notre Dame University Press, 2004.

Race and Multiraciality in Brazil and the United States: Converging Paths?. University Park, Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania State University Press, 2006.

Machado de Assis: Multiracial Identity and the Brazilian Novelist. University Park, P.A.: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2012.

Race and the Obama Phenomenon: The Vision of a More Perfect Multiracial Union, with H. Williams. Jackson, Mississippi. University Press of Mississippi, 2014.

ARTICLES, CHAPTERS, ESSAYS, AND REVIEWS

2016“Machado de Assis: From ‘Tragic Mulatto’ to Human Tragicomedy.” In Emerging Dialogues on Machado de Assis, Lamont Aidoo and Daniel F. Silva (eds.) Palgrave Macmillan.

2015“The Space-In-Between: Machado de Assis and the Postmodern Sensibility.” Machado de Assis em Linha 8, no. 16, 114–137.

2014“Machado de Assis and Brazilian Literary Independence: Toward a Postcolonial National Aesthetic.” Machado de Assis em Linha 7, no. 14, 163–182.

2014“Colorblind Ideology, Multiculturalism, and Mixed Race High School Students,” with A. Newman. In Adolescent Identity and Schooling, 21–38, Cynthia Hudley (ed.), New York: Routledge, 2015.

2014Review.Culling the Masses: The Democratic Origins of Racist Immigration Policy in the Americas by David Scott FitzGerald and David Cook-Martín. Hispanic American Historical Review. 95, no 4, 719–721.

2014Editor. Journal of Critical Mixed Race Studies 1(1).

2014“Editor’s Note.” Journal of Critical Mixed Race Studies 1(1): 1‒6.

2014“Emerging Paradigms in Critical Mixed Race Studies,” with L. Kina, W. Dariotis, and C. Fojas. Journal of Critical Mixed Race Studies 1(1): 7‒62.

2014Review of The Long Lingering Shadow by Robert J. Cottrol. In Hispanic American Historical Review94 (1) (February): 158‒59.

2014“Race and Multiraciality: From Barack Obama to Trayvon Martin.” In Race, Multiraciality, and the Obama Phenomenon: The Vision of a More Perfect Multiracial Union, with H. Williams (eds.). Jackson, Mississippi: University of Mississippi Press.

2014“Preface,” with H. Williams. In Race and the Obama Phenomenon: The Vision of a More Perfect Multiracial Union. G. Reginald Daniel and H. Williams (eds.) Jackson, Mississippi: University of Mississippi Press.

2014“Competing Narratives in the Brazilian Racial Order: Race and Multiraciality,” with A. Michael Lee. In Global Mixed Race. Rebecca Chiyoko King-O’Riain, Minelle Mahtani, Miri Song, Paul Spickard, and Stephen Small (eds.)

2014“‘Pardo’ and ‘Preto’into ‘Negro’: Blackness in Contemporary Brazil.” In Converging Identities: Blackness in the Contemporary African Diaspora, J. Adekunle and H. Williams (eds.)

2012“The Mulatto Escape Hatch.” with A. Newman. In Encyclopedia of Race and Racism. 2nd edition. P. Mason (ed.) Macmillan Reference USA. Gale/Cengage Learning. Detroit, MI.

2012“Multiracial and Multiethnic Americans,” with J. Castañeda-Liles. In The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Social History.

2012“Race, Multiraciality, and the Election of Barack Obama: A More Perfect Union?” In Obama and the Biracial Factor: The Battle for a New American Majority. Andrew Jolivette (ed.). University of Bristol, Bristol, UK. The Policy Press.

2010“Race, Class, and Power: The Politics of Multiraciality in Brazil,” with G. Haddow. In Colorstruck: Essays on Race and Ethnicity in Global Perspective, J. Adekunle and H. Williams (eds.). Latham, M.A.: University Press of America.

2010“All Mixed Up: A New Racial Commonsense in Global Perspective,” with G. Haddow. In Colorstruck: Essays on Race and Ethnicity in Global Perspective, J. Adekunle and H. Williams (eds.). Latham, M.A.: University Press of America.

2009“Race, Multiraciality, and Barack Obama: Toward a More Perfect Racial Union?” Black Scholar: Journal of Black Studies and Research 39, 3&4 (Fall/Winter).

2009Review of Legalizing Identities: Becoming Black or Indian in Brazil’s Northeast by Jan Hoffman French. American Anthropologist 12, 2: 327–328.

2006“Race, Multiraciality, and the Neoconservative Agenda,” with J. Castañeda-Liles. In Mixed Messages: Multiracial Identities in the Color-Blind Era. D. L. Brunsma (ed.), Boulder, CO: Lynne Reinner Publishers.

2000Review of Mixedblood Messages: Literature, Film, Family, Place by Louis OwensBiography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly 23 (3) Summer 2000.

2000“The One-Drop Rule.” In African American Encyclopedia, (revision) Salem Press (ed.) Marshall Cavendish Corporation, New York.

2000“Multiracial Identity in Brazil and the United States.” In We Are A People: Narrative and Multiplicity in the Construction of Ethnic Identity, P. Spickard and J. Burroughs, (eds.), Philadelphia: Temple University Press.

1999“Assimilation and Transculturation: The Dynamics of Ethnic Relations Reconsidered.” In Unity and Difference, 1 (1): 43–48.

1999“Hypodescent.” In Racial and Ethnic Relations in America, Carl L. Bankston (ed.), Salem Press. Inc.: Pasadena, CA.

1999“Multiracial Identity.” In Racial and Ethnic Relations in America, Carl L. Bankston (ed.), (ed.) Salem Press, Inc.: Pasadena, CA.

1999“The Multiracial Movement.” In Racial and Ethnic Relations in America, Carl L. Bankston (ed.), Salem Press, Inc.: Pasadena, CA.

1998“Either Black or White: Race Relations in Contemporary Brazil.” In Latin America: An Interdisciplinary Approach, G. Verona-Lacey and J. Lopez-Arias (eds.), New York: Peter Lang.

1998“Testimony for Hearings on Racial Census Categories.” Federal Measures of Race and Ethnicity and the Implications for the 2000 Census. Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Government Management, Information, and Technology. Committee on Government Reform and Oversight U.S. House of Representatives, 105th Congress, April 23; May 22; and July 25, 1997 (Washington. D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1998), 395-396.

1998“Testimony for Hearings on Racial Census Categories.” Federal Measures of Race and Ethnicity and the Implications for the 2000 Census. Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Government Management, Information, and Technology. Committee on Government Reform and Oversight U.S. House of Representatives, 105th Congress, April 23; May 22; and July 25, 1997 (Washington. D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1998), 575-576.

1996“Black and White Identity in the New Millennium: Unsevering the Ties That Bind.” In The Multiracial Experience: Racial Borders as the New Frontier, M. P. P. Root (ed.), Thousand Oaks, California: Sage Publications.

1996“Being Different Together: Multiethnic Identity in the University Classroom,” with T. K. Williams, G. K. Kitch, and C. Nakashima. In The Multiracial Experience: Racial Borders as the New Frontier, M. P. P. Root (ed.), Thousand Oaks, California: Sage Publications.

1995“Multiracial Identity on the University Campus,” with J. U. Collins III. Interrace Magazine, 6 (3): 24, 26.

1995“Machado de Assis and the Meta-Mulatto.” In Encruzilhadas. Symposium on Portuguese Traditions, Claude L. Hulet, (ed.), University of California, Los Angeles.

1993Review of Mixed Blood: Intermarriage and Ethnic Identity in Twentieth-Century America by P. Spickard. Contemporary Sociology, 22 (3): 381–382.

1993“Testimony for Hearings on Racial Census Categories.” Subcommittee on Census, Statistics and Postal Personnel, Washington, D.C.

1992“Beyond Black and White: The New Multiracial Consciousness.” In Racially Mixed People in America. M. P. P. Root (ed.), Thousand Oaks, California: Sage Publications.

1992“Passers and Pluralists: Subverting the Racial Divide.” In Racially Mixed People in America, M. P. P. Root (ed.), Thousand Oaks, California: Sage Publications.

1992“Eurocentrism, Afrocentrism, or Holocentrism?” Interrace Magazine. 3 (2): 33.

1992Review of Who Is Black?: One Nation’s Definition by F. Davis. Contemporary Sociology, 22 (2): 178-179.

1991“The Census and the Numbers Racket.” Interrace Magazine. 2 (3): 20.

1988“A View from the Bridge: The New Multiracial Consciousness.” SPECTRUM, Vol. 1, (Nov/Dec), No. 12.

PUBLIC LECTURES AND CONFERENCE PAPERS

2016Presenter. “Multiracial Identity: Sociology, Hypodescent, and the Monoracial Imperative.” Presented at 87th Annual Pacific Sociological Association Meeting, Oakland, California

2016Presenter. “Betwixt and Between: A Personal Odyssey Through the Twilight Zone.” Presented at Shape Shifters: Journeys Across Terrains of Race and Identity. University of California, Santa Barbara.

2015Guest Lecturer. “Race and Multiraciality.” Department of Asian Pacific Studies, Arizona State University, Tempe Arizona.

2015Presenter. “Race and Antiracism: Black and Multiracial Identity Politics in Contemporary Brazil.” Department of Romance Studies Conference, Duke University.

2015Presenter. “Competing Narratives in the Brazilian Racial Order: Race and Multiraciality.” Roundtable: Global Mixed Race, University of California, Santa Barbara.

2015Presenter. “Mixed Race Studies and the Critical Turn: An Emerging Perspective.” Presented at The Critical Turn: Historical and Contemporary Formation in Ethnic Studies,” California State Polytechnic University, Pomona.

2014Session Organizer. Sociology and Mixed Race Studies. American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco.

2014“Sociology, the Mixed-Race Problem, and the Failure of a Perspective.” Presented at American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco.

2014Panel Discussant. “George Zimmerman: The Complexity and Contradictions of Latino Multiraciality.” Presented at 2nd Annual Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference. DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois

2014Panel Discussant. “Changing the Latino Question or Gunnin’ for the Census Again.” The Second Annual Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference. De Paul University, Chicago, Illinois.

2012Panel Discussant. “Race in Medicine: A Dangerous Prescription.” University of California, Los Angeles, California.

2012Session Organizer. “Toward a Multiracial Collective Subjectivity.” Presented at 83th Annual Pacific Sociological Association Meeting, San Diego, California.

2012“A Multiracial Collective Subjectivity.” Presented at 83th Annual Pacific Sociological Association Meeting, San Diego, California.

2011“New Genetics or Scientific Racism in a New Guise?” Presented at Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference, DePauw University, Chicago, Illinois.

2011“Don’t Pass on Context: The Importance of Academic Discourses in Contemporary Discussion on the Multiracial Experience.” Mixed Roots Film and Literary Festival, Los Angeles California.

2010“Multiraciality, Genomics, and Biomedical Research.” Presented at “Emerging Paradigms in Critical Mixed Race Studies” Conference. The Inaugural Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference, DePaul University, Chicago, ILL.

2010“Multiracial Identity.” Presented at Mixed Dreams: Multiracial Identities Symposium, Oberlin College. Oberlin, OH.

2010“Exploring the Historical Context for Contemporary Stories of the Mixed Experience.” Mixed Roots Film and Literary Festival, Los Angeles California.

2010“Hypocritical Hybridity and the Critical Difference: Race and Postracialism in the Age of Obama.” Presented at 81th Annual Pacific Sociological Association Meeting, Oakland, California.

2009“Race and Multiraciality: Barack Obama and the 2008 Presidential Election.” Presented at 80th Annual Pacific Sociological Association Meeting, San Diego, California.

2009“Race and Multiraciality: Toward a More Perfect Racial Union?” Weglyn Visiting Scholar. California State, Polytechnic University, Pomona.

2009“Who We Really Are: Race, Multiraciality, and Human Identity.” Be the Change Circle. Santa Barbara, California

2009“The Power of One.” Keynote Address. Presented at “Be the Change…Live the Dream.” University of California, Santa Barbara.

2007“The Newest Oldest Thing: The ‘First-Generation’ and ‘Multigenerational’ Experiences in the Mixed-Race Community.” Keynote Address. Presented at The Newest Oldest Thing: Reflections on the Mixed Race Community,” University of California, Berkeley, California.

2007“Betwixt and Between: Teaching Multiraciality in the University Classroom.” Presented at 78th Annual Pacific Sociological Association Meeting, Oakland, California.

2007“The Brazilian and United States Racial Orders: Changing Points of Reference.” Presented at 78th Annual Pacific Sociological Association Meeting, Oakland, California.

2001“Multiracial Identity in Global Perspective: The United States, Brazil, and South Africa.” Presented at 69th Annual Pacific Sociological Association Meeting, San Francisco, California.

2000 / “Multiracial Identity and the New Millennium: Black No More or More Than Black?” Presented at the 95th Annual American Sociological Association Meeting, Washington, D.C.
2000 / “Census 2000: A Revolution in Race?” UCSB Affiliates: Friends Linking Campus and Community.”
2000 / “Multiracial Identity and the New Millennium: The Demise of Eurocentrism of Eurocentrism in a New Guise? Presented at 71st Annual Pacific Sociological Association Meeting, San Diego, California.
1999 / “Either Black or White: Race, Modernity, and the Law of the Excluded Middle.” Presented at Conference Black Liberation in the Americas. Collegium on African American Research (CAAR), Westfälische Wilhelms-Universitats, Münster, Germany.
1999 / “Black Essentialism and the Afrocentric Idea: The Demise of Eurocentrism or Eurocentrism in a New Guise?” Presented at Conference Black Liberation in the Americas. Collegium on African American Research (CAAR), Westfälische Wilhelms-Universitats, Münster, Germany.
1999 / “Multiracial Identity and the Decennial Census,” Multicultural Center. UCSB.
1999 / “Rosewood.” Presented at Cup of Culture. Multicultural Center. UCSB.
1999 / “Black Is Black Ain’t.” Presented at Cup of Culture. Multicultural Center. UCSB.
1999 / “Multiracial Identity and the Decennial Census: Black no More or More Than Black?” Presented at Black Studies Spring Lecture Series. UCSB.
1999 / “Multiracial Identity and the Decennial Census: Black no More or More Than Black?” Presented at Black Studies Spring Lecture Series. UCSB.

1999“Black Essentialism and the Afrocentric Idea: The Demise of Eurocentrism or Eurocentrism in a New Guise?.” Presented at Conference Black Liberation in the Americas. Collegium on African American Research (CAAR), Westfälische Wilhelms-Universitats, Münster, Germany.

1998“Betwixt and Between: Multiracial Identity in Global Perspective.” Presented at Conference on Colorlines in the Twentieth-First Century: Multiracialism in a Racially Divided World. School of Policy Studies, Roosevelt University, Chicago, Illinois.

1998“Black no More or More Than Black?: Multiracial Identity Politics and the Year 2000 Census.” Presented at 69th Annual Pacific Sociological Association Meeting, San Francisco, California.

1996“Betwixt and Between: The Personal and Social Location of Multiracial Identity.” Professional Development Conference, Division of Student Affairs, UCSB.

1995“Converging Paths: Multiracial Identity in Brazil and the United States.” Keynote Address Presented at Conference on Ethnicity and Multiethnicity: The Construction and Deconstruction of Identity. Division of Social Sciences and the Institute of Polynesian Studies, Brigham Young University, Laie, Hawaii.

1995Conference on Ethnicity and Multiethnicity: The Construction and Deconstruction of Identity. Division of Social Sciences and the Institute of Polynesian Studies, Brigham Young University, Laie, Hawaii. Multi-Panel Chair.

1995“Negotiating Ethnic and Racial Identity.” Presented at Conference on Ethnicity and Multiethnicity: The Construction and Deconstruction of Identity. Division of Social Sciences and the Institute of Polynesian Studies, Brigham Young University, Laie, Hawaii.

1993“Multiculturalism in the United States: The African Dimension.” UCLA International Area Studies Summer Institute for Education.

1993“Melting Pot and Racial Democracy: Rhetoric and Reality in Anglo-North American and Brazilian Race Relations.” UCLA International Area Studies Summer Institute for Education, Los Angeles, California.

1992“Chiaroscuro: Multiethnic Identity in Brazil and the United States: A Study in Contrast.” Presented at 500 Years: With the Breadth of Our Ancestors lecture Series. City of Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department.

1992“Multiracial Classification: Reconciling Real Categories with Real People.” Forty-Eighth National Conference. National Association of College Admissions Counselors, Los Angeles, California.

1992“Black by Popular Demand: The Impact of the One-Drop-Rule on Multiracial Identity.” Multiracial Americans of Southern California meeting, Los Angeles, California.

1992“Multiethnic Identity: The Demise of Dominant Discourse or Dominant Discourse in Disguise?” Presented at Multiple Tongues: Centering Discourse By People of Color Conference, UCLA.

1992“Harlequin’s Demise: Ethnicity and the Colonial Foundations of Brazilian National Identity.” Presented at Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, UCLA.

1992“Close Encounters: Racial and Cultural Blending in Brazil and the United States.” Consequences of the Encounter: The Americas, Europe, and Africa. Presented at California State University, Long Beach.

1992“Converging Paths: Race Relations in Brazil and the United States.” Presented at XVII International Congress on Latin American Studies, Los Angeles, California.

1991“On Being a Whole Person in a Half World.” Presented at Azusa Pacific University, Azusa, California.

1991“The Importance of Black History in the New Multiethnic America.” Presented Fullerton College, Fullerton, California.

1991“Multiracial Identity: A New Paradigm Perspective.” Presented at Multicultural Center, UCSB.

1991“Mixture or Massacre?: Race Relations in Brazil and Hawaii,” with T. K. Williams. Presented at Multiracial Americans of Southern California meeting, Los Angeles, California.

1991“From ‘Either/Or’ to ‘Both/And’: The New Multiethnic Consciousness.” University of California, Irvine.

1991“Melting Pot or Multiculturalism?: Ethnic Relations in the United States.” Fifth Annual Conference of Multiracial Americans of Southern California, Los Angeles, California.

1991“Multiracial Identity on the University Campus.” Fifth Annual Conference of Multiracial Americans of Southern California, Los Angeles, California.

1991“Challenging the Census: Ethnic Classification by the Year 2000.” Fifth Annual Conference of Multiracial Americans of Southern California, Los Angeles, California.

1991“Melting Pot or Mosaic?: The Future of Ethnic Relations in the United States.” Diversity Committee Retreat, UCLA Research Library.