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  • University of North Florida Presents James Weldon Johnson Symposium University of North Florida Press Release 2012-03-29 Joanna Norris, Associate Director of Public Relations he University of North Florida presents the James Weldon Johnson Symposium from noon to 4 p.m. Thursday, April 5, and from noon to 5 p.m. Friday, April 6, in the UNF Student…

  • Biracial Identity Development: Understanding a Sense of Self California State University, Long Beach December 2009 47 pages Ghislaine P. Dibong Presented to the Department of Social Work California State University, Long Beach In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Master of Social Work The purpose of this project was to explore the challenges…

  • Marion: The Story of an Artist’s Model McGill-Queen’s University Press 2012-03-19 410 pages 21 b&w photos 6 x 9 Paper (077353962X) 9780773539624 Winnifred Eaton (1875-1954) Introduction by: Karen E. H. Skinazi, Lecturer Princeton Writing Program Princeton University The daughter of an English merchant father and Chinese mother, Winnifred Eaton (1875-1954) was a wildly popular fiction…

  • Growing Diversity Among America’s Children and Youth: Spatial and Temporal Dimensions Population and Development Review Volume 36, Issue 1, March 2010 pages 151–176 DOI: 10.1111/j.1728-4457.2010.00322.x Kenneth M. Johnson, Professor of Sociology and Senior Demographer Department of Sociology and Carsey Institute University of New Hampshire, Durham Daniel T. Lichter, Professor of Policy Analysis and Management and…

  • Northwest of Manhattan where the New York-New Jersey boundary crosses the tree-covered ridges and hollows ridges and hollows of the Ramapo Mountains there is a group of about 1,500 racially mixed people who have long been referred to by journalists and historians as the “Jackson Whites.”

  • Association for Asian American Studies 2012 Annual Conference Capitol Hilton Hotel 1001 16th Street, NW Washington, D.C. 2012-04-11 through 2012-04-14 Selected Sessions from Tentative Schedule Thursday, April 12: 13:15-14:45 (South American A) Exposing Truths: Re-Centering Filipina/o American Subjectivities Chair: Dawn Bohulano Mabalon, San Francisco State University “Passing It On: Mixed Filipina/o American PEP Teachers Facilitating…

  • In 1932, under the supervision of Harvard physical anthropologist Earnest Hooton, [Caroline Bond] Day published her Radcliffe master’s thesis, A Study of Some Negro-White Families in the United States. It showed that the mixture of African Americans and Whites simply yielded children with some characteristics of each race, who were entirely normal. In fact, Day…

  • There are no three primary races, no three major groups. The idea of three primary races stems from nineteenth-century typology; it is totally misleading to put the black-skinned people of the world together-to put the Australian in the same grouping with the inhabitants of Africa. And there are certainly at least three independent origins of…

  • In Arizona, Censoring Questions About Race The New York Times 2012-04-01 Linda Martín Alcoff, Professor of Philosophy Hunter College, City University of New York In recent weeks, the state of Arizona has intensified its attack in its schools on an entire branch of study — critical race theory. Books and literature that, in the state’s…

  • The Case for Cablinasian: Multiracial Naming From Plessy to Tiger Woods Communication Theory Volume 22, Issue 1 (February 2012) pages 92–111 DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-2885.2011.01399.x LeiLani Nishime, Assistant Professor of Communication University of Washington, Seattle This article advocates for the interdisciplinary use of critical race theory and critical rhetorical theory in communication to analyze racialized language and…