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  • Communication, Race, and Family: Exploring Communication in Black, White, and Biracial Families

    Communication, Race, and Family: Exploring Communication in Black, White, and Biracial Families Routledge 1999-08-01 Pages: 264 Trim Size: 6 x 9 Hardback ISBN: 978-0-8058-2938-9 Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8058-2939-6 Edited by: Thomas J. Socha Rhunette C. Diggs This groundbreaking volume explores how family communication influences the perennial and controversial topic of race. In assembling this collection, editors…

  • The Idea of Race in Latin America, 1870-1940

    The Idea of Race in Latin America, 1870-1940 University of Texas Press 1990 143 pages 10 b&w illus. 6 x 9 in. ISBN: 978-0-292-73857-7 Edited by Richard Graham, Emeritus Frances Higginbotham Nalle Centennial Professor of History University of Texas, Austin With chapters by Thomas E. Skidmore, Aline Helg, and Alan Knight From the mid-nineteenth century…

  • Resolving “Other” Status: Identity Development of Biracial Individuals

    Resolving “Other” Status: Identity Development of Biracial Individuals Women & Therapy Volume 9, Issue 1 & 2 (May 1990) pages 185 – 205 DOI: 10.1300/J015v09n01_11 Maria P. P. Root The current paper describes the phenomenological experience of marginal socio-ethnic status for biracial individuals. A metamodel for identity resolution for individuals who struggle with other status…

  • Racial Identification of the Biracial Preschool Child in a Single parent Family: Implications for Study

    Racial Identification of the Biracial Preschool Child in a Single parent Family: Implications for Study Family Science Review Volume 4, Number 3 (August 1991) pages 81-92 Z. Lois Bryant, Professor of Human Development and Family Studies University of Missouri, Columbia Johnetta Wade Morrison, Professor of Human Development and Family Studies University of Missouri, Columbia This…

  • The Strangeness of Passing: Commentary on Paper by Christopher Bonovitz

    The Strangeness of Passing: Commentary on Paper by Christopher Bonovitz Psychoanalytic Dialogues Volume 19, Issue 4 (July 2009) pages 442-449 DOI: 10.1080/10481880903088377 Annabella Bushra The Westchester Center for the Study of Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy Christopher Bonovitz gives us a rich landscape of the theoretical, historical, and relational aspects of his work with his mixed-race patient.…

  • Biracial Females’ Reflections on Racial Identity Development in Adolescence

    Biracial Females’ Reflections on Racial Identity Development in Adolescence Journal of Feminist Family Therapy Volume 18, Issue 4 (February 2007) pages 53 – 75 DOI: 10.1300/J086v18n04_03 Karia Kelch-Oliver Department of Counseling and Psychological Services Georgia State University Leigh A. Leslie, Associate Professor and Graduate Director Department of Family Studies University of Maryland As the number…

  • Mixed Race and the Negotiation of Racialized Selves: Developing the Capacity for Internal Conflict

    Mixed Race and the Negotiation of Racialized Selves: Developing the Capacity for Internal Conflict Psychoanalytic Dialogues Volume 19, Issue 4 (July 2009) pages 426 – 441 DOI: 10.1080/10481880903088021 Christopher Bonovitz William Alanson White Institute; New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy & Psychoanalysis, Manhattan Institute for Psychoanalysis The author uses contemporary psychoanalytic theory in further…

  • Myth of Post-Racial America: Biracial novelist says America still has a long way to go

    Myth of Post-Racial America: Biracial novelist says America still has a long way to go Northwestern University News Center 2010-03-08 Wendy Leopold, Education Editor EVANSTON, Illinois — In a speech titled “The Myth of Post-Racial America,” writer Danzy Senna warned members of the packed audience in Fisk Hall against the urge to view America as…

  • Couple finds a more than a century old gravestone

    Couple finds a more than a century old gravestone Beaumont Enterprise 2009-12-13 Kyle Peveto Beneath a tool shed behind her house, Mallary Sanders and her fiance found a 118-year-old piece of history they are begging someone to take. Last weekend, Sanders’ fiance, Justin Trusty, 24, was cleaning beneath the pier-and-beam shed when he came across…

  • Shades of Gray: The Life and Times of a Free Family of Color in Antebellum Texas

    Shades of Gray: The Life and Times of a Free Family of Color in Antebellum Texas Jason A. Gillmer, Professor of Law Texas Wesleyan University School of Law 2009-08-13 64 pages The history of race and slavery is often told from the perspective of either the oppressors or the oppressed. This Article takes a different…