Mixed Race Studies

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  • Investigations: Problem behavior

    Investigations: Problem behavior University of Chicago Magazine October 2006 Volume 99, Issue 1 Lydialyle Gibson For American children, says Yoonsun Choi, assistant professor at the School of Social Service Administration, early adolescence isn’t getting any simpler. Besides the awkwardness and looming angst, there’s this: more and more youth now find themselves navigating the uncertain territory…

  • Genealogical Fictions: Limpieza de Sangre, Religion, and Gender in Colonial Mexico

    Genealogical Fictions: Limpieza de Sangre, Religion, and Gender in Colonial Mexico Stanford University Press 2008 424 pages 13 illustrations, 2 maps. ISBN-10: 0804756481; ISBN-13: 9780804756488 María Elena Martínez (1966-2014), Associate Professor of History and American Studies and Ethnicity University of Southern California María Elena Martínez’s Genealogical Fictions is the first in-depth study of the relationship…

  • Ethnic Identity among Monoracial and Multiracial Early Adolescents

    Ethnic Identity among Monoracial and Multiracial Early Adolescents The Journal of Early Adolescence Vol. 20, No. 4 (2000) pages 365-387 DOI: 10.1177/0272431600020004001 Michael S. Spencer, Associate Dean for Educational Programs and Associate Professor of Social Work University of Michigan Larry D. Icard, Professor of Social Work Temple University Tracy W. Harachi, Associate Professor of Social…

  • Social Work Response to the Needs of Biracial Americans

    Social Work Response to the Needs of Biracial Americans Surjit Singh Dhooper, Assistant Professor of Social Work University of Kentucky Journal of Ethnic And Cultural Diversity in Social Work Volume 12, Issue 4 (April 2004) pages 19 – 47 DOI: 10.1300/J051v12n04_02 The number of interracial marriages is rising. The offspring of these marriages are a special…

  • Nikkei Heritage: Intermarriages and Hapas: An Overview – Parts 1 and 2

    Nikkei Heritage: Intermarriages and Hapas: An Overview – Parts 1 and 2 Discover Nikkei (Japanese Migrans and Their Descendants) Republished from Nikkei Heritage (The quarterly journal of the National Japanese American Historical Society) 2007-05-11 George Kitahara Kich, Senior Trial Consultant Bonora D’Andrea Rebecca Chiyoko King-O’Riain, Lecturer in Sociology National University of Ireland, Maynooth Larry Hajime…

  • Framing mixed race: The face of America is changing

    Framing mixed race: The face of America is changing Contra Costa Times 2010-02-07 Jennifer Modenessi Like any proud mother, Janine Mozée sees beauty when she looks at her four children. But the Benicia resident perceives more than their physical qualities and the various shades and hues of their skin, eyes and hair. For Mozée, 46,…

  • Who am I?

    Who am I? Middlebury Magazine Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vermont Winter 2010 Kevin Charles Redmon, [class of 20]10 As Janet Mondlane Rodrigues [class of 20]12 grapples with her own complex racial identity, she implores others to take a look in the mirror, as well, and ask themselves this loaded question. Early in Barack Obama’s presidential campaign,…

  • Beyond Race: Examining the Facets of Multiracial Identity Through a Life-span Developmental Lens

    Beyond Race: Examining the Facets of Multiracial Identity Through a Life-span Developmental Lens Journal of Ethnic And Cultural Diversity in Social Work Volume 18, Issue 4 (October 2009) pages 293-310 DOI: 10.1080/15313200903310759 Kelly F. Jackson, Assistant Professor of Social Work Arizona State University Using a social work developmental lens, this qualitative study explored some of…

  • TALK: India and Gaugin’s Tahitian Nudes: Mapping Modernism In A Global Frame

    TALK: India and Gaugin’s Tahitian Nudes: Mapping Modernism In A Global Frame Interdisciplinary Humanities Center University of California, Santa Barbara 3041 HSSB 2010-02-17 16:00 PST (Local Time) Saloni Mathur, Associate Professor of Art History University of California, Los Angeles This presentation will revisit the legacy of Amrita Sher-Gil, the part-Indian/part-Hungarian painter who stands at the…

  • An Evening with Kip Fulbeck-artist, slam poet, filmmaker Event Type: Lecture

    An Evening with Kip Fulbeck-artist, slam poet, filmmaker Event Type: Lecture Sacramento State University University Union Ballroom 2010-02-18, 19:00-21:00 PST (Local Time) Contact:  (916) 278-6997  An Evening With Kip Fulbeck, artist, slam poet, and filmmaker- addressing issues on identity, multiraciality, and pop culture through spoken word, stand-up comedy, political activism, and personal stories, University Union…