Mixed Race Studies

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  • The Best of Both Worlds? Family Influences on Mixed Race Youth Identity Development

    The Best of Both Worlds? Family Influences on Mixed Race Youth Identity Development Qualitative Social Work Volume 7, Number 1 (March 2008) pages 81-98 DOI: 10.1177/1473325007086417 Susan E. Crawford Halton Multicultural Council, Canada Ramona Alaggia University of Toronto, Canada This study explored influences on racial identity of mixed race youth who identified themselves to be…

  • Portraits of the New Negro Woman: Visual and Literary Culture in the Harlem Renaissance (review)

    Portraits of the New Negro Woman: Visual and Literary Culture in the Harlem Renaissance (review) Legacy Volume 26, Number 1 (2009) pages 182-184 E-ISSN: 1534-0643 Print ISSN: 0748-4321 DOI: 10.1353/leg.0.0069 Martha Jane Nadell, Associate Professor Brooklyn College of the City University of New York Cherene Sherrard-Johnson opens her provocative and intriguing book, Portraits of the…

  • Mother’s, Father’s, or Both? Parental Gender and Parent-Child Interactions in the Racial Classification of Adolescents

    Mother’s, Father’s, or Both? Parental Gender and Parent-Child Interactions in the Racial Classification of Adolescents Jenifer L. Bratter, Assistant Professor of Sociology and Associate Director of the Institute for Urban Research Rice University Holly E. Heard Rice University Sociological Forum Volume 24, Number 3, September 2009 pages 658-688 DOI: 10.1111/j.1573-7861.2009.01124.x Research on racial identification in interracial…

  • My Choice, Your Categories: The Denial of Multiracial Identities

    Mixed-race individuals often encounter situations in which their identities are a source of tension, particularly when expressions of multiracial and biracial identity are not supported or allowed. Two studies examined the consequences of this identity denial.

  • Hapa

    Hapa is a Hawaiian term used to describe a person of mixed Asian or Pacific Islander racial/ethnic heritage. Wikipedia

  • Multiracial Scholarship

    …A major deficiency in multiracial scholarship has been the lack of historical context, together with the concomitant error of viewing mixed-race identity as an exclusively recent phenomenon… Rainier Spencer, Spurious Issues: Race and Multiracial Identity Politics in the United States, 1999-08-12

  • Racing to Theory or Retheorizing Race? Understanding the Struggle to Build a Multiracial Identity Theory

    Racing to Theory or Retheorizing Race? Understanding the Struggle to Build a Multiracial Identity Theory Journal of Social Issues 2009 Volume 65, Number 1 pp. 13–34 Kerry Ann Rockquemore, Associate Professor University of Illinois at Chicago David L. Brunsma, Professor of Sociology Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Daniel J. Delgado University of Missouri-Columbia Empirical…

  • The Tragic Mulatta Plays the Tragic Muse

    The Tragic Mulatta Plays the Tragic Muse Victorian Literature and Culture Volume 37, Issue 2 (June 2009) pages 501-522 DOI: 10.1017/S1060150309090317 Kimberly Snyder Manganellia, Assistant Professor of 19th-Century British and American Literature Clemson University Marie Lavington, the runaway octoroon slave in Charles Kingsley‘s little-read novel Two Years Ago (1857), makes this declaration of independence in…

  • The Browning of America and the Evasion of Social Justice (Review)

    The Browning of America and the Evasion of Social Justice (Review) by Ronald R. Sundstrom SUNY Press 2008, 190pp., $24.95 (pbk.) ISBN: 9780791475867 Notre Dame Philisophical Reviews 2009-06-29 Reviewed by Lucius T. Outlaw (Jr.) Vanderbilt University The United States is undergoing the most profound demographic changes in the country’s history so that in a few…

  • Re-Mix: Rethinking the use of ‘Hapa’ in Mixedrace Asian/Pacific Islander American Community Organizing

    Re-Mix: Rethinking the use of ‘Hapa’ in Mixedrace Asian/Pacific Islander American Community Organizing McNair Journal Fall 2005 Angela S. Taniguchi, McNair Scholar Washington State University Linda Heidenreich, Chair and Associate Professor Department of Women’s Studies Washington State University The term Hapa is Hawaiian in origin and roughly means ‘half’. Recently, many mixedrace Asian/Pacific Islanders on…