Author: Steven

  • Northern Ireland’s most (un)wanted Media Diversified 2014-07-28 Jayne Olorunda Northern Ireland’s capital, Belfast has had many songs written about it. The lyrics of one Belfast song resonates in my ear as I think of the reputation the city now has. The lyrics of the song always stood out to me, but now they are more…

  • Please pass me the skin coloured crayon! Semantics, socialisation, and folk models of race in contemporary Europe Language Sciences Available online: 2014-08-06 DOI: 10.1016/j.langsci.2014.07.011 Martina Zimmermann Institute of Multilingualism University of Fribourg, University of Teacher Education, Fribourg, Switzerland Carsten Levisen Department of Aesthetics and Communication Aarhus University, Denmark þórhalla Guðmundsdóttir Beck University of Iceland, Háskóli…

  • Modern Diversity May Prompt US Census Bureau to Seek Better Classification of Hispanics’ Race Latin Post 2014-07-29 Nicole Akoukou Thompson Modernizing data and research methods, as well as offering clear depictions of diversity in the nation’s population, are prominent objectives of the United States Census Bureau. However, the government agency has often missed its mark.…

  • Skewing the Data: Mixed-Race Identity & the Problem of Counting for Race Lucia Lorenzi: the body politic: musings and meanderings 2014-04-13 Lucia Lorenzi University of British Columbia A few weeks ago, I attended a panel hosted by the Institute for Gender, Race, and Sexuality at the University of British Columbia, entitled “CWILA and the Problem…

  • The Lived Experience of Mixed-Race Identity University of Edinburgh 2013 Jessica Pons This study shows a phenomenological account of the mixed-race lived experience. Previous research focused on mixed-race White/Black individuals and mainly consisted of American studies. For this study, six British young adults were interviewed. The participants self identified as mixed-race, all had one Black…

  • A phenomenological study of racial identity development of black-white mixed-race children in the United States Texas Woman’s University, Denton, Texas 2013 142 pages ISBN: 9781303661433 ProQuest Document ID: 1496772753 Cherly Gary-Furdge, Ph.D This study examines how black-white mixed-race children develop their racial identity and how black-white parents of mixed-race children help their children with developing…

  • “Little White Lie”: Black And Jewish Filmmaker Documents Growing Up Believing She Was White Madame Noire 2014-08-04 Veronica Wells Most of us know from a very early age that we’re Black. It happens so early that many of us can’t remember a specific conversation or moment where we learned this truth. But that wasn’t the…

  • Checking new boxes Gender News The Clayman Institute for Gender Research Stanford University 2014-07-23 Ashley Farmer, Postdoctoral Fellow Michelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Research Political Scientist Lauren Davenport reveals the importance of gender in understanding multiracialism Since 2000, the year the U.S. census first allowed respondents to identify as multiracial or multiethnic, the number…

  • Reading Race in Nella Larsen’s Passing and the Rhinelander Case African American Review Voluume 46, Numbers 2-3, Summer/Fall 2013 pages 345-361 DOI: 10.1353/afa.2013.0076 Rebecca Nisetich, Assistant Director, Honors Program University of Southern Maine Toward the end of Nella Larsen’s Passing (1929), the protagonist Irene Redfield imagines how her friend Clare Kendry’s racist husband might react…

  • Multi-Racial In Wisconsin…And The “What Are You?” Question Wisconsin Public Radio Central Time 2014-06-02 Rob Ferrett, Host Jennifer Patrice Sims Department of Sociology University of Wisconsin, Madison A sociology researcher looks at multi-racial identity in Wisconsin–and how people deal with the questions “what are you?” and “where are you from?” Listen to the interview here.…