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  • Who Is Black? One Nation’s Definition

    Who Is Black? One Nation’s Definition Penn State Press 2001 (Originally published in 1992) 232 pages 6 x 9 ISBN 978-0-271-02172-0 F. James Davis, Professor Emeritus of Sociology Illinois State University Winner of the 1992 Outstanding Book on the Subject of Human Rights from the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Human Rights in…

  • Notes of a White Black Woman: Race, Color, Community

    Notes of a White Black Woman: Race, Color, Community Penn State Press 1995 206 pages 6 x 9 cloth: ISBN 978-0-271-01430-2 paper: ISBN 978-0-271-02124-9 Judy Scales-Trent, Floyd H. & Hilda L. Hurst Faculty Scholar, Professor Emerita State Univerisity of New York at Buffalo Law School “I remember one time in particular, after the cab I…

  • The Social Construction of Race and Ethnicity in the United States (2nd Edition)

    The Social Construction of Race and Ethnicity in the United States (2nd Edition) Prentice Hall 2001 525 pages Paperback ISBN-10: 0130283231; ISBN-13:  9780130283238 Edited By: Joan Ferrante Northern Kentucky University Prince Brown, Jr. Northern Kentucky University For undergraduate courses in race and ethnic relations. This groundbreaking collection of classic and cutting edge sociological research gives…

  • Meeting the Needs of Multiethnic and Multiracial Children in Schools

    Meeting the Needs of Multiethnic and Multiracial Children in Schools Merrill an imprint of Pearson 2003-10-23 256 pages ISBN-10: 0205376088 ISBN-13:  9780205376087 Francis Wardle Red Rocks Community College, Colorado Maria I. Cruz-Janzen, Associate Professor of Multicultural Education Florida Atlantic University From one of the premiere experts on the subject comes this “crash course” for teachers…

  • New Faces in a Changing America: Multiracial Identity in the 21st Century

    New Faces in a Changing America: Multiracial Identity in the 21st Century SAGE Publications, Inc. Paperback ISBN: 9780761923008 2001 432 pages Edited by Loretta I. Winters California State University, Northridge Herman L. DeBose California State University, Northridge How multiracial people identify themselves can have major consequences on their positions in their families, communities and society.…

  • Rethinking ‘Mixed Race’

    Rethinking ‘Mixed Race’ Pluto Press an imprint of MacMillan May 2001 5.5 x 8.25 inches, 208 pages, 4 figures ISBN: 978-0-7453-1567-6 ISBN10: 0-7453-1567-4 Edited by David Parker, Lecturer and Faculty of Social Sciences School of Sociology and Social Policy University of Nottingham Miri Song, Professor of Sociology University of Kent One of the fastest growing…

  • The Sum of Our Parts: Mixed-Heritage Asian Americans

    With an entire section devoted to the Asian diaspora, The Sum of Our Parts suggests that questions of multiracial and multiethnic identity are surfacing around the globe. This timely and provocative collection articulates them for social scientists and students.

  • Neither Black Nor White Yet Both: Thematic Explorations of Interracial Literature

    Why can a “white” woman give birth to a “black” baby, while a “black” woman can never give birth to a “white” baby in the United States? What makes racial “passing” so different from social mobility? Why are interracial and incestuous relations often confused or conflated in literature, making “miscegenation” appear as if it were…

  • Racially Mixed People in America

    America has been the breeding ground of a “biracial baby boom” for the past 25 years. Unfortunately, there has been a dearth of information regarding how racially mixed people identify and view themselves and how they relate to one another. “Racially Mixed People in America” steadily bridges this gap and offers a comprehensive look at…

  • Raising Biracial Children

    Raising Biracial Children AltaMira Press an Imprint of Rowman & Littlefield Publishing November 2005 208pp Cloth: 0-7591-0900-1 / 978-0-7591-0900-1 Paper 0-7591-0901-X / 978-0-7591-0901-8 Kerry Ann Rockquemore University of Illinois Tracey A. Laszloffy   As the multiracial population in the United States continues to rise, new models for our understanding of mixed-race children and how their conception…