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  • Prove you’re Japanese: when being bicultural can be a burden

    Prove you’re Japanese: when being bicultural can be a burden The Japan Times 2013-07-29 Louise George Kittaka Parents’ decision to add a katakana name can create issues when kids enter the big wide world Japanese are Japanese and foreigners are foreigners, and never the twain shall meet? In many aspects of daily life in this…

  • ‘Doing the right thing’: transracial adoption in the USA

    ‘Doing the right thing’: transracial adoption in the USA Ethnic and Racial Studies Volume 36, Issue 8 (August 2013) Special Issue: Mothering Across Racialised Boundaries pages 1273-1291 DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2013.776698 Ravinder Barn, Professor of Social Policy and Social Work Royal Holloway, University of London Racial/cultural identity and parental cultural competence in transracial adoption (TRA) are subjects…

  • Narratives from a Nottingham council estate: a story of white working-class mothers with mixed-race children

    Narratives from a Nottingham council estate: a story of white working-class mothers with mixed-race children Ethnic and Racial Studies Volume 36, Issue 8 (August 2013) Special Issue: Mothering Across Racialised Boundaries pages 1342-1358 DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2013.776698 Lisa McKenzie, Research Fellow, Faculty of Social Sciences University of Nottingham This paper introduces a group of white working-class women…

  • Akala: Dynamite by any other name…

    Akala: Dynamite by any other name… The Guardian The Observer 2013-06-01 Kate Mossman Rapper, adapter of Shakespeare and brother of Ms Dynamite, Akala is on a mission to correct a few misconceptions A few weeks ago in these pages, Birmingham rapper Lady Leshurr asked why there had been no high-profile female rappers in the UK since…

  • Mental health service use by adolescents of Indian and White origin

    Mental health service use by adolescents of Indian and White origin Archives of Disease in Childhood Published online: 2013-07-29 DOI: 10.1136/archdischild-2013-303772 Panos Vostanis, Professor of Psychology University of Leicester Nadzeya Svirydzenka, Research Assistant Department of Psychology University of Leicester Pat Dugard, Independent Senior Statistician King’s Lynne, United Kingdom Swaran Singh, Professor of Social and Community…

  • Multiracial Daughters of Asian Immigrants: Identity and Agency

    Multiracial Daughters of Asian Immigrants: Identity and Agency Women & Therapy Volume 36,  Issue 3-4, 2013 Special Issue: Women and Immigration pages 268-285 DOI: 10.1080/02703149.2013.797776 Leilani Salvo Crane Counseling and Psychological Services University of Pennsylvania Multiracial daughters of Asian immigrants must navigate complex pathways to adulthood, self-efficacy, and self-concept. Frequently they are required by family…

  • Trayvon Martin Could Have Been Me: A Watershed Moment for the U.S.

    Trayvon Martin Could Have Been Me: A Watershed Moment for the U.S. Racism Review 2013-07-21 Joe Feagin, Ella C. McFadden Professor of Sociology Texas A & M University President Obama’s poignant comments on the white-racist discrimination that Black men regularly face were pathbreaking for this country. First, in the history of the U.S. never has…

  • They Wouldn’t Allow Us to Use Daddy’s Last Name: A Family Historian’s Curiosity Leads to Revolutionary Results

    They Wouldn’t Allow Us to Use Daddy’s Last Name: A Family Historian’s Curiosity Leads to Revolutionary Results Bayou Talk Newspaper Volume 25, Number 7 (July 2013) pages 1-8 Anita R. Paul Most family history researchers know that surnames are an important key to finding ancestors. They also know that names can often lead to dead…

  • An Interview with Lise Funderburg

    An Interview with Lise Funderburg Hot Metal Bridge: published by Writing MFA students at the University of Pittsburgh Spring 2009 (All The Way Down) Interview by Liberty Hultberg Lise Funderburg is the author of Black, White, Other: Biracial Americans Talk About Race and Identity (1994) and the memoir Pig Candy (2008), which has been described…

  • Moving forward on race – by understanding our own prism

    Moving forward on race – by understanding our own prism Embrace Diverse Schools: Beyond celebrating: Debunking myth-perceptions to build strong diverse schools and communities Welcome to Eileen Kugler’s Blog 2013-07-26 Eileen Kugler “I don’t get it. Why do we need to be talking about race?” a commenter wrote on a LinkedIn group on diversity and…