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  • Black-White Biracial Children’s Social Development from Kindergarten to Fifth Grade: Links with Racial Identification, Gender, and Socioeconomic Status

    Black-White Biracial Children’s Social Development from Kindergarten to Fifth Grade: Links with Racial Identification, Gender, and Socioeconomic Status Social Development Volume 23, Issue 1 (February 2014) pages 157–177 DOI: 10.1111/sode.12037 Annamaria Csizmadia, Assistant Professor of Human Development and Family Studies University of Connecticut, Stamford Jean M. Ispa, Professor of Human Development and Family Studies University…

  • White or Black? Conservatives, Liberals See Faces Differently

    White or Black? Conservatives, Liberals See Faces Differently Pacific Standard Santa Barbara, California 2013-06-05 Tom Jacobs, Staff Writer New research finds people on the political right are quicker to classify a racially ambiguous face as black. Did you notice that mixed-race gentleman who passed you on the sidewalk yesterday? During the split second as he…

  • Representing Mixed Race: Beyond “What are you?”

    Representing Mixed Race: Beyond “What are you?” Talking Race: A Digital Dialog 2013-05-28 Laura Kina, Vincent DePaul Associate Professor of Art, Media and Design DePaul University My 2011-12 oil paintings Issei, Nisei, Sansei, Yonsei, and Gosei are on view in “Under My Skin: Artists Explore Race in the 21st Century” at the Wing Luke Museum…

  • Louisiana Repeals Black Blood Law

    Louisiana Repeals Black Blood Law The New York Times 1983-07-06 Frances Frank Marcus, Special to the New York Times NEW ORLEANS, July 5—  Gov. David C. Treen today signed legislation repealing a Louisiana statute that established a mathematical formula to determine if a person was black. The law establishing the formula, passed by state legislators…

  • What Makes you Black?

    What Makes you Black? Ebony Magazine Volume 38, Number 3 (January 1983) pages 115-118 Vague definition of race is the basis for court battles Imagine going to get a passport so you and your spouse can take a vacation in South America. Its all a formality, you reason; people just want to make sure you’re…

  • Antidiscrimination Law and the Multiracial Experience: A Reply to Nancy Leong

    Antidiscrimination Law and the Multiracial Experience: A Reply to Nancy Leong Hastings Race and Poverty Law Journal Volume 10, Summer 2013 pages 191-218 Tina F. Botts, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Pre-law Advisor University of North Carolina at Charlotte Nancy Leong’s thesis, in “Judicial Erasure of Mixed-Race Discrimination,” is that antidiscrimination law should make a switch…

  • Mixed Breeds Are Not Negroes and May Mingle With Whites

    Mixed Breeds Are Not Negroes and May Mingle With Whites The Weekly Messenger St. Martinville, Louisiana 1910-04-30 page 3, column 2 Source: Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers The Daily Picayune The Supreme Court of Louisiana by a vote of three to two, Justices Nicholls and Land dissenting, has decided that the state law prohibiting concubinage…

  • Ethnic minorities: defining ethnicity and race

    Ethnic minorities: defining ethnicity and race The Scottish Public Health Observatory Ethnic Minorities Last Updated: 2012-03-06 Ethnicity Ethnicity has been defined as: “the social group a person belongs to, and either identifies with or is identified with by others, as a result of a mix of cultural and other factors including language, diet, religion, ancestry…

  • Louisiana’s “Creoles of Color”: Ethnicity, Marginality, and Identity

    Louisiana’s “Creoles of Color”: Ethnicity, Marginality, and Identity Social Science Quarterly Volume 73 Issue 3, September 1992 pages 615- James H. Dormon, Alumni Distinguished Professor of History and American Studies University of Southwestern Louisiana This article traces the ethnohistory of Creoles of color, beginning with an examination of the social-historical order out of which they…

  • The House on Bayou Road: Atlantic Creole Networks in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

    The House on Bayou Road: Atlantic Creole Networks in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries The Journal of American History Volume 100, Issue 1 (June 2013) pages 21-45 DOI: 10.1093/jahist/jat082 Pierre Force, Professor of French and History Columbia University n 1813 a free man of color named Charles Decoudreau living in New Orleans went to court…