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  • Colorism and School-to-Work and School-to-College Transitions of African American Adolescents

    Colorism and School-to-Work and School-to-College Transitions of African American Adolescents Race and Social Problems Volume 5, Issue 1 (March 2013) pages 15-27 DOI: 10.1007/s12552-012-9081-7 Igor Ryabov, Associate Professor of Sociology University of Texas-Pan American, Edinburg, Texas Using multinomial logistic modeling, the current study estimated the impact of skin tone on school-to-work and school-to-college transitions of…

  • Identity Politics: the Mixed-race American Indian Experience

    This paper builds a Critical Race Theory approach to consider how mixed-race American Indian college students conform to, or resist, dominant black/non-black ideology. Current research on multiracials in the U.S. lacks the perspectives of mixed-race American Indians on the heightened disputes of “Indianness,” tribal enrollment, and tribal self-determination.

  • Colorism: The War at Home

    Colorism: The War at Home Ebony Magazine News & Views 2013-02-20 Chris Williams Dr. Yaba Blay discusses the history of ‘the color complex’ and how we can work to destroy it The “color complex” has remains a source of great controversy and pain in the African American community and across much of the African Diaspora.…

  • Interview with PhD Student Karla Lucht: Children’s Literature about Mixed-Race Asian Americans/Canadians

    Interview with PhD Student Karla Lucht: Children’s Literature about Mixed-Race Asian Americans/Canadians The Center for Children’s Books Graduate School of Library and Information Science University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign February 2013 Tad Andracki, CCB Outreach Coordinator “Everyone deserves to see themselves represented in a book. And a good book at that.” GSLIS doctoral student Karla…

  • Mixed feelings

    Mixed feelings NOW. 2012-06-30 NOW is the online source for news, features, analysis and much more, covering Lebanon, the Lebanese diaspora and the Middle East. “The people photographed are so beautiful they make you feel like having mixed race babies,” said Kevork Baboyan, one of many attendees at Wednesday’s opening of the photography exhibition, Mixed…

  • Possibilities Abound in a Nation That Is Diverse, CNN Journalist Says

    Possibilities Abound in a Nation That Is Diverse, CNN Journalist Says Yale News 2009-11-20 Susan Gonzalez When CNN anchor Soledad O’Brien was growing up, her mother in­structed her never to let anyone tell her that she wasn’t black or Hispanic because of her mixed ethnic and racial heritage. So, when she was asked to identify…

  • It’s all in the mix

    It’s all in the mix NOW 2009-05-22 NOW is the online source for news, features, analysis and much more, covering Lebanon, the Lebanese diaspora and the Middle East. “I am apartment hunting with Hala who looks like a cheap whore,” read the text message that Hala’s friend accidently sent to her while they were walking…

  • US Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey on the legacy of the Civil War

    US Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey on the legacy of the Civil War The Washington Post 2013-01-30 Ron Charles One hundred and fifty years later, Americans are still fighting the Civil War, US Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey said at the Library of Congress on Wednesday. The field of battle is now historical memory, and gatling guns…

  • Beyond Black and White: When Going Beyond May Take Us Out of Bounds

    Beyond Black and White: When Going Beyond May Take Us Out of Bounds Journal of Black Studies Volume 44, Number 2 (March 2013) pages 158-181 DOI: 10.1177/0021934712471533 Katerina Deliovsky, Assistant Professor of Sociology Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario Tamari Kitossa, Assistant Professor of Sociology Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario This article examines a selection of…

  • ‘Romance of Race’ reveals rich cultural history

    ‘Romance of Race’ reveals rich cultural history BGSU News Bowling Green, Ohio Thursday, 2013-02-14 A new book by Dr. Jolie Sheffer is further confirmation that one should never doubt the power of the pen. “The Romance of Race: Incest, Miscegenation, and Multiculturalism in the United States, 1890-1930,” published in January by Rutgers University Press, explains…