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  • For some, question of race a struggle

    For some, question of race a struggle The Providence Journal Providence, Rhode Island 2011-04-05 Karen Lee Ziner, Journal Staff Writer Face to face with the question of racial identity, Providence lawyer Kas R. DeCarvalho chose a write-in option under “Other” in the 2010 census form. “I put in mixed and called it a day,” said…

  • Living in the Borderlands

    Living in the Borderlands EthicsDaily.com 2007-01-19 Miguel A. De La Torre, Professor of Social Ethics Iliff School of Theology, Denver, Colorado De La Torre La Torre says U.S.-Mexico border isn’t only barrier facing Latinos. From Tijuana on the Pacific Ocean to Matamoros on the Gulf of Mexico runs a 1,833-mile border separating the United States…

  • The One Drop Rule: How Black Is “Black?”

    The One Drop Rule: How Black Is “Black?” Psychology Today Blogs: In the Eye of the Beholder: The science of social perception 2011-04-07 Jason Plaks, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Psychology University of Toronto The perception of race is subjective. Many biracial people publicly identify themselves with only one race (for example, either black or white,…

  • Census Says There Are More Biracial People, But That Depends On Your Definition of Mixed

    Census Says There Are More Biracial People, But That Depends On Your Definition of Mixed The Black Snob 2011-04-07 Danielle C. Belton Since 2000, the population of biracial and multiracial people has boomed by 50 percent according to 2010 Census data. The New York Times recently ran a story saying that because of changes in…

  • On being mixed-race

    On being mixed-race New Statesman 2011-04-07 Samira Shackle I grew up thinking of myself as equally English and Pakistani, writes Samira Shackle. Was I wrong? When I meet people for the first time, it’s not unusual for them to ask, “Where are you from?” If I reply, “London,” they say, “Oh, no, where are you…

  • “As to her race, its secret is loudly revealed”: Winnifred Eaton’s Revision of North American Identity

    “As to her race, its secret is loudly revealed”: Winnifred Eaton’s Revision of North American Identity MELUS Volume 32, Number 2 (Summer 2007) pages 31-53 Karen E. H. Skinazi, Instructor of English University of Alberta At the tum of the twentieth century, Quebec-born Winnifred Eaton, a Chinese British woman who used the pseudonym “Onoto Watanna,”…

  • Census data suggests increased acceptance of being multiracial

    Census data suggests increased acceptance of being multiracial The Daily Texan University of Texas, Austin 2011-04-01 Shamoyita DasGupta, Daily Texan Staff More Americans than ever before identify as multiracial, according to the 2010 census.   Of the 9 million people who listed themselves as more than one race, 4.2 million are children. The percentage rose…

  • Anthropological Studies of Children

    Anthropological Studies of Children Eugenics Review Volume 18, Number 4 (January 1927) pages 294-301 Rachel M. Fleming Some ten years ago, with the guidance and help of Professor Fleure, of the Department of Geography and Anthropology, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, I began to study race type in women, and from the study of divergent-race characteristics…

  • A study of the intelligence of Anglo-Chinese children

    A study of the intelligence of Anglo-Chinese children Eugenics Review Volume 30, Number 2 (July 1938) pages 109-119 P. C. Hu Department of Psychology University College, London I. OBJECT OF THE INQUIRY The present investigation was carried out with the object of determining the general intellectual level of Anglo-Chinese children, and of dscovering what differences,…

  • The Liverpool-Born Black Community

    The history of The Liverpool Black Community seems to have been strangely ignored in the dialogue on asylum seekers and immigration by government pundits.