Category: Articles

  • This is who I am: Defining mixed-race identity The Seattle Times 2008-09-28 Lornet Turnbull, Seattle Times staff The story of race in the U.S. is changing, and so is the way many of us identify ourselves. That’s especially true in the Seattle area, which has a higher concentration of mixed-race people than any other metro…

  • US, MSU see increase in multiracial students The State News East Lansing, Michigan 2011-02-02 Emily Wilkins They call her “blackbean” – half black, half Mexican. It’s a nickname embraced by Lynette Davidson, a political theory and constitutional democracy and communication sophomore and one of the 710 students at MSU who identifies with two or more…

  • Not White Enough, Not Black Enough: Racial Identity in the South African Coloured Community [Review] H-Net Reviews May 2007 Sean H. Jacobs University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Mohamed Adhikari. Not White Enough, Not Black Enough: Racial Identity in the South African Coloured Community. Africa Series. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2005. xvii + 252 pp. Paper…

  • What Being Biracial Means Today The New York Times The Opinion Pages 2011-02-05 Jordan Awan Re “Black? White? Asian? More Young Americans Choose All of the Above” (“Race Remixed” series, front page, Jan. 30): To the Editor: Oh, big deal! In 1947, as college students, we used to answer the race question with “human.” Each…

  • In Census, Young Americans Increasingly Diverse The New York Times 2011-02-04 Sabrina Tabernise WASHINGTON — Demographers sifting through new population counts released on Thursday by the Census Bureau say the data bring a pattern into sharper focus: Young Americans are far less white than older generations, a shift that demographers say creates a culture gap…

  • A Conceptual Model of Multiple Dimensions of Identity Journal of College Student Development Volume 41, Number 4 (July/August 2000) pages 405-414 Susan R. Jones, Associate Professor of Education Department of Counseling and Personnel Services University of Maryland, College Park Marylu K. McEwen, Professor Emeritus Department of Counseling and Personnel Services University of Maryland, College Park…

  • White Negritude: Race, Writing, and Brazilian Cultural Identity [Review] H-Net Reviews February 2010 Lorenzo Veracini Alexandra Isfahani-Hammond. White Negritude: Race, Writing, and Brazilian Cultural Identity. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. Cloth ISBN 978-1-4039-7595-9. Alexandra Isfahani-Hammond has published a persuasive outline and contextualization of Brazilian “Race Democracy” advocate Gilberto Freyre. In a forthcoming book, I argue…

  • Julianne Jennings: The mixed blood of Indians explained The Providence Journal Providence, Rhode Island 2009-01-30 Julianne Jennings Willmantic, Connecticut EUROPEAN EXPLORERS discovered a land inhabited by an agricultural people who grew corn, beans and squash and who had a sophisticated system of government that, some would argue, would later be adopted by the United States.…

  • Passing, Cultural Performance, and Individual Agency: Performative Reflections on Black Masculine Identity Cultural Studies↔Critical Methodologies Volume 4, Number 3 pages 377-404 DOI: 10.1177/1532708603259680 Bryant Keith Alexander, Acting Dean and Professor of Communication Studies California State University, Los Angeles This performative article uses the trope of “passing” as reference to crossing racial identity borders as well…

  • Asian American Studies: Building Academic Bridges – Nitasha Sharma The Department of African American Studies Northwestern University, Evanston Illinois October 2010 Ronald Roach NITASHA TAMAR SHARMA Title: Assistant Professor of African-American and Asian American Studies, Northwestern University Education: Ph.D., Anthropology, University of alifornia at Santa Barbara; M.A., Anthropology, University of California at Santa Barbara; B.A.,…