Category: Articles

  • “War Baby/Love Child: Mixed Race Asian American Art” Critical Ethnic Studies Association Conference University of California, Riverside Critical Ethnic Studies and the Future of Genocide: Settler Colonialism/Heteropatriarchy/White Supremacy 2011-03-10 through 2011-03-12 Laura Kina, Associate Professor of Art, Media, and Design and distinguished Vincent de Paul Professor DePaul University Wei Ming Dariotis, Associate Professor Asian American…

  • The Browning and Yellowing of Whiteness The Black Commentator 2005 Tamara K. Nopper, Adjunct Professor of Asian American Studies University of Pennsylvania Latino/as and Asians Americans do not necessarily reject dominant culture and ideology when it comes to racial politics. A Review of Who is White?: Latinos, Asians, and the New Black/Nonblack Divide by George…

  • Greg Carroll Draws Large Crowd for Talk on Melungeon Heritage West Virginia Archives & History West Virginia Division of Culture & History Volume 11, Number 8 (October 2010) page 2 Archives historian Greg Carroll drew a large crowd for his talk [2010-09-09] on groups of people in the Appalachian area and beyond commonly called Melungeon.…

  • Racial identity in biracial children: A qualitative investigation Journal of Counseling Psychology Volume 40, Number 2, (April 1993) pages 221-231 DOI: 10.1037/0022-0167.40.2.221 Christine Kerwin Joseph G. Ponterotto Barbara L. Jackson Abigail Harris Describes a qualitative study of issues salient in the development of racial identity for schoolchildren of Black/White racial heritage. Semistructured interviews were conducted…

  • ‘One-drop rule’ persists: Biracials viewed as members of their lower-status parent group Harvard Gazette Harvard Science: Science and Engineering at Harvard University 2010-12-09 Steve Bradt, Harvard Staff Writer Arnold K. Ho (right), a Ph.D. student in psychology at Harvard, and James Sidanius, a professor of psychology and of African and African-American studies at Harvard, researched…

  • Half-Caste (An Excerpt) Afroeuropa: Journal of Afroeuropean Studies Volume 2, Number 1, (2008) 6 pages Angela Ajayi At about the age of nineteen, a year after I arrived for college in the United States, I stopped thinking of myself as “half-caste.” The word, so loaded in its literal meaning and with its colonial roots, was…

  • Alumni Profile • Angela Ajayi ’97 The Calvin Spark The Magazine for Alumni and Friends of Calvin College Fall 2005 Working at the big question Who am I and how do I fit in this world? While every person struggles with these questions, they come to Angela Ajayi ’97 with some particular twists. The daughter…

  • ‘You Can Get Lost in Cape Town’: Transculturation and Dislocation in Zoë Wicomb’s Literary Works Afroeuropa: Journal of Afroeuropean Studies Volume 2, Number 3 (2008) 10 pages María Jesús López Sánchez-Vizcaíno, Professor of English University of Córdoba In Zoë Wicomb’s novels and short stories, main characters tend to share Wicomb’s coloured condition—mixed-race identity as defined…

  • Multiethnic Children Portrayed in Children’s Picture Books Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal Volume 17, Number 4, (August 2000) pages 305-317 DOI: 10.1023/A:1007550124043 Erin Michelle Cole Department of Social Work University of Wyoming Deborah P. Valentine, Director and Professor of Social Work Colorado State University The portrayal of multiethnic children in picture books provides a…

  • School Counselors’ Perceptions of Biracial Children: A Pilot Study Professional School Counseling American School Counselor Association December 2002 page 120-129 Henry L. Harris, Associate Professor and Chair of Department of Counseling University of North Carolina, Charlotte Biracial children represent a growing segment of America’s increasingly diverse population. According to Kalish (1995), data from the National…