Category: Articles

  • Adjustment Problems in Adolescence: Are Multiracial Children at Risk? American Journal of Orthopsychiatry Volume 70, Issue 4 (October 2000) pages 433–444 DOI: 10.1037/h0087744 M. Elise Radina, Associate Professor of Family Studies & Social Work Miami University, Ohio Teresa M. Cooney, Associate Professor of Human Develpopment and Family Studies University of Missouri Data from a national…

  • Relationship Quality Between Multiracial Adolescents and Their Biological Parents American Journal of Orthopsychiatry Volume 70, Issue 4 (October 2000) pages 445–454 DOI: 10.1037/h0087763 M. Elise Radina, Associate Professor of Family Studies & Social Work Miami University, Ohio Teresa M. Cooney, Associate Professor of Human Develpopment and Family Studies University of Missouri National survey data were…

  • Laughing To Keep From Crying: Resisting “Race” Through Irony Tympanum: A Journal of Comparative Literary Studies Number 4, (2000) issn# 1522-7723 Ronald Sundstrom, Director and Associate Professor of African American Studies University of San Francisco He wanted to rise-a malicious, ironic voice insisted that he rise-and, at once, to leave this temple and go out…

  • Racial Ambiguity and Relationship Formation in the United States: Theoretical and Practical Considerations Journal of Social and Personal Relationships Volume 20, Number 2 (April 2003) pages 153-169 DOI: 10.1177/02654075030202002 Angela D. James, Associate Professor of African American Studies Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles M. Belinda Tucker, Social Psychologist and Professor of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences…

  • Racial Etiquette: Nella Larsen’s Passing and the Rhinelander Case Meridians: feminism, race, transnationalism Volume 5, Number 2, 2005 pages 1-29 E-ISSN: 1547-8424 Print ISSN: 1536-6936 DOI: 10.1353/mer.2005.0013 Miriam Thaggert, Associate Professor of English and African-American Studies University of Iowa In Passing Nella Larsen seems to suggest that identity is a hazy fiction one tells that…

  • Gothic Discourse Meets Hybridity in the United States [Book Review] H-net Reviews July 2003 Jeanne Cortiel Justin D. Edwards. Gothic Passages: Racial Ambiguity and the American Gothic. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2003. xxxiii + 145 pp., ISBN 978-0-87745-824-1. In the past decade, gothic studies have produced a number of new readers, research handbooks,…

  • Black or Biracial? Who Gets to Decide? The Huffington Post 2009-03-04 Abby L. Ferber, Associate Professor, Director of the Matrix Center and Co-Director of Women’s and Ethnic Studies University of Colorado, Colorado Springs Is Obama Black? Biracial? And why do we care so much? A new book by George Yancey and Richard Lewis, Jr., Interracial…

  • ‘It’s like I’m part of every race’ The Straits Times Malaysia 2010-08-08 Edora Mayangsari Lopez, 18 Eurasian-Malay The psychology student at the Management Development Institute of Singapore has a Eurasian father and a Malay-Javanese mother. Both of them are Singaporeans. She is the younger of two children and has relatives in Europe, Australia, Malaysia and…

  • Davidson Welcomes New Professors into the Fold Davidson College Davidson, North Carolina 2007-08-30 Rachel Andoga Davidson welcomes five new assistant professors into tenure-track positions this semester. Here are  profiles of their careers and academic interests. Caroline Beschea-Fache, a native of northern France, joins the French Department as a specialist in Métissage, the study of biracialism,…

  • Voices from the Gaps: Kym Ragusa Voices from the Gaps University of Minnesota 2007-04-24 Shalee Dettmann Joey Grihalva Jenna Fodness Gaushia Thao I don’t know where I was conceived, but I was made in Harlem. Its topography is mapped on my body: the borderlines between neighborhoods marked by streets that were forbidden to cross, the…