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  • Biracial Utahns seeking identity

    Biracial Utahns seeking identity Deseret News Salt Lake City, Utah 2005-03-12 Elaine Jarvik They’re biracial — equally Polynesian and white. But most prefer to think of themselves as Polynesian, says University of Utah graduate student Kawika Allen, who recently studied 84 Polynesian-Caucasian Utahns. Allen, who grew up with an Hawaiian mother and a Caucasian father,…

  • Unmixing for Race Making in Brazil

    This article analyzes race-targeted policy in Brazil as both a political stake and a powerful instrument in an unfolding classificatory struggle over the definition of racial boundaries.

  • The Race Construct and Public Opinion: Understanding Brazilian Beliefs about Racial Inequality and Their Determinants

    The Race Construct and Public Opinion: Understanding Brazilian Beliefs about Racial Inequality and Their Determinants The American Journal of Sociology Volume 108, Number 2 (September 2002) pages 406–39 Stanley R. Bailey, Associate Professor of Sociology University of California, Irvine Researchers hold that the racial democracy ideology fosters a rejection of discrimination-based explanations for racial inequality,…

  • Looking in the Cultural Mirror: How understanding race and culture helps us answer the question: “Who am I?”

    Looking in the Cultural Mirror: How understanding race and culture helps us answer the question: “Who am I?” Psychology Today 2010-07-06 Jefferson M. Fish, Ph.D. The Census and Race—Part I–Key Issues: What can science tell us about the census’s race questions? (2010-07-06) The 2010 Census is well on its way to completion. Its controversial questions…

  • President Obama checks the “Black” box; Evidently it’s official: Barack Obama is the nation’s first black president.

    President Obama checks the “Black” box Evidently it’s official: Barack Obama is the nation’s first black president. Psychology Today 2010-04-04 Samantha Smithstein, Psy.D., Clinical and Forensic Psychologist and Co-Founder Pathways Institute for Impulse Control, San Francisco This week, the New York Times reported that “It is official: Barack Obama is the nation’s first black president.”…

  • Biracial Identity Theory and Research Juxtaposed with Narrative Accounts of a Biracial Individual

    Biracial Identity Theory and Research Juxtaposed with Narrative Accounts of a Biracial Individual Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal Volume 27, Number 5 (October 2010) pages 355-364 DOI: 10.1007/s10560-010-0209-6 Simon Nuttgens, Professor of Psychology Athabasca University, Alberta, Canada With the increase in mixed-racial parentage in North America comes increased scholarly activity intended to bring greater understanding…

  • Claiming a Biracial Identity: Resisting Social Constructions of Race and Culture

    Claiming a Biracial Identity: Resisting Social Constructions of Race and Culture Journal of Counseling & Development Volume 77, Number 1 (Winter 1999) pages 32-35 ISSN-0748-9633 Carmen Braun Williams, Assistant Vice President for Diversity University of Colorado System In a world where socially constructed categories of race are misconstrued as biological, the author, a light-skinned “Black,”…

  • Biracial Japanese American identity: An evolving process.

    Biracial Japanese American identity: An evolving process. Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology Volume 6, Number 2, (May 2000) pages 115-133 DOI: 10.1037/1099-9809.6.2.115 J. Fuji Collins, Assistant Vice Chancellor for Student Health & Wellness – Vice Chancellor University of California, Merced Explored the complexity of biracial identity development in Japanese Americans, focusing on how Japanese…

  • Thinking outside the (black) box: Measuring black and multiracial identification on surveys

    Thinking outside the (black) box: Measuring black and multiracial identification on surveys Social Science Research Volume 36, Issue 3, September 2007 Pages 921-944 DOI: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2006.07.001  Mary E. Campbell, Associate Professor of Sociology University of Iowa To better understand the diversity of the multiracial population, compare multiracial data to single-race data, and evaluate the rigidity of…

  • Books: Eight-Anna Girl

    Books: Eight-Anna Girl Time Magazine 1954-03-29 Bhowani Junction (394 pp.)—John Masters—Viking In days gone by, when the sun never set on the British Empire, old India hands toted the white man’s burden, and Rudyard Kipling wrote about it in some 35 volumes of prose and poetry. Now that the burden has been lifted, many an…