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  • Ushering children away from a “light grey world”: Dr. Daniel Hill III and his pursuit of a respectable Black Canadian community.

    Ushering children away from a “light grey world”: Dr. Daniel Hill III and his pursuit of a respectable Black Canadian community. Ontario History 2007-03-22 Daniel R. McNeil, Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies Newcastle University, United Kingdom This paper is about Dr. Daniel Hill III, the first director of the Ontario Human Rights Agency. Paying…

  • Black Women See Fewer Black Men at the Altar

    Black Women See Fewer Black Men at the Altar The New York Times 2010-06-03 Sam Roberts It is a familiar lament of single African-American women: where are the “good” black men to marry? A new study shows that more and more black men are marrying women of other races. In fact, more than 1 in…

  • Exploring the Many Facets of Mixed-Race Identity

    Exploring the Many Facets of Mixed-Race Identity Renegade South: histories of unconventional southerners 2010-05-26 Victoria E. Bynum, Moderator and Emeritus Professor of History Texas State University, San Marcos In recent weeks, The Family Origins of Vernon Dahmer, Civil Rights Activist, by Yvonne Bivins and Wilmer Watts Backstrom, published December 6, 2009 on Renegade South, has…

  • An Existential Gaze at Multiracial Self-Concept: Implications for Psychotherapy

    An Existential Gaze at Multiracial Self-Concept: Implications for Psychotherapy Journal of Humanistic Psychology Volume 50, Number 3 (July 2010) DOI: 10.1177/0022167810365909 Matthew J. Taylor, Assistant Professor of Psychology University of Missouri, St. Louis John T. Nanney Department of Psychology University of Missouri, St. Louis Multiracial self-concept is conceptualized using an existential framework. First, the authors…

  • Biracial Identity and Its Relation to Self-Esteem and Depression in Mixed Black/White Biracial Individuals

    Biracial Identity and Its Relation to Self-Esteem and Depression in Mixed Black/White Biracial Individuals Journal of Ethnic And Cultural Diversity in Social Work Volume 19, Issue 2 (April 2010) pages 109 – 126 DOI: 10.1080/15313201003771783 Elizabeth M. Lusk Department of Psychology Washburn University, Topeka, Kansas Matthew J. Taylor, Assistant Professor of Psychology University of Missouri,…

  • Real Americans [Book Review]

    Real Americans [Book Review] The Virginia Quarterly Review Spring 2009 pages 206-210 Oscar Villalon What Blood Won’t Tell: A History of Race on Trial in America, by Ariela J. Gross. Harvard University Press, October 2008. As a child, there were the Americans, and then there was us. Americans weren’t that plentiful in my grandmother’s neighborhood.…

  • The Social Construction of Race: Some Observations on Illusion, Fabrication, and Choice

    The Social Construction of Race: Some Observations on Illusion, Fabrication, and Choice Harvard Civil Rights – Civil Liberties Law Review Volume 29 (1993) 62 pages Ian F. Haney Lopez, John H. Boalt Professor of Law and Executive Committee Member for The Center for Social Justice Berkeley Law School University of California, Berkeley Under the jurisprudence…

  • Never a Neutral State: American Race Relations and Government Power

    Never a Neutral State: American Race Relations and Government Power Cato Journal Volume 29, Number 3 (Fall 2009) Pages 417-453 Jason Kuznicki, Research Fellow and Managing Editor, Cato Unbound Cato Institute Economics tells us that racial discrimination is expensive. Yet social psychology suggests that humans nonetheless tend to mistrust those whom they identify as outsiders.…

  • Counseling Interventions with Biracial Black/White Adolescents

    Counseling Interventions with Biracial Black/White Adolescents East Bay Therapist California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists – East Bay Chapter Jan/Feb 2005 Venita Antonia-Maria Lue, PhD, MFT Adolescence is an especially vulnerable time for many biracial individuals because identity issues become racial problems when the interracial person starts dating. All dating is potentially interracial for…

  • Interracial marriage still rising in U.S.

    Interracial marriage still rising in U.S. Associated Press 2010-05-26 Hope Yen, Associated Press Writer About 8 percent of U.S. marriages are mixed-race WASHINGTON – Melting pot or racial divide? The growth of interracial marriages is slowing among U.S.-born Hispanics and Asians. Still, blacks are substantially more likely than before to marry whites. The number of…