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  • Measurement Uncertainty in Racial and Ethnic Identification Among Adolescents of Mixed Ancestry: A Latent Variable Approach

    Measurement Uncertainty in Racial and Ethnic Identification Among Adolescents of Mixed Ancestry: A Latent Variable Approach Structural Equation Modeling: A Multidisciplinary Journal Volume 17, Issue 1 (January 2010) pages 110 – 133 DOI: 10.1080/10705510903439094 Allison J. Tracy Wellesley Centers for Women Sumru Erkut Wellesley Centers for Women Michelle V. Porche Wellesley Centers for Women Jo…

  • “… But … But I am Brown.” The Ascribed Categories of Identity: Children and Young People of Mixed Parentage

    “… But … But I am Brown.” The Ascribed Categories of Identity: Children and Young People of Mixed Parentage Child Care in Practice Volume 13, Issue 2 (April 2007) pages 83 – 94 DOI: 10.1080/13575270701201169 Annabel Goodyer, Principal Lecturer in Social Work London South Bank University Toyin Okitikpi This paper explores the concept of the…

  • 3 Questions: Melissa Nobles on the U.S. Census

    3 Questions: Melissa Nobles on the U.S. Census MIT News Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2010-04-01 Melissa Nobles, Arthur and Ruth Sloan Professor of Political Science Massachusetts Institute of Technology As America’s decennial headcount gets under way, an MIT political scientist discusses the history of race and ethnicity in the U.S. Census April 1 marks National…

  • Biracial Identity Development and Recommendations in Therapy

    Biracial Identity Development and Recommendations in Therapy Psychiatry (Edgemont) Volume 5, Number 11 (November 2008) pages 37-44 Raushanah Hud-Aleem, DO Department of Psychiatry Boonshoft School of Medicine, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio Jacqueline Countryman, MD, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry Department of Psychiatry Boonshoft School of Medicine, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio Identity development is an…

  • Racial Identity and Academic Performance: An Examination of Biracial Asian and African American Youth

    Racial Identity and Academic Performance: An Examination of Biracial Asian and African American Youth Journal of Asian American Studies Volume 2, Number 3 (October 1999) pages 223-249 E-ISSN: 1096-8598 Print ISSN: 1097-2129 DOI: 10.1353/jaas.1999.0023 Grace Kao, Professor of Sociology, Education, and Asian American Studies University of Pennsylvania In the last three decades since the last…

  • Revising Race: How Biracial Students are Changing and Challenging Student Services

    Revising Race: How Biracial Students are Changing and Challenging Student Services Journal of College Student Development Volume 51, Number 2 (March/April 2010) pages 115-134 E-ISSN: 1543-3382 Print ISSN: 0897-5264 DOI: 10.1353/csd.0.0122 Patricia E. Literte, Assistant professor of sociology California State University, Fullerton This research investigates the relationship between biracial college students and race-oriented student services…

  • The Challenge of Identity: The Experience of Mixed Race Women in Higher Education [Book Review]

    The Challenge of Identity: The Experience of Mixed Race Women in Higher Education [Book Review] Academic Matters Ontario Confederation of University Faculty Journal of Higher Education 2009-09-23 Yasmin Jiwani, Associate Professor of Communications Studies Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada The gaps between policies and the realities of those to whom these policies are addressed remains…

  • Home on the Range: Kids, Visual Culture, and Cognitive Equity

    Home on the Range: Kids, Visual Culture, and Cognitive Equity Cultural Studies Critical Methodologies Volume 9, Number 2 (April 2009) pages 141-148 DOI: 10.1177/1532708608326606 Lorna Roth, Associate Professor of Communication Studies Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada This essay focuses on Binney and Smith’s creation and marketing of Crayola fleshtone art products from the late 1950s…

  • Multiracial versus Collective Black Categories: Examining Census Classification Debates in Brazil

    Multiracial versus Collective Black Categories: Examining Census Classification Debates in Brazil Ethnicities Volume 6, Number 1 (2006) pages 74-101 DOI: 10.1177/1468796806061080 Stanley R. Bailey, Associate Professor of Sociology University of California, Irvine Edward E. Telles, Professor of Sociology Princeton University Current census debates in Brazil surrounding Brazilian race categories center on two contrasting proposals: the…

  • Multiracialism & the civil rights future

    Multiracialism & the civil rights future Daedalus Volume 134, Number 1 (Winter 2005) Pages 53-60 DOI: 10.1162/0011526053124406 Kim M. Williams, Associate Professor of Public Policy Harvard Kennedy School Harvard University Spurred by a small group of activists in the 1990s, the American system of racial classification changed recently in a conceptually bold way. With moving…