Category: Articles

  • Deconstructing Binary Race and Sex Categories: A Comparison of the Multiracial and Transgendered Experience San Diego Law Review Volume 39, Number 3 (2002) pages 917-942 Julie A. Greenberg, Professor of Law Thomas Jefferson School of Law, San Diego This Article explores the potential difficulties that exist as legal institutions develop a classification of transgendered people,…

  • Beyond Just Black and White: Why I was so eager to claim my biracial son for my own side Newsweek.com 2009-01-24 Raina Kelley, Weekly Columnist When I took my newly born son from the nurse’s arms, I did the expected counting of his fingers and toes. I checked under his cap for hair and flexed…

  • Resolving “Other” Status: Identity Development of Biracial Individuals Women & Therapy Volume 9, Issue 1 & 2 (May 1990) pages 185 – 205 DOI: 10.1300/J015v09n01_11 Maria P. P. Root The current paper describes the phenomenological experience of marginal socio-ethnic status for biracial individuals. A metamodel for identity resolution for individuals who struggle with other status…

  • Racial Identification of the Biracial Preschool Child in a Single parent Family: Implications for Study Family Science Review Volume 4, Number 3 (August 1991) pages 81-92 Z. Lois Bryant, Professor of Human Development and Family Studies University of Missouri, Columbia Johnetta Wade Morrison, Professor of Human Development and Family Studies University of Missouri, Columbia This…

  • The Strangeness of Passing: Commentary on Paper by Christopher Bonovitz Psychoanalytic Dialogues Volume 19, Issue 4 (July 2009) pages 442-449 DOI: 10.1080/10481880903088377 Annabella Bushra The Westchester Center for the Study of Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy Christopher Bonovitz gives us a rich landscape of the theoretical, historical, and relational aspects of his work with his mixed-race patient.…

  • Biracial Females’ Reflections on Racial Identity Development in Adolescence Journal of Feminist Family Therapy Volume 18, Issue 4 (February 2007) pages 53 – 75 DOI: 10.1300/J086v18n04_03 Karia Kelch-Oliver Department of Counseling and Psychological Services Georgia State University Leigh A. Leslie, Associate Professor and Graduate Director Department of Family Studies University of Maryland As the number…

  • Mixed Race and the Negotiation of Racialized Selves: Developing the Capacity for Internal Conflict Psychoanalytic Dialogues Volume 19, Issue 4 (July 2009) pages 426 – 441 DOI: 10.1080/10481880903088021 Christopher Bonovitz William Alanson White Institute; New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy & Psychoanalysis, Manhattan Institute for Psychoanalysis The author uses contemporary psychoanalytic theory in further…

  • Myth of Post-Racial America: Biracial novelist says America still has a long way to go Northwestern University News Center 2010-03-08 Wendy Leopold, Education Editor EVANSTON, Illinois — In a speech titled “The Myth of Post-Racial America,” writer Danzy Senna warned members of the packed audience in Fisk Hall against the urge to view America as…

  • Couple finds a more than a century old gravestone Beaumont Enterprise 2009-12-13 Kyle Peveto Beneath a tool shed behind her house, Mallary Sanders and her fiance found a 118-year-old piece of history they are begging someone to take. Last weekend, Sanders’ fiance, Justin Trusty, 24, was cleaning beneath the pier-and-beam shed when he came across…

  • 2010 Census: Stressed Out of the Box The Huffington Post 2010-03-10 Marcia Dawkins, Assistant Professor of Human Communication California State University, Fullerton Robert M. Groves, Director of the U.S. Census Bureau, sent me a letter today. Mr. Groves told me that my 2010 Census form will be arriving sometime next week and that my “response…