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  • The relationship between binge eating and weight status on depression, anxiety, and body image among a diverse college sample: A focus on Bi/Multiracial women

    The relationship between binge eating and weight status on depression, anxiety, and body image among a diverse college sample: A focus on Bi/Multiracial women Eating Behaviors Volume 11, Issue 1, January 2010 Pages 18-24 DOI: 10.1016/j.eatbeh.2009.08.003 Valentina Ivezaj Eastern Michigan University Karen K. Saules Eastern Michigan University Flora Hoodin Eastern Michigan University Kevin Alschuler Eastern…

  • Obama gives hope to multiracial families

    Obama gives hope to multiracial families The Connecticut Record-Journal 2009-01-24 George Moore Three-year-old George Garner used to introduce himself as ‘George Barack Obama’ when his mother took him to political events. For George, an energetic boy of a mixed racial background, Barack Obama’s presidency will serve as proof that he, too, can be president, said…

  • American Mestizo: Filipinos and Antimiscegenation Laws in California

    American Mestizo: Filipinos and Antimiscegenation Laws in California University of California, Davis Law Review Volume 33, Number 44 (2000) pages 795-835 Leti Volpp, Professor of Law University of California, Berkeley This essay interprets the legal history of efforts to prohibit intermarriage between Filipino men and white women in the state of California in the 1920s…

  • Mestizaje and the Mexican Mestizo Self: No hay Sangre Negra, so there is no Blackness

    Mestizaje and the Mexican Mestizo Self: No hay Sangre Negra, so there is no Blackness Southern California Interdisciplinary Law Journal Volume 15, Number 2 (Spring 2006) Pages 199-234 Taunya Lovell Banks, Jacob A. France Professor of Equality Jurisprudence and Francis & Harriet Iglehart Research Professor of Law University of Maryland School of Law Many legal…

  • Blood Will Tell: Scientific Racism and the Legal Prohibition Against Miscegenation

    Blood Will Tell: Scientific Racism and the Legal Prohibition Against Miscegenation Michigan Journal of Race & Law University of Michigan Law School Volume 5, Issue 2 (Spring 2000) pages 560-609 Keith Edward Sealing, Dean of Students Widener Law School, Widener University Laws banning miscegenation endured in the colonies and the United States for more than…

  • Exploring the Experiences of First-Generation, Multiethnic Undergraduate College Students

    Exploring the Experiences of First-Generation, Multiethnic Undergraduate College Students The Journal of Student Affairs Student Affairs in Higher Education Colorado State University Volume 14, 2004-2005 Jody Donovan and Lehala Johnson This qualitative research paper investigates the experiences of first-generation, multiethnic undergraduate students at two public, four-year universities in the Rocky Mountain region. The existing research…

  • Natasha Trethewey Reads at ECU

    Natasha Trethewey Reads at ECU The Common Reader Newsletter of the ECU Department of English Eastern Carolina University Volume 26, Number 6: May 2008 Lisa DeVries On April 2, Natasha Trethewey visited East Carolina University for a public reading and book signing organized by fellow poet and friend John Hoppenthaler.  She won the Pulitizer Prize…

  • Written Out of History

    Written Out of History Pomona College Magazine Pomona College, Claremont, California Fall 2002 Volume 39, Number 1 Michael Balchunas Spurred by a glimpse of family history, Professor Sid Lemelle is bringing to light a little-known aspect of the African Diaspora. When the new people moved in, all eyes were upon them. There were comments about…

  • Investigations: Problem behavior

    Investigations: Problem behavior University of Chicago Magazine October 2006 Volume 99, Issue 1 Lydialyle Gibson For American children, says Yoonsun Choi, assistant professor at the School of Social Service Administration, early adolescence isn’t getting any simpler. Besides the awkwardness and looming angst, there’s this: more and more youth now find themselves navigating the uncertain territory…

  • Ethnic Identity among Monoracial and Multiracial Early Adolescents

    Ethnic Identity among Monoracial and Multiracial Early Adolescents The Journal of Early Adolescence Vol. 20, No. 4 (2000) pages 365-387 DOI: 10.1177/0272431600020004001 Michael S. Spencer, Associate Dean for Educational Programs and Associate Professor of Social Work University of Michigan Larry D. Icard, Professor of Social Work Temple University Tracy W. Harachi, Associate Professor of Social…