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  • Multiracial Groups and Educational Inequality: A Rainbow or a Divide?

    Multiracial Groups and Educational Inequality: A Rainbow or a Divide? Social Problems Volume 56, Number 3 (August 2009) Pages 425–446 DOI 10.1525/sp.2009.56.3.425 Mary E. Campbell, Associate Professor of Sociology University of Iowa How do multiracial groups “fit” into the system of racial oppression and privilege in the United States? Are the outcomes of multiracial individuals…

  • Who And What You Are

    Who And What You Are Contexts Fall 2009 Vol. 8, No. 4 Pages 64–65 DOI 10.1525/ctx.2009.8.4.64 Sangyoub Park, Assistant Professor of Sociology Washburn University Barack Obama‘s presidency and changes in how the U.S. Census tracks race underline the importance of the social construction of race and ethnicity in the United States. Changes in our racial…

  • Mixing It Up

    Mixing It Up Contexts Volume  4, Number 4 (Fall 2005) Pages 15–16 DOI 10.1525/ctx.2005.4.4.15 Kimberly McClain DaCosta, Associate Professor Gallatin School of Individualized Study, New York University Jamie Tibbetts is a member of the Generation Mix National Awareness Tour. He and four other mixed-race young adults are driving across the country, making stops in sixteen…

  • Crossing Boundaries, Claiming a Homeland: The Mexican Chinese Transpacific Journey to Becoming Mexican, 1930s–1960s

    Crossing Boundaries, Claiming a Homeland: The Mexican Chinese Transpacific Journey to Becoming Mexican, 1930s–1960s Pacific Historical Review Volume 78, Number 4 (November 2009) pages 545–577 DOI 10.1525/phr.2009.78.4.545 Julia María Schiavone Camacho, Assistant Professor of History University of Texa, El Paso This article follows Mexican Chinese families from Mexico, across the Mexican-U.S. border, to China, and…

  • Whiteness as Stigma: Essentialist Identity Work by Mixed-Race Women

    Whiteness as Stigma: Essentialist Identity Work by Mixed-Race Women Symbolic Interaction Volume 22, Number 3 (1999) Pages 187–212 DOI 10.1525/si.1999.22.3.187 Debbie Storrs, Professor of Sociology University of Idaho Historically, in both the social sciences and the general public, racial mixing has been stigmatized. This stigmatization was fueled by whites’ desire to protect their racial privileges…

  • “What are You?”: Explaining Identity as a Goal of the Multiracial Hapa Movement

    “What are You?”: Explaining Identity as a Goal of the Multiracial Hapa Movement Social Problems Volume 56, Number 4 (November 2009) Pages 722–745 DOI 10.1525/sp.2009.56.4.722 Mary Bernstein, Associate Professor of Sociology University of Connecticut Marcie De la Cruz Empirical Education Inc. This article uses the Hapa movement as a case study in order to provide…

  • An interview with Henry Wiencek: Slaves and Slavery in George Washington’s World

    An interview with Henry Wiencek: Slaves and Slavery in George Washington’s World Common-Place: Common Reading Volume 6, Number 4 July 2006 William Costin (c. 1780-1842), the Washingtons’ mixed-race grandson/nephew. He was the son of Ann Dandridge, enslaved half sister of Martha Washington, and Jacky Custis, Martha’s son. Courtesy of the Library of Congress, Prints and…

  • Biracial Self-Identification: Impact on Trait Anxiety, Social Anxiety, and Depression

    Biracial Self-Identification: Impact on Trait Anxiety, Social Anxiety, and Depression Identity Volume 7, Issue 2 May 2007 pages 103 – 114 DOI: 10.1080/15283480701326018   Victoria H. Coleman Department of Psychology, American University, Washington, D.C. M. M. Carter Department of Psychology, American University, Washington, D.C. Sixty-one Biracial participants were assessed on measures of depression, trait anxiety,…

  • Brown Skinned White Girls: class, culture and the construction of white identity in suburban communities

    Brown Skinned White Girls: class, culture and the construction of white identity in suburban communities Gender, Place & Culture Volume 3, Issue 2 July 1996 pages 205 – 224 DOI: 10.1080/09663699650021891 France Winddance Twine, Professor of Sociology University of California, Santa Barbara Feminist scholars theorizing about whiteness and white identity have not examined the pivotal…

  • Racial ambiguity among the Brazilian population

    Racial ambiguity among the Brazilian population Ethnic and Racial Studies Volume 25, Issue 3 (May 2002) pages 415-441 DOI: 10.1080/01419870252932133 Edward E. Telles, Professor of Sociology Princeton University I investigate the extent to which interviewers and respondents in a 1995 national survey consistently classify race in Brazil, overall and in particular contexts. Overall, classification as…