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  • Being Multiracial in a Country that Sees Black and White

    Being Multiracial in a Country that Sees Black and White Interpolations: A Journal of First Year Writing Deparment of English, University of Maryland Fall 2009 Lavisha McClarin University of Maryland In America mixed race individuals are becoming more prominent in the media, politics and sports throughout the country. Some of the most popular mixed race…

  • Firsthand multlicultural experience

    Firsthand multlicultural experience The Daily Independent (Ashland, Kentucky) 2009-10-22 Mike James Ashland — When he brings up the fact that he is biracial, Elliott Lewis most often hears platitudes. Some of them are flattering, others not so much. The one that drives him nuts is the question, “What are you?” It’s one of the things he…

  • The American Melting Pot? Miscegenation Laws in the United States

    The American Melting Pot? Miscegenation Laws in the United States Organization of American Historians Magazine of History Volume 15, Number 4, Summer 2001 pages 80-84 Bárbara C. Cruz, Associate Professor of Social Science Education University of South Florida, Tampa Michael J. Berson, Associate Professor of Social Science Education University of South Florida People of mixed heritage have…

  • Phillip Handy examines how children form racial identities in multiracial families

    Phillip Handy examines how children form racial identities in multiracial families Research Highlights Rutgers University 2009-04-22 The election of America’s first mixed-race president has created new interest in what it’s like to grow up as a multiracial child. A Rutgers senior majoring in sociology and psychology has already received input from about 930 multiracial people…

  • I-Dentity: The Biracial Woman as a Bridge In Third-Wave Feminism

    I-Dentity: The Biracial Woman as a Bridge In Third-Wave Feminism Erica Jackson Fall 1993 This is by no means intended to be an exhaustive discussion of the biracial experience in America, which is in no way monolithic.  In fact, it is inspired by the belief that race (whether singular or plural)  is an outdated concept…

  • The New Color Complex: Appearances and Biracial Identity

    The New Color Complex: Appearances and Biracial Identity Identity: An International Journal of Theory and Research 2001 Volume 3, Number 1 Pags 29-52 David L. Brunsma, Associate Professor of Sociology University of Missouri, Columbia Kerry Ann Rockquemore, Associate Professor of Sociology University of Illinois at Chicago Ethnic identity research has largely focused on the identity…

  • Danzas Nacionalistas: The representation of history through folkloric dance in Venezuela

    Danzas Nacionalistas: The representation of history through folkloric dance in Venezuela Critique of Anthropology (2002) Vol. 22, No. 3 pages 257-282 DOI: 10.1177/0308275X02022003758 Iveris Luz Martínez Johns Hopkins University In this article I argue that the nation is not only invented or imagined, but depends on activities and practices in order to be invented and…

  • Pre-Hispanic Mesoamerican demography approximates the present-day ancestry of Mestizos throughout the territory of Mexico

    Pre-Hispanic Mesoamerican demography approximates the present-day ancestry of Mestizos throughout the territory of Mexico American Journal of Physical Anthropology Volume 139 Issue 3 Pages 284 – 294 Published Online: 2009-01-12 Rodrigo Rubi-Castellanos Instituto de Investigación en Genética Molecular, Centro Universitario de la Ciénega, (CUCiénega-UdeG), Ocotlán, Jalisco, México Gabriela Martínez-Cortés Instituto de Investigación en Genética Molecular,…

  • “If Races Don’t Exist, Then Why Am I White?”: The Race Concept Within Contemporary Forensic Anthropology

    “If Races Don’t Exist, Then Why Am I White?”: The Race Concept Within Contemporary Forensic Anthropology Focus Anthropology: A Publication of Undergraduate Research Issue VIII: 2009 Kenyon University 20 pages M. Todd Gross Western Michigan University It is fundamental for human beings to ask why and how things happen. Looking across the globe it is…

  • La Mulata: Cuba’s National Symbol

    La Mulata: Cuba’s National Symbol Focus Anthropology: A Publication of Undergraduate Research Issue IV: 2004-2005 20 pages Tamara Kneese Kenyon College This essay provides a discourse analysis of la mulata as an ambivalent symbol of Cuban national identity. In many ways, la mulata is representative of Cuba’s sexual, racial, and economic hierarchies. On the one…