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  • Fence Sitters, Switch Hitters, and Bi-Bi Girls: An Exploration of “Hapa” and Bisexual Identities

    Fence Sitters, Switch Hitters, and Bi-Bi Girls: An Exploration of “Hapa” and Bisexual Identities Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies Vol. 21, No. 1/2 (2000) Asian American Women pp. 171-180. Beverly Yuen Thompson, Assistant Professor of Women’s Studies Texas Woman’s College I had been wondering about taking part in a student theatre project about being…

  • The Gap Between Whites and Whiteness: Interracial Intimacy and Racial Literacy

    The Gap Between Whites and Whiteness: Interracial Intimacy and Racial Literacy Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race September 2006 Volume 3, Issue 2 pages 341-363 DOI: 10.1017/S1742058X06060231 France Winddance Twine, Professor of Sociology University of California, Santa Barbara Amy C. Steinbugler, Assistant Professor of Sociology Dickinson University How do White members of Black-White…

  • New book highlights the needs of Mixed Parentage children

    New book highlights the needs of Mixed Parentage children London South Bank University News 2005-06-02 Dr Toyin Okitikpi with his challenging new book [Working with Children of Mixed Parentage] Proportionately a higher percentage of mixed parentage children end up in care and in Britain we only statistically classify mixed parentage for children where one parent…

  • Young Single White Mothers with Black Children in Therapy

    Young Single White Mothers with Black Children in Therapy Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry 1996 Vol. 1, No. 1 pages 19-28 DOI: 10.1177/1359104596011003 N. J. Banks Department of Social Policy and Social Work, University of Birmingham This article describes the treatment of 16 single, white women aged 17-23 years with black mixed-parentage children within an…

  • White Mothers, Mixed-Parentage Children and Child Welfare

    White Mothers, Mixed-Parentage Children and Child Welfare British Journal of Social Work Volume 29, Number 2 (1999) pages 269-284 Ravinder Barn, Professor of Social Policy and Social Work Royal Holloway, University of London It is now well documented that the majority of mixed-parentage children who enter the public care system in Britain have a white…

  • Eurocentrism in Social Work Education: From Race to Identity Across the Lifespan as Biracial Alternative

    Eurocentrism in Social Work Education: From Race to Identity Across the Lifespan as Biracial Alternative Journal of Social Work Volume 5, Number 1 (April 2005) pages 101-114 DOI: 10.1177/1468017305051238 Ronald E. Hall, Professor of Social Work Michigan State University, East Lansing Summary: Consequent to Eurocentric hegemony, race has been erroneously validated as the standard identity…

  • The University of Iowa – Be Remarkable: Courtney Parker

    The University of Iowa – Be Remarkable: Courtney Parker University of Iowa 2009-06-08 Po Li Loo Inspired by her multicultural background, a 2008 grad set out to connect campus groups and redefine diversity. Courtney Parker came to The University of Iowa because of the renowned Writers’ Workshop. But in her time here, she discovered other…

  • An Inter-Racial Love Story in Fact and Fiction: William and Mary King Allen’s Marriage and Louisa May Alcott’s Tale, ‘M.L.’

    An Inter-Racial Love Story in Fact and Fiction: William and Mary King Allen’s Marriage and Louisa May Alcott’s Tale, ‘M.L.’ History Workshop Journal 2002 Volume 53, Number 1 pages 17-42 DOI: 10.1093/hwj/53.1.17 Sarah Elbert, Professor Emerita of History The State University of New York, Binghamton William G. Allen, the child of a free mulatto mother…

  • Demystifying the “Tragic Mulatta”: the Biracial Woman as Spectacle

    Demystifying the “Tragic Mulatta”: the Biracial Woman as Spectacle Stanford Black Arts Quarterly Stanford University 2.3 (Summer/Spring 1997) Pages 12-14 Stafanie Dunning, Associate Professor and Director of Literature Program Miami University, Ohio “You know redbone girls got a problem.” —Cassandra Wilson, Blue Light ‘Til Dawn “Indigenous like corn, like corn the mestiza is a product…

  • Chameleon’s Fate: Transnational Mixed-Race Vietnamese Identities

    Chameleon’s Fate: Transnational Mixed-Race Vietnamese Identities Amerasia Journal University of Califonia, Los Angeles Asian American Studies Center Press ISSN: 0044-7471 2005 Issue Volume 31, Number 2 Pages 51-62 Fiona I. B. Ngô, Assistant Professor, Asian American Studies & Gender and Women’s Studies University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign The chameleon’s fate is an apt metaphor for the lives of…