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  • Conversation with Rev. Dr. Frederick J. Streets

    Conversation with Rev. Dr. Frederick J. Streets The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance & Abolition Yale University 1990-02-02 Frederick J. Streets, University Chaplain and Senior Pastor Church of Christ, Yale University A conversation with Rev. Dr. Frederick J. Streets, University Chaplain and Senior Pastor of the Church of Christ, Yale University.…

  • An Unexpected Blackness

    An Unexpected Blackness Transition: An International Review Feb 2009 No. 100 Pages 112-132 Naomi Pabst, Assistant Professor of African American Studies and American Studies Yale University What does it mean to be of African descent while residing in Canada, where the hypodescent rule does not hold sway?  Naomi Pabst reflects upon the complexity of life…

  • Negotiating Ethnic Boundaries: Multiethnic Mexican Americans and Ethnic Identity in the United States

    Negotiating Ethnic Boundaries: Multiethnic Mexican Americans and Ethnic Identity in the United States Ethnicities Volume 4, Number  1 (March 2004) pages 75-97 DOI: 10.1177/1468796804040329 Tomás R. Jiménez, Assistant Professor of Sociology Stanford University This article examines the ethnic identity of the offspring of Mexican/white (non-Hispanic) intermarriages, or multiethnic Mexican Americans, using 20 in-depth interviews with…

  • A Feminist Critique of Research on Interracial Family Identity: Implications for Family Health

    A Feminist Critique of Research on Interracial Family Identity: Implications for Family Health Journal of Family Nursing 2004 Vol. 10, No. 3 pp. 302-322 DOI: 10.1177/1074840704267189 Marcia M. Byrd, Assistant Professor of Nursing College of St. Catherine Ann W. Garwick, Associate Dean for Research, Professor and Director of Center for Child and Family Health Promotion…

  • On Being Amorphous: Autoethnography, Genealogy, and a Multiracial Identity

    On Being Amorphous: Autoethnography, Genealogy, and a Multiracial Identity Qualitative Inquiry Volume 9, Number 1 (2003) pages 20-48 DOI: 10.1177/1077800402239338 Sarah N. Gatson, Associate Professor of Sociology Texas A&M University The article is a sociologically informed approach to understanding the author’s own place and identity. Questions of personal identity serve to highlight larger insights about…

  • A New Multicultural Population: Creating Effective Partnerships With Multiracial Families

    A New Multicultural Population: Creating Effective Partnerships With Multiracial Families Intervention in School and Clinic Published: 2009-11-01 Vol. 45, No. 2, pp. 124-131 DOI: 10.1177/1053451209340217 Monica R. Brown, Assistant Professor (mobrown@nmsu.edu) Department of Special Education/Communication Disorders New Mexico State University Multiracial families make up the fastest growing demographic in the United States.  Approximately 9% of…

  • Light in August in Light of Foucault: Reexamining the Biracial Experience

    Light in August in Light of Foucault: Reexamining the Biracial Experience Arizona Quarterly: A Journal of American Literature, Culture, and Theory Volume 64, Number 4, Winter 2008 pages 49-68 E-ISSN: 1558-9595 Print ISSN: 0004-1610 DOI: 10.1353/arq.0.0020 Bethany L. Lam Comparatively little current criticism of Foucauldian racial theory exists, primarily because [Michel] Foucault never formulated a full-blown…

  • Reading the Dougla Body: Mixed-race, Post-race, and Other Narratives of What it Means to be Mixed in Trinidad

    Reading the Dougla Body: Mixed-race, Post-race, and Other Narratives of What it Means to be Mixed in Trinidad Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies Volume 3, Issue 1 (March 2008) pages 1-31 DOI: 10.1080/17442220701865820 Sarah England, Associate Professor of Anthropology Soka University of America, Aliso Viejo, California In recent years there has been a great…

  • Multiracial Identity in the Post-Civil Rights Era

    Multiracial Identity in the Post-Civil Rights Era Social Identities Volume 11, Issue 5 (September 2005) pages 531-549 DOI: 10.1080/13504630500408164 Gino Michael Pellegrini, Adjunct Assistant Professor of English Pierce College, Woodland Hills, California This article, which utilizes personal experience as well as other perspectives and theories on race and mixed race, suggests that multiracial identity is…

  • Mixed and Multiracial in Trinidad and Honduras: Rethinking Mixed-race Identities in Latin America and the Caribbean

    Mixed and Multiracial in Trinidad and Honduras: Rethinking Mixed-race Identities in Latin America and the Caribbean Ethnic and Racial Studies Volume 33, Issue 2 (2010) pages 195-213 DOI: 10.1080/01419870903040169 Sarah England, Associate Professor of Anthropology Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences Soka University of America, Aliso Viejo, California The purpose of this paper is to…