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  • Friendship choices of multiracial adolescents: Racial homophily, blending, or amalgamation?

    Friendship choices of multiracial adolescents: Racial homophily, blending, or amalgamation? Social Science Research 2007 Number 36 pages 633-653 Jamie Mihoko Doyle Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology University of Pennsylvania Grace Kao, Professor of Sociology, Education, and Asian American Studies University of Pennsylvania Using the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health), we utilize the…

  • Are Racial Identities of Multiracials Stable? Changing Self-Identification Among Single and Multiple Race Individuals

    Are Racial Identities of Multiracials Stable? Changing Self-Identification Among Single and Multiple Race Individuals Social Psychology Quarterly Volume 70, Number 4 (December 2007) Pages 405–423 DOI: 10.1177/019027250707000409 Jamie Mihoko Doyle Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology University of Pennsylvania Grace Kao, Professor of Sociology, Education, and Asian American Studies University of Pennsylvania Using the National Longitudinal…

  • Teaching and Learning Guide for: Ethnographic approaches to race, genetics and genealogy

    Teaching and Learning Guide for: Ethnographic approaches to race, genetics and genealogy Sociology Compass Volume 3 Issue 5 Pages 847 – 852 2009-07-29 DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-9020.2009.00231.x Katharine Tyler, Lecturer in Race and Ethnicity University of Surrey Over the last 20 years, there has been a technological advance and commercial boom in genetic technologies and projects. These…

  • A Premonition of Obama: La Raza Cosmica in America

    A Premonition of Obama: La Raza Cosmica in America New Perspectives Quarterly (NPQ) Volume 26 Issue 4 Pages 100 – 110 Published Online: 2009-10-26 DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-5842.2009.01119.x Ryszard Kapuscinski Ryszard Kapuscinski, who died in 2007, was one of the 20th century’s greatest literary journalists. He personally witnessed the dramatic post-World War II upheavals of decolonization and…

  • Working with multiracial clients in therapy: Bridging theory, research, and practice

    Working with multiracial clients in therapy: Bridging theory, research, and practice Professional Psychology: Research and Practice Vol 39(2) Apr 2008 pages 192-201 Jennifer Teramoto Pedrotti, Associate Professor California Polytechnic State University Lisa M. Edwards, Assistant Professor, Director of Child/Adolescent Community Program Marquette University Shane J. Lopez The growing multiracial population has resulted in a need…

  • A content and methodological review of articles concerning multiracial issues in six major counseling journals

    A content and methodological review of articles concerning multiracial issues in six major counseling journals Journal of Counseling Psychology Vol 55(3) Jul 2008 pages 411-418 Lisa M. Edwards, Assistant Professor, Director of Child/Adolescent Community Program Marquette University Jennifer Teramoto Pedrotti, Associate Professor California Polytechnic State University This study describes a comprehensive content and methodological review…

  • Racial Mixture and Affirmative Action: The Cases of Brazil and the United States

    Racial Mixture and Affirmative Action: The Cases of Brazil and the United States The American Historical Review Volume 108, Number 5 December 2003 Thomas E. Skidmore, Carlos Manuel de Céspedes Professor of History Emeritus Brown University For me, as a historian of Brazil, North America’s “one-drop rule” has always seemed odd. No other society in…

  • The Mulatto Advantage: The Biological Consequences of Complexion in Rural Antebellum Virginia

    The Mulatto Advantage: The Biological Consequences of Complexion in Rural Antebellum Virginia Journal of Interdisciplinary History Volume 33, Number 1 (Summer 2002) pp. 21-46 E-ISSN: 1530-9169; Print ISSN: 0022-1953 DOI: 10.1162/00221950260029002 Howard Bodenhorn, Professor of Economics Clemson University Although historians have long noted that African-Americans of mixed-race in the antebellum Lower South were given economic…

  • The Significance of Color Declines: A Re-Analysis of Skin Tone Differentials in Post-Civil Rights America

    The Significance of Color Declines: A Re-Analysis of Skin Tone Differentials in Post-Civil Rights America Social Forces Volume 84, Number 1 September 2005 pp. 157-180 Aaron Gullickson, Assistant Professor University of Oregon Skin tone variation within the United States’ black population has long been associated with intraracial stratification. Skin tone differentials in socioeconomic status reflect…

  • Students Create Course About Mixed Identities

    Students Create Course About Mixed Identities A&S Perspectives College of Arts and Sciences University of Washington Editor: Nancy Joseph July 2009 Last fall, students in the UW Mixed Club—a campus group for students of mixed race—discussed how rarely mixed-race issues were being addressed in their courses. Then they decided to do something about it. That…