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  • Toward a Sociology of Racial Conceptualization for the 21st Century

    Toward a Sociology of Racial Conceptualization for the 21st Century Social Forces Volume 87, Number 3, 2009 Pages: 1167-1192 DOI: 10.1353/sof.0.0169 Ann J. Morning, Associate Professor of Sociology New York Univeristy Despite their longstanding interest in race, American sociologists have conducted little empirical research on sociodemographic patterns or longitudinal trends in “racial conceptualization” – that…

  • The multiple-race population of the United States: Issues and estimates

    The multiple-race population of the United States: Issues and estimates Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) 2000-05-23 vol. 97 no. 11 pages 6230-6235 Joshua R. Goldstein Ann J. Morning, Assistant Professor of Sociology New York University This paper presents national estimates of the population likely to identify with more than one race in…

  • A Contested Identity: An Exploration of the Competing Social and Political Discourse Concerning the Identification and Positioning of Young People of Inter-Racial Parentage

    A Contested Identity: An Exploration of the Competing Social and Political Discourse Concerning the Identification and Positioning of Young People of Inter-Racial Parentage British Journal of Social Work Volume 36, Number 8 (2006) pages 1309-1324 DOI: 10.1093/bjsw/bch390 Ravinder Barn, Professor of Social Policy and Social Work Royal Holloway, University of London Vicki Harman, Lecturer in…

  • Race mixing: Jones’ research has ties to political, sports figures

    Race mixing: Jones’ research has ties to political, sports figures Richmond Now The Faculty, Staff and Student Newspaper University of Richmond By Joan Tupponce April 2007 No one is more intrigued with news about presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama or professional golfer Tiger Woods than Dr. Suzanne W. Jones, professor of English and women, gender…

  • Thinking Outside the White Box

    Thinking Outside the White Box University of Southern California USC News Cristy Lytal On: 2009-10-12 18:31 “I am not part this or part that but whole. I am me.” That’s how one of USC’s multiracial students described herself at the Face It!: Project ReMiX Kickoff event at El Centro Chicano on Sept. 22. More than…

  • Demystifying the Tragic Mulatta: The Biracial Woman as Spectacle

    Demystifying the Tragic Mulatta: The Biracial Woman as Spectacle Stanford Black Arts Quarterly Volume 2, Issue 3 (Summer/Spring 1997) pages 12-14 Stefanie Dunning, Associate Professor Miami University (of Ohio) To talk about the complexities of subjectivity is to enter into a discussion which necessarily locates itself at the intersection of race, clans, gender and sexuality.…

  • Black and White and Read All Over: If you’re mixed-race, they never stop asking ‘What are you?’

    Black and White and Read All Over: If you’re mixed-race, they never stop asking ‘What are you?’ Village Voice Tuesday, 2006-01-24   Naomi Pabst, Assistant Professor of African American Studies and American Studies Yale University It’s back in the ’90s in San Francisco. I’m undergoing a wisdom tooth extraction, hovering happily in nitrous oxide–land, when…

  • Black (un)like me: scholar Pabst dismantles stereotypes

    Black (un)like me: scholar Pabst dismantles stereotypes University of Minnesota College of Liberal Arts Today Spring 2002 Judy Woodward Naomi Pabst (B.A. ’93 summa cum laude, English & African-American Studies) is the intellectual enemy of the stereotype, the easy generalization, and the sweeping statement. As a newly-minted scholar of African-American studies and the history of…

  • Why Are People Different?: Multiracial Families in Picture Books and the Dialogue of Difference

    Why Are People Different?: Multiracial Families in Picture Books and the Dialogue of Difference The Lion and the Unicorn Volume 25, Number 3, September 2001 pages 412-426 E-ISSN: 1080-6563 Print ISSN: 0147-2593 DOI: 10.1353/uni.2001.0037 Karen Sands-O’Connor The issue of race has often been contentious in children’s literature, from controversies over Twain‘s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,…

  • Multiracial Classification on the United States Census: Myth, Reality, and Future Impact

    Multiracial Classification on the United States Census: Myth, Reality, and Future Impact Revue Européenne des Migrations Internationales Volume 21, Number 2 (2005) Pages 111-134 Ann Morning, Associate Professor of Sociology New York University The 2000 census in the United States provoked a flurry of media attention in the months leading up to it, as well…