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  • Exploring Multiracial Individuals’ Comfort with Intimate Interracial Relationships

    Exploring Multiracial Individuals’ Comfort with Intimate Interracial Relationships Journal of Social Issues Volume 65, Number 1 (2009) pp. 87–103 Courtney M. Bonam Stanford University Margaret Shih, Assistant Professor, Organizational Psychology University of Michigan This article explores the relationship between a heightened awareness of race as a social construct and comfort in interracial relationships across varying…

  • Multiracial Identity Integration: Perceptions of Conflict and Distance among Multiracial Individuals

    Multiracial Identity Integration: Perceptions of Conflict and Distance among Multiracial Individuals Journal of Social Issues Vol. 65, No. 1, 2009 pp. 51–68 Chi-Ying Cheng, Assistant Professor of Psychology Singapore Management University Fiona Lee, Professor of Psychology University of Michigan This article examines how multiracial individuals negotiate their different and sometimes conflicting racial identities. Drawing from…

  • The Interpretation of Multiracial Status and Its Relation to Social Engagementand Psychological Well-Being

    The Interpretation of Multiracial Status and Its Relation to Social Engagementand Psychological Well-Being Journal of Social Issues Volume 65, Number1, (March 2009) pages 35-49 DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-4560.2008.01586.x Kevin R. Binning Stanford University Miguel M. Unzueta University of California, Los Angeles Yuen J. Huo University of California, Los Angeles Ludwin E. Molina University of Kansas This research…

  • Is Valuing Equality Enough? Equality Values, Allophilia, and Social Policy Support for Multiracial Individuals

    Is Valuing Equality Enough? Equality Values, Allophilia, and Social Policy Support for Multiracial Individuals Journal of Social Issues Volume 65, Number 1 (March 2009) pages 151-163 DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-4560.2008.01592.x Todd L. Pittinsky, Professor of Technology and Society State University of New York, Stony Brook R. Matthew Montoya, Assistant Professor of Psychology University of Dayton, Dayton, Ohio We…

  • Educational Policy, Politics, and Mixed Heritage Students in the United States

    Educational Policy, Politics, and Mixed Heritage Students in the United States Journal of Social Issues Volume 65, Number 1 (March 2009) pages 165-183 DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-4560.2008.01593.x Kristen A. Renn, Professor of Higher, Adult, & Lifelong Education Michigan State University This article describes local, state, and federal policies related to collecting, aggregating, and reporting data on student…

  • MALUNGU: The African Origin of the American Melungeons

    MALUNGU: The African Origin of the American Melungeons Eclectica Magazine July/August 2001 Tim Hashaw Introduction They settled in Virginia one year before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock. They sparked a major conflict between the Engllish Crown and American colonies one hundred and fifty years before the American Revolution. They lived free in the South…

  • What Does Race Have to Do with Ugly Betty?

    What Does Race Have to Do with Ugly Betty? An Analysis of Privilege and Postracial(?) Representations on a Television Sitcom Television & New Media Volume 10, Number 6 (November 2009) pages 521-535 DOI: 10.1177/1527476409340906 Jennifer Esposito, Associate Professor of Research, Measurement & Statistics Georgia State University, Atlanta This article examines ABC’s television comedy Ugly Betty,…

  • People of God, Children of Ham: Making black(s) Jews

    People of God, Children of Ham: Making black(s) Jews Journal of Modern Jewish Studies Volume 8, Issue 2 (July 2009) pages 237 – 254 DOI: 10.1080/14725880902949551 Bruce Haynes, Associate Professor of Sociology University of California, Davis Taxonomies inherited from the nineteenth century have shaped the discourse surrounding the racial identity and supposed roots of Ethiopian…

  • Dimensions of Self-Identification among Multiracial and Multiethnic Respondents in Survey Interviews

    Dimensions of Self-Identification among Multiracial and Multiethnic Respondents in Survey Interviews Research supported in part by contract HHS 0009430486 from the National Center for Health Statistics. Publication Date: 1997-12 ISSN: ISSN-0193-841X Timothy P. Johnson University of Illinois at Chicago Jared B. Jobe National Center for Health Statistics Diane O’Rourke University of Illinois at Urbana Seymour…

  • Beautiful beasts: Ambivalence and distinction in the gender identity negotiations of multiracialised women of Thai descent

    Beautiful beasts: Ambivalence and distinction in the gender identity negotiations of multiracialised women of Thai descent Women’s Studies International Forum Volume 30, Issue 5 (September-October 2007) Pages 391-403 DOI: 10.1016/j.wsif.2007.07.003 Jin Haritaworn, Assistant Professor in Gender, Race and Environment at the Faculty of Environmental Studies York University, Canada This qualitative analysis of interviews with women of…