Category: Articles

  • In entering into the twenty-first century, one might affirm that the face of Chinese America has changed or has it? Chineseness has been constantly conceptualized through the measure of phenotype, the quantity of blood, the preservation of language, or the possession of surname.  But what happens when African American bodies and other nonwhite cultural sites…

  • Black/White Biracial Identity: The Influence of Colorblindness and the Racialization of Poor Black Americans Theory in Action Volume 2, Number 1 (January 2009) DOI: 10.3798/tia.1937-0237.08027 Kathleen Odell Korgen, Professor of Sociology William Paterson University, Wayne, New Jersey This article focuses on the influence of colorblindness, the interaction of class and culture, and the racialization of…

  • The friendship networks of multiracial adolescents Social Science Research Volume 38, Issue 2, June 2009 pages 279-295 DOI: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2008.09.002 Lincoln Quillian, Associate Professor Department of Sociology Northwestern University Rozlyn Redd Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy Columbia University, USA We investigate the friendship networks of multiracial adolescents through a comparison of the size…

  • Juggling Multiple Racial Identities: Malleable Racial Identification and Psychological Well-Being Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology Volume 15, Issue 3, July 2009 pages 243-254 DOI: 10.1037/a0014373 Diana T. Sanchez, Associate Professor of Psychology Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey Margaret Shih, Professor in Management and Organizations Anderson School of Management University of California, Los…

  • Mixed Race Peoples in the Korean National Imaginary and Family Korean Studies Volume 32 (2008) pages 56-85 DOI: 10.1353/ks.0.0010 E-ISSN: 1529-1529; Print ISSN: 0145-840X Mary Lee, Director Pacific Policy Research Center, Honolulu, Hawaii This article discusses the production of “mixed-race” subjectivity in South Korea.  It asks: how can we understand the lived experiences and histories of…

  • Driven: Branding Derek Jeter, Redefining Race NINE: A Journal of Baseball History and Culture Volume 17, Number 2, Spring 2009 pages  70-79 E-ISSN: 1534-1844 Print ISSN: 1188-9330 DOI: 10.1353/nin.0.0041 Roberta Newman Promoting the opening of the Museum of the City of New York’s exhibit, “The Glory Days: New York Baseball, 1947-1957,” curator Ann Meyerson noted…

  • Representations of the Black Body in Mexican Visual Art: Evidence of an African Historical Presence or a Cultural Myth? Journal of Black Studies Volume 39, Number 5 (May 2009) pages 761-785 DOI: 10.1177/0021934707301474 Wendy E. Phillips, Photographer Atlanta, GA Although Africans have been present in Mexico since the time of the Afro-Atlantic slave trade, the…

  • Assessing Multiracial Identity Theory and Politics: The Challenge of Hypodescent Ethnicities Volume 4, Number 3 (September 2004) pages 357-379 DOI: 10.1177/1468796804045239 Rainier Spencer, Professor Department of Anthropology & Ethnic Studies University of Nevada, Las Vegas It is increasingly possible to detect a split in regard to current analyses of multiracial identity in the United States. On the…

  • Experiences of racism and the changing nature of white privilege among lone white mothers of mixed-parentage children in the UK Ethnic and Racial Studies Volume 33, Issue 2 (February 2010) pages 176-194 DOI: 10.1080/01419870903023652 Vicki Harman, Lecturer in the Centre for Criminology and Sociology Royal Holloway, University of London In a context where mixed relationships…

  • The Geographical Imagination of Barack Obama: Representing Race and Space in America Southeastern Geographer Volume 49, Number 3, Fall 2009 pages 221-239 E-ISSN: 1549-6929 Print ISSN: 0038-366X DOI: 10.1353/sgo.0.0049 Robert J. Kruse, II It has been noted that the geographical work on race and space has often overlooked the geographies of individual African-Americans. This paper…