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  • Racing to Theory or Retheorizing Race? Understanding the Struggle to Build a Multiracial Identity Theory

    Racing to Theory or Retheorizing Race? Understanding the Struggle to Build a Multiracial Identity Theory Journal of Social Issues 2009 Volume 65, Number 1 pp. 13–34 Kerry Ann Rockquemore, Associate Professor University of Illinois at Chicago David L. Brunsma, Professor of Sociology Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Daniel J. Delgado University of Missouri-Columbia Empirical…

  • The Tragic Mulatta Plays the Tragic Muse

    The Tragic Mulatta Plays the Tragic Muse Victorian Literature and Culture Volume 37, Issue 2 (June 2009) pages 501-522 DOI: 10.1017/S1060150309090317 Kimberly Snyder Manganellia, Assistant Professor of 19th-Century British and American Literature Clemson University Marie Lavington, the runaway octoroon slave in Charles Kingsley‘s little-read novel Two Years Ago (1857), makes this declaration of independence in…

  • The Browning of America and the Evasion of Social Justice (Review)

    The Browning of America and the Evasion of Social Justice (Review) by Ronald R. Sundstrom SUNY Press 2008, 190pp., $24.95 (pbk.) ISBN: 9780791475867 Notre Dame Philisophical Reviews 2009-06-29 Reviewed by Lucius T. Outlaw (Jr.) Vanderbilt University The United States is undergoing the most profound demographic changes in the country’s history so that in a few…

  • Re-Mix: Rethinking the use of ‘Hapa’ in Mixedrace Asian/Pacific Islander American Community Organizing

    Re-Mix: Rethinking the use of ‘Hapa’ in Mixedrace Asian/Pacific Islander American Community Organizing McNair Journal Fall 2005 Angela S. Taniguchi, McNair Scholar Washington State University Linda Heidenreich, Chair and Associate Professor Department of Women’s Studies Washington State University The term Hapa is Hawaiian in origin and roughly means ‘half’. Recently, many mixedrace Asian/Pacific Islanders on…

  • Raising Chicanos in the Great White North: A White Mother’s Muse

    Raising Chicanos in the Great White North: A White Mother’s Muse Qualitative Inquiry Volume 15, Number 7, (July 2009) pages 1155-1177 DOI: 10.1177/1077800409338033 Traci Fordham-Hernández, Assistant Professor of Performance and Communication Arts St. Lawrence University, Canton, NY This article explores paradoxes in being the White mother of Mexican American children and discusses how some of its…

  • When Race Matters: Racially Stigmatized Others and Perceiving Race as a Biological Construction Affect Biracial People’s Daily Well-Being

    When Race Matters: Racially Stigmatized Others and Perceiving Race as a Biological Construction Affect Biracial People’s Daily Well-Being Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin Volume 35, Number 9 (September 2009) pages 1154-1164 DOI: 10.1177/0146167209337628 Diana T. Sanchez, Associate Professor of Psychology Rutgers University Julie A. Garcia, Associate Professor of Psychology California Polytechnic State University Stigmatized group…

  • Mixed-Race Looks

    Mixed-Race Looks Contemporary Asthetics Special Volume 2, 2009 Ronald Sundstrom, Associate Professor of African American Studies University of San Francisco The multiracial population is growing larger and so is popular awareness about multiracial or mixed-race identity. Simmering beneath the growing public recognition of multiracial identity are questions about the legitimacy of mixed race, multiracial, or…

  • “Our Duty to Conserve”: W. E. B. Du Bois’s Philosophy of History in Context

    “Our Duty to Conserve”: W. E. B. Du Bois’s Philosophy of History in Context South Atlantic Quarterly Volume 108, Number 3 (2009) pages 519-540 DOI: 10.1215/00382876-2009-006 Robert Bernasconi, Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Philosophy Pennsylvania State University When restored to its historical context, W. E. B. Du Bois‘s “The Conservation of Races” emerges less as…

  • A New Take On A Old Idea: Do We Need Multiracial Studies?

    A New Take On A Old Idea: Do We Need Multiracial Studies? Du Bois Review: Social Science Review on Race Volume 3, Issue 2 (September 2006) pages 437-447 DOI: 10.1017/S1742058X06060280 Victor Thompson, Assistant Professor of Sociology Rider University, Lawrenceville, New Jersery Publications about multiracial identity and the multiracial population increased significantly prior to the 2000…

  • ‘Canadian’ and ‘Being Indian’: Subject Positions and Discourses Used in South Asian-Canadian Women’s Talk about Ethnic Identity

    ‘Canadian’ and ‘Being Indian’: Subject Positions and Discourses Used in South Asian-Canadian Women’s Talk about Ethnic Identity Culture & Psychology Volume 15, Number 2 (2009) pages 255-283 DOI: 10.1177/1354067X09102893 Rebecca L. Malhi University of Calgary, Canada, rmalhi@ucalgary.ca Susan D. Boon University of Calgary, Canada, sdboon@ucalgary.ca Timothy B. Rogers University of Calgary, Canada Ethnic identity descriptions…