Category: Identity Development/Psychology

  • The Impersonator 2nd Story Chicago, Illinois 2012-03-24 Chris Terry, Writer, Editor, Educator A biracial man who is often told that he looks like certain celebrities goes to a Brooklyn bar, where he has an encounter with a guy whose strange profession makes him really good at The “You Look Like” Game. Listen to the podcast…

  • Understanding the Racial Identity Development of Multiracial Young Adults through their Family, Social and Environmental Experiences Catholic University of America 2012 184 pages Lisa Sechrest-Ehrhardt A DISSERTATION Submitted to the faculty of the National Catholic School of Social Service of The Catholic University of America In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements For the Degree Doctor…

  • The Myth of Native American Blood The Hyphenated Life The Boston Globe 2012-06-01 Francie Latour The African-American grandmother of a friend of mine once summed up the laws that govern black identity in this country. “If you ever want to know if someone’s black or not,” she would say, “go ask their white neighbor.” That…

  • Afro Latinos: everywhere, yet invisible Our Weekly 2011-10-06 Cynthia Griffin Struggles with self-image, assimilation mirror Black American experience Last year, during a discussion on increasing the number of African Americans in Major League Baseball, Angel’s centerfielder Torii Hunter in a USA Today interview called the dark-skinned Latino baseball players “imposters” and said they are not…

  • Cape Verdean identity in a land of Black and White Ethnicities Volume 12, Number 3 pages 354-379 DOI: 10.1177/1468796811419599 Gene A. Fisher, Professor Emerita of Sociology University of Massachusetts, Amherst Suzanne Model, Professor Emerita of Sociology University of Massachusetts, Amherst Cape Verde is an island group off the African coast with a history of slavery.…

  • Does The Heritage Controversy Tell Us More About Warren Or The Media? Radio Boston WBUR 2012-05-22 Dan Mauzy, Associate Producer Hosts Meghna Chakrabarti, Co-Host Anthony Brooks, Co-Host Guests Kevin Noble Maillard, Associate Professor of Law (member of the Seminole Nation of Oklahoma) Syracuse University David Catanese, National Political Reporter Politico Here’s a bit of a…

  • The Hypervisible Man: Obama as the First Black, Mixed-Race, Asian American and now Gay President Mixed Dreams: towards a radical multiracial/ethnic movement 2012-05-24 Nicole Asong Nfonoyim “I have always sensed that he [Obama] intuitively understands gays and our predicament—because it so mirrors his own. And he knows how the love and sacrifice of marriage can…

  • Obama’s election changed racial identity of black students Chronicle Online Cornell University 2012-02-16 Karene Booker, Extension Support Specialist Department of Human Development Barack Obama’s historic election in 2008 stimulated individual and national reflection on race and changed African-American college students’ perceptions of being black, reports a new Cornell study published in Developmental Psychology (47:6). But…

  • Changes in racial identity among African American college students following the election of Barack Obama Developmental Psychology Volume 47, Number 6 (November 2011) pages 1608-1618 DOI: 10.1037/a0025284 Thomas E. Fuller-Rowell, Robert Wood Johnson Postdoctoral Fellow University of Wisconsin, Madison Anthony L. Burrow, Assistant Professor of Human Development Cornell University Anthony D. Ong, Associate Professor of…

  • Left By the Ship Independent Lens Public Broadcasting Service 2010 Filmmakers: Emma Rossi-Landi Alberto Vendemmiati  In the 1970s and 1980s, the world was touched by the stories of Amerasian children, the offspring of U.S. military personnel stationed in Asia and the Pacific in the aftermath of World War II, and during the Korean and Vietnam…