Category: Identity Development/Psychology

  • Breaking the Race Barrier 360 Magazine Ithica College 2012-05-02 Danielle Torres “I’m Puerto Rican.” That’s usually what I say when people ask a second time where I am from. The first time someone asks me that question I usually say, “I’m from New York.” Then the person rephrases the question, “What are you? What is…

  • Rodney King juror: ‘My father was black’ Ventura County Star Camarillo, California 2012-04-28 Gretchen Wenner, Staff Reporter SQUAW VALLEY — Juror No. 8 from the Rodney King beating trial has always heard the 12-member panel described as either all white or as having no blacks.   Now, he wants the public to know that’s not…

  • Contemporary US multiple heritage couples, individuals, and families: Issues, concerns, and counseling implications Counselling Psychology Quarterly Volume 25, Issue 2, (June 2012) Special Issue: Race, Culture, and Mental Health: Metissage, Mestizaje, Mixed “Race”, and Beyond pages 99-112 DOI: 10.1080/09515070.2012.674682 Mark Kenney, Adjunct Professor Kutztown University, Kutztown, Pennsylvania Multicultural Education and Consulting, Sinking Spring, Pennsylvania Kelley…

  • Multiracial Americans Ready To Claim Their Own Identity The New York Times 1996-07-20 Michel Marriott For Alison Perry, being multiracial has meant moving through life as if she had a giant question mark drawn on her forehead. Strangers frequently approach and begin a vexing guessing game: “Are you Israeli?” “Are you a Latina?” “Where are…

  • In Mixed Company: Multiracial academics, advocates and artists gather for Hapa Japan Conference Nichi Bei: A mixed plate of Japanese American News & Culture 2011-05-26 Alec Yoshio MacDonald, Nichi Bei Weekly Contributor As a graduate student in UCLA’s psychology department during the late 1970s, Christine Iijima Hall absorbed scathing criticism about her dissertation. Fellow academics…

  • Neither Enemies nor Friends: Latinos, Blacks, Afro-Latinos Palgrave Macmillan April 2005 352 pages 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 inches Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4039-6567-7, ISBN10: 1-4039-6567-6 Paperback ISBN: 978-1-4039-6568-4, ISBN10: 1-4039-6568-4 Anani Dzidzienyo, Associate Professor of Africana Studies and Portuguese & Brazilian Studies Brown University Suzanne Oboler, Professor of Latin American and Latina/o Studies John Jay College…

  • Heather Curry believes President Barack Obama is denying his white heritage by identifying himself as African-American.

  • Black No More: Skin Bleaching and the Emergence of New Negro Womanhood Beauty Culture The Journal of Pan African Studies Voume 4, Number 4 (June 2011) pages 97-116 Treva B. Lindsey, Assistant Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies University of Missouri, Columbia This article examines the usage of skin bleaching products and processes among some…

  • Elizabeth Warren’s Birther Moment The New York Times 2012-05-04 Kevin Noble Maillard, Associate Professor of Law Syracuse University If you are 1/32 Cherokee and your grandfather has high cheekbones, does that make you Native American? It depends. Last Friday, Republicans in Massachusetts questioned the racial ancestry of Elizabeth Warren, the Democratic Senate candidate. Her opponent,…

  • Elizabeth Warren says she’s Native American. So she is. The Washington Post 2012-05-04 David Treuer Suddenly many Americans wonder what it means that Elizabeth Warren, who is vying for Massachusetts Republican Scott Brown’s U.S. Senate seat, has identified herself as having Cherokee and Delaware Indian heritage. The claim wasn’t sudden, but the furor is. Some…