Category: Identity Development/Psychology

  • AMST 294-03  Mixed Race America: Identity, Culture, and Politics Macalester College Saint Paul, Minnesota Spring 2012 SooJin Pate This course is an introduction to the animating debates, themes, and issues in Critical Mixed Race Studies. Utilizing critical race theory and postcolonial analysis, we will examine the identities and experiences of multiracial or mixed race people,…

  • Essentializing Race: Implications for Bicultural Individuals’ Cognition and Physiological Reactivity Psychological Science Volume 18, Number 4 (April 2007) pages 341-348 DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9280.2007.01901.x Melody Manchi Chao University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Jing Chen University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Glenn I. Roisman University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Ying-yi Hong University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign It is a widely held belief that…

  • hafu (half Japanese) Lakeland Lectures Lakeland College 5-7-12 Shinjuku, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, 1st Floor 2012-03-07, 19:00 JST (Local Time) Marcia Yumi Lise, Researcher and Co-Founder The Hafu Project Lakeland College is pleased to present our ongoing lecture series, free of charge, for scholars, students and members of the public to discuss contemporary issues. You are cordially…

  • Are You an Indian? Public Broadcasting Service Independent Lens Premiere Date: 2011-11-17 Duration: 00:05:25 Though their ethnicities are mixed, the Wampanoag take pride in their tribal heritage. In this companion piece to the documentary film We Still Live Here—Âs Nutayuneân, Wampanoag tribal members discuss how their multicultural heritage both complicates and enriches their identities as…

  • The One Drop Rule: How Black Are You? Crème Magazine 2012-02-29 Jessica Thorpe “Say it loud, I’m Black and I’m proud!”  The James Brown classic shed light on the revolution of how descendants of the African Diaspora would begin to self-identify.  Replacing racial identification terms such as “negro” and “colored,” the use of the word…

  • “Freedom By A Judgment”: The Legal History of an Afro-Indian Family Law and History Review Volume 30, Issue 1 (February 2012) pages 173-203 DOI: 10.1017/S0738248011000642 Honor Sachs, Assistant Professor of History Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, North Carolina Forum: Ab Initio: Law in Early America On May 2, 1771, John Hardaway of Dinwiddie County, Virginia posted…

  • Audre Lorde – The Berlin Years 1984 to 1992 Third World Newsreel 2012 84 minutes Germany English/German with English Subtitles Dagmar Schultz 2012 marks the 20th anniversary of Audre Lorde’s passing, the acclaimed Black lesbian feminist poet and activist. Throughout the 70s and 80s, Lorde’s incisive writings and speeches defined and inspired the women of color,…

  • Hope in My Heart: The May Ayim Story Third World Newsreel 1997 28 minutes Germany German with English Subtitles Maria Binder A moving documentary about the life and untimely death of Ghanaian-German poet, academic and political personality May Ayim. Ayim was one of the founders of the Black German Movement, and her research on the…

  • Hybrid Identities and Adolescent Girls: Being ‘Half’ in Japan Social Science Japan Journal Published Online: 2012-01-19 DOI: 10.1093/ssjj/jyr053 Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu Stanford University Hybrid Identities and Adolescent Girls: Being ‘Half’ in Japan, by Laurel D. Kamada. Bristol, UK: Multilingual Matters, 2009, 272 pp., (hardcover ISBN 978-1-84769-233-7), (paperback ISBN 978-1-84769-232-0) I hated it when I was little…

  • My Transnational, Hapa Identity in Question Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu 2012-02-19 Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu Stanford University I like to say that I have a transnational, multicultural, multiethnic identity. I am hapa, haafu, I am both/and, Japanese AND American. But I know that many others still see the world in dichotomies, as either/or, Japanese OR American.   I know…