Category: Identity Development/Psychology

  • The Role of Racial Identification, Social Acceptance/Rejection, Social Cognition, and Racial Socialization in Multiracial Youth’s Positive Development Sociology Compass Volume 5, Issue 11 (November 2011) pages 995-1004 DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-9020.2011.00418.x Annamaria Csizmadia, Assistant Professor, Human Development & Family Studies University of Connecticut, Stamford Deficit-based scholarship has suggested that multiracial youth are maladjusted due to racial identity…

  • Redefining their races: More students choosing to identify as mixed The Western Front Western Washington University Bellingham, Washington 2011-11-18 Casey Malloy When Western Washington University junior Emily Goronkin applied to the university three years ago, she came to a point in the application at which she was asked for her racial identity. She checked Hispanic…

  • Alexandre Dumas, author of “The Three Musketeers,” “The Count of Monte Cristo,” and “The Man in the Iron Mask,” is the most famous French writer of the nineteenth century. In 2002, his remains were transferred to the Panthéon, a mausoleum reserved for the greatest French citizens, amidst much national hype during his bicentennial.

  • Negotiating Mixed Race: Projection, Nostalgia, and the Rejection of Japanese-Brazilian Biracial Children Journal of Asian American Studies Volume 14, Number 3 (October 2011) pages 361-388 Zelideth María Rivas, Professor of Chinese and Japanese Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa Since their arrival in Brazil in 1908, the presence of Japanese immigrants has shaken Brazilian conceptions of race.…

  • Refusal to be defined by single categories: Lorde in 1983.

  • Commentary: Debating Coloured Identity in the Western Cape African Security Review Volume 14, Number 4 (2005) pages 118-119 Cheryl Hendricks, Senior Research Fellow Security Sector Governance Programme Institute of Security Studies, (Tshwane) Pretoria The nature and form of coloured identity in the Western Cape has been vociferously debated. Coloured identity became a particular concern after…

  • Old Whine, New Vassals: Are Diaspora and Hybridity Postmodern Inventions? Jayne O. Ifekwunigwe, Visiting Associate Professor of African and African American Studies Duke University Chapter in: New Ethnicities, Old Racisms? (pages 181-204) Zed Books May 1999 253 pages ISBN-10: 185649652X; ISBN-13: 978-1856496520 Edited by: Phil Cohen, Emeritus Professor University of East London The recent bag…

  • Students Break Out of Fixed-Race Box Teaching Tolerance: A Project of the Southern Poverty Law Center 2011-11-15 Pamela Cytrynbaum, Instructor of Journalism Northwestern University My journalism students were brainstorming topics for their final story projects. I urged them to come up with compelling ideas that relate to their experiences but that push deeply into national…

  • One Big Hapa Family KCTS 9 Television Real NW Seattle, Washington Monday, 2011-11-14, 22:00 PST After a family reunion, Japanese-Canadian filmmaker, Jeff Chiba Stearns embarks on a journey of self-discovery to find out why everyone in his Japanese-Canadian family married interracially after his grandparents’ generation. Using a mix of live action and animation, “One Big…

  • Bridging: How Gloria Anzaldúa’s Life and Work Transformed Our Own University of Texas Press April 2011 292 pages 6 x 9 in., 6 b&w photos Edited by: AnaLouise Keating, Professor of Women’s Studies Texas Woman’s University Gloria González-López, Associate Professor of Sociology, and Faculty Associate Center for Mexican American Studies Center for Women’s and Gender…