Mixed Race Studies

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  • Interview with Zara Paul: A Future Leader

    Interview with Zara Paul: A Future Leader London School of Economics 2011-10-26 Zara Paul recently graduated from LSE. She has been listed among the top 100 black graduates of the UK in the Future Leaders magazine 2011-12. In this interview she talks about her time at LSE, her passion for music, what being mixed race…

  • The pot that called the kettle white: Changing racial identities and U.S. social construction of race

    The pot that called the kettle white: Changing racial identities and U.S. social construction of race Identities Volume 5, Issue 3 (1998) Special Issue: Foundational Concepts: Gender, Race, and Locality pages 379-413 DOI: 10.1080/1070289X.1998.9962622 Norberto Valdez, Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies Colorado State University Janice Valdez Continuing Education Department Colorado State University Ethnic and racial…

  • Obama’s Racial Identity Is His Call

    Obama’s Racial Identity Is His Call Poynter. 2008-12-16 Tom Huang, Sunday & Enterprise Editor The Dallas Morning News Also Ethics and Diversity Fellow at The Poynter Institute Not long ago, I sat on a journalism panel in which the question of “What are you?” came up… …I thought about the “What are you?” question when…

  • Barack Obama in Hawai’i and Indonesia: The Making of a Global President

    Barack Obama in Hawai’i and Indonesia: The Making of a Global President ABC-CLIO Praeger September 2011 276 pages 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-313-38533-9 Electronic ISBN: 978-0-313-38534-6 Dinesh Sharma, Senior Fellow Institute for International and Cross-Cultural Research St. Francis College, New York Distinguishing itself from the mass of political biographies of Barack Obama,…

  • Visibly Different: Face, Place and Race in Australia

    Visibly Different: Face, Place and Race in Australia Peter Lang Publishing Group 2007 186 pages Weight: 0.330 kg, 0.728 lbs Paperback ISBN: 978-3-03911-323-1 Series: Studies in Asia-Pacific “Mixed Race” (Volume 2) Edited by: Maureen Perkins, Associate Professor of History, Anthropology and Sociology Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia What does an Australian look like? Many Australians assume…

  • Challenges and resilience in the lives of urban, multiracial adults: An instrument development study.

    Challenges and resilience in the lives of urban, multiracial adults: An instrument development study. Journal of Counseling Psychology Volume 58, Issue 4 (October 2011) pages 494-507 DOI: 10.1037/a0024633 Nazish M. Salahuddin Karen M. O’Brian Multiracial Americans represent a rapidly growing population (Shih & Sanchez, 2009); however, very little is known about the types of challenges…

  • Toward a Cleaner White(ness): New Racial Identities

    Toward a Cleaner White(ness): New Racial Identities The Philosophical Forum Volume 36, Issue 3 (Fall 2005) pages 243–277 DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9191.2005.00203.x David Ingram, Professor of Philosophy Loyola University, Chicago, Illinois The essay critically examines some arguments advanced by Henry Giroux that ‘whiteness’ can be appropriated within pedagogical settings as a positive force in combating racism. I…

  • Voorhees author addresses growing up biracial

    Voorhees author addresses growing up biracial South Jersery Sunne.ws 2011-10-17 Sean Patrick Murphy A Voorhees woman has written a book that she hopes will help parents of biracial children deal with unique challenges.   “Color Blind” is life coach Tiffany Rae Reid’s attempt to provide a guide for parents, caregivers, and family members raising biracial…

  • Race and Ethnicity in Society: The Changing Landscape, 3rd Edition

    Race and Ethnicity in Society: The Changing Landscape, 3rd Edition Cengage Learning 2012 480 pages ISBN-10: 1111519536; ISBN-13: 9781111519537 Edited by Elizabeth Higginbotham, Professor of Sociology, Women’s Studies, and Criminology University of Delaware Margaret L. Andersen, Edward F. and Elizabeth Goodman Rosenberg Professor of Sociology University of Delaware This engaging reader is organized in four…

  • I Am What I Say I Am: Racial and Cultural Identity among Creoles of Color in New Orleans

    I Am What I Say I Am: Racial and Cultural Identity among Creoles of Color in New Orleans University of New Orleans 2009-05-15 62 pages Nikki Dugar A Thesis Submitted to the Graduate Faculty of the University of New Orleans in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in History…