Category: Identity Development/Psychology

  • Race and Making America in Brazil: How Brazilian Return Migrants Negotiate Race in the US and Brazil University of Michigan 2011 314 pages Tiffany Denise Joseph Dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (Sociology) in The University of Michigan This dissertation explores how US immigration influenced the…

  • Pushing Boundaries, Mixed-Race Artists Gain Notice The New York Times 2011-07-05 Felicia R. Lee Heidi Durrow, left, and Fanshen Cox, the co-producers of the Mixed Roots Film and Literary Festival. (Ann Johansson for The New York Times) Note from Steven F. Riley: Please make sure to view the many reader comments for the article here.…

  • Puerto Rico: Afro-Caribbean and Taíno Identity Repeating Islands: News and commentary on Caribbean culture, literature, and the arts 2011-06-26 Ivette Romero-Cesareo, Professor of Spanish and Director of Latin American and Caribbean Studies Marist College, Poughkeepsie, New York Note from Steven F. Riley:  [The number of 2010 census repondents from Puerto Rico identifiying as two or more races…

  • But there was something different about this tribe, the Tlaxcala, and when the music ceased and the chatter resumed, the difference became clear: They spoke exclusively Spanish.

  • Rights of passage – the coming of the ‘wild west’ Constructs of identity and their effects upon Indigenous people Counselling, Psychotherapy, and Health Volume 3, Issue 2 (2007), Indigenous Special Issue pages 39-45 Michael Red Shirt Semchison M.Ed.Studies; Gr.Cert.Ed.[HE] University of Queensland, Australia Introduction “We did not think of the great open plains, the beautiful…

  • InSide/OutSide Cultural Hybridity: Greenstone as Narrative Provocateur Australian Association for Research in Education (AARE) International Education Research Conference 2003 AARE – NZARE 2003-11-30 through 2003-12-03 Auckland, New Zealand Tess Moeke-Maxwell, HRC Post Doctoral Research Fellow Department of Psychology University of Waikato This paper is a revised chapter located in my PhD thesis ‘Bringing Home The…

  • Mixed in America: Race, Religion, and Memoir (RELI 280, AFAN 282, or AMST 242) Wesleyan University Spring 2012 Elizabeth McAlister, Associate Professor of Religion This course examines the history of “mixed-race” and “interfaith” identities in America. Using the genre of the memoir as a focusing lens, we will look at the various ways that Americans…

  • Hybrid Identities, Authentic Selves (SS-0217) Hampshire College, Amherst, Massachusetts Spring Term 2011 Kimberly Chang, Associate Professor of Cultural Psychology This course explores two related concepts—hybridity and authenticity—that underlie many present-day struggles over cultural identity and representation. The former calls attention to the multiplicity of social identities that vie for recognition within a person, while the…

  • This essay is a response to an article recently published by Will South titled “A Missing Question Mark: The Unknown Henry Ossawa Tanner” in the journal Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide. Tanner was the foremost African American artist of the late 19th century. He has emerged as an exemplar of Black achievement in the arts and is…

  • The Blackfoot Tribe of the Midsouth American Society of Ethnohistory Conference “Blackfoot, Redbones, Brass Ankles and Pied Noir: Colorful Identities, Creative Strategies American Society of Ethnohistory conference” Santa Fe, New Mexico 2005-11-18 through 2005-11-20 2005-11-19 Carol A. Morrow, Professor of Anthropology Southeast Missouri State University Over the years, I have had a number of African-American…