Category: Identity Development/Psychology

  • Are we all ‘coloured’? News 24 (South Africa) 2011-03-09 Max Du Preez We really need to find new terminology for the different population groups in South Africa, especially now that we’re moving back into a political culture of obsession with race. Problem One: if “coloured” means people of mixed blood, then the vast majority of…

  • Breaking the Black-White Binary Fathom: the source for online learning Columbia University 2002 Gary Okihiro, Professor of International and Public Affairs Columbia University Where do Asians fall in the American construct of race? According to Gary Okihiro, the director of Columbia University’s Center for Race and Ethnicity, the position of Asians has had to be…

  • Five Myths About Multiracial People in the U.S. About.com: Race Relations 2011-04-09 Nadra Kareem Nittle When Barack Obama set his sights on the presidency, newspapers suddenly began devoting a lot more ink to the multiracial identity. Media outlets from Time Magazine and the New York Times to the British-based Guardian and BBC News pondered the…

  • Responsible Mixed Race Politics How do identities matter? Stanford University 2005-01-13 Presentation by: Ronald Sundstrom, Associate Professor of African American Studies University of San Francisco The harshest critics of mixed-race have claimed that the identity is self-indulgent and irresponsible, because it evades or, worse, is complicit in racism. Such strident condemnations of mixed-race identity are…

  • Recasting the Real: Reconstructivism: A Response to Hybridity in Contemporary Art Methodologies The University of Alabama McNair Journal The McNair Scholars Program Volume 7 (Spring 2007) pages 65-84 Suzanah Moorer While many artists are taking an interdisciplinary approach to art making, currently there is not a critical consensus on the direction and significance of hybrid…

  • New Guinea: Racial Identity and Inclusion in the Stockbridge and Brothertown Indian Communities of New York New York History Volume 90, Number 3 (Summer 2009) 23 paragraphs Christopher Geherin In 1818 the Stockbridge Indians initiated a series of land sales to the state of New York in order to finance the relocation of the tribe…

  • Multiracial Identity Development: Understanding Choice of Racial Identity in Asian-White College Students Journal of the Indiana University Student Personnel Association 2011 pages 38-45 Ashley Viager Higher Education and Student Affairs Program Indiana University Asian-White individuals will have greater representation in higher education in coming years, and student affairs professionals must learn how these students make…

  • 6th Critical Multicultural Counselling & Psychotherapy Conference: Metissage, Mestizaje, Mixed “Race”, and Beyond Centre for Diversity in Counselling & Psychotherapy University of Toronto 2011-06-07 through 2011-06-08 Keynote Presentation: Contemporary Multiple Heritage Couples, Individuals, and Families: A Generation with Diverse Views and Varied Experiences. Mark Kenney, Adjunct Professor Chestnut Place College, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Kelley Kenney, Professor…

  • Blending together The Stanford Daily Stanford University 2011-05-05 Ashley Menzies These students are part of the growing country-wide phenomenon of individuals who identify themselves as “mixed race.” The number of people who check both the black and white boxes has increased by 134 percent to 1.8 million since the 2000 census, the first time it…

  • Carlos Hoyt to be Featured Guest on Mixed Chicks Chat Mixed Chicks Chat (The only live weekly show about being racially and culturally mixed. Also, founders of the Mixed Roots Film & Literary Festival) Hosted by Fanshen Cox and Heidi W. Durrow Website: TalkShoe™ (Keywords: Mixed Chicks) Episode: #204 – Carlos Hoyt When: Wednesday, 2011-05-04,…