Category: Identity Development/Psychology

  • Where Do We Come From? Discover 2003-05-01 Kathleen McGowan Photography by Katy Grannan A new generation of DNA genealogists stand ready to unearth our ancestors. We may not like what they find. Brent Kennedy’s 19th-century ancestors stare out from his photo albums with dark eyes, high cheekbones, olive skin, and thick black hair—a genetic riddle…

  • The Triracial Experience in a Poor Appalachian Community: How Social Identity Shapes the School Lives of Rural Minorities Ohio University June 2005 176 pages Stephanie Diane Starcher A dissertation presented to the faculty of the College of Education of Ohio University In partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree Doctor of Education This study…

  • More Iowans identifying as mixed race The Daily Iowan The Independent Daily Newspaper for the University of Iowa Since 1868 2011-04-19 Alison Sullivan Photo: Christy Aumer/The Daily IowanSophomore Tevin Robbins poses in the window of the second floor at the Afro-American Cultural Center on April 5. Robbins is currently majoring in psychology but has switched…

  • NHUM3031 Passing: (Re)Constructing Identity The New School Fall 2009 Tracyann Williams, Instructor Passing: (Re)Constructing Identity: “Passing,” a term traditionally used to describe fair-skinned Blacks posing as whites, is, in fact, part of a broader cultural phenomenon that has its origins in the pursuit of “the American Dream.” For the sake of economic comforts, racially, ethnically,…

  • Creole Angel: The Self-Identity of the Free People of Color of Antebellum New Orleans University of North Texas August 2006 136 pages Ben Melvin Hobratsch Thesis Prepared for the Degree of Masters of Arts, University of North Texas, August 2006 This thesis is about the self-identity of antebellum New Orleans’s free people of color. The…

  • Creole: The History and Legacy of Louisiana’s Free People of Color Louisiana State University Press August 2000 344 pages Trim: 6 x 9 , Illustrations: 14 halftones Paper ISBN-13: 978-0-8071-2601-1 Edited by: Sybil Kein (born Consuela Marie Moore), Distinguished Professor of English Emerita University of Michigan The word Creole evokes a richness rivaled only by…

  • PBS series explores black culture in Latin America 2011-04-18 Jennifer Kay Associated Press MIAMI—On a street in a seaside city in Brazil, four men describe themselves to Henry Louis Gates Jr. as black. Flabbergasted, the Harvard scholar insists they compare their skin tones with his. In a jumble, their forearms form a mocha spectrum. Oh,…

  • Exploring the Popularization of the Mixed Race American The Human Experience: Inside the Humanities at Stanford University 2011-04-22 Stanford Scholar Investigates the “Mulatto Millennium” through Literature, Theatre, Art, & Pop Culture The United States has its first mixed race president, a man with a black African father and white American mother. Actress Halle Barry, golfer…

  • The Missing Box: Multiracial Student Identity Development at a Predominately White Institution University of Nebraska, Lincoln May 2011 153 pages Ashley Michelle Loudd A Thesis Presented to the Faculty of The Graduate College at the University of Nebraska In Partial Fulfillment of Requirements For the Degree of Master of Arts The purpose of this study…

  • Truthdig Radio with Marcia Dawkins Truthdig Radio KPFK 90.7 FM (Los Angeles); 98.7 FM (Santa Barbara); 99.5 FM (China Lake); 93.7 North San Diego Wednesday, 2011-04-20, 21:00Z (14:00 PDT, 17:00 EDT) Kasia Anderson, Host and Associate Editor Marcia Alesan Dawkins, Visiting Scholar Brown University Dr. Dawkins discusses mixed race identities, press (including the 2011-04-18 CNN…