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  • Not White Enough, Not Black Enough: Racial Identity in the South African Coloured Community [Review]

    Not White Enough, Not Black Enough: Racial Identity in the South African Coloured Community [Review] H-Net Reviews May 2007 Sean H. Jacobs University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Mohamed Adhikari. Not White Enough, Not Black Enough: Racial Identity in the South African Coloured Community. Africa Series. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2005. xvii + 252 pp. Paper…

  • A Conceptual Model of Multiple Dimensions of Identity

    A Conceptual Model of Multiple Dimensions of Identity Journal of College Student Development Volume 41, Number 4 (July/August 2000) pages 405-414 Susan R. Jones, Associate Professor of Education Department of Counseling and Personnel Services University of Maryland, College Park Marylu K. McEwen, Professor Emeritus Department of Counseling and Personnel Services University of Maryland, College Park…

  • Parent and Child Influences on the Development of a Black-White Biracial Identity

    Parent and Child Influences on the Development of a Black-White Biracial Identity Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University 2009-10-07 286 pages Dana J. Stone Harris Dissertation submitted to the Faculty of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University In partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Human Development In this qualitative…

  • Black? White? Asian? More Young Americans Choose All of the Above

    Black? White? Asian? More Young Americans Choose All of the Above The New York Times 2011-01-29 Susan Saulny, National Correspondent Race Remixed: A New Sense of Identity. Articles in this series will explore the growing number of mixed-race Americans. COLLEGE PARK, Md.—In another time or place, the game of “What Are You?” that was played…

  • ‘Land of our Mothers’: Home, Identity, and Nationality for Anglo-Indians in British India, 1919–1947

    ‘Land of our Mothers’: Home, Identity, and Nationality for Anglo-Indians in British India, 1919–1947 History Workshop Journal Volume 54, Issue 1 pages 49-72 DOI: 10.1093/hwj/54.1.49 Alison Blunt, Professor of Geography Queen Mary, University of London This paper explores the symbolic and material intersections of home, identity and nationality for Anglo-Indians (previously known as ‘Eurasians’) in…

  • Patterns of Situational Identity Among Biracial and Multiracial College Students

    Patterns of Situational Identity Among Biracial and Multiracial College Students The Review of Higher Education Volume 23, Number 4 (Summer 2000) pages 399–420 E-ISSN: 1090-7009, Print ISSN: 0162-5748 DOI: 10.1353/rhe.2000.0019 Kristen A. Renn, Associate Professor of Higher, Adult, and Lifelong Education Michigan State University Using qualitative grounded theory framed by postmodern racial identity theory, the…

  • Trans/formative identities: narrations of decolonization in mixed-race and transgender lives

    Trans/formative identities: narrations of decolonization in mixed-race and transgender lives University of Victoria 2007 114 pages Sarah E. Hunt A Thesis Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts Interdisciplinary in the Department of Women’s Studies and the Department of Anthropology This interdisciplinary research paper explores story and metaphor…

  • Brass Ankles Speak

    Brass Ankles Speak Essays by Alice Dunbar-Nelson circa 1929 Alice Dunbar-Nelson (1875-1935) Prefatory Note by Gloria T. Hull Entitled “Brass Ankles Speaks” (Vol. 2, WADN), it is an outspoken denunciation of darker skinned black people’s prejudice against light-skinned blacks told by a “brass ankles,” a black person “white enough to pass for white, but with…

  • Kelly Jackson: Faculty spotlight

    Kelly Jackson: Faculty spotlight Arizona State University College of Public Programs 2011-01-14 Dr. Kelly Jackson is an Assistant Professor in Social Work in the College of Public Programs. Before coming to the College four years ago, she earned her Masters in Social Work from the University at Albany, and her PhD in Social Welfare from…

  • Blacks and Native Americans have deep ties

    Blacks and Native Americans have deep ties Our Weekly: Our Truth, Our Voice Los Angeles, California 2010-11-18 Manny Otiko, Our Weekly Contributor November is Native Heritage month There is an old joke in the Black community about women attributing long hair to having “Indian blood” in their family. But like all jokes, there is an…