Mixed Race Studies

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  • It’s Not Easy Being Green: Stress and Invalidation in Identity Formation of Culturally-Complex or Mixed-Race Individuals

    It’s Not Easy Being Green: Stress and Invalidation in Identity Formation of Culturally-Complex or Mixed-Race Individuals Texas A&M University May 2008 159 pages Samaria Dalia Roberts Perez Submitted to the Office of Graduate Studies of Texas A&M University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Communications This is…

  • Ethnic identity of biracial individuals with one Asian parent

    Ethnic identity of biracial individuals with one Asian parent California State University, Long Beach 2006 66 pages Publication Number: AAT 1437924 ISBN: 9780542893049 Christina A. Nguyen A Thesis Presented to the Department of Social Work, California State University, Long Beach In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Master of Social Work The purpose…

  • Turning Aboriginal—Historical Bents

    Turning Aboriginal—Historical Bents borderlands: e-journal Volume 7, Number 2 (2008) pages 1-19 Regina Ganter, Associate Professor, School of Humanities Griffith University, Queensland, Australia Under the pressures of binary identity politics the search for Aboriginal identity among people of mixed descent has become a Russian roulette that may end up with a public hanging where those…

  • The importance of being “other”: A natural experiment about lived race over time

    The importance of being “other”: A natural experiment about lived race over time Social Science Research Volume 36, Issue 1 (March 2007) pages 159-174 DOI: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2005.11.002 J. Scott Brown, Associate Professor of Gerontology, Scripps Research Fellow Miami University, Oxford, Ohio Steven Hitlin, Assistant Professor of Sociology University of Iowa Glen H. Elder, Jr., Research Professor…

  • Our Changing Identities

    Our Changing Identities The New Black Magazine 2010-10-18 Adam K. Raymond On forms asking their racial or ethnic backgrounds, young people of multi-racial origin give different answers at different times. As a teenager, Cameron Clark, whose mother is white and father is black, always checked “African-American” on forms that asked about his race. “I needed…

  • Multiethnicity and Multiethnic Families: Development, Identity, and Resilience

    Multiethnicity and Multiethnic Families: Development, Identity, and Resilience Xlibris 2010 384 pages ISBN 13 Softcover: 978-1-4500-1231-7 ISBN 13 Hardcover: 978-1-4500-1232-4 ISBN 13 Ebook: 978-1-4500-0340-7 Edited By: Hamilton McCubbin, Krystal Ontai, Lisa Kehl, Laurie McCubbin, Ida Strom, Heidi Hart, Barbara DeBaryshe, Marika Ripke and Jon Matsuoka Guided by the increasing number of interracial marriages, cross-cultural adoptions…

  • Blaxican Identity: An Exploratory Study of Blacks/Chicanas/os in California

    Blaxican Identity: An Exploratory Study of Blacks/Chicanas/os in California National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies Annual Conference 35th Annual Conference 2008-04-01 11 pages Rebecca Romo University of California, Santa Barbara This paper explores the life experiences of Blaxicans, or multiracial individuals who are the products of unions that are composed of one biological (or…

  • Thinking and living in, out, and beyond the box: Exploring Racial and Cultural Complexity in Identity among Adoptive Multiracial Families and Persons

    Thinking and living in, out, and beyond the box: Exploring Racial and Cultural Complexity in Identity among Adoptive Multiracial Families and Persons Racial Identity and Cultural Factors in Treatment, Research, and Policy The Ninth Annual Diversity Challenge Institute for the Study and Promotion of Race and Culture Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts 2009-10-23 through 2009-10-24…

  • Star-Light, Star-Bright, Star Damn Near White: Mixed-Race Superstars

    Star-Light, Star-Bright, Star Damn Near White: Mixed-Race Superstars The Journal of Popular Culture Volume 40, Issue 2 (April 2007) pages 217–237 DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-5931.2007.00376.x Sika Alaine Dagbovie, Professor of English Florida Atlantic University In an episode of the “Chris Rock Show,” comedian Chris Rock searches the streets of Harlem to find out what people think of…

  • A phenomenological study of the experience of biracial identity development in Black and White individuals

    A phenomenological study of the experience of biracial identity development in Black and White individuals The Chicago School of Professional Psychology 2007-04-23 101 pages Publication Number: AAT 3312832 Niccole K. Brusa Racial identity literature neglects biracial identity development. Given the tremendous increase in interracial partnerships and biracial children in the United States over the past…