Mixed Race Studies

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  • Blue Veins and Kinky Hair: Naming and Color Consciousness in African America

    The author explores how Africans in America internalized the negative images created of them by the European world, and how internalized racism has worked to fracture African American unity and thereby dilute inchoate efforts toward liberation.

  • Psychological Adjustment, Behavior and Health Problems in Multiracial Young Adults

    Psychological Adjustment, Behavior and Health Problems in Multiracial Young Adults University of Maryland, College Park 2006 236 pages Warren L. Kelley Dissertation submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate School of the University of Maryland, College Park in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy 2006 This study: (1) examined…

  • 100% Multiracial

    100% Multiracial UrbanFaith.com 2010-06-11 Kyle Waalen The latest Census estimates show that multiracial people are the fastest growing demographic group in the United States. Yet many still struggle with the question of how many boxes to check. Two Christian women share about the tension and joy of being young and multiracial in America. Kristy McDonald…

  • The Impact of the Media on Biracial Identity Formation

    The Impact of the Media on Biracial Identity Formation University of North Texas December 2007 93 pages OCLC: 227035319 |  ARK: ark:/67531/metadc5185 Alicia Edison Thesis Prepared for the Degree of Master of Science Biracial individuals undergo a developmental process that is different than monoracial individuals. Not only do they have to develop a strong and…

  • Gender, Work and Fears of a ‘Hybrid Race’ in 1920s New Zealand

    Gender, Work and Fears of a ‘Hybrid Race’ in 1920s New Zealand Gender & History Volume 19, Issue 3 (November 2007) pages 501–518 DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0424.2007.00495.x Barbara Brookes, Professor of History Otago University, New Zealand The 1929 New Zealand Committee of Inquiry into the Employment of Māori on Market Gardens affords insight into the ways in…

  • Soul Search

    Soul Search The Post Cork, Ireland 2010-09-05 Nadine O’Regan When poet and novelist Jackie Kay started the search for her birth parents, she didn’t realise how traumatic a journey it would be, though she doesn’t regret doing it. Jackie Kay met her birth father for the first time in a hotel room in Abuja, Nigeria,…

  • Mentality of Racial Hybrids

    Mentality of Racial Hybrids American Journal of Sociology Volume 36, Number 4 (January 1931) pages 534-551 DOI: 10.1086/215474 Robert E. Park (1864-1944), Professor of Sociology University of Chicago Racial hybrids are one of the natural and inevitable results of migration and the consequent mingling of divergent racial stocks.  The motives bringing peoples of divergent races…

  • The Problem of the Marginal Man

    The Problem of the Marginal Man American Journal of Sociology Volume 41, Number 1 (July 1935) Pages 1-12 DOI: 10.1086/217001 Everett V. Stonequist (1901-1979), Professor of Sociology Skidmore College The marginal man arises in a bi-cultural or multi-cultural situation.  The natural desire of the mixed-blood is to advance toward the group occupying the higher status.  He…

  • In mixed-race couples, fathers profoundly influence their children’s racial identifications

    In mixed-race couples, fathers profoundly influence their children’s racial identifications Research@Rice 2006-09-15 In mixed-race couples, fathers profoundly influence their children’s racial identifications. Interracial marriage increased seven-fold from 1970 to 2000, and how the children of these marriages view their racial identity has a lot to do with their father’s race and the number of father-child…

  • Multiracial College Students: Understanding Interpersonal Self-Concept in the First Year

    Multiracial College Students: Understanding Interpersonal Self-Concept in the First Year The University of Michigan 2010 151 pages Mark Allen Kamimura A dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (Education) in The University of Michigan 2010 This purpose of this study was to explore the differences between mixed…