Category: Identity Development/Psychology

  • The day Walter White was buried in 1955 the New York Times called him “the nearest approach to a national leader of American Negroes since Booker T. Washington.” For more than two decades, White, as secretary of the NAACP, was perhaps the nation’s most visible and most powerful African-American leader.

  • Microaggressions and Marginality: Manifestation, Dynamics, and Impact Wiley July 2010 360 pages Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-470-49139-3 Edited By: Derald Wing Sue, Professor of Psychology and Education Teachers College, Columbia University A landmark volume exploring covert bias, prejudice, and discrimination with hopeful solutions for their eventual dissolution Exploring the psychological dynamics of unconscious and unintentional expressions of…

  • Mexipino: A History of Multiethnic Identity and the Formation of the Mexican and Filipino Communities of San Diego, 1900-1965 (From T-RACES: a Testbed for the Redlining Archives of California’s Exclusionary Spaces) University of California, Santa Barbara June 2007 488 pages Rudy P. Guevarra, Jr., Assistant Professor, Asian Pacific American Studies, School of Social Transformation, College…

  • School Racial Composition and Biracial Adolescents’ School Attachment Sociological Quarterly Volume 51, Issue 1 (Winter 2010) Published Online: 2010-01-15 Pages 150 – 178 DOI: 10.1111/j.1533-8525.2009.01166.x Simon Cheng, Associate Professor of Sociology University of Connecticut Joshua Klugman, Assistant Professor of Sociology and Psychology Temple University Despite extensive research on multiracial youth in recent years, to date, no…

  • What’s in a name? An exploration of the significance of personal naming of ‘mixed’ children for parents from different racial, ethnic and faith backgrounds The Sociological Review Volume 56, Issue 1, February 2008 pages 39–60 DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-954X.2008.00776.x Rosalind Edwards, Professor in Social Policy Families & Social Capital Research Group London South Bank University Chamion Caballero,…

  • The Shadow King Mariner Books an imprint of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2004-11-23 320 pages Trim Size: 5.50 x 8.25 Paperback ISBN-13/EAN: 9780618485369; ISBN-10: 0618485368 Jane Stevenson, Regius Chair of Humanity University of Aberdeen In The Shadow King, Jane Stevenson illuminates the world of the intriguing Balthasar Stuart, the secret biracial child born of the illicit…

  • Panel: Exploring the Historical Context for Contemporary Stories of the Mixed Experience Mixed Roots Film & Literary Festival Japanese American National Musuem National Center for Democracy, Tateuchi Democracy Forum 2010-06-13, 18:30 to 19:30Z Moderator Frank Buckley, Co-Anchor KTLA Morning News Panelists Kelly F. Jackson, Assistant Professor of Social Work Arizona State University Farzana Nayani, President…

  • Shades of Gray American Jewish Life Magazine January/February 2007 E. B. Solomont Lacey Schwartz had the typical middle-class Jewish upbringing in upstate New York. Until her 18th birthday when her mom told her she was the product of an affair with a black man. Now Lacey is making a documentary about her newfound life as…

  • Seeing a Color-Blind Future: The Paradox of Race Farrar, Straus and Giroux (an imprint of MacMillan) April 1998 84 pages 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches Paperback ISBN: 978-0-374-52533-0, ISBN10: 0-374-52533-1 Patricia J. Williams, James L. Dohr Professor of Law Columbia Law School In these five eloquent and passionate pieces (which she gave as the…

  • My point of departure begins with the social and political fact of being both a Black woman who is Jewish and a Jewish woman who is Black in order to undermine the presupposition of inherent cultural or racial differences that favors the vocabulary of mixed or hybrid identities over the conjunction [both.. and]. Instead of…