Mixed Race Studies

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  • The Risks of Multiracial Identification

    The Risks of Multiracial Identification The Chronicle of Higher Education 2006-11-10 Naomi Schaefer Riley The comment period has closed on proposed new guidelines from the U.S. Department of Education on how colleges should ask students about race. No longer, the guidelines say, should applicants simply be given the choice of black, white, Asian, American Indian…

  • Part Asian, Not Hapa

    Part Asian, Not Hapa Open Salon Thoughts from a Third Culture: on being mixed in America 2010-07-27 Mia Nakaji Monnier My mother is Japanese from Osaka; my father, American from a small town in Western Oregon. There’s a word for people like me, used especially on the West Coast and popularized in recent years, maybe…

  • A Biracial Identity or a New Race? The Historical Limitations and Political Implications of a Biracial Identity

    A Biracial Identity or a New Race? The Historical Limitations and Political Implications of a Biracial Identity Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture and Society Volume 3, Number 4 (Fall 2001) pages 83-112 Minkah Makalani, Assistant Professor of African and African Diaspora Studies University of Texas, Austin Over the past fifteen years in the…

  • Black, White and Other… Worldwide

    Black, White and Other… Worldwide The Huffington Post 2010-07-27 Marcia Alesan Dawkins, Visiting Scholar Brown University Even though the 21st century is seeing an exponential increase in reports of multiracial ancestry worldwide, exactly what makes a person multiracial remains a puzzling concept. According to the Association of Multiethnic Americans and Project RACE, the definition of…

  • More than a Metaphor: Blood as Boundary for Korean Biracial Identity

    More than a Metaphor: Blood as Boundary for Korean Biracial Identity NCA 95th Annual Convention Chicago Hilton & Towers Chicago, Illinois 2009-11-11 Myra Washington College of Media, Institute of Communications Research University of Illinois When Hines Ward was named MVP of Super Bowl XL, his Black and Korean biracial status became the touchstone for conversations…

  • Black and White, or Shades of Gray? Racial Labeling of Barack Obama Predicts Implicit Race Perception

    Black and White, or Shades of Gray? Racial Labeling of Barack Obama Predicts Implicit Race Perception Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy Volume 10, Issue 1 (December 2010) pages 207–222 DOI: 10.1111/j.1530-2415.2010.01213.x Lori Wu Malahy University of Washington Mara Sedlins University of Washington Jason Plaks, Associate Professor of Psychology University of Toronto Yuichi Shoda,…

  • Racial Self-Categorization in Adolescence: Multiracial Development and Social Pathways

    Racial Self-Categorization in Adolescence: Multiracial Development and Social Pathways Child Development Volume 77, Number 5, September/October 2006 Pages 1298–1308 DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2006.00935.x Steven Hitlin, Assistant Professor of Sociology University of Iowa J. Scott Brown, Associate Professor of Gerontology, Scripps Research Fellow Miami University, Oxford, Ohio Glen H. Elder, Jr. Carolina Population Center University of North Carolina…

  • How Do Forced-Choice Dilemmas Affect Multiracial People? The Role of Identity Autonomy and Public Regard in Depressive Symptoms

    How Do Forced-Choice Dilemmas Affect Multiracial People? The Role of Identity Autonomy and Public Regard in Depressive Symptoms Journal of Applied Social Psychology Volume 40 Issue 7 Pages 1657 – 1677 Published Online: 2010-07-09 DOI: 10.1111/j.1559-1816.2010.00634.x Diana T. Sanchez, Assistant Professor of Social Psychology Rutgers University The present study reports on correlational data gathered from…

  • Hybrid Navigator

    Hybrid Navigator Small Axe Number 32 (Volume 14, Number 2), June 2010 pages 150-159 E-ISSN: 1534-6714 Print ISSN: 0799-0537 Satch Hoyt, Artist/Sculptor I was born in London to an Afro-Jamaican father and a white English mother in the late 1950s. It was, to say the least, a lonely terra nova, a traumatic neocolonial, cross-cultural terrain,…

  • Lost in the Middle: Growing up Across Racial & Cultural Divides

    Lost in the Middle: Growing up Across Racial & Cultural Divides The Washington Post 1998-05-17 Malcolm Gladwell His parents conqured racial difference with dignity and relative ease.  But race became a more complicated question for their son. One summer Saturday, when I was growing up, my father piled my brothers and me into the family…