Mixed Race Studies

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  • Race in an Era of Change: A Reader

    Race in an Era of Change: A Reader Oxford University Press September 2010 544 pages ISBN13: 9780199752102 ISBN10: 0199752109 Edited By: Heather Dalmage, Professor of Sociology and Director of the Mansfield Institute Roosevelt University Barbara Katz Rothman, Professor of Sociology Baruch College of the City Univerity of New York Featuring a wide range of classic…

  • Exploring the Many Facets of Mixed-Race Identity

    Exploring the Many Facets of Mixed-Race Identity Renegade South: histories of unconventional southerners 2010-05-26 Victoria E. Bynum, Moderator and Emeritus Professor of History Texas State University, San Marcos In recent weeks, The Family Origins of Vernon Dahmer, Civil Rights Activist, by Yvonne Bivins and Wilmer Watts Backstrom, published December 6, 2009 on Renegade South, has…

  • An Existential Gaze at Multiracial Self-Concept: Implications for Psychotherapy

    An Existential Gaze at Multiracial Self-Concept: Implications for Psychotherapy Journal of Humanistic Psychology Volume 50, Number 3 (July 2010) DOI: 10.1177/0022167810365909 Matthew J. Taylor, Assistant Professor of Psychology University of Missouri, St. Louis John T. Nanney Department of Psychology University of Missouri, St. Louis Multiracial self-concept is conceptualized using an existential framework. First, the authors…

  • Biracial Identity and Its Relation to Self-Esteem and Depression in Mixed Black/White Biracial Individuals

    Biracial Identity and Its Relation to Self-Esteem and Depression in Mixed Black/White Biracial Individuals Journal of Ethnic And Cultural Diversity in Social Work Volume 19, Issue 2 (April 2010) pages 109 – 126 DOI: 10.1080/15313201003771783 Elizabeth M. Lusk Department of Psychology Washburn University, Topeka, Kansas Matthew J. Taylor, Assistant Professor of Psychology University of Missouri,…

  • Real Americans [Book Review]

    Real Americans [Book Review] The Virginia Quarterly Review Spring 2009 pages 206-210 Oscar Villalon What Blood Won’t Tell: A History of Race on Trial in America, by Ariela J. Gross. Harvard University Press, October 2008. As a child, there were the Americans, and then there was us. Americans weren’t that plentiful in my grandmother’s neighborhood.…

  • The Negotiation of Identities: Narratives of Mixed-Race Individuals in Canada

    The Negotiation of Identities: Narratives of Mixed-Race Individuals in Canada Ontario lnstitute for Studies in Education University of Toronto 2001 170 Pages Mélanie Jane Knight University of Toronto A thesis submitted in conformity with the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts Sociology and Equity Studies in Education Ontario Institute for Studies in Education…

  • The nature of bi-ethnic identity in young adults of Asian and European descent and their perceptions of familial influences on its development

    The nature of bi-ethnic identity in young adults of Asian and European descent and their perceptions of familial influences on its development University of Maryland Department of Human Development 2009 Amanda Laurel Wagner Hoa The purpose of this study was to identify the key constructs of bi-ethnic identity, the key familial influences, and other salient…

  • Counseling Interventions with Biracial Black/White Adolescents

    Counseling Interventions with Biracial Black/White Adolescents East Bay Therapist California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists – East Bay Chapter Jan/Feb 2005 Venita Antonia-Maria Lue, PhD, MFT Adolescence is an especially vulnerable time for many biracial individuals because identity issues become racial problems when the interracial person starts dating. All dating is potentially interracial for…

  • Black, White, or Biracial? The Identity Development of Mixed-Race Individuals

    Black, White, or Biracial? The Identity Development of Mixed-Race Individuals Cornell University August 1994 Call Number: Thesis DT 3 .5 1994 M926 152 pages Mary Ellen Moule This thesis analyzes the scholarly and popular treatment of the racial identity formation of Americans with one Black and one White parent. The racial identity development of biracial…

  • Biracial Identity Development: Therapeutic Implications of Phenotype and Other Contextual Considerations

    Biracial Identity Development: Therapeutic Implications of Phenotype and Other Contextual Considerations Practices of Healing: Using Multicultural Psychotherapy to Confront Symbols of Hate Presentation Hosted by the Multicultural Research and Training Lab, Graduate School of Education and Psychology Psychology Division Pepperdine University 2008-10-11 35 slides Krystle G. Hays, M.A. Doctoral Student Pepperdine University This presentation examines…