Mixed Race Studies

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  • Changing Answers but Not Identities: A Qualitative Investigation of Race Responses in a Longitudinal Survey

    Changing Answers but Not Identities: A Qualitative Investigation of Race Responses in a Longitudinal Survey Population Association of America 2009 Annual Meeting Marriott Renaissance Center Detroit, Michigan 2009-04-16 19 pages Kelsey Poss University of Minnesota Carolyn A. Liebler, Assistant Professor of Sociology University of Minnesota Paper presented at the 2009 annual meetings of the Population…

  • At last! It’s cool to be mixed race (which is handy because I’m African, American, Jewish, Geordie, Irish, Scottish and Hungarian)

    At last! It’s cool to be mixed race (which is handy because I’m African, American, Jewish, Geordie, Irish, Scottish and Hungarian) The Daily Mail (United Kingdom) 2010-04-25 Oona King, Head of Diversity Channel 4 Comment by Steven F. Riley It should be noted that scientists have determined that there is more genetic variation within so-called…

  • Ethnically mixed individuals: Cultural Homelessness or Multicultural Integration?

    Ethnically mixed individuals: Cultural Homelessness or Multicultural Integration? University of North Texas May 1999 260 pages 15 tables, 6 illustrations, references, 273 titles Veronica Navarrete-Vivero, B. S. CPR University of North Texas Thesis Prepared for the Degree of Master of Science of Psychology Studies addressing racial/ethnic identity development have often overlooked the developmental cultural context.…

  • Dartmouth Junior wins Beinecke Scholarship

    Dartmouth Junior wins Beinecke Scholarship Dartmouth College Office of Public Affairs Press Release Media Contact: Kelly Sundberg Seaman 2010-05-18 Anise Vance, a member of the Dartmouth Class of 2011, has been named a Beinecke Scholar, one of 20 college juniors nationally. The award, which supports the “graduate education of young men and women of exceptional…

  • Census trend shows mixed-race Americans are more likely to identify with their multiracial background

    Census trend shows mixed-race Americans are more likely to identify with their multiracial background Daily Bruin University of California, Los Angeles 2010-05-18 Brittany Wong, Bruin contributor When President Barack Obama got to Question No. 9 on the 2010 Census, he did what mixed-race respondents nationwide were asked to do: pare down and define his complex…

  • Priming Race in Biracial Observers Affects Visual Search for Black and White Faces

    Priming Race in Biracial Observers Affects Visual Search for Black and White Faces Psychological Science Volume 17, Number 5 (2006) Pages 387-392 Joan Y. Chiao, Assistant Professor of Brain, Behavior, and Cognition; Social Psychology Northwestern University Hannah E. Heck Harvard University Ken Nakayama, Edgar Pierce Professor of Psychology Harvard University Nalini Ambady, Professor and Neubauer…

  • Seeing Like Citizens: Unofficial Understandings of Official Racial Categories in a Brazilian University

    Seeing Like Citizens: Unofficial Understandings of Official Racial Categories in a Brazilian University Journal of Latin American Studies Number 41 (2009) pages 221–250 DOI: 10.1017/S0022216X09005550 Luisa Farah Schwartzman, Assistant Professor of Sociology University of Toronto This paper investigates how students at the State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ), one of the first Brazilian universities…

  • Geographies of racially mixed people and households: A focus on American Indians

    Geographies of racially mixed people and households: A focus on American Indians Population Association of America 2010 Annual Meeting Program 2010-04-17 23 pages Carolyn A. Liebler, Assistant Professor Department of Sociology and Minnesota Population Center University of Minnesota Meghan Zacher Department of Sociology and Minnesota Population Center University of Minnesota March 2010 Multiracial individuals and…

  • Beyond the Looking Glass: Exploring Variation between Racial Self-Identification and Interviewer Classification

    Beyond the Looking Glass: Exploring Variation between Racial Self-Identification and Interviewer Classification Population Association of America 2010 Annual Meeting Program 2010-04-17 10 pages Aliya Saperstein, Assistant Professor of Sociology Stanford University Andrew Penner, Associate Professor of Sociology University of California, Irvine Recent research has demonstrated the existence of fluidity in both racial self-identification and interviewer classification.…

  • Who Is Multiracial? Assessing the Complexity of Lived Race

    Who Is Multiracial? Assessing the Complexity of Lived Race American Sociological Review Volume 67, Number 4 (2002) pages 614-627 David R. Harris, Deputy Provost, Vice Provost for Social Sciences, and Professor of Sociology Cornell University Jeremiah Joseph Sim Univerisity of Michigan Patterns of racial classification in the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health are examined.…