Mixed Race Studies

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  • The role of Japanese as a heritage language in constructing ethnic identity among Hapa Japanese Canadian children

    The role of Japanese as a heritage language in constructing ethnic identity among Hapa Japanese Canadian children Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development Volume 30, Issue 1 (February 2009) pages 1-18 DOI: 10.1080/01434630802307874 Hiroko Noro, Professor of Pacific and Asian Studies University of Victoria, Canada Today, Japanese Canadians are marrying outside of their ethnic community…

  • Biracial Sensitive Practice: Expanding Social Services to an Invisible Population

    Biracial Sensitive Practice: Expanding Social Services to an Invisible Population Journal of Human Behavior in the Social Environment Volume 5, Issue 2 (March 2002) pages 29 – 44 DOI: 10.1300/J137v05n02_03 Ronald E. Hall, Professor of Social Work Michigan State University Although literature acknowledges the existence of a biracial population, there has been minimal discussion of…

  • A White Side of Black Britain: The Concept of Racial Literacy

    A White Side of Black Britain: The Concept of Racial Literacy Ethnic and Racial Studies Volume 27, Issue 6 November 2004 pages 878 – 907 DOI: 10.1080/0141987042000268512 France Winddance Twine, Professor of Sociology University of California, Santa Barbara Opposition to transracial adoption on both sides of the Atlantic, has been based, in part, on the…

  • Race – The Power of an Illusion

    Race – The Power of an Illusion California Newsreel – Film and video for social change since 1968 2003 3 Episodes, 56 minutes each DVD and VHS The division of the world’s peoples into distinct groups – “red,” “black,” “white” or “yellow” peoples – has became so deeply imbedded in our psyches, so widely accepted, many…

  • Building Kinship and Community: Relational Processes of Bicultural Identity Among Adult Multiracial Adoptees

    Building Kinship and Community: Relational Processes of Bicultural Identity Among Adult Multiracial Adoptees Family Process Volume 49, Issue 1 (March 2010) pages 26-42 DOI: 10.1111/j.1545-5300.2010.01306.x Gina Miranda Samuels, Associate Professor School of Social Service Administration University of Chicago This study uses the case of transracially adopted multiracial adults to highlight an alternative family context and…

  • Deconstructing Binary Race and Sex Categories: A Comparison of the Multiracial and Transgendered Experience

    Deconstructing Binary Race and Sex Categories: A Comparison of the Multiracial and Transgendered Experience San Diego Law Review Volume 39, Number 3 (2002) pages 917-942 Julie A. Greenberg, Professor of Law Thomas Jefferson School of Law, San Diego This Article explores the potential difficulties that exist as legal institutions develop a classification of transgendered people,…

  • Marcia Dawkins to be Featured Guest on Mixed Chicks Chat

    Marcia Dawkins to be Featured Guest on Mixed Chicks Chat Mixed Chicks Chat (The only live weekly show about being racially and culturally mixed. Also, founders of the Mixed Roots Film & Literary Festival) Hosted by Fanshen Cox and Heidi W. Durrow Website: TalkShoe™ (Keywords: Mixed Chicks) Episode: #153 – Marcia Dawkins When: Wednesday, 2010-05-19…

  • Resolving “Other” Status: Identity Development of Biracial Individuals

    Resolving “Other” Status: Identity Development of Biracial Individuals Women & Therapy Volume 9, Issue 1 & 2 (May 1990) pages 185 – 205 DOI: 10.1300/J015v09n01_11 Maria P. P. Root The current paper describes the phenomenological experience of marginal socio-ethnic status for biracial individuals. A metamodel for identity resolution for individuals who struggle with other status…

  • Racial Identification of the Biracial Preschool Child in a Single parent Family: Implications for Study

    Racial Identification of the Biracial Preschool Child in a Single parent Family: Implications for Study Family Science Review Volume 4, Number 3 (August 1991) pages 81-92 Z. Lois Bryant, Professor of Human Development and Family Studies University of Missouri, Columbia Johnetta Wade Morrison, Professor of Human Development and Family Studies University of Missouri, Columbia This…

  • The Strangeness of Passing: Commentary on Paper by Christopher Bonovitz

    The Strangeness of Passing: Commentary on Paper by Christopher Bonovitz Psychoanalytic Dialogues Volume 19, Issue 4 (July 2009) pages 442-449 DOI: 10.1080/10481880903088377 Annabella Bushra The Westchester Center for the Study of Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy Christopher Bonovitz gives us a rich landscape of the theoretical, historical, and relational aspects of his work with his mixed-race patient.…