Mixed Race Studies

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  • Biracial Females’ Reflections on Racial Identity Development in Adolescence

    Biracial Females’ Reflections on Racial Identity Development in Adolescence Journal of Feminist Family Therapy Volume 18, Issue 4 (February 2007) pages 53 – 75 DOI: 10.1300/J086v18n04_03 Karia Kelch-Oliver Department of Counseling and Psychological Services Georgia State University Leigh A. Leslie, Associate Professor and Graduate Director Department of Family Studies University of Maryland As the number…

  • Mixed Race and the Negotiation of Racialized Selves: Developing the Capacity for Internal Conflict

    Mixed Race and the Negotiation of Racialized Selves: Developing the Capacity for Internal Conflict Psychoanalytic Dialogues Volume 19, Issue 4 (July 2009) pages 426 – 441 DOI: 10.1080/10481880903088021 Christopher Bonovitz William Alanson White Institute; New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy & Psychoanalysis, Manhattan Institute for Psychoanalysis The author uses contemporary psychoanalytic theory in further…

  • 2010 Census: Stressed Out of the Box

    2010 Census: Stressed Out of the Box The Huffington Post 2010-03-10 Marcia Dawkins, Assistant Professor of Human Communication California State University, Fullerton Robert M. Groves, Director of the U.S. Census Bureau, sent me a letter today. Mr. Groves told me that my 2010 Census form will be arriving sometime next week and that my “response…

  • Integrating Multiple Identities: Multiracials and Asian-Americans in the United States (Review Essay)

    Integrating Multiple Identities: Multiracials and Asian-Americans in the United States (Review Essay) Canadian Journal of Sociology Volume 33, Number 2 (2008) pages 397-403 Wendy D. Roth, Assistant Professor of Sociology University of British Columbia, Canada Kimberly McClain DaCosta, Making Multiracials: State, Family, and Market in the Redrawing of the Color Line. Stanford: Stanford University Press,…

  • The End of the One-Drop Rule? Labeling of Multiracial Children in Black Intermarriages

    The End of the One-Drop Rule? Labeling of Multiracial Children in Black Intermarriages Sociological Forum Volume 20, Number 1 (March, 2005) pages 35-67 Print ISSN: 0884-8971, Online ISSN: 1573-7861 DOI: 10.1007/s11206-005-1897-0 Wendy D. Roth, Assistant Professor of Sociology University of British Columbia, Canada The identity choices of multiracial individuals with Black heritage have traditionally been…

  • Fixing the Color Line: The Mulatto, Southern Courts, and Racial Identity

    Fixing the Color Line: The Mulatto, Southern Courts, and Racial Identity American Quarterly Volume 53, Number 3 (September 2001) pages 420-451 E-ISSN: 1080-6490 Print ISSN: 0003-0678 DOI: 10.1353/aq.2001.0033 Teresa Zackodnik, Professor of English University of Alberta, Canada In July 1857 Abby Guy sued for her freedom and that of her four children in an Arkansas…

  • Changing the stereotypes

    Changing the stereotypes The Daily University of Washington 2010-02-25 Kristen Steenbeeke Sophomores Gabbie Duncalf and Fitsum Misgano were taking a class about mixed race when they first learned about the organization Mixed. After hearing that the group — which caters specifically to mixed-race students but is open to anyone — was lacking officers, they decided…

  • Barack Obama’s rise marks America’s first multiracial decade

    Barack Obama’s rise marks America’s first multiracial decade Yahoo News 2009-12-09 Thomas Kelley Everyone has a day of awakening when it comes to race. For me, it was a cool September day when I was eight years old. My family had recently moved to Colorado from Tennessee and like any child starting a new school,…

  • Biracial Identity: Beyond Black and White

    Biracial Identity: Beyond Black and White The Boston College Chronicle 2003-02-13 Volume 11, Number 11 Sean Smith, Chronicle Editor Sociologist’s expertise built on experience, not just scholarly inquiry The man in the next seat had been eyeing her furtively for a while, so Asst. Prof. Kerry Ann Rockquemore (Sociology) figured it was only a matter…

  • Passing for White: Race, Religion, and the Healy Family, 1820–1920

    The remarkable saga of a mixed-race family in nineteenth-century America