Mixed Race Studies

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  • Nikkei Heritage: Intermarriages and Hapas: An Overview – Parts 1 and 2

    Nikkei Heritage: Intermarriages and Hapas: An Overview – Parts 1 and 2 Discover Nikkei (Japanese Migrans and Their Descendants) Republished from Nikkei Heritage (The quarterly journal of the National Japanese American Historical Society) 2007-05-11 George Kitahara Kich, Senior Trial Consultant Bonora D’Andrea Rebecca Chiyoko King-O’Riain, Lecturer in Sociology National University of Ireland, Maynooth Larry Hajime…

  • Framing mixed race: The face of America is changing

    Framing mixed race: The face of America is changing Contra Costa Times 2010-02-07 Jennifer Modenessi Like any proud mother, Janine Mozée sees beauty when she looks at her four children. But the Benicia resident perceives more than their physical qualities and the various shades and hues of their skin, eyes and hair. For Mozée, 46,…

  • Who am I?

    Who am I? Middlebury Magazine Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vermont Winter 2010 Kevin Charles Redmon, [class of 20]10 As Janet Mondlane Rodrigues [class of 20]12 grapples with her own complex racial identity, she implores others to take a look in the mirror, as well, and ask themselves this loaded question. Early in Barack Obama’s presidential campaign,…

  • Beyond Race: Examining the Facets of Multiracial Identity Through a Life-span Developmental Lens

    Beyond Race: Examining the Facets of Multiracial Identity Through a Life-span Developmental Lens Journal of Ethnic And Cultural Diversity in Social Work Volume 18, Issue 4 (October 2009) pages 293-310 DOI: 10.1080/15313200903310759 Kelly F. Jackson, Assistant Professor of Social Work Arizona State University Using a social work developmental lens, this qualitative study explored some of…

  • An Evening with Kip Fulbeck-artist, slam poet, filmmaker Event Type: Lecture

    An Evening with Kip Fulbeck-artist, slam poet, filmmaker Event Type: Lecture Sacramento State University University Union Ballroom 2010-02-18, 19:00-21:00 PST (Local Time) Contact:  (916) 278-6997  An Evening With Kip Fulbeck, artist, slam poet, and filmmaker- addressing issues on identity, multiraciality, and pop culture through spoken word, stand-up comedy, political activism, and personal stories, University Union…

  • Ambiguity and Ambivalence in the Voting Booth and Beyond: A Social-Psychological Perspective on Racial Attitudes and Behavior in the Obama Era

    Ambiguity and Ambivalence in the Voting Booth and Beyond: A Social-Psychological Perspective on Racial Attitudes and Behavior in the Obama Era Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race Volume 6, Issue 01, March 2009 pages 71-82 DOI: 10.1017/S1742058X09090067 Destiny Peery Department of Psychology Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois Galen V. Bodenhausen, Lawyer Taylor Professor of…

  • Ethnic and Urban Intersections in the Classroom: Latino Students, Hybrid Identities, and Culturally Responsive Pedagogy

    Ethnic and Urban Intersections in the Classroom: Latino Students, Hybrid Identities, and Culturally Responsive Pedagogy Multicultural Perspectives Volume 9, Issue 3 (July 2007) pages 21-28 DOI: 10.1080/15210960701443599 Jason G. Irizarry, Assistant Professor of Multicultural Education Neag School of Education, University of Connecticut Drawing from data collected through classroom observations and in-depth interviews, this article describes…

  • The Impossibility of Return: Black Women’s Migrations to Africa

    The Impossibility of Return: Black Women’s Migrations to Africa Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies Volume 27, Number 2, 2006 pages 54-86 E-ISSN: 1536-0334 Print ISSN: 0160-9009 DOI: 10.1353/fro.2007.0009 Piper Kendrix-Williams, Professor of African-American Studies The College of New Jersey I was on an international flight, traveling from New York to Paris, when an older…

  • Racial Identity in Balance

    Racial Identity in Balance The Chronicle of Higher Education 2004-01-07 Naomi J. Miller, Professor of English and the Study of Women and Gender; Director of Institutional Diversity and Assistant to the President Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts I consider myself multiracial. Technically, I am half Japanese, a quarter Czech, and a quarter English-Dutch. By definition, then,…

  • Emerging whole from Native-Canadian relations: mixed ancestry narratives: a thesis

    Emerging whole from Native-Canadian relations: mixed ancestry narratives: a thesis University of British Columbia 1999-04-25 Dawn Marsden Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Masters of Arts in the Department of Educational Stuides. After hundreds of years of contact, the relationships between the people of Native Nations and the Canadian Nation…