Category: Identity Development/Psychology

  • Elizabeth Key, an African-Anglo woman living in seventeenth century colonial Virginia sued for her freedom after being classified as a negro by the overseers of her late master’s estate. Her lawsuit is one of the earliest freedom suits in the English colonies filed by a person with some African ancestry. Elizabeth’s case also highlights those…

  • White Enough to Be American? Race Mixing, Indigenous People, and the Boundaries of State and Nation (Review) Law and Politics Book Review American Political Science Association Vol. 18 No.9 (2008-09-15) pp. 788-791 Daniel Lipson, Professor of Political Science State University of New York, New Paltz White Enough to Be American? Race Mixing, Indigenous People, and…

  • Multicultural/Multiracial Psychology: Mestizo Perspectives in Personality and Mental Health  Jason Aronson an imprint of Rowman Littelfield 1997 296 pages Cloth 0-7657-0073-5 / 978-0-7657-0073-5 Manuel Ramirez, III, Professor of Psychology University of Texas, Austin also Clinical Professor of Psychology University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas This book presents a cognitive styles framework that explores the…

  • The Politics of Biracialism [Issue] The Black Scholar Journal of Black Studies and Research Fall 2009 (2009-09-22) Volume 39, No. 3/4 Guest Editors: Laura Chrisman, Professor of English University of Washington Habiba Ibrahim, Assistant Professor of English University of Washington Ralina Joseph, Assistant Professor of Communications University of Washington Why a biracial issue, and why now? As…

  • Life on the Color Line: Exploring the Struggle to Conceptualize and Measure Racial Identity in the Mixed-Raced Population Race & Ethnic Studies Institute Texas A&M University 2010-01-29 14:30-16:00 CST (Local Time)  ACAD 326 Kerry Ann Rockquemore, Associate Professor of Sociology University of Illinois at Chicago Empirical research on the growing multiracial population in the U.S. has…

  • This book examines the strengths of and the challenges facing multiple heritage individuals, couples, and families and offers a framework for best practice counseling services and interventions specifically designed to meet their needs.

  • Blurring Racial and Ethnic Boundaries in Asian American Families: Asian American Family Patterns, 1980-2005 Journal of Family Issues Volume 31, Number 3 (March 2010) pages 280-300 DOI: 10.1177/0192513X09350870 Danielle Antoinette Hidalgo University of California, Santa Barbara Carl L. Bankston, Professor of Sociology Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana In this work, the authors use statistics from…

  • Africanastudies: YouTube Channel First Documentary Posted: 2008-03-27 Marco Polo Hernández Cuevas, Asssociate Professor of Spanish North Carolina Central University Reconstructs the involuntary planetary dispersion of African populations, with their millenary cultural capitals, between the 15th and 19th centuries; and analyses the africanization of the places of arrival through their ethnic contributions. Reconstruye la dispersión planetaria…

  • Half vs. Double: Hybrid Mathematics Column: Little Momo in the Big Apple Discover Nikkei: Japanese Migrans and Their Descendants 2008-03-28 Simone Momoye Fujita My mother is Japanese American, and my father is African American. According to this equation, most would assert that this fact makes me exactly one-half Asian and one-half Black, right? I whole-heartedly…

  • Princeton Professor tweets about  her views on mixed-race identity (Interview with Melissa Harris-Lacewell) Mixed Child: The Pulse of the Mixed Community 2009-07-29 Jeff Eddings MSNBC contributor, Princeton University’s Associate Professor of Politics & African American Studies and author of Barbershops, Bibles, and BET: Everyday Talk and Black Political Thought Melissa Harris-Lacewell had a frank  discussion…