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  • Bi-Ethnic Identity: Converging Conversations

    Bi-Ethnic Identity: Converging Conversations Language Literacy & Culture Review University of Maryland, Baltimore County 2009 Anissa Sorokin Univerisity of Maryland This paper examines ethnic identity, with a focus on bi-ethnic identity, from academic, creative non-fiction, and personal perspectives. Social psychological models of ethnic identity development, along with salient aspects of ethnic identity, are explored and…

  • Bradley Lincoln of Multiple Heritage Project (mix-d™) Guest on Mixed Chicks Chat

    Bradley Lincoln of  Multiple Heritage Project (mix-d™) 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) Website: TalkShoe™ (Keywords: Mixed Chicks) Episode: #138 – Bradley Lincoln When: Wednesday, 2010-01-27 00:00Z Bradley Lincoln, Founder Multiple Heritage Project…

  • What are you? For multiracial students, declaring an identity can be complicated

    What are you? For multiracial students, declaring an identity can be complicated Princeton Alumni Weekly Princeton University 2010-01-13 Issue Maya Rock (Class of 2002) In my first few weeks at Princeton, I became accustomed to fielding questions: What’s your background? Where are your parents from? And the strikingly ­existential: What are you?   What the questioners…

  • Review Essay: Racial Relations and Racism in Brazil

    Review Essay: Racial Relations and Racism in Brazil Culture & Psychology Volume 13, Number 4 (December 2007) pages 461-473 DOI: 10.1177/1354067X07082805 Marcus Eugênio Oliveira Lima Universidade Federal de Sergipe, Brazil Telles, Edward Eric, Race in Another America: The Significance of Skin Color in Brazil. Princeton, NJ/Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2006. 324 pp. ISBN 978–0–691–12792–7 (pbk)…

  • Writing in 2010 about the Idea of Racial Identity

    Writing in 2010 about the Idea of Racial Identity The 17th Annual Oxford Conference for the Book (2010-03-04 through 2010-03-06) 2010-03-05, 13:30 – 15:00 EST (Local Time) Overby Center for Southern Journalism University of Mississippi Oxford, Mississippi Ted Ownby, Professor History and Southern Studies and Director of the Center for the Study of Southern Culture…

  • Multiracial Identity and the U.S. Census

    Multiracial Identity and the U.S. Census ProQuest Discovery Guides January 2010 Tyrone Nagai, Supervising Editor of Social Sciences ProQuest Introduction: What is Multiracial Identity?   Back on April 23, 1997, 21-year-old golfer Tiger Woods made headlines on the Oprah Winfrey Show when he described his racial background as “Cablinasian,” an abbreviation representing his “Caucasian,” “Black,”…

  • Rethinking Mestizaje: Ideology and Lived Experience

    Rethinking Mestizaje: Ideology and Lived Experience Journal of Latin American Studies 2005 Number 37, Issue 2 Pages 239–257 DOI: 10.1017/S0022216X05008990 Peter Wade, Professor of Social Anthropology University of Manchester The ideology of mestizaje (mixture) in Latin America has frequently been seen as involving a process of national homogenisation and of hiding a reality of racist…

  • Options: Racial/Ethnic Identification of Children of Intermarried Couples

    Options: Racial/Ethnic Identification of Children of Intermarried Couples Social Science Quarterly (September 2004) Volume 85, Issue 3 Pages 746 – 766 DOI: 10.1111/j.0038-4941.2004.00243.x Zhenchao Qian, Professor of Sociology Ohio State University Objective. Whites of various European ethnic backgrounds usually have weak ethnic attachment and have options to identify their ethnic identity (Waters, 1990). What about children…

  • Raising Multiracial Awareness in Family Therapy through Critical Conversations

    Raising Multiracial Awareness in Family Therapy through Critical Conversations Journal of Marital and Family Therapy Volume 31, Issue 4 Pages 399 – 411 October 2005 DOI: 10.1111/j.1752-0606.2005.tb01579.x Teresa McDowell School of Family Studies University of Connecticut Lucrezia Ingoglia Greater Lakes Mental Healthcare Tacoma, Washington Takiko Seizawa Family Service Associates San Antonio, Texas Christina Holland Behavioral…

  • Multiracial Self-Identification and Adolescent Outcomes: A Social Psychological Approach to the Marginal Man Theory

    Multiracial Self-Identification and Adolescent Outcomes: A Social Psychological Approach to the Marginal Man Theory Social Forces Volume 88, Number 1 (September 2009) ISSN: 1534-7605 Print ISSN: 0037-7732 DOI: 10.1353/sof.0.0243 Simon Cheng, Associate Professor of Sociology University of Connecticut Kathryn J. Lively, Associate Professor, Sociology Dartmouth College Recent public health research has consistently reported that self-identified multiracial adolescents…