Category: Identity Development/Psychology

  • Race Bending: “Mixed” Youth Practicing Strategic Racialization in California Anthropology & Education Quarterly Volume 35 Issue 1 (March 2004) Pages 30-52 DOI: 10.1525/aeq.2004.35.1.30 Mica Pollock, Associate Professor of Education Harvard University As more U.S. youth claim “mixed” heritages, some adults are proposing to erase race words altogether from the nation’s inequality analysis. Yet such proposals, as…

  • The Inheritability of Identity: Children’s Understanding of the Cultural Biology of Race Child Development Volume 66 Issue 5 (October 1995) Pages 1418 – 1437 DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.1995.tb00943.x Lawrence A. Hirschfeld, Professor, Anthropology & Psychology Eugene Lang College, The New School for Liberal Arts 4 experiments explored adult and grade school children’s beliefs about inheritability of identity,…

  • Nobody’s Son: Notes from an American Life University of Arizona Press 1998 188 pages 5.0 x 8.0 Paper ISBN: 978-0-8165-2270-5 Luis Alberto Urrea Here’s a story about a family that comes from Tijuana and settles into the ‘hood, hoping for the American Dream. …I’m not saying it’s our story. I’m not saying it isn’t. It…

  • Earthquake Weather University of Arizona Press 1996 87 pages 5.5 x 8.5 Paper ISBN: 978-0-8165-1630-8 Janice Gould It’s unmistakable, that strangely calm air and sky that signals big change ahead: earthquake weather. These are familiar signs to Janice Gould, a poet, a lesbian, and a mixed-blood California Indian of Koyangk’auwi Maidu descent. Her sense of…

  • ‘After all, I am partly Māori, partly Dalmatian, but first of all I am a New Zealander’ Ethnography Volume 6, Number 4 (December 2005) pages 517-542 DOI: 10.1177/1466138105062477 Senka Božić-Vrbančić The University of Auckland, New Zealand This article explores the complexity of the processes of identity construction for ‘mixed-race’ individuals in New Zealand. It focuses…

  • Maya Ethnolinguistic Identity: Violence, Cultural Rights, and Modernity in Highland Guatemala University of Arizona Press 2010 192 pages 6.0 x 9.0 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8165-2767-0 Brigittine M. French, Assistant Professor of Anthropology Grinnell College In this valuable book, ethnographer and anthropologist Brigittine French mobilizes new critical-theoretical perspectives in linguistic anthropology, applying them to the politically charged…

  • Are Mestizos Hybrids? The Conceptual Politics of Andean Identities Journal of Latin American Studies Volume 37, Issue 02 May 2005 pp 259-284 DOI: 10.1017/S0022216X05009004 Marisol de la Cadena, Associate Professor of Anthropology University of California, Davis Through a genealogical analysis of the terms mestizo and mestizaje, this article reveals that these voices are doubly hybrid.…

  • Individuals versus Group? The Moral Conundrum of Blurred Racial Boundaries Chapter for publication in Social Science and Ethics, ed. Kristen Monroe. Book manuscript being prepared for review. 2008-08-26 Jennifer L. Hochschild, Henry LaBarre Jayne Professor of Government and Professor of African and African American Studies Harvard University A classic moral conundrum, especially though not uniquely…

  • Race and Ethnicity: Culture, Identity and Representation Routledge 2006-03-02 296 pages Hardback ISBN: 978-0-415-35124-9 Paperback ISBN: 978-0-415-35125-6 Trim Size: 234X156 Stephen Spencer, Senior Lecturer in Sociology Sheffield Hallam University Broad-ranging and comprehensive, this incisive new textbook examines the shifting meanings of ‘race’ and ethnicity and collates the essential concepts in one indispensable companion volume. From…