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  • White Mothers Negotiating Race and Ethnicity in the Mothering of Biracial, Black-White Adolescents

    White Mothers Negotiating Race and Ethnicity in the Mothering of Biracial, Black-White Adolescents Journal of Ethnic And Cultural Diversity in Social Work Volume 14, Issue 3 & 4 June 2006 pages 125 – 156 DOI: 10.1300/J051v14n03_07 Margaret O’Donoghue, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Social Work School of Social Work, New York University Eleven White mothers of…

  • Dating Practices, Racial Identity, and Psychotherapeutic Needs of Biracial Women

    Dating Practices, Racial Identity, and Psychotherapeutic Needs of Biracial Women Women & Therapy Volume 27, Issue 1 & 2 January 2004 pages 103 – 117 DOI: 10.1300/J015v27n01_07 Ivory Roberts-Clarke University of Rhode Island Angie C. Roberts University of Georgia Patricia Morokoff, Professor of Psychology and Director of the Clinical Psychology University of Rhode Island Studies…

  • Self-made women in a (racist) man’s world: The ‘tragic’ lives of Nella Larsen and Bessie Head

    Self-made women in a (racist) man’s world: The ‘tragic’ lives of Nella Larsen and Bessie Head English Academy Review Volume 25, Issue 1 (May 2008) pages 66-76 DOI: 10.1080/10131750802099490 Diana Mafe, Assistant Professor of English Denison University, Granville, Ohio (Her research aims to situate mixed race studies in a relatively unexplored sub-Saharan African context.) Nella…

  • Situating Multiethnic Identity: Contributions of Discourse Theory to the Study of Mixed Heritage Students

    Situating Multiethnic Identity: Contributions of Discourse Theory to the Study of Mixed Heritage Students Journal of Language, Identity & Education Volume 3, Issue 3 (July 2004) pages 195-213 DOI: 10.1207/s15327701jlie0303_2 Kendra R. Wallace University of Maryland, Baltimore County The article considers the contributions of Gee‘s Discourse theory to the study of multiethnic identity among mixed…

  • I Define My Own Identity: Pacific Articulations of ‘Race’ and ‘Culture’on the Internet

    I Define My Own Identity: Pacific Articulations of ‘Race’ and ‘Culture’on the Internet Ethnicities Vol. 3, No. 4 pp. 465-490 (2003) DOI: 10.1177/1468796803003004002 Marianne I. Franklin University of Amsterdam Most of the participants in the internet discussion forums, the Kava Bowl and the Kamehameha Roundtable, herald from the South Pacific islands of Tonga and Samoa.…

  • Mestizaje: Critical Uses of Race in Chicano Culture

    Mestizaje: Critical Uses of Race in Chicano Culture University of Minnesota Press 2006 272 pages 15 halftones; 5 7⁄8 x 9 Paper ISBN: 0-8166-4595-7 Paper ISBN-13: 978-0-8166-4595-4 Cloth ISBN: 0-8166-4594-9 Cloth ISBN-13: 978-0-8166-4594-7 Rafael Pérez-Torres, Professor and Chair of English University of California, Los Angeles A major reassessment of how mixed-race identity affects Chicano culture and…

  • Forced to Choose: Some Determinants of Racial Identification

    Forced to Choose: Some Determinants of Racial Identification Child Development May/June 2004 Volume 75, Number 3 Pages 730-748 Melissa Herman, Assistant Professor of Sociology Dartmouth University This paper categorizes multiracial youth (N=1,496) ages 14 to 19 and compares them with other and with monoracial youth on identity development measures.  The multiracial categories used here are…

  • Choosing Ethnic Identity

    Choosing Ethnic Identity Polity Books February 2003 192 pages 229 x 152 mm, 6 x 9 in Hardback ISBN: 9780745622767; ISBN10: 0745622763 Paperback ISBN: 9780745622774; ISBN10: 0745622771 Miri Song, Professor of Sociology University of Kent Choosing Ethnic Identity explores the ways in which people are able to choose their ethnic identities in contemporary multiethnic societies…

  • Will “Multiracial”: Survive to the Next Generation?: The Racial Classification of Children of Multiracial Parents

    Will “Multiracial”: Survive to the Next Generation?: The Racial Classification of Children of Multiracial Parents Social Forces Volume 86, Number 2 (December 2007) pages 821-849 DOI: 10.1353/sof.2008.0007 Jenifer L. Bratter, Assistant Professor of Sociology and Associate Director of the Institute for Urban Research Rice University Will multiracial identification resonate with future generations? Using the 2000 U.S. Census,…

  • History, Trauma, and the Discursive Construction of “Race” in John Dominis Holt’s Waimea Summer

    History, Trauma, and the Discursive Construction of “Race” in John Dominis Holt’s Waimea Summer Cultural Critique Number 47, Winter 2001 pages 167-214 DOI: 10.1353/cul.2001.0026 Susan Y. Najita, Associate Professor of English University of Michigan In contemporary discussions about the literature of Hawai’i and its decolonization, a central problematic resulting from on-going Euro-American imperialism is the…