Category: Identity Development/Psychology

  • Taye Diggs, Embrace Blackness In Mixed Families: They’re Not Mutually Exclusive Global Grind 2015-10-18 Jada Gomez, Managing Editor Taye Diggs is set to release a second children’s book, Mixed Me, to teach young biracial children how to embrace their multicultural, multi-hued identities. But before it hits shelves, it needs a few edits… from a multiracial…

  • “Evoking the Mulatto” Screening + Panel Discussion The National Black Programming Consortium 2015-11-19 Tune in Thursday, November 19, 2015 from 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM ET for a back-to-back screening of all four episodes from “Evoking the Mulatto,” a transmedia project about 21st-century mixed black identity. A discussion will follow with Judy Pryor-Ramirez, director of…

  • The Mixed-Race in-betweeners The Columbia Spectator New York, New York 2015-11-12 Keenan Smith I am Mixed-Race. I am both Black and white. I am also American and have therefore been raised in a culture that seems to be constantly divided along racial boundaries, whether they are in campus diversity and inclusion programs or identity-based organizations,…

  • I am a 35-year old mixed race woman (Black Jamaican, Nigerian and White British), born and living in Leeds, Yorkshire the UK and I recently completed a counselling diploma. As part of the work I had to do to achieve my diploma I had to do a great deal of work around examining my racial…

  • “I’m A Biracial Person Who…” | A Snapchat Story Chescaleigh 2015-10-26 Franchesca Ramsey

  • Colored Perceptions: Racially Distinctive Names and Assessments of Skin Color American Behavioral Scientist Published online before print 2015-10-28 DOI: 10.1177/0002764215613395 Denia Garcia Department of Sociology Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey Maria Abascal Department of Sociology Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey Scholars are increasingly employing skin color measures to investigate racial stratification beyond the dimensions of…

  • Sense of Place with Guest Sharon H. Chang Sense of Place Roundhouse Radio 98.3 FM Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada November 2015 Minelle Mahtani, Host Minelle Mahtani and Sharon H. Chang (Source: Facebook) Author, scholar, sociologist, and activist Sharon H. Chang discusses her new book Raising Mixed Race: Multiracial Asian Children in a Post-Racial World. Listen…

  • The day my daughter realized she isn’t white The Washington Post 2015-11-03 Lisa Papademetriou “Mama,” my 4-year-old daughter said. “Did you know that darks and lights didn’t used to be able to go to the same places?” “What?” I asked. It was bedtime, and I was tired. I wondered vaguely how Zara knew so much…

  • Diversity Committee Workshop: Loretta Staples, LCSW: “Both & Neither: Biracial Identities” The Connecticut Society of Psychoanalytic Psychology Mt. Carmel Medical & Professional Building 3074 Whitney Avenue, Bldg 1 Hamden, Connecticut 06518 2015-11-14, 10:30-12:30 EST (Local Time) Loretta Staples, LCSW The CSPP Diversity Work Group Announces a New Workshop in our series: Through An/Other Lens: Multicultural…

  • When I heard the theme for this month was ‘identity’, the word crisis as an appendage kept coming to mind. As a mixed person it, it seems as though the word “crisis” is constantly attached to identity, as though there is confusion somewhere. This is problematic.