Category: Identity Development/Psychology

  • Many Psychology Findings Not as Strong as Claimed, Study Says The New York Times 2015-08-27 Benedict Carey, Science Reporter The past several years have been bruising ones for the credibility of the social sciences. A star social psychologist was caught fabricating data, leading to more than 50 retracted papers. A top journal published a study…

  • Seeking Biracial Participants for Study on Social Experiences Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey Department of Psychology 2015-08-05 Analia Albuja Multiracial and multicultural populations have grown tremendously in recent years, yet their unique social experiences remain understudied. The present study is being conducted by Analia Albuja, a graduate student in social psychology and attempts to fill…

  • Mixed Race Male and Female Participants Needed to Take Part in a Research Project ESRC Centre on Dynamics of Ethnicity (CoDE) The University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom 2015-07-25 Karis Campion, Ph.D. Doctoral Researcher and Graduate Teaching Assistant Do you have Mixed White and Black Caribbean heritage? Were you born between 1955-1970 or 1980-1995? Did…

  • On the use of “Slave Mistress” AAIHS: African American Intellectual History Society 2015-08-21 Emily Owens The passing of the great civil-rights leader Julian Bond earlier this week ignited a firestorm of activity on Twitter. Historians of African American women’s history noticed and commented on something suspect in Bond’s obituary, a brief line embedded within: in…

  • ETHS 306 : Politics of Mixed Racial Identity Metropolitan State University, Saint Paul, Minnesota 2002-08-24 to Present This course focuses on the phenomenon of mixed race descent in the United States. For comparative purposes, the course also explores the topic in relation to other nations. Included in the course are historical perspectives, and exploration of…

  • Negotiating cultural ambiguity: the role of markets and consumption in multiracial identity development Consumption Markets & Culture Volume 18, Issue 4, 2015 pages 301-332 DOI: 10.1080/10253866.2015.1019483 Robert L. Harrison III, Associate Professor of Marketing Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan Kevin D. Thomas, Assistant Professor Stan Richards School of Advertising & Public Relations University of Texas,…

  • How Canadians celebrate their identity — it’s all in the hyphen The Toronto Star 2015-05-02 Eric Andrew-Gee, Staff Reporter Hyphenated identities — Ukrainian-Canadian, Somali-Canadian and the like — have played an outsized if ambiguous role in Canada. The Canadian poet Fred Wah is a bard of hyphens. He has described them, variously, as “a boundary…

  • As A White Mom, Helping My Multiracial Kids Feel At Home In Their Skin Code Switch: Frontiers of Race, Culture and Ethnicity National Public Radio 2015-07-24 Kristen Green Last year, after months of watching — and re-watching — the movie Frozen, my daughter Selma, who is 6, announced she didn’t want to be brown. “I…

  • Rachel Dolezal Has Hijacked what It Means To Be Mixed-Race In America ARMED 2015-07-05 Sophia Softky Since the Rachel Dolezal trainwreck began unfolding, each day has brought ever-weirder allegations to light. From her upbringing, days at Howard University, involvement in the NAACP, and position as an Africana Studies professor – along with the predictable flood…

  • Preparing counselors for America’s multiracial population boom Counseling Today: A Publication of the American Counseling Association 2015-07-15 Bethany Bray, Staff Writer Preparing counselors for America’s multiracial population boom The U.S. Census Bureau estimates that the nation’s multiracial population will triple by 2060. That prognostication only heightens the long-standing need for counselors to better understand this…