Mixed Race Studies

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  • Mixed Race 3.0: Risk and Reward in the Digital Age

    Mixed Race 3.0: Risk and Reward in the Digital Age USC Annenberg Press 2015-01-30 113 pages ISBN: 9781625175564 Edited by: Ulli K. Ryder Department of Gender and Women’s Studies University of Rhode Island Marcia Alesan Dawkins, Clinical Assistant Professor Annenberg School for Communication and Jounalism University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California Have you been…

  • What Are Words Worth: Hapa, Hafu or Mixed-Race?

    What Are Words Worth: Hapa, Hafu or Mixed-Race? Pacific Citizen: The National Newspaper of the JACL Los Angeles, California 2015-01-27 Gil Asakawa I’ve just finished writing revisions for a new edition of my book, “Being Japanese American: A JA Sourcebook for Nikkei, Hapa … & Their Friends,” which will be published this July by Stone…

  • Part Asian-American, All Jewish?

    Part Asian-American, All Jewish? Code Switch: Frontiers of Race, Culture and Ethnicity National Public Radio 2015-02-10 Rachel Gross, Editor Moment Magazine I was five years old when my mother threatened to give me away to journalist Connie Chung. Chung and her husband, Maury Povich, had just announced their intention to adopt a half-Chinese, half-Jewish child.…

  • Not Excluded From Analyses: Ethnic and Racial Meanings and Identification Among Multiethnic/Racial Early Adolescents

    Not Excluded From Analyses: Ethnic and Racial Meanings and Identification Among Multiethnic/Racial Early Adolescents Journal of Adolescent Research Volume 30, Number 2 (March 2015) pages 143-179 DOI: 10.1177/0743558414560626 Cari Gillen-O’Neel, Assistant Professor of Psychology Macalester College, Saint Paul, Minnesota Rashmita S. Mistry, Associate Professor of Education University of California, Los Angeles Christia Spears Brown, Assistant…

  • Checking Boxes: A close look at mixed-race identity and the law

    Checking Boxes: A close look at mixed-race identity and the law Macomb County Leagal News Mt. Clemens, Michgan 2015-02-05 Jenny Whalen, ‎Web Communications Specialist School of Law University of Michigan Professor Martha S. Jones has long struggled with the idea of checking more than one box. Her reluctance to do so has been influenced by…

  • Signs of transcendence? A changing landscape of multiraciality in the 21st century

    Signs of transcendence? A changing landscape of multiraciality in the 21st century International Journal of Intercultural Relations Volume 45, March 2015 Pages 85–95 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijintrel.2015.01.004 Evelina Lou Department of Psychology York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Richard N. Lalonde, Professor of Psychology York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada The relation between multiracial identity selection and psychological outcomes…

  • Brooklyn is: Feature of the Week [Beth Consetta Rubel]

    Brooklyn is: Feature of the Week [Beth Consetta Rubel] Brooklyn Artistry Brooklyn, New York 2015-02-02 The latest and greatest untouched talent of the borough. Being a biracial woman from the South we wanted to know what it was like for Beth Consetta Rubel as an artist. So many things can be triggering for an artists…

  • Penn PIK Professor Dorothy Roberts to Receive APA’s 2015 Fuller Award

    Penn PIK Professor Dorothy Roberts to Receive APA’s 2015 Fuller Award Penn News University of Pennsylvania 2015-01-23 Jacquie Posey, Media Contact Telephone: 215-898-6460 The American Psychiatric Association has named University of Pennsylvania professor Dorothy Roberts recipient of the 2015 Solomon Carter Fuller Award in recognition of her demonstrated leadership and exceptional achievements. The award honors…

  • Skin

    Skin Mixed Roots Stories 2015-01-26 Tru Leverette, Associate Professor of English University of North Florida, Jacksonville, Florida “I wish I had white skin,” my three year-old daughter said, swinging breezily at the park. Gulp. “Why do you say that, Sweetheart?” I asked, outwardly calm but inwardly exclaiming, Shit! What do I do with this? “Because…

  • The Born Identity: Race & Identity in the Multiracial Community

    The Born Identity: Race & Identity in the Multiracial Community Districtly Speaking Mt. Pleasant Neighborhood Library 3160 16th Street, Northwest Washington, D.C. 20010 Thursday, 2015-01-29, 18:30-20:00 EST (Local Time) “Race is not a universal concept — the definitions we go by are often arbitrary, uniquely American and undergo dramatic shifts from one generation to the…