Category: Identity Development/Psychology

  • Kaneesha Parsard on (1)ne Drop and the Multiplicity of Blackness Climbing Vines: A Collection of Short Stories 2014-05-01 Janday Wilson When you think of blackness what do you see? Dr. Yaba Blay’s multiplatform project (1)ne Drop and book (1)ne Drop: Shifting the Lens on Race complicate the answers to that question. In the book, visually…

  • Geraldo Rivera: On Being Jew-Rican, A Rare Mixed Breed Fox News Latino 2014-05-16 Geraldo Rivero, Senior Correspondent Fox News (From my speech May 14, 2014 at The Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey’s Women’s Philanthropy luncheon) I’d like to talk about being Jewish in a Puerto Rican family by telling you the story of my…

  • Mixed:  Four young alums open up about their multiracial heritage and how it shapes them Dartmouth Alumni Magzine May/June 2014 pages 42-47 Book Excerpt from: Garrod, Andrew, Christina Gómez, Robert Kilkenny, Mixed: Multiracial College Students Tell Their Life Stories (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2013). Seeking to be Whole By Shannon Joyce Prince ’09 Whenever I’ve…

  • The Box Doesn’t Fit by becky Martinez Commission for Social Justice Educators Blog 2014-03-04 Becky Martinez To give you context, I am coming off of an intense few weeks of facilitating workshops on Biracial Identity and, as typically happens, after each session there is a small contingent of people wanting to connect. Some share their…

  • Mixed Feelings North by Northwestern Northwestern University’s leading independent online publication Evanston, Illinois 2014-05-22 Sarah Turbin, Class 0f 2016 Medill School of Journalism There’s no question quite like it. “What are you?” has trailed behind me my whole life, tapping me on the shoulder with a different lilt to its tone each time: curious, doubtful,…

  • But your hair is so beautiful… Black Women of Brazil 2014-05-08 Stephanie Paes (orginally published on 2013-06-12 as “Mas seu cabelo é tão bonito…” in Falando sem permissão) I know that it is. And only I understand the time I needed to take account of this (1). My hair is crespo (curly/kinky). It has gone…

  • Defining Mixed Race Feminism Musings of a Mixed Race Feminist: Random diatribes from a mixed race feminist scholar. 2014-05-16 Donna J. Nicol, Associate Professor Women & Gender Studies California State University, Fullerton …Question of the Day: What is mixed race feminism? Good question given mixed race and gender issues aren’t often brought in conversation together even…

  • Beyond Biracial: When Blackness Is a Small, Nearly Invisible Fraction The Root 2014-05-12 Jenée Desmond-Harris, Senior Staff Writer and White House Correspondent In the past, these Americans would have been labeled “quadroons” or “octoroons.” Today their options are so much broader. What can they teach us about race in 2014 and in the future? Stephanie…

  • Reflections of an Undercover Black Girl from San Francisco 50 Shades of Black: Sexuality and Skin Tone in the Formation of Identity 2014-05-07 Stacy Jethroe My skin is tan. My hair is wavy. In Nina Simone’s “Four Women” I might be considered a Saffonia, though my father was neither rich nor white. As a child…

  • Talking Mixed-Race Identity with Young Children Hyphen—Asian Americans Unabridged 2014-05-06 Sharon H. Chang “Mom, am I White?” A few weeks ago, when I got this question from my four-year-old, I wasn’t sure what to say. Technically my son is “biracial” — but that label does him a severe representative injustice, because his bloodline is actually…