Category: Identity Development/Psychology

  • Multiple Identities: Migrants, Ethnicity, and Membership Indiana University Press 2013-03-22 344 pages 3 b&w illus 6 x 9 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-253-00804-6 Paper ISBN: 978-0-253-00807-7 eBook ISBN: 978-0-253-00811-4 Edited by: Paul Spickard, Professor of History University of California, Santa Barbara In recent years, Europeans have engaged in sharp debates about migrants and minority groups as social…

  • The Debate: Multiracial Identity The Agenda with Steve Paikin TVO (TV Ontario) Toronto, Ontario, Canada 2011-07-22, 20:00 EDT (Local Time) Also at: 2011-07-25, 05:00 EDT (Local Time) Piya Chattopadhyay, Host Guests (in order of appearance) Rainier Spencer, Director of the Afro-American Studies Program University of Nevada, Las Vegas (Author of three books on multiracialism including, Reproducing Race:…

  • Multiracial Identities in Trinidad and Guyana: Exaltation and Ambiguity Latin American Issues Volume 13 (1997) (The Caribbean(s) Redefined) Article IV Camille Hernandez-Ramdwar, Associate Professor of Sociology Ryerson University, Toronto, Ontario For people of formerly colonized countries, race mixing among the populace has always been a reality. This is particularly true for Caribbean peoples. This paper…

  • Canon Fodder: ‘The Girl Who Fell From the Sky’ and the Problem of Mixed-Race Identity Specter Magazine: A Brooklyn-based Art Journal Ghost+Blog (August 2011) 2011-08-18 Summer McDonald Baseball. Apple pie. Buying items in bulk. Buffets. All help create Americana, that itchy, dry-clean only fabric that bonds even the most disparate of us. As fixated as Americans…

  • I want to begin my talk with a quote from the late poet Audre Lorde: “The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.” was asked to speak today about anti-essentialism and intersectionality. I am glad to do so, for I believe both concepts are indispensable tools for dismantling the master’s house.

  • Not All Blacks Are African American: The Importance of Viewing Advisees as Individuals in a Culturally Mosaic Context The Mentor: An Academic Advising Journal Pennsylvania State University 2013-08-15 Mary M. Livingston, Professor of Psychology Louisiana Tech University Latoya Pierce, Assistant professor of Psychology Louisiana Tech University Lou’uan Gollop-Brown, Assistant Professor of Psychology Louisiana Tech University…

  • Researching the Experiences of Multiracial People Having their Racial Group Membership Denied by Others University of Maryland, College Park Department of Psychology 2013-08-22 Marisa Franco, Doctoral Student Counseling Psychology Greetings! My name is Marisa Franco and I am a doctoral student in counseling psychology at the University of Maryland. I am conducting a survey examining…

  • What the ‘Mixed Kids Are Always So Beautiful’ Meme Really Means The Huffington Post 2013-08-22 Marcia Dawkins, Clinical Assistant Professor of Communications University of Southern California, Annenberg The New York Times’ Motherlode blog recently posted a thought-provoking article called, “Mixed Kids Are Always So Beautiful.” The author’s experiences as a parent to a racially-ambiguous mixed…

  • Multiracial Experiences Survey Self in Social Context Lab Psychology Department Simon Fraser University Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada 2013-02-18 Lisa S. Giamo, M.A., Ph.D. Candidate Experimental Social Psychology I am conducting research as part of my dissertation at Simon Fraser University. As part of research being conducted on behalf of the Self in the Social Context…