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  • “It’s Only Other People Who Make Me Feel Black”: Acculturation, Identity, and Agency in a Multicultural Community

    “It’s Only Other People Who Make Me Feel Black”: Acculturation, Identity, and Agency in a Multicultural Community Political Psychology Published online: 2013-02-18 DOI: 10.1111/pops.12020 Caroline Howarth, Senior Lecturer in Social Psychology London School of Economics, United Kingdom Wolfgang Wagner, Professor of Psychology Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria University of the Basque Country, San Sebastián, Spain…

  • Multiple Identities: Migrants, Ethnicity, and Membership

    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 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

    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

    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…

  • Anti-Essentialism and Intersectionality: Tools to Dismantle the Master’s House

    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

    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

    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

    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…