Category: Identity Development/Psychology

  • MFA Thesis Choreographies Davis Life Magazine Davis, California 2013-02-28 UC Davis Department of Theatre and Dance is proud to present MFA Thesis Choreographies: “Ligilo” by Jarrell Iu-Hui Chua, in collaboration with Bobby August Jr., travels through the worlds of memories, dreams and present realities to investigate touch and its effects on relationships; “Transmutation” by Christine…

  • MMXLII Viewpoint: What Are You? MMXLII: the power of diversity 2013-03-01 Joel Wacks Our guest correspondent Joel Wacks is back with another intriguing article as he takes time to reflect on his personal life. As a person of mixed race there is a common question he seems to always be asked, and for one reason…

  • ‘Brown Babies:’ Post-war Germany’s Mixed-race Children The Washington Informer Washington, D.C. 2012-02-27 Barrington M. Salmon For much of his adult life, Daniel Cardwell has been immersed in a search for his identity and his past. He told an audience at Bowie State University recently that he remembers a childhood where he was never hugged or…

  • My journey has taken me past constructions of race, past constructions of mixed race, and into an understanding of human difference that does not include race as a meaningful category. Rainier Spencer, “Race and Mixed Race: A Personal Tour,” in As We Are Now: Mixblood Essays on Race and Identity, edited by William S. Penn,…

  • The Fluency of Light: Coming of Age in a Theater of Black and White University of Iowa Press April 2013 144 pages 5 ¾ x 9 ¼ Paper ISBN: 1-60938-160-2; 978-1-60938-160-8 Aisha Sabatini Sloan In these intertwined essays on art, music, and identity, Aisha Sabatini Sloan, the daughter of African American and Italian American parents,…

  • The Stigma of Privilege: Racial Identity and Stigma Consciousness Among Biracial Individuals Race and Social Problems Volume 5, Issue 1 (March 2013) pages 41-56 DOI: 10.1007/s12552-012-9083-5 Leigh S. Wilton Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey Diana T. Sanchez, Associate Professor of Psychology Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey Julie A. Garcia, Associate Professor…

  • From the Golden Gate to the Green Mountains: A Hapa Educational Autobiography and Meta-Critical Reflection University of Vermont October 2012 65 pages Noelle Brassey A Thesis Presented to The Faculty of the Graduate College of The University of Vermont In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements For the Degree of Master of Arts Specializing in English…

  • This paper builds a Critical Race Theory approach to consider how mixed-race American Indian college students conform to, or resist, dominant black/non-black ideology. Current research on multiracials in the U.S. lacks the perspectives of mixed-race American Indians on the heightened disputes of “Indianness,” tribal enrollment, and tribal self-determination.

  • Five times more ‘G.I. babies’ than previously thought The Phillipine Star Manila, Philippines 2012-12-17 Jarius Bondoc There are five times more American “G.I. babies” in the Philippines than previously thought — and they continue to multiply. This is according to a recent study by a visiting American social researcher and professor in Angeles City, Pampanga.…

  • The Dust of Life: America’s Children Abandoned in Vietnam University of Washington Press 1999 160 pages notes, glossary, bibliog., index Paperback ISBN: 9780295978369 Robert S. McKelvey, M.D., Professor Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Oregon Health & Science University The Dust of Life is a collection of vivid and devastating oral histories of Vietnamese Amerasians.…