Mixed Race Studies

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  • The Dust of Life: America’s Children Abandoned in Vietnam

    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.…

  • Bulletproof Diva: Tales of Race, Sex, and Hair

    Bulletproof Diva: Tales of Race, Sex, and Hair Anchor an imprint of Random House 1997-02-19 320 pages Paperback ISBN: 978-0-385-47123-7 Lisa Jones In Bulletproof Diva, Lisa  Jones brings the wit and candor of her infamous Village Voice column, “Skin Trade,”  to a much larger audience. Chock full of the “fierce black girl humor” that has made…

  • Racial identity and the law: miscegenation and the “one drop rule”

    Racial identity and the law: miscegenation and the “one drop rule” Renegade South: histories of unconventional southerners 2011-08-05 Victoria E. Bynum, Emeritus Professor of History (author of The Long Shadow of the Civil War: Southern Dissent and Its Legacies) Texas State University, San Marcos The “one drop rule” of race refers to the belief that…

  • Trend 6: Who Am I? The Rise of Multiple Identities

    Trend 6: Who Am I? The Rise of Multiple Identities Profiles in Diversity Journal 2013-02-08 Mary-Frances Winters, CEO The Winters Group, Inc. “I am Latina, Muslim, millennial, mother and I want you to understand all of me.” The check the one box identity answer is a thing of the past. Diversity and inclusion practitioners will…

  • Racial Identity, Phenotype, and Self-Esteem Among Biracial Polynesian/White Individuals

    Racial Identity, Phenotype, and Self-Esteem Among Biracial Polynesian/White Individuals Family Relations: Interdisciplinary Journal of Applied Family Studies Volume 62, Issue 1, February 2013 pages 82-91 DOI: 10.1111/j.1741-3729.2012.00743.x G. E. Kawika Allen, Assistant Professor of Psychology Southern Utah University, Cedar City, Utah Patton O. Garriott, Assistant Professor, Counseling Psychology Program University of Denver Carla J. Reyes,…

  • The Race Talk: Multiracialism, White Hegemony, and Identity Politics

    The Race Talk: Multiracialism, White Hegemony, and Identity Politics Information Age Publishing 2012-10-25 144 pages Paperback ISBN: 978-1-61735-912-5 Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-61735-913-2 eBook ISBN: 978-1-61735-914-9 Pierre W. Orelus, Assistant Professor of Education New Mexico State University Drawing on critical race theory, this book critically examines race through a mosaic lens pointing out various issues directly connected…

  • A comprehensive and complex look at multiethnic Asian American identities

    A comprehensive and complex look at multiethnic Asian American identities Nichi Bei: A mixed plate of Japanese American News & Culture 2013-01-01 Ben Hamamoto, Nichi Bei Weekly Contributor When Half is Whole: Multiethnic Asian American Identities, by Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu (Palo Alto, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2012, 248 pp., $21.95, paperback) The whole spectrum of the…

  • Racial Socialization of Biracial Youth: Maternal Messages and Approaches to Address Discrimination

    Racial Socialization of Biracial Youth: Maternal Messages and Approaches to Address Discrimination Family Relations: Interdisciplinary Journal of Applied Family Studies Volume 62, Issue 1 (February 2013) pages 140–153 DOI: 10.1111/j.1741-3729.2012.00748.x Alethea Rollins, Instructor, Child and Family Development University of Central Missouri Andrea G. Hunter, Associate Professor of Human Development and Family Studies University of North…

  • What does Martin Luther King mean to Latinos today?

    What does Martin Luther King mean to Latinos today? Bentley IMPACT – The Power of Ideas Bentley University, Waltham, Massachusetts 2013-01-17 Donna Maria Blancero, Associate Professor of Management “I have a dream, that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their…

  • AfroPoP – A Lot Like You

    AfroPoP – A Lot Like You AfroPoP PBS Video Duration: (00:56:59) Premiere Date: 2013-01-22 Episode Expires: 2013-02-22 Eliaichi Kimaro, Director A bi-racial filmmaker returns to her father’s home tribe on Mount Kilomanjaro. Premieres January 22nd on the WORLD Channel. In this award-winning and very personal documentary a young woman probes her interracial roots to find…