Category: Papers/Presentations

  • Revisioning Black/White Multiracial Families: The Single-Parent Experience American Sociological Association, Atlanta Hilton Hotel, Atlanta, Georgia 2003-08-16 18 pages, 5,006 words Rachel Sullivan In the literature on Black/White multiracial families, there is a significant group of families missing from most research. These are households that are lead by a single parent of a biracial child. While…

  • Black and White: The Relevance of Race-Unfinished Business The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi chapter at Agusta State University Activities for Fall 2001 2001-10-05 5 pages Christopher Murphy Department of History and Anthropology Augusta State University, Augusta, Georgia Several centuries ago, as Europeans first explored the distant, unknown reaches of the globe, it became…

  • New Challenges in Measuring Race in the United States 2010 National Conference on Health Statistics Omni Shorem Hotel, Washington, D.C. 2010-08-17 46 pages/slides Reynolds Farley, Research Professor Emeritus University of Michigan Population Studies Center at the Institute for Social Research The Multiracial Movement of the 1990s [page/slide 2] After Census 1990, a small social movement…

  • Not Quite White: Race Classification and the Arab American Experience This paper was first presented at a symposium on Arab Americans by: The Center for Contemporary Arab Studies Georgetown University 1997-04-04 (This is also a chapter in Arabs in America: Building a New Future) Issues of race and identity are certainly dominant factors in American…

  • Applying Self-Discrepancy Theory to Biracial Identity and Adjustment: A Proposed Study Social-Personality Brown Bag Series University of California, Davis Location: Young 166 2010-11-08, 12:10-13:30 PST (Local Time) Lauren Berger Research suggests that biracials may have poorer mental health than monoracials and a recent meta-analysis (Shih & Sanchez, 2005) cites a lack of research testing potential…

  • Defying the Civil Rights Lobby: The American Multiracial Movement Benjamin L. Hooks Institute for Social Change University of Memphis April 2007 35 pages Kim M. Williams, Associate Professor of Public Policy Harvard University Throughout the 1990s a handful of advocates argued to stunning if partial success that it was both inaccurate and an affront to…

  • A Critical Race Theory Approach to Understanding Cinematic Representations of the Mixed Race Experience Center for Race & Gender University of California, Berkeley 2010-12-08 10/5/2010 CRG Forum: Mixed Race/Mixed Space in Media Culture & Militarized Zones “A Critical Race Theory Approach to Understanding Cinematic Representations of the Mixed Race Experience” Kevin Escudero, Ethnic Studies This…

  • Ecological Framework for Understanding Multiracial Identity Development American Psychological Association 2002 1 page (chart) Maria P. P. Root A graphical representation of the factors involved in multiracial identity development. View the chart here.

  • Blaxican Identity: An Exploratory Study of Blacks/Chicanas/os in California National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies Annual Conference 35th Annual Conference 2008-04-01 11 pages Rebecca Romo University of California, Santa Barbara This paper explores the life experiences of Blaxicans, or multiracial individuals who are the products of unions that are composed of one biological (or…

  • Thinking and living in, out, and beyond the box: Exploring Racial and Cultural Complexity in Identity among Adoptive Multiracial Families and Persons Racial Identity and Cultural Factors in Treatment, Research, and Policy The Ninth Annual Diversity Challenge Institute for the Study and Promotion of Race and Culture Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts 2009-10-23 through 2009-10-24…