Mixed Race Studies

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  • Hello, My Race is:… Supporting the Identity of Biracial College Students

    Hello, My Race is:… Supporting the Identity of Biracial College Students People of Color in Predominantly White Institutions Ninth Annual Conference POCPWI 2004 5 pages Natasha H. Chapman, Director for the TCU Leadership Center Texas Christian College An entire generation of biracial individuals is coming of age suggesting that colleges and universities will experience an…

  • Biracial Identity Development: Therapeutic Implications of Phenotype and Other Contextual Considerations

    Biracial Identity Development: Therapeutic Implications of Phenotype and Other Contextual Considerations Practices of Healing: Using Multicultural Psychotherapy to Confront Symbols of Hate Presentation Hosted by the Multicultural Research and Training Lab, Graduate School of Education and Psychology Psychology Division Pepperdine University 2008-10-11 35 slides Krystle G. Hays, M.A. Doctoral Student Pepperdine University This presentation examines…

  • Changing Answers but Not Identities: A Qualitative Investigation of Race Responses in a Longitudinal Survey

    Changing Answers but Not Identities: A Qualitative Investigation of Race Responses in a Longitudinal Survey Population Association of America 2009 Annual Meeting Marriott Renaissance Center Detroit, Michigan 2009-04-16 19 pages Kelsey Poss University of Minnesota Carolyn A. Liebler, Assistant Professor of Sociology University of Minnesota Paper presented at the 2009 annual meetings of the Population…

  • Black/Irish: How do Americans understand their multiracial ancestry?

    Black/Irish: How do Americans understand their multiracial ancestry? Population Association of America 2009 Annual Meeting Marriott Renaissance Center Detroit, Michigan 2009-05-01 19 pages Aaron Gullickson, Assistant Professor of Sociology University of Oregon Ann Morning, Assistant Professor of Sociology New York University In recent years, studies examining the racial identification of mixed-race individuals on surveys and…

  • The Marital Patterns of Multiracial People in the United States: A Comparison of Asian/Whites and Black/Whites

    The Marital Patterns of Multiracial People in the United States: A Comparison of Asian/Whites and Black/Whites American Sociological Association Annual Meeting Hilton San Francisco San Francisco, California 2009-08-08 20 pages Michael Miyawaki Fordham University In this paper, I examine and compare the marital patterns of two multiracial groups—Asian/whites and black/whites—in the United States. Examining the…

  • Founding Chestnut Ridge: The Origins of Central West Virginia’s Multiracial Community

    Founding Chestnut Ridge: The Origins of Central West Virginia’s Multiracial Community The Ohio State University Department of History Project Advisor: Randolph Roth, Professor of History and Sociology March 2010 140 pages Alexandra Finley The Ohio State University Senior Honors Thesis Presented in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for graduation with research distinction in History in…

  • Shifting Demographics: Preparing for a New Race and Ethnicity Classification Scheme in NAEP

    Shifting Demographics: Preparing for a New Race and Ethnicity Classification Scheme in NAEP Population Association of America 2010 Annual Meeting Program 2010-04-17 3 pages 1 chart, 1 table Salvador Rivas American Institutes for Research On September 24, 2007, the U.S. Department of Education (USDE) issued final guidance for collecting and reporting race/ethnicity information to all…

  • Measuring Race (and Ethnicity): An Overview of Past Practices, Current Concerns and Thoughts for the Future [Draft]

    Measuring Race (and Ethnicity): An Overview of Past Practices, Current Concerns and Thoughts for the Future [Draft] Population Association of America 2010 Annual Meeting Program 2010-04-17 25 pages C. Matthew Snipp, Professor of Sociology Stanford University On the eve of the 2010 census, Census Bureau staff are already beginning to think about how race should…

  • Bio-Ancestry and Social Construction of Race and Ethnicity

    Bio-Ancestry and Social Construction of Race and Ethnicity Population Association of America 2010 Annual Meeting Program 2010-04-17 Guang Guo, Odum Distinguished Term Professor of Sociology University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Yilan Fu University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Kathleen Mullan Harris, James Haar Distinguished Professor of Sociology University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Two sharply…

  • Beyond the Looking Glass: Exploring Variation between Racial Self-Identification and Interviewer Classification

    Beyond the Looking Glass: Exploring Variation between Racial Self-Identification and Interviewer Classification Population Association of America 2010 Annual Meeting Program 2010-04-17 10 pages Aliya Saperstein, Assistant Professor of Sociology Stanford University Andrew Penner, Associate Professor of Sociology University of California, Irvine Recent research has demonstrated the existence of fluidity in both racial self-identification and interviewer classification.…