Category: Papers/Presentations

  • A Beautiful Lie: Exploring Rhinelander v. Rhinelander as a Formative Lesson on Race, Marriage, Identity, and Family California Law Review Volume 95, Issue 6 (2007) pages 2393-2458 Angela Onwuachi-Willig, Professor of Law and Charles M. and Marion J. Kierscht Scholar University of Iowa College of Law During the mid-1920s, the story of the courtship, marriage,…

  • Is Parental Love Colorblind? Allocation of Resources within Mixed-Race Families (Preliminary Version) Prepared for the Labor and Population Workshop, Department of Economics, Yale University May, 2007 53 pages Marcos A. Rangel, Assistant Professor Harris School of Public Policy Studies University of Chicago Recent studies have shown that differences in wage-determinant skills between blacks and whites…

  • Mixed Ancestry Racial/Ethnic Identity Development (MAREID) Model Wellesley Centers for Women 2003 Peony Fhagen-Smith, Assistant Professor of Psychology Wheaton College, Norton Massachusetts To date no theoretical work on racial/ethnic identity development adequately provides a framework for explaining current empirical findings concerning racial/ethnic identification among mixed ancestry youth. This paper reviews current research on the mixed…

  • Complexities in Researching Mixed Ancestry Adolescents: A Preliminary Study Wellesley Centers for Women 2004 Michelle Porche Peony Fhagen-Smith, Assistant Professor of Psychology Wheaton College, Norton Massachusetts Jo H. Kim Heidie A. Vázquez García Allison J. Tracy Sumru Erkut Contemporary events, such as the change in the 2000 U.S. Census, highlight the need for a better…

  • Genealogy as Social Memory: Making the Public Personal The 7th Annual Committee on Historical Studies, Sociology Department and International Labor Working Class History Journal Joint Conference History Matters: Spaces of Violences, Spaces of Memory New School for Social Research 2004-04-23 through 2004-04-24 Karla Hackstaff, Associate Professor of Sociology Northern Arizona University “Race, like nature and…

  • The Plight of Mixed Race Adolescents First Draft: August 2005 This Version: July 2008 Roland G. Fryer, Jr., Professor of Economics Harvard University and NBER Lisa Kahn, Assistant Professor of Economics Yale School of Management Steven D. Levitt, William B. Ogden Distinguished Service Professor of Economics University of Chicago and American Bar Foundation Jörg L.…

  • Racial Boundary Formation at the Dawn of Jim Crow: The Determinants and Effects of Black/Mulatto Occupational Differences in the United States, 1880 Department Colloquium Series University of Washington, Department of Sociology Savery Hall 2009-10-06 15:30 PDT (Local Time) Aaron Gullickson, Assistant Professor University of Oregon Much of the literature within sociology regarding mixed-race populations focuses…

  • From Jamestown 1607 to 2007, the American Mosaic: A Multicultural Society National Association of Independent Schools (NAIS) People of Color Conference 2006 Christine Madsen Rocky Mount Academy (North Carolina) Some of the original settlers in colonial Virginia formed self-sustaining mixed race communities. The history of these communities will be used as an entrance point to…

  • I’m not White but You Treat Me that way: The Role of Racial Ambiguity in Interracial Interactions SPSP 2010 The Eleventh Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology 2010-01-28 through 2010-01-30 Las Vegas, Nevada Jessica D. Remedios University of Toronto Alison L. Chasteen University of Toronto Interracial interactions are complicated by concerns…

  • Different prejudices toward different types of interracial couples: Examining alternative explanations SPSP 2010 The Eleventh Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology 2010-01-28 through 2010-01-30 Las Vegas, Nevada Stephen A. Mistler Arizona State University Angela G. Pirlott Arizona State University Steven L. Neuberg Arizona State University Between 1992 and 2000, the prevalence…