Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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- You were either Black or white. To claim whiteness as a mixed child was to deny and hide Blackness. Our families understood that the world we were growing into would seek to denigrate this part of us and we would need a community that was made up, always and already, of all shades of Blackness.
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Category: Papers/Presentations
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Parental Communication and Its Influence on Biracial Identity Paper presented at the annual meeting of the NCA 93rd Annual Convention, TBA Chicago, IL 2007-11-15 27 pages Carolyn Brooks The Biracial identity development process has long been overlooked in society and in research. Few models exist and those models in existence are mostly descriptive. This…
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Narrating the Racial Self: Symbolic Boundaries and the Reference Group Identification Among Biracial Black Jews Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association Marriott Hotel, Loews Philadelphia Hotel Philadelphia, PA 2005-08-12 45 pages Bruce Haynes, Associate Professor Sociology Depertment University of California at Davis Few studies of bi-racial or multiracial identity have…
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Status Maximization or Identity Theory?: A Theorectical Approach to Understanding the Racial Identification of Multiracial Adolescents Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association Marriott Hotel, Loews Philadelphia Hotel, Philadelphia, PA 2005-08-12 Matthew Oware, Associate Professor of Sociology DePauw University Previous research has found that there are multiple factors that influence the…
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Biracial Identity in the Media Annual Meeting of the International Communication Association, TBA Montreal, Quebec, Canada 2008-05-22 18 Pages Iliana Rucker University of New Mexico Many scholars have studied racial representations and have determined that images of racial groups we see on television shape the way we view these racial groups (Gorham, 1999; Tamborini &…
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One Drop, No Rule: Identity Options among Multiracial Children in the U.S. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association Marriott Hotel, Loews Philadelphia Hotel Philadelphia, PA, 2005-08-12 Anthony Daniel Perez, Assistant Professor Chapel Hill Department of Sociology University of North Carolina This paper examines the links between family background characteristics and…
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The Politics of Parenting in ‘Mixed’ Families: An Autobiographical Account Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association Atlanta Hilton Hotel Atlanta, Georgia 2003-08-16 Nora Lester Murad, Founder and Executive Director Dalia Association This paper explores common themes in the varied experiences of parents in families that are “mixed” in terms of…
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The Formation of Multiracial Identities Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Sheraton Boston and the Boston Marriott Copley Place Boston, MA 2008-07-31 Crystal Bedley Rutgers University Since the 1970s, research on the multiracial population has been largely theoretically driven without substantial empirical investigation into how mixed-race people form…
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Political Discourse on Racial Mixture: American Newspapers, 1865 to 1970 Paper presented at the annual meeting of the MPSA Annual National Conference Palmer House Hotel Hilton, Chicago, IL 2008-04-03 Jennifer L. Hochschild, Henry LaBarre Jayne Professor of Government & Professor of African and African American Studies Harvard University Brenna Marea Powell Harvard University Vesla Weaver,…