Category: United States

  • Changing Family Structures in America [Project Description] US 2010: Discover America in a New Century 2010 Zhenchao Qian, Professor of Sociology Ohio State University The US 2010 research project examines changes in American societ in the recent past.  Directed by sociologist John Logan, US 2010 is funded by the Russell Sage Foundation and Brown University. Qian…

  • Racial and Ethnic Intermarriage in the United States [Interview with Daniel T. Lichter] Population Reference Bureau 2010-05-20 Questions and Answers with: Daniel T. Lichter, Professor of Policy Analysis and Management and Sociology Cornell University Donghui Yu: Could you please tell us some features of Asian American(partucularly Chinese American)’s intermarriage with other race? Thanks. Daniel T.…

  • Jen Chau Reflects on Her Work as a Change-Maker for Mixed-Race Communities JVoices.com 2008-12-03 Cole Krawitz Jen Chau, founder and director of SWIRL, (and an eagerly anticipated contributor to JVoices) will be presenting this Sunday at Inside the Activists’ Studio (which JVoices is a co-sponsor) on how activism needs a serious make-over, and tools for…

  • Racial Identity’s Gray Area The Wall Street Journal 2008-06-12 June Kronholz The Definition of Whiteness Continues to Shift When Barack Obama, whose mother was white, identifies himself as black, and when Bill Richardson, whose father was white, identifies himself as Hispanic, who is white? The U.S. Census Bureau says the country will be majority-minority in…

  • Raising Multiracial Awareness in Family Therapy Through Critical Conversations Journal of Marital and Family Therapy Volume 31, Issue 4 (October 2005) pages 399–411 DOI: 10.1111/j.1752-0606.2005.tb01579.x Teresa McDowell, Associate Professor and Department Chair of Counseling Psychology Lewis & Clark University, Portland Oregon Lucrezia Ingoglia Greater Lakes Mental Healthcare Takiko Serizawa Family Service Associates Christina Holland Behavioral…

  • Social Origins of the Brandywine Population Phylon (1960-) Vollume 24, Number 4 (4th Qtr., 1963) pages 369-378 Thomas J. Harte Catholic University of America ALL RACIAL ISOLATES present problems of unknown or mysterious origins. [C. A.] Weslager notes the lack of specific information for the Nanticokes of Delaware and for the Moors as well.  There…

  • Genetic Linkage of the Dentinogenesis Imperfecta Type III Locus to Chromosome 4q Journal of Dental Research Volume 78, Number 6 (June 1999) pages 1277-1282 DOI: 10.1177/00220345990780061301 M. MacDougall Department of Pediatric Dentistry University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio L. G. Jeffords Department of Pediatric Dentistry, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio…

  • Ellen Craft’s Radical Techniques of Subversion e-misférica Hemispheric Institute for Performance & Politics Issue 5.2: Race and its Others (December 2008) 16 pages Uri McMillan, Assistant Professor of English University of California, Los Angeles Image by Bruce Yonemoto This paper considers the antebellum performance(s) of fugitive slave Ellen Craft. Craft, an African-American female slave from…

  • A New Look At The Life Of Jean Toomer National Public Radio All Things Considered 2010-12-30 Robert Siegel, Host Rudolph P. Byrd, Goodrich C. White Professor of American Studies and African American Studies Emory University Jean Toomer received much acclaim for his portrait of African-American life in the early 20th century in his 1923 book…

  • On “Mulatto” Modern American Poetry Langston Hughes (1902-1967) Compiled and Prepared by Cary Nelson From Langston Hughes (Twayne, 1967) James A. Emanuel This dramatic dialogue offers a tensely individualized conflict between father and son that is hardened by the vigor and scorn of the words and broadened by carefully placed, suggestive details from nature. The…