Category: United States

  • Understanding Identity Differences among Biracial Siblings American Sociological Association Annual Meeting 2010 Regular Session: Multi-Racial Classification/Identity Atlanta Marriott Marquis Monday, 2010-08-16, 16:30-18:10 EDT (Local Time) Session Organizer: Rebecca C. King-O’Riain, Senior Lecturer of Sociology, National University of Ireland-Maynooth  Presider: Carolyn A. Liebler, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Minnesota Melissa R. Herman, Assistant Professor, Sociology…

  • Fluid or Fixed: Which is Better? Multiracial Identity Consistency and Emotional Well-Being in Adolescence American Sociological Association Annual Meeting 2010 Regular Session: Multi-Racial Classification/Identity Atlanta Marriott Marquis Monday, 2010-08-16, 16:30-18:10 EDT (Local Time) Session Organizer: Rebecca C. King-O’Riain, Senior Lecturer of Sociology National University of Ireland-Maynooth  Presider: Carolyn A. Liebler, Assistant Professor of Sociology University…

  • Society, politics, agriculture, and mixed-race unions in a coastal Georgia planter community

  • Mixed-race women’s experiences cannot be separated from the history of race and gender politics and contemporary racial debates. The history of hybridity is one in which bodies of mixed-race people have been observed, theorized about, and used as evidence in racial power debates, but their individual experiences are often disregarded. Women of mixed heritage, mixed…

  • Obama and Race in America The Huffington Post 2010-08-06 Marcia Alesan Dawkins, Visiting Scholar Brown University In his first major comment on race and race relations in our nation since his “A More Perfect Union Speech” on March 18, 2008, President Barack Obama called for frank discussion about race last week. In both a speech…

  • Building the “Blue” Race: Miscegenation, Mysticism, and the Language of Cognitive Evolution in Jean Toomer’s “The Blue Meridian” Texas Studies in Literature and Language Volume 46, Number 2, Summer 2004 pages 149-180 E-ISSN: 1534-7303 Print ISSN: 0040-4691 DOI: 10.1353/tsl.2004.0008 Stephanie L. Hawkins, Assistant Professor of English University of North Texas Toomer’s vision of psychological evolution…

  • Stalking the Biracial Hidden Self in Henry James’s The Sense of the Past and “The Jolly Corner” The Henry James Review Volume 25, Number 3, Fall 2004 pages 276-284 E-ISSN: 1080-6555, Print ISSN: 0273-0340 DOI: 10.1353/hjr.2004.0027 Stephanie L. Hawkins, Assistant Professor of English University of North Texas This essay argues that, for James, the visible…

  • Institutions, Inculcation, and Black Racial Identity: Pigmentocracy vs. the Rule of Hypodescent Social Identities Volume 14, Issue 5 (September 2008) pages 567-585 DOI: 10.1080/13504630802343390 Richard T. Middleton IV, Associate Professor of Political Science University of Missouri, St. Louis This research paper investigates the effect political institutions have on black racial identity. In particular, I study…

  • Dreaming with the Ancestors: Black Seminole Women in Texas and Mexico University of Oklahoma Press December 2010 400 pages 30 B&W Illus., 2 Maps 6.125″ x 9.25″ Hardcover ISBN: 9780806140537 Paperback ISBN: 9780806168920 Shirley Boteler Mock, Research Fellow Mesoamerican Archaeological Research Laboratory, University of Texas, Austin Explores a unique and eclectic culture rooted in African…

  • The Risks of Multiracial Identification The Chronicle of Higher Education 2006-11-10 Naomi Schaefer Riley The comment period has closed on proposed new guidelines from the U.S. Department of Education on how colleges should ask students about race. No longer, the guidelines say, should applicants simply be given the choice of black, white, Asian, American Indian…