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  • Biracial Identity Development and Recommendations in Therapy

    Biracial Identity Development and Recommendations in Therapy Psychiatry (Edgemont) Volume 5, Number 11 (November 2008) pages 37-44 Raushanah Hud-Aleem, DO Department of Psychiatry Boonshoft School of Medicine, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio Jacqueline Countryman, MD, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry Department of Psychiatry Boonshoft School of Medicine, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio Identity development is an…

  • Biracial residents boxed in on U.S. census

    Biracial residents boxed in on U.S. census MSNBC 2010-03-31 Mara Schiavocampo, Digital Correspondent NBC Nightly News We’ve asked viewers to tell us how their community has changed since the last census. One viewer from outside Olympia, Washingtonwrote in to tell the story of how diverse her community has become. NBC’s Mara Schiavocampo reports.

  • Racial Identity and Academic Performance: An Examination of Biracial Asian and African American Youth

    Racial Identity and Academic Performance: An Examination of Biracial Asian and African American Youth Journal of Asian American Studies Volume 2, Number 3 (October 1999) pages 223-249 E-ISSN: 1096-8598 Print ISSN: 1097-2129 DOI: 10.1353/jaas.1999.0023 Grace Kao, Professor of Sociology, Education, and Asian American Studies University of Pennsylvania In the last three decades since the last…

  • Revising Race: How Biracial Students are Changing and Challenging Student Services

    Revising Race: How Biracial Students are Changing and Challenging Student Services Journal of College Student Development Volume 51, Number 2 (March/April 2010) pages 115-134 E-ISSN: 1543-3382 Print ISSN: 0897-5264 DOI: 10.1353/csd.0.0122 Patricia E. Literte, Assistant professor of sociology California State University, Fullerton This research investigates the relationship between biracial college students and race-oriented student services…

  • Multiracialism In America – Jane Junn

    Multiracialism In America – Jane Junn New Century Foundation New York, New York 2008-08-05 Length: 00:04:04 Jane Junn, Associate Professor of Political Science at Rutgers University Rutgers University Political scientist Jane Junn examines shifting views on racial categorization in the United States. Junn notes the increasingly common use of the “Multiracial” designation on the U.S.…

  • Policies of Racial Classification and the Politics of Racial Inequality

    Policies of Racial Classification and the Politics of Racial Inequality In Suzanne Mettler, Joe Soss, and Jacob Hacker (eds.). Remaking America: Democracy and Public Policy in an Age of Inequality Russell Sage Foundation November 2007 41 pages Jennifer L. Hochschild, Henry LaBarre Jayne Professor of Government and Professor of African and African American Studies Harvard…

  • Multiracialism & the civil rights future

    Multiracialism & the civil rights future Daedalus Volume 134, Number 1 (Winter 2005) Pages 53-60 DOI: 10.1162/0011526053124406 Kim M. Williams, Associate Professor of Public Policy Harvard Kennedy School Harvard University Spurred by a small group of activists in the 1990s, the American system of racial classification changed recently in a conceptually bold way. With moving…

  • Counting Multiracial People in the Census: The Unfulfilled Wish for More Data

    Counting Multiracial People in the Census: The Unfulfilled Wish for More Data Racism Review 2010-03-26 Jenifer L. Bratter, Assistant Professor of Sociology and Associate Director of the Institute for Urban Research Rice University People who study the multiracial population are constantly confronted with the problem of small numbers to work with.  A recent article I co-authored…

  • Jared Sexton: People of Color-Blindness: Notes on the Afterlife of Slavery

    Jared Sexton: People of Color-Blindness: Notes on the Afterlife of Slavery University of Northern Arizona Gardner Auditorium, W.A. Franke College of Business, NAU 2010-03-25, 17:30 to 19:00 CDT (Local Time) Jared Sexton, Associate Professor of African American Studies and Film & Media Studies University of California, Irvine   This lecture explores the significance of the…

  • 2010 Association for Asian American Studies Conference

    2010 Association for Asian American Studies Conference Omni Austin Hotel Downtown Austin, Texas 2010-04-07 through 2010-04-10 Theme: Emergent Cartographies: Asian American Studies in the Twenty-first Century Selected programs from the conference schedule: Panel Transnational Perspectives on Beauty and Skin Color: China, Indonesia, and the Philippines Friday 2010-04-09, 08:30-10:00 CDT (Local Time) Chair: Paul Spickard, University…