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  • Changes in racial categorization over time and health status: an examination of multiracial young adults in the USA

    Changes in racial categorization over time and health status: an examination of multiracial young adults in the USA Ethnicity & Health Published online: 2015-06-08 DOI: 10.1080/13557858.2015.1042431 Karen M. Tabb, Assistant Professor of Social Work University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Objective: Multiracial (two or more races) American health related to racial stability over the life course is…

  • Esther Cepeda: The complexities of race and ethnicity

    Esther Cepeda: The complexities of race and ethnicity GazetteXtra Janesville, Wisconsin 2015-10-17 Esther Cepeda, Columnist Washington Post Writers Group CHICAGO Our society gives a lot of lip service to the importance of diversity in fields such as science, medicine and technology because multicultural people bring unique viewpoints, varied life experiences and new ideas. Rarely do…

  • Historian Broadens Narrative of Slavery in the Americas

    Historian Broadens Narrative of Slavery in the Americas Fordham News: The Latest From Fordham University 2015-10-16 Patrick Verel Photograph by Patrick Verel In the United States, the Civil War, the Emancipation Proclamation, and the Underground Railroad loom so large in the understandings of slavery that most Americans can almost be excused for thinking it’s a…

  • How I Found My Way to Hapa

    How I Found My Way to Hapa The Mash-Up Americans 2010-10-06 Tanya Tarr Being mixed race can make people look at you like you’re a unicorn. We’re the changing face of America! We have a racial passport to anywhere! We can also grow up confused, and challenged on our identity on every front. Is half…

  • True Colors: Charlie Villanueva and Others Explain the Afro-Latino Experience

    True Colors: Charlie Villanueva and Others Explain the Afro-Latino Experience ESPN 2015-09-10 Charlie Villanueva knows that life in the United States for many still means being judged by one’s skin color, but he’s not shy about challenging such preconceived ideas, boldly asking if the public can know who he really is by just a surface…

  • Researcher Seeking to Examine the Experiences of Multiracial Individuals and Their Negotiation of Social Spaces From a Strength

    Researcher Seeking to Examine the Experiences of Multiracial Individuals and Their Negotiation of Social Spaces From a Strength 2015-10-16 Erika Noriega I am currently a doctoral candidate at the University of California, Santa Barbara in the Counseling, Clinical, and School Psychology Program and in the process of recruiting participants for my dissertation study. I am interested…

  • Why Today’s GOP Crackup Is the Final Unraveling of Nixon’s ‘Southern Strategy’

    Why Today’s GOP Crackup Is the Final Unraveling of Nixon’s ‘Southern Strategy’ The Nation 2015-10-12 William Greider Tea Party rebels are exposing the deep rifts between country-club elites and social-issue hard-liners. Fresh chatter among Washington insiders is not about whether the Republican Party will win in 2016 but whether it will survive. Donald Trump —…

  • The Year We Obsessed Over Identity

    2015’s headlines and cultural events have confronted us with the malleability of racial, gender, sexual and reputational lines. Who do we think we are?

  • Multiethnic Adults Grapple With Questions of Identity

    Multiethnic Adults Grapple With Questions of Identity KQED News San Francisco, California 2015-10-14 Adizah Eghan In his 1964 Nobel Prize lecture, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. described humanity as a “world house,” filled with family of all backgrounds who must somehow learn to live with each other. Within the borders of our countries, cities…

  • Brown campus newspaper issues apology after racist columns

    Brown campus newspaper issues apology after racist columns The Associated Press 2015-10-07 Amy Anthony PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — The Brown University campus newspaper apologized Wednesday after publishing what it says were two “deeply hurtful” and racist columns. The Brown Daily Herald’s editorial board published an editor’s note saying it regretted the hurt caused by the…