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  • It Takes a Village: Building Support Structures for Mixed Race Students in Higher Education

    It Takes a Village: Building Support Structures for Mixed Race Students in Higher Education National Conference on Race and Ethnicity (NCORE) 26th Annual National Conference New Orleans, Louisiana 2013-05-28 through 2013-06-01 2013-05-31, 15:15-17:15 CST (Local Time) Lawrence-Minh Davis, Founding Co-Director The Asian American Literary Review, Inc. Jennifer Hayashida, Professor and Director of Asian American Studies…

  • Multiracial Identity and Intersectionality: New Ways of Understanding Racial Identity in Ourselves and Our Students

    Multiracial Identity and Intersectionality: New Ways of Understanding Racial Identity in Ourselves and Our Students National Conference on Race and Ethnicity (NCORE) 26th Annual National Conference New Orleans, Louisiana 2013-05-28 through 2013-06-01 2013-05-30, 13:30-15:30 CST (Local Time) Meg Chang, Faculty California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco, California Charmaine L. Wijeyesinghe, Consultant, Organizational Development and…

  • Anti-Miscegenation Laws in the United States

    Anti-Miscegenation Laws in the United States Duke Bar Journal (Duke Law Journal) Volume 1, Issue 1 (1951) pages 26-41 James R. Browning (1918-2012) The word “miscegenation” is not included in the everyday vocabulary of a large part of our citizenry, but there are nonetheless laws in twenty-nine states prohibiting miscegenation. Etymologically, the term means intermarriage…

  • Opportunities for Academic Research

    Opportunities for Academic Research Chowan Discovery Group 2013-02-25 Marvin T. Jones, Executive Director The Chowan Discovery Group is inviting academics to partner with us to study the Winton Triangle. The Triangle is a 260 year-old mixed race community of landowners in central Hertford County. Around 1960, its population was in the hundreds, and the land…

  • ‘Brown Babies:’ Post-war Germany’s Mixed-race Children

    ‘Brown Babies:’ Post-war Germany’s Mixed-race Children The Washington Informer Washington, D.C. 2012-02-27 Barrington M. Salmon For much of his adult life, Daniel Cardwell has been immersed in a search for his identity and his past. He told an audience at Bowie State University recently that he remembers a childhood where he was never hugged or…

  • Mixed-race youth feel less cohesion with mothers, but greater independence

    Mixed-race youth feel less cohesion with mothers, but greater independence University of Michigan News Service 2013-02-26 Contact: Jared Wadley ANN ARBOR—Multiethnic and mixed-race youth feel less satisfied with their moms—but more independent—compared to other youth, according to a new University of Michigan study. U-M researcher Elma Lorenzo-Blanco and colleagues compared parenting and family-related experiences between…

  • Parenting, Family Processes, Relationships, and Parental Support in Multiracial and Multiethnic Families: An Exploratory Study of Youth Perceptions

    Parenting, Family Processes, Relationships, and Parental Support in Multiracial and Multiethnic Families: An Exploratory Study of Youth Perceptions Family Relations: Interdisciplinary Journal of Applied Family Studies Volume 62, Issue 1 (February 2013) (Special Issue on Multiethnic Families) pages 125–139 DOI: 10.1111/j.1741-3729.2012.00751.x Elma I. Lorenzo-Blanco Departments of Psychology and Women’s Studies University of Michigan, Ann Arbor…

  • The Origins and Authors of the Code Noir

    The Origins and Authors of the Code Noir Louisiana Law Review Volume 56, Number 2 (Winter 1996) pages 363-407 Vernon Valentine Palmer, Thomas Pickles Professor of Law Tulane University, New Orleans I. Introduction The Code Noir marked France’s historic rendezvous with slavery in the Americas. It was one of the most important codes in the…

  • US stopping use of term ‘Negro’ for census surveys

    US stopping use of term ‘Negro’ for census surveys The Associated Press 2013-02-25 Hope Yen WASHINGTON (AP) — After more than a century, the Census Bureau is dropping its use of the word “Negro” to describe black Americans in surveys. Instead of the term that came into use during the Jim Crow era of racial…

  • Crossed Paths: Chicago’s Jacksons and Obamas

    Crossed Paths: Chicago’s Jacksons and Obamas The New York Times 2013-02-24 Jodi Kantor and Monica Davey When Barack and Michelle Obama were married in Chicago two decades ago, Santita Jackson, a daughter of the Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, sang at their wedding. When Mr. Obama ran for his first national office, he made sure he was…