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  • Demographic, residential, and socioeconomic effects on the distribution of nineteenth-century African-American stature

    Demographic, residential, and socioeconomic effects on the distribution of nineteenth-century African-American stature Journal of Population Economics Volume 24, Issue 4 (October 2011) pages 1471-1491 DOI: 10.1007/s00148-010-0324-x Scott Alan Carson, Professor of Economics The University of Texas of the Permian Basin Nineteenth-century mulattos were taller than their darker-colored African-American counterparts. However, traditional explanations that attribute the…

  • Association of Contextual Factors with Drug Use and Binge Drinking among White, Native American, and Mixed-Race Adolescents in the General Population

    Association of Contextual Factors with Drug Use and Binge Drinking among White, Native American, and Mixed-Race Adolescents in the General Population Journal of Youth and Adolescence Volume 41, Issue 11 (November 2012) pages 1426-1441 DOI: 10.1007/s10964-012-9789-0 Hsing-Jung Chen Department of Social Work Fu-Jen Catholic University, New Taipei City, Taiwan Sundari Balan, Postdoctoral Research Associate Department of…

  • Creating a New Racial Order: How Immigration, Multiracialism, Genomics, and the Young Can Remake Race in America [Eisenberg Review]

    Creating a New Racial Order: How Immigration, Multiracialism, Genomics, and the Young Can Remake Race in America [Eisenberg Review] Ethnic and Racial Studies Volume 36, Issue 5 (May 2013) pages 923-925 DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2012.748214 Martin Eisenberg Department of Urban Studies Queens College, City University of New York Jennifer Hochschild, Vesla Weaver and Tract Burch. Creating a New…

  • Family Trees: A History of Genealogy in America

    Family Trees: A History of Genealogy in America Harvard University Press April 2013 250 pages 5-1/2 x 8-1/4 inches Hardcover ISBN: 9780674045835 François Weil, Chancellor and Professor of History; former president of the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales Universities of Paris The quest for roots has been an enduring American preoccupation. Over the…

  • CNN’s Who’s Black in America: Some Thoughts

    CNN’s Who’s Black in America: Some Thoughts Is That Your Child? Thought in Full Color 2012-12-12 Michelle Clark-McCrary So here’s an audio journal with my reflections on last Sunday night’s CNN Who’s Black in America special. Ultimately, my view of this special and the entire series as a whole is that conversations about race cannot…

  • Coming Clean About Blackness, Mixed Race Identity and the Multiracial Movement

    Coming Clean About Blackness, Mixed Race Identity and the Multiracial Movement Is That Your Child? Thought in Full Color 2012-12-10 Michelle Clark-McCrary Before I go into my reflections on CNN’s “Who’s Black in America” series, I have to come clean about the evolution of my personal perspective on blackness, mixed race identity and the “multiracial…

  • Shame on CNN: A commentary by Susan Graham

    Shame on CNN: A commentary by Susan Graham Project RACE 2012-12-10 Susan Graham, Executive Director CNN aired a show hosted by Soledad O’Brien Sunday called “Who is Black in America?” I have been disgusted with the public misunderstanding of multiracial people on so called news shows in the past, but this one wins the prize…

  • Black (Or Not) Like Me: Thoughts on CNN’s Black in America 5

    Black (Or Not) Like Me: Thoughts on CNN’s Black in America 5 The Huffington Post 2012-12-10 Smokey Fontaine, Chief Content Officer Interactive One I know who my colleagues think I am. I’m pretty sure they’ve accepted me as the lightest Black dude in the office. My job demands that I constantly engage co-workers around racial…

  • Psychology Study: Is This You? Please Join Us!

    Psychology Study: Is This You? Please Join Us! University of Maryland, College Park Psychology Department Post Date: 2012-12-11 If you have 1 self-identified Black parent and 1 self-identified White parent, and are over the age of 18, we invite you to volunteer to be a part of our research. Earn SONA Course Credit or $10…

  • Same-Sex Issue Pushes Justices Into Overdrive

    Same-Sex Issue Pushes Justices Into Overdrive The New York Times 2012-12-09 Adam Liptak, Supreme Court Correspondent In the civil rights era, the Supreme Court waited decades to weigh in on interracial marriage. On Friday, by contrast, the court did not hesitate to jump into the middle of one of the most important social controversies of…