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  • University of North Florida Presents James Weldon Johnson Symposium

    University of North Florida Presents James Weldon Johnson Symposium University of North Florida Press Release 2012-03-29 Joanna Norris, Associate Director of Public Relations he University of North Florida presents the James Weldon Johnson Symposium from noon to 4 p.m. Thursday, April 5, and from noon to 5 p.m. Friday, April 6, in the UNF Student…

  • Biracial Identity Development: Understanding a Sense of Self

    Biracial Identity Development: Understanding a Sense of Self California State University, Long Beach December 2009 47 pages Ghislaine P. Dibong Presented to the Department of Social Work California State University, Long Beach In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Master of Social Work The purpose of this project was to explore the challenges…

  • Growing Diversity Among America’s Children and Youth: Spatial and Temporal Dimensions

    Growing Diversity Among America’s Children and Youth: Spatial and Temporal Dimensions Population and Development Review Volume 36, Issue 1, March 2010 pages 151–176 DOI: 10.1111/j.1728-4457.2010.00322.x Kenneth M. Johnson, Professor of Sociology and Senior Demographer Department of Sociology and Carsey Institute University of New Hampshire, Durham Daniel T. Lichter, Professor of Policy Analysis and Management and…

  • The Ramapo Mountain People

    Northwest of Manhattan where the New York-New Jersey boundary crosses the tree-covered ridges and hollows ridges and hollows of the Ramapo Mountains there is a group of about 1,500 racially mixed people who have long been referred to by journalists and historians as the “Jackson Whites.”

  • Association for Asian American Studies 2012 Annual Conference

    Association for Asian American Studies 2012 Annual Conference Capitol Hilton Hotel 1001 16th Street, NW Washington, D.C. 2012-04-11 through 2012-04-14 Selected Sessions from Tentative Schedule Thursday, April 12: 13:15-14:45 (South American A) Exposing Truths: Re-Centering Filipina/o American Subjectivities Chair: Dawn Bohulano Mabalon, San Francisco State University “Passing It On: Mixed Filipina/o American PEP Teachers Facilitating…

  • In Arizona, Censoring Questions About Race

    In Arizona, Censoring Questions About Race The New York Times 2012-04-01 Linda Martín Alcoff, Professor of Philosophy Hunter College, City University of New York In recent weeks, the state of Arizona has intensified its attack in its schools on an entire branch of study — critical race theory. Books and literature that, in the state’s…

  • The Case for Cablinasian: Multiracial Naming From Plessy to Tiger Woods

    The Case for Cablinasian: Multiracial Naming From Plessy to Tiger Woods Communication Theory Volume 22, Issue 1 (February 2012) pages 92–111 DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-2885.2011.01399.x LeiLani Nishime, Assistant Professor of Communication University of Washington, Seattle This article advocates for the interdisciplinary use of critical race theory and critical rhetorical theory in communication to analyze racialized language and…

  • Criollo, Mestizo, Mulato, LatiNegro, Indígena, White, or Black? The US Hispanic/Latino Population and Multiple Responses in the 2000 Census

    Criollo, Mestizo, Mulato, LatiNegro, Indígena, White, or Black? The US Hispanic/Latino Population and Multiple Responses in the 2000 Census American Journal of Public Health Volume 90, Number 11 (November 2000) pages 1724-1727 Hortensia Amaro, Distinguished Professor of Health Sciences and of Counseling Psychology Bouve College of Health Sciences Northeastern University Ruth E. Zambrana, Profesor of Womens…

  • For Asian-American Couples, a Tie That Binds

    For Asian-American Couples, a Tie That Binds The New York Times 2012-03-30 Rachel L. Swarns WHEN she was a philosophy student at Harvard College eight years ago, Liane Young never thought twice about all the interracial couples who flitted across campus, arm and arm, hand in hand. Most of her Asian friends had white boyfriends…

  • The Shifting Race-Consciousness Matrix and the Multiracial Category Movement: A Critical Reply to Professor Hernandez

    The Shifting Race-Consciousness Matrix and the Multiracial Category Movement: A Critical Reply to Professor Hernandez Boston College Third World Law Journal Volume 20, Issue 2 (May 2000) pages 231-289 Reginald Leamon Robinson, Professor of Law Howard University In this article, the author posits that race as an idea begins with consciousness that reinforces that race…