Mixed Race Studies

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  • Reactions in the Field: Interviews with Helping Professionals Who Work with Biracial Children and Adolescents

    Reactions in the Field: Interviews with Helping Professionals Who Work with Biracial Children and Adolescents University of Cincinnati 2002 277 pages Michele Neace Page A dissertation submitted to the University of Cincinnati in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of DOCTORATE OF EDUCATION (Ed.D.) The number of interracial couples and marriages are growing…

  • Racial Socialization of Biracial Adolescents

    Racial Socialization of Biracial Adolescents Kent State University May 2006 158 pages Ja’Nitta Marbury Marbury & Associates, University Heights, Ohio A dissertation submitted to the Kent State University Graduate School of Education, Health and Human Services in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy The purpose in conducting this research…

  • Charles Waddell Chesnutt and the Solution to the Race Problem

    Charles Waddell Chesnutt and the Solution to the Race Problem Negro American Literature Forum Volume 3, Number 2 (Summer, 1969) pagess 52-56 June Socken Charles Waddell Chesnutt, the first American Negro short story writer and novelist of recognized professional quality, squarely faced the problem of Negro-White relations in America.   Although his short story “The Wife…

  • Comparing Biracials And Monoracials: Psychological Well-Being And Attitudes Toward Multiracial People

    Comparing Biracials And Monoracials: Psychological Well-Being And Attitudes Toward Multiracial People Ohio State University 2008 108 pages Peter J. Adams DISSERTATION Presented in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Doctor of Philosophy in the Graduate School of The Ohio State University The study of biracial individuals and their unique experience has been limited.…

  • My Long Trip Home: A Family Memoir

    My Long Trip Home: A Family Memoir Simon and Schuster October 2011 368 pages Hardcover ISBN-10: 1451627548; ISBN-13: 9781451627541 eBook ISBN-10: 1451627564; ISBN-13: 9781451627565 Mark Whitaker In a dramatic, moving work of historical reporting and personal discovery, Mark Whitaker, award-winning journalist, sets out to trace the story of what happened to his parents, a fascinating…

  • The Effects of Race Intermingling

    Defining race in this sense of elementary species we have to consider our problem: What are the results of race intermingling, or miscegenation?

  • Being Raced, Acting Racially: Multiracial Tribal College Students’ Representations of Their Racial Identity Choices

    This study was conducted at a tribal college in New Mexico with selected mixed-race participants who identified as Native American, or acknowledged Native American ancestry. At the time of data collection, the school enrollment was 513 students, representing 83 federally recognized tribes and 22 state recognized tribes.

  • The Stakes of Race, Color, & Belonging

    The Stakes of Race, Color, & Belonging Thursday Afternoon Forum Series University of California, Berkeley Center for Race and Gender 691 Barrows Thursday, 2011-09-29, 16:00-17:30 PDT (Local Time) Skin Tone Stratification Among Black Americans, 2001-2003 Ellis Monk Jr., Sociology “I’m Mixed and Mixed”: Narrating Identities of Individuals with Mexican and Other Ancestries Jessie Turner, Ethnic…

  • Exploring Grays in a Black-and-White World

    Exploring Grays in a Black-and-White World Miller-McCune 2011-07-19 Julia M. Klein Two new books explore the intersection of race and identity in America by investigating families whose biracial members might—or might not—“pass” as white. Defining racial identity in the United States has always been a fraught enterprise, involving shifting intersections of law, custom, class, ancestry…

  • Books of The Times: One Nation, Still Divisible by Race

    Books of The Times: One Nation, Still Divisible by Race The New York Times 2011-08-11 Dwight Garner Randall Kennedy, The Persistence of the Color Line: Racial Politics and the Obama Presidency, New York: Pantheon Books, 2011. 322 pp. August is not half over, and already it’s been a punishing month for Barack Obama: the debt…