Category: United States

  • Number of multiracial people grows in Oneida County The Observer-Dispatch Utica, New York 2011-07-14 Elizabeth Cooper UTICA — Nisa Duong is part Vietnamese, part black, part American Indian and part white.   But the 19-year-old Utica resident said her racial and ethnic identity isn’t at the forefront of her mind, and if it comes up,…

  • Robeson County Native Writes Book on Lumbee Indians The Pilot Southern Pines, North Carolina 2010-06-16 Kay Grismer “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.” The Native Americans who have lived along the Lumber River in Robeson County for generations may have been given names…

  • REPORTER AT LARGE about the Jackson Whites; history and origin of a primitive race living in the Ramapo Mountains. They are a mixture of three races, the white, the Negro, & the American Indians.

  • Ramapough Mountain People: “The Jackson Whites”: A Pathfinder and Annotated Bibliography 1995 Randy D. Ralph Introduction: My parents moved the family way, way out in the country, after my baby brother was born, to a little tract house in the middle of the Preakness Valley in Passaic County, New Jersey. The valley was open and…

  • Methodology and Measurement in the Study of Multiracial Americans: Identity, Classification, and Perceptions Sociology Compass Volume 5, Issue 7 (July 2011) pages 607–617 DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-9020.2011.00388.x Melissa R. Herman, Assistant Professor of Sociology Dartmouth College This article lays out some of the methodological issues in doing research on multiracial people (those whose immediate and/or distant ancestors come…

  • Do You See What I Am? How Observers’ Backgrounds Affect Their Perceptions of Multiracial Faces Social Psychology Quarterly Volume 73, Number 1 (March 2010) pages 58-78 DOI: 10.1177/0190272510361436 Melissa R. Herman, Assistant Professor of Sociology Dartmouth College Although race is one of the most salient status characteristics in American society, many observers cannot distinguish the…

  • How medicine is advancing beyond race CNN.com 2011-07-08 Elizabeth Landau, CNN.com Health Writer/Producer (CNN)—No matter what race you consider yourself to be, you have a unique genetic makeup. That’s why, as technology improves and researchers explore new implications of the human genome, medicine is going to become more individually tailored in a model called personalized…

  • Interracialism and Contemporary Religion Oklahoma State University 2007 105 pages AAT 1443028 Wayne S. White Submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate College of the Oklahoma State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Science The purpose of this study was to examine the myths and theories related to…

  • The Wormiest of Cans: who gets to be “mixed race”? Racialicious 2011-07-12 Thea Lim A few days ago on Facebook I watched two community activists have a throwdown over the phrase “mixed race.” It began when Activist X posted a link to this article about the Mixed Roots Film and Literary Festival and noted with…

  • The Love Story That Made Marriage a Fundamental Right Color Lines 2011-04-27 Asraa Mustufa The Tribeca Film Festival is under way in New York, and one featured documentary delves into the story behind the landmark civil rights case Loving vs. Virginia, which struck down Jim Crow laws meant to prevent people from openly building families…