Category: United States

  • Crossing Borders, Bridging Generations: Mixed-Heritage Families in Brooklyn Brooklyn Historical Society Brooklyn, New York April 2011 Project Description Crossing Borders, Bridging Generations (CBBG) is a public programming series and oral history project about mixed-heritage families, race, ethnicity, culture, and identity, infused with historical perspective. CBBG is currently in the planning phase (April 2011 – March…

  • The Madeleine Brand Show with Ulli K. Ryder The Madeleine Brand Show KPCC 89.3 FM, Southern California Public Radio Monday, 2011-06-20, 16:00-17:00Z (09:00-10:00 PDT, Local Time) Madeleine Brand, Host Ulli K. Ryder, Ph.D., Visiting Scholar Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America Brown University Ms. Brand and Ms. Ryder will be discussing…

  • Saturday Night with Esme Murphy Featuring Ulli K. Ryder Saturday Night with Esme Murphy WCCO News Radio 830 Minneapolis, Minnesota 2011-06-18, 23:00-03:00Z (18:00-22:00 CDT/19:00-23:00 EDT/16:00-20:00 PDT) Esme Murphy, Host Ulli K. Ryder, Ph.D., Visiting Scholar Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America Brown University The interview will air this Saturday, 2011-06-18 at 19:05…

  • Researcher presents new views on 18th century mixed races and their families William & Mary: News & Events 2011-06-15 Andrea Davis Daniel Livesay, NEH postdoctoral fellow at the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture at William & Mary, presented a paper at the University of Texas in February that discussed the mixed children…

  • Generation Mix? A Statement of Purpose Mixed Dreams: towards a radical multiracial/ethnic movement 2011-06-13 Nicole Asong Nfonoyim Call it a quarter-life crisis. A change in the winds, perhaps. Maybe it’s my sad stack of rejection letters from graduate schools. Whatever the case may be, of late, I’ve been having a bit of an intellectual, (even…

  • The Role of Reflected Appraisals in Racial Identity: The Case of Multiracial Asians Social Psychology Quarterly Volume 67, Number 2 (June 2004) pages 115-131 DOI: 10.1177/019027250406700201 Nikki Khanna, Associate Professor of Sociology University of Vermont Asian Americans are one of the fastest-growing minorities in the United States and show the highest outmarriage rate; yet little…

  • Hoskins explores the everyday lives of people of Asian/white and Asian/black heritage to uncover the role of our society’s white-black continuum in shaping racial identity. Mixing intimate personal stories with cutting-edge theoretical analysis, he directly confronts the notion that multiracial identity provides an easy solution for our society’s racial stratification.

  • The Military Camptown in Retrospect: Multiracial Korean American Subject Formation Along the Black-White Binary Bowling Green State University December 2007 116 pages Perry Dal-nim Miller Submitted to the Graduate College of Bowling Green State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts This thesis applies theoretical approaches from the…

  • Mixed-Race Students Wonder How Many Boxes to Check The New York Times 2011-06-14 Susan Saulny Jacques Steinberg Multiracial students confess to spending sleepless nights worrying about how best to answer the race question on college applications. Some say they wonder whether their answers will be perceived as gamesmanship or a reflection of reality… Read the…

  • On College Forms, a Question of Race, or Races, Can Perplex The New York Times 2011-06-13 Susan Saulny Jacques Steinberg HOUSTON — At the beginning of the college application season last fall, Natasha Scott, a high school senior of mixed racial heritage in Beltsville, Md., vented about a personal dilemma on College Confidential, the go-to…