Category: United States

  • Where the interracials may take us Los Angeles Times 2010-09-21 Eli Steele Of all Americans, they represent the best opportunity to end identity politics and point America back to its tradition of individualism. We may be in the midst of an interracial baby boom. A recent Pew Research Center study reported that interracial marriages rose…

  • Johanna Workman to be Featured Guest on Mixed Chicks Chat Mixed Chicks Chat (The only live weekly show about being racially and culturally mixed. Also, founders of the Mixed Roots Film & Literary Festival) Hosted by Fanshen Cox and Heidi W. Durrow Website: TalkShoe™ (Keywords: Mixed Chicks) Episode: #192-Johanna Workman When: Wednesday, 2011-02-09, 22:00Z (17:00 EST,…

  • This is who I am: Defining mixed-race identity The Seattle Times 2008-09-28 Lornet Turnbull, Seattle Times staff The story of race in the U.S. is changing, and so is the way many of us identify ourselves. That’s especially true in the Seattle area, which has a higher concentration of mixed-race people than any other metro…

  • US, MSU see increase in multiracial students The State News East Lansing, Michigan 2011-02-02 Emily Wilkins They call her “blackbean” – half black, half Mexican. It’s a nickname embraced by Lynette Davidson, a political theory and constitutional democracy and communication sophomore and one of the 710 students at MSU who identifies with two or more…

  • Multiracial People of Black-White Backgrounds needed for Dissertation on the Effects of Racial Microaggressions Hello! My name is Claire Anne (“Daanee”) Touchstone, and I am a doctoral student at Loyola Marymount University, writing a dissertation on the effects of racial microaggressions on multiracial black-white university students between the ages of 18-25. While I am most…

  • California’s Multiracial Population Public Policy Institute of California California Counts: Population Trends and Profiles Volume 6, Number 1 (August 2004) 20 pages Laura E. Hill, Associate Director and Research Fellow Public Policy Institute of California Hans P. Johnson, Editor; Director of Research and Thomas C. Sutton Chair in Policy Research Public Policy Institute of California…

  • What Being Biracial Means Today The New York Times The Opinion Pages 2011-02-05 Jordan Awan Re “Black? White? Asian? More Young Americans Choose All of the Above” (“Race Remixed” series, front page, Jan. 30): To the Editor: Oh, big deal! In 1947, as college students, we used to answer the race question with “human.” Each…

  • Revisioning Black/White Multiracial Families: The Single-Parent Experience American Sociological Association, Atlanta Hilton Hotel, Atlanta, Georgia 2003-08-16 18 pages, 5,006 words Rachel Sullivan In the literature on Black/White multiracial families, there is a significant group of families missing from most research. These are households that are lead by a single parent of a biracial child. While…

  • In Census, Young Americans Increasingly Diverse The New York Times 2011-02-04 Sabrina Tabernise WASHINGTON — Demographers sifting through new population counts released on Thursday by the Census Bureau say the data bring a pattern into sharper focus: Young Americans are far less white than older generations, a shift that demographers say creates a culture gap…

  • Parent and Child Influences on the Development of a Black-White Biracial Identity Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University 2009-10-07 286 pages Dana J. Stone Harris Dissertation submitted to the Faculty of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University In partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Human Development In this qualitative…