Category: United States

  • CU group promoting multiracial experience wins ’02 Perkins Prize The Cornell Chronicle Cornell University 2002-04-02 A Cornell campus organization that promotes and celebrates the multiracial experience at the university and in the Ithaca community will be the recipient of the 2002 James A. Perkins Prize for Interracial Understanding and Harmony. The group BLEND (Bi-/Multiracial Lineages,…

  • “Unknown” Students on College Campuses: An Exploratory Analysis The James Irvine Foundation December 2005 20 pages Campus Diversity Initiative Evaluation Project Team (Claremont Graduate University and the Association of American Colleges and Universities): Daryl G. Smith, Co-principal Investigator José Moreno, Senior Research Analyst Alma R. Clayton-Pedersen, Co-principal Investigator Sharon Parker, Co-principal Investigator Daniel Hiroyuki Teraguchi,…

  • Blurred Borders for Some but not “Others”: Racialization, “Flexible Ethnicity,” Gender, and Third-Generation Mexican American Identity Sociological Perspectives Volume 53, Number 1 (Spring 2010) Pages 45–72 DOI: 10.1525/sop.2010.53.1.45 Jessica M. Vasquez, Assistant Professor of Sociology University of Kansas How are the lives of middle-class third-generation Mexican Americans both racialized and gendered? Third-generation Mexican Americans in…

  • Mixing in the Mountains Southern Cultures Volume 3, Issue 4 (Winter 1997) pages 25-35 John Shelton Reed, William Rand Kenan Jr. Professor of Sociology and Director of the Institute for Research in Social Science University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill One January day in 1996, I picked up the Wall Street Journal to find a…

  • Some Observations on Identity Problems in Children of Negro-White Marriages Journal of Nervous & Mental Disease Volume 146, Issue 3 (March 1968) pages 249-256 Joseph D. Teicher (1912-2000) University of Southern California School of Medicine The Los Angeles County General Hospital population includes every case, and, inevitably, many Negro-white families present themselves for service at…

  • History and Current Status of the Houma Indians Midcontinent American Studies Journal Volume 6, Number 2 (Fall 1965) pages 149-163 Ann Fischer Tulane University Brewton Berry, in Almost White, reports that there are some 200 groups of “racial orphans” in the United States. Among these, those who have some claim to Indian ancestry are known as…

  • Are Mixed-Race Children Better Adjusted? Time Magazine 2009-02-21 John Cloud Americans like answers in black and white, a cultural trait we confirmed last year when the biracial man running for President was routinely called “black”. The flattening of Barack Obama’s complex racial background shouldn’t have been surprising. Many multiracial historical figures in the U.S. have…

  • Mitsawokett to Bloomsbury: Archaeology and History of a Native-American Descendant Community in Central Delaware Chapter 5. A Larger Ethnic Community 2008 383 pages Delaware Department of Transportation Project 88-110-01 Federal Highway Administration Project F-NH-1003(13) Delaware Department of Transportation Archæological Series Number 154 Carolann Wicks, Secretary Original and redraft prepared by Edward F. Heite and Cara L.…

  • Facts for Families: Multiracial Children American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Number 71, October 1999 2 pages Multiracial children are one of the fastest growing segments of the U.S. population. The number of mixed-race families in America is steadily increasing, due to a rise in interracial marriages and relationships, as well as an increase…

  • The “Multiracial” Option: Social Group Identity and Changing Patterns of Racial Categorization American Politics Research Volume 39, Number 1 (January 2011) pages 176-204 DOI: 10.1177/1532673X10378845 Natalie Masuoka, Assistant Professor of Political Science Tufts University This article focuses on a new and growing trend in the United States: multiracial (or mixed race) identification. Multiracial self-identification forces…