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  • The “Multiracial” Option: Social Group Identity and Changing Patterns of Racial Categorization

    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…

  • Applying Self-Discrepancy Theory to Biracial Identity and Adjustment: A Proposed Study

    Applying Self-Discrepancy Theory to Biracial Identity and Adjustment: A Proposed Study Social-Personality Brown Bag Series University of California, Davis Location: Young 166 2010-11-08, 12:10-13:30 PST (Local Time) Lauren Berger Research suggests that biracials may have poorer mental health than monoracials and a recent meta-analysis (Shih & Sanchez, 2005) cites a lack of research testing potential…

  • Rhetoric and Silence in Barack Obama’s “Dreams from My Father”

    Rhetoric and Silence in Barack Obama’s “Dreams from My Father” Cultural Logic: An Electronic Journal of Marxist Theory and Practice 2009 46 pages ISSN: 1097-3087 Barbara Clare Foley, Professor of English Rutgers University, Newark, New Jersey When Barack Obama’s Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance first appeared in 1995, it was…

  • Choosing Race: Multiracial Ancestry and Identification

    Choosing Race: Multiracial Ancestry and Identification Social Science Research Volume 40, Issue 2 (March 2011) pages 498–512 DOI: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2010.12.010 Aaron Gullickson, Assistant Professor of Sociology University of Oregon Ann Morning, Assistant Professor of Sociology New York University Social scientists have become increasingly interested in the racial identification choices of multiracial individuals, partly as a result…

  • University of Vermont study examines biracial identity

    University of Vermont study examines biracial identity Burlington Free Press 2010-12-28 Tim Johnson, Free Press Staff Writer Even though he was born of a white mother and an African father, Barack Obama is commonly referred to as the first black president. That’s a sign, sociologists say, that America’s “one-drop rule”—a vestige of the United States’…

  • Scholars Say Chronicler of Black Life Passed for White

    Scholars Say Chronicler of Black Life Passed for White New York Times 2010-12-26 Felicia R. Lee Renown came to Jean Toomer with his 1923 book “Cane,” which mingled fiction, drama and poetry in a formally audacious effort to portray the complexity of black lives. But the racially mixed Toomer’s confounding efforts to defy being stuck…

  • The Cajuns of Southern Alabama: Morphology and Serology

    The Cajuns of Southern Alabama: Morphology and Serology American Journal of Physical Anthropology Volume 47, Issue 1 (July 1977) pages 1-6 DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.1330470103 William S. Pollitzer University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Kadambari K. Namboodiri University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill William H. Coleman University of Alabama, Huntsville Wayne H. Finley University of Alabama, Birmingham…

  • Cultural Activities, Identities, and Mental Health Among Urban American Indians with Mixed Racial/Ethnic Ancestries

    Cultural Activities, Identities, and Mental Health Among Urban American Indians with Mixed Racial/Ethnic Ancestries Race and Social Problems Volume 2, Number 2 (2010) pages 101-114 DOI: 10.1007/s12552-010-9028-9 Yoshitaka Iwasaki, Professor of Rehabilitation Sciences and Social Work Temple University Namorah Gayle Byrd, Assistant Professor, Developmental English Gloucester County College, New Jersey Focus groups were conducted to…

  • Other Tongues: Mixed-Race Women Speak Out

    This anthology of poetry, spoken word, fiction, creative non-fiction, spoken word texts, as well as black and white artwork and photography, explores the question of how mixed-race women in North America identify in the twenty-first century.

  • Dangerous Liaisons: Sex and Love in the Segregated South

    Dangerous Liaisons: Sex and Love in the Segregated South The University of Arkansas Press 2003 160 pages 6″x9″ Paper: 1-55728–833-X (978-1-55728-833-2) Cloth: 1-55728-755-4 (978-1-55728-755-7) Charles F. Robinson II, Associate Professor of History, Vice Provost for Diversity, and Director of African American Studies program University of Arkansas In the tumultuous decades after the Civil War, as…