Category: United States

  • Race remains hot topic despite Obama presidency USA Today 2010-10-17 Shannon Mullen, Asbury Press The election of the first black president in U.S. history was supposed to usher in a post-racial era in America. But a series of controversies since then, from the White House “Beer Summit” to the conflicts between the tea party and…

  • Cast From Their Ancestral Home, Creoles Worry About Culture’s Future New York Times 2005-10-11 Susan Saulny, National Correspondent NATCHITOCHES PARISH, La., Oct. 9 – It is peaceful here on the Cane River, beyond the fluffy tops of high cotton and towering magnolia trees, but it is not home. For the New Orleans Creoles living in…

  • Adopted Territory: Transnational Korean Adoptees and the Politics of Belonging Duke University Press November 2010 320 pages 15 photographs, 4 tables Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8223-4683-8 Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8223-4695-1 Eleana J. Kim, Assistant Professor of Anthropology University of Rochester Since the end of the Korean War, an estimated 200,000 children from South Korea have been adopted into…

  • “Hearing Radmilla” Film Screening Northern Arizona University Flagstaff, Arizona Gardner Auditorium, W. A. Franke College of Business (bldg. 81, room 101) 2010-11-22, 19:00 to 21:30 (Local Time) Native American Heritage Month The film will be introduced by filmmaker/producer Angela Webb, Radmilla Cody–Miss Navajo Nation 1997-1998, followed by Questions & Answer session. The film follows Radmilla…

  • Because the Numbers Matter: Transforming Postsecondary Education Data on Student Race and Ethnicity to Meet the Challenges of a Changing Nation Educational Policy Volume 18, Number 5 (November 2004) pages 752-783 DOI: 10.1177/0895904804269941 Kristen A. Renn, Associate Professor of Higher, Adult, and Lifelong Education Michigan State University Christina J. Lunceford, Professor of Education California State…

  • Profiles: Samuel Hickson – The Change Agent State University of New York, Brockport 2010-10-28 BS in Sociology, ’10 “My understanding of what is important in life began with my family, who taught me about cultural diversity and having respect for people who are different from me.” Samuel Hickson, a former McNair student, studied the processes…

  • It’s Not Easy Being Green: Stress and Invalidation in Identity Formation of Culturally-Complex or Mixed-Race Individuals Texas A&M University May 2008 159 pages Samaria Dalia Roberts Perez Submitted to the Office of Graduate Studies of Texas A&M University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Communications This is…

  • Dr. Susan Straight 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: #180-Susan Straight When: Tuesday, 2010-11-09, 22:00Z…

  • Beyond Color-blind Universalism: Asians in a “Postracial America” Journal of Asian American Studies Volume 13, Number 3 (October 2010) pages 327-342 E-ISSN: 1096-8598; Print ISSN: 1097-2129 Linda Trinh Võ, Associate Professor Department of Asian American Studies School of Humanities University of California, Irvine Beyond the symbolism of President Barack Hussein Obama’s election is the unseen…

  • African Ancestry of the White American Population The Ohio Journal of Science Volume 58, Number 3 (May 1958) pages 155-160 Robert P. Stuckert Departments of Sociology and Anthropology Ohio State University, Columbus Defining a racial group generally poses a problem to social scientists. A definition of a race has yet to be proposed that is…