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  • Under and Beyond Constraints: Resource Allocation to Young Children from Biracial Families

    Under and Beyond Constraints: Resource Allocation to Young Children from Biracial Families American Journal of Sociology Volume 112, Number 4 (January 2007) pages 1044–1094 ISSN: 0002-9602/2007/11204-0003 DOI: 10.1086/508793 Simon Cheng, Associate Professor of Sociology University of Connecticut Brian Powell, Rudy Professor of Sociology Indiana University Using data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Kindergarten Class…

  • Biracial identity and social marginality

    Biracial identity and social marginality Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal Issue Volume 7, Number 4 (August, 1990) Pages 319-337 Print ISSN: 0738-0151, Online ISSN: 1573-2797 DOI 10.1007/BF00757029 Philip M. Brown Phoebe Hart House, Portsmouth, New Hampshire This comparative analysis of classic and recent literature explores the developmental and social implications of biracial identity in…

  • A Clearer Picture of Multiracial Substance Use: Rates and Correlates of Alcohol and Tobacco Use in Multiracial Adolescents and Adults

    A Clearer Picture of Multiracial Substance Use: Rates and Correlates of Alcohol and Tobacco Use in Multiracial Adolescents and Adults Race and Social Problems Volume 2, Number 1 (March 2010) Published online: 2010-03-12 18 pages Print ISSN: 1867-1748, Online ISSN: 1867-1756 (Online) DOI: 10.1007/s12552-010-9023-1 George G. Chavez Rutgers University Diana T. Sanchez, Assistant Professor of…

  • Racial Categorization in the 2010 Census

    Racial Categorization in the 2010 Census U.S. Commision on Civil Rights Briefing Report March 2009 59 pages A Briefing Before The United States Commission on Civil Rights Held in Washington, DC on 2006-04-07. On April 7, 2006, a panel of experts briefed members of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights on racial categorization in the…

  • Telling a Tall Tale, Family-Style—Author and Cultural Historian Scott Sandage Delivers 17th Annual Levine Lecture

    Telling a Tall Tale, Family-Style—Author and Cultural Historian Scott Sandage Delivers 17th Annual Levine Lecture Rider University News Rider University, New Jersey 2008-10-16 For all his traditional academic rearing, Scott Sandage readily concedes that the revival of narrative has brought a new vitality to the discipline of history. “It was long considered unintellectual to tell…

  • IC Documentarians: Incongruities Investigator – Nisma Zaman

    IC Documentarians: Incongruities Investigator – Nisma Zaman Ithica College Quarterly 2006/4 Mbeti Hyess Nisma Zaman ’92 solidified her passion for documentary filmmaking at IC, where she began work on a short 16mm film exploring mixed-race identities. Beyond Black and White went on to debut at the Asian American International Film Festival in 1995 and remains…

  • Census snapshots: An evolving portrait

    Census snapshots: An evolving portrait Chicago Tribune 2010-03-14 Oscar Avila, Tribune reporter Dahleen Glanton, Tribune reporter Multiracial, gay and immigrant Americans question whether 2010 form captures country’s fast-changing makeup Look in the mirror and what do you see? When the census form arrives in mailboxes this week, the complex answers to that question will help…

  • Biracial Sensitive Practice: Expanding Social Services to an Invisible Population

    Biracial Sensitive Practice: Expanding Social Services to an Invisible Population Journal of Human Behavior in the Social Environment Volume 5, Issue 2 (March 2002) pages 29 – 44 DOI: 10.1300/J137v05n02_03 Ronald E. Hall, Professor of Social Work Michigan State University Although literature acknowledges the existence of a biracial population, there has been minimal discussion of…

  • Racial Slur Development Not Keeping Pace With Mixed-Race Births, Nation’s Bigots Report

    Racial Slur Development Not Keeping Pace With Mixed-Race Births, Nation’s Bigots Report The Onion 2010-03-13 WASHINGTON—A coalition of the nation’s most fervent bigots convened in Washington Monday to address growing concerns that the production of hateful new racial slurs has failed to keep pace with the rise in mixed-race births. According to representatives from the…

  • White Over Black: American Attitudes Toward the Negro, 1550-1812

    White Over Black: American Attitudes Toward the Negro, 1550-1812 University of North Carolina Press 1968-09-25 (Republished: September 1995) 671 pages 8.9 x 6 x 1.4 inches ISBN: 978-0-8078-4550-9 Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia Winthrop D. Jordan (1931-2007) Winner of the 1968 Francis Parkman Prize, Society of American…