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  • Socially Embedded Identities: Theories, Typologies, and Processes of Racial Identity among Black/White Biracials

    Socially Embedded Identities: Theories, Typologies, and Processes of Racial Identity among Black/White Biracials Sociological Quarterly Volume 43 Issue 3, (2002) Pages 335 – 356 DOI: 10.1111/j.1533-8525.2002.tb00052.x David L. Brunsma, Professor of Sociology Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Kerry Ann Rockquemore, Associate Professor of Sociology University of Illinois at Chicago Current research on racial identity…

  • Public Categories, Private Identities: Exploring Regional Differences in the Biracial Experience

    Public Categories, Private Identities: Exploring Regional Differences in the Biracial Experience Social Science Research Volume 35, Issue 3, September 2006 Pages 555-576 David L. Brunsma, Professor of Sociology Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Empirical research on multiraciality and the development of richer models of racial identity have increased in the last decade. Increased attention…

  • What Does “Black” Mean? Exploring the Epistemological Stranglehold of Racial Categorization

    What Does “Black” Mean? Exploring the Epistemological Stranglehold of Racial Categorization Critical Sociology Vol. 28, No. 1-2 (2002) pages 101-121 DOI: 10.1177/08969205020280010801 David L. Brunsma, Professor of Sociology Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Kerry Ann Rockquemore, Associate Professor of Sociology University of Illinois at Chicago The “check all that apply” approach to race on the…

  • Obama gives hope to multiracial families

    Obama gives hope to multiracial families The Connecticut Record-Journal 2009-01-24 George Moore Three-year-old George Garner used to introduce himself as ‘George Barack Obama’ when his mother took him to political events. For George, an energetic boy of a mixed racial background, Barack Obama’s presidency will serve as proof that he, too, can be president, said…

  • Parallel Worlds: The Remarkable Gibbs-Hunts and the Enduring (In)significance of Melanin

    When William Henry Hunt married Ida Alexander Gibbs in the spring of 1904, their wedding was a glittering Washington social event that joined an Oberlin-educated diplomat’s daughter and a Wall Street veteran who could trace his lineage to Jamestown.

  • American Mestizo: Filipinos and Antimiscegenation Laws in California

    American Mestizo: Filipinos and Antimiscegenation Laws in California University of California, Davis Law Review Volume 33, Number 44 (2000) pages 795-835 Leti Volpp, Professor of Law University of California, Berkeley This essay interprets the legal history of efforts to prohibit intermarriage between Filipino men and white women in the state of California in the 1920s…

  • Blood Will Tell: Scientific Racism and the Legal Prohibition Against Miscegenation

    Blood Will Tell: Scientific Racism and the Legal Prohibition Against Miscegenation Michigan Journal of Race & Law University of Michigan Law School Volume 5, Issue 2 (Spring 2000) pages 560-609 Keith Edward Sealing, Dean of Students Widener Law School, Widener University Laws banning miscegenation endured in the colonies and the United States for more than…

  • Exploring the Experiences of First-Generation, Multiethnic Undergraduate College Students

    Exploring the Experiences of First-Generation, Multiethnic Undergraduate College Students The Journal of Student Affairs Student Affairs in Higher Education Colorado State University Volume 14, 2004-2005 Jody Donovan and Lehala Johnson This qualitative research paper investigates the experiences of first-generation, multiethnic undergraduate students at two public, four-year universities in the Rocky Mountain region. The existing research…

  • Mixed Race in the Age of Obama

    Mixed Race in the Age of Obama University of Chicago Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture (CSRPC) International House, Home Room 1414 East 59th Street, Chicago, IL 2010-03-05, 09:00 to 18:00 CST (Local Time) The Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture at the University of  Chicago presents a daylong…

  • Natasha Trethewey Reads at ECU

    Natasha Trethewey Reads at ECU The Common Reader Newsletter of the ECU Department of English Eastern Carolina University Volume 26, Number 6: May 2008 Lisa DeVries On April 2, Natasha Trethewey visited East Carolina University for a public reading and book signing organized by fellow poet and friend John Hoppenthaler.  She won the Pulitizer Prize…