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  • Impacts of Multiple Race Reporting on Rural Health Policy and Data Analysis

    Impacts of Multiple Race Reporting on Rural Health Policy and Data Analysis Working Paper No. 73 Working Paper Series North Carolina Rural Health Research and Policy Analysis Center Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 2002-05-01 39 pages Randy Randolph, M.R.P. Rebecca Slifkin, Ph.D. Lynn Whitener,…

  • Secret Agent Insiders to Whiteness: Mixed Race Women Negotiating Structure and Agency

    Secret Agent Insiders to Whiteness: Mixed Race Women Negotiating Structure and Agency University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 2007 325 pages Silvia Cristina Bettez, Assistant Professor Department of Educational Leadership and Cultural Foundations University of North Carolina, Greensboro A dissertation submitted to the faculty of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in partial…

  • Racially Socializing Biracial Youth: A Cultural Ecological Study of Parental Influences on Racial Identity

    Racially Socializing Biracial Youth: A Cultural Ecological Study of Parental Influences on Racial Identity 2009 Alethea Rollins University of North Carolina, Greensboro Advisor: Andrea G. Hunter, Associate Professor, Human Development and Family Studies University of North Carolina, Greensboro A Dissertation Submitted to the Faculty of The Graduate School at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro…

  • “Being Raised by White People”: Navigating Racial Difference Among Adopted Multiracial Adults

    “Being Raised by White People”: Navigating Racial Difference Among Adopted Multiracial Adults Journal of Marriage and Family Volume 71, Issue 1, February 2009 Pages 80-94 DOI: 10.1111/j.1741-3737.2008.00581.x Gina Miranda Samuels, Associate Professor School of Social Service Administration University of Chicago There are increasing numbers of multiracial families created through marriage, adoption, birth, and a growing…

  • Deconstructing Race: Biracial Adolescents’ Fluid Racial Self-labels

    Deconstructing Race: Biracial Adolescents’ Fluid Racial Self-labels 2008-12-01 Alethea Rollins University of North Carolina, Greensboro Andrea G. Hunter, Associate Professor, Human Development and Family Studies University of North Carolina, Greensboro Biracial people shatter the idea of effortless categorization of race, identity, and group membership. Multirace membership forces scholars to examine what race is, how they…

  • Secret Daughter: A Mixed-Race Daughter and the Mother Who Gave Her Away

    “Secret Daughter” tells her story of survival. It traces June’s astonishing discoveries about her mother and about her own fierce determination to thrive.

  • Freedom School: Which box do I check?

    Freedom School: Which box do I check? Ursinus College, Collegeville, Pennsylvania Olin 101 Tuesday 2010-01-26, 19:00-20:00 EST (Local Time) Speaker: Fernando Jones, Class of 2010   An informal discussion on Mixed-Race identity as we see it in educational and social structures. For more information, click here.

  • Times writer talks ‘construction’ of race

    Times writer talks ‘construction’ of race Yale Daily News 2009-01-23 Conrad Lee, Contributing Reporter For any Yale student who has taken English 120, chances are he or she has come across Brent Staples and his popular essay “Black Men and Public Space.” Thursday afternoon, Staples — an author and editorial writer for the New York…

  • Re-SEAing SouthEast Asian American Studies. Memories & Visions: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow.

    Re-SEAing SouthEast Asian American Studies. Memories & Visions: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow. San Francisco State University 2011-03-10 through 2011-03-11 The third tri-annual interdisciplinary Southeast Asians in the Diaspora conference will take place at San Francisco State University. The San Francisco Bay Area is home to sizable populations of Burmese, Cambodian, Filipino, Hmong, Indonesian, Lao, Malaysian,…

  • “Obama’s People”: A New Identity for Biracials and Mixed Heritage

    “Obama’s People”: A New Identity for Biracials and Mixed Heritage Xlibris Press 2009 102 Pages ISBN: 1-4363-9510-0 (Trade Paperback 6×9 ) ISBN13: 978-1-4363-9510-6 (Trade Paperback 6×9 ) ISBN: 1-4363-9511-9 (Trade Hardback 6×9 ) ISBN13: 978-1-4363-9511-3 (Trade Hardback 6×9 ) Phillip MacFarland Since President Barack Obama is from a biracial heritage and is now the leader…