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  • Barack Obama’s Improbable Election and the Question of Race and Racism in Contemporary America

    Barack Obama’s Improbable Election and the Question of Race and Racism in Contemporary America Journal of Black Studies January 2010 Volume 40, No. 3 Guest Editor Pamela D. Reed, Assistant Professor of English Composition and Africana Literature Virginia State University The Journal of Black Studies has now issued two special issues on President Barack Hussein…

  • Check All That Apply: The Psychological Costs and Benefits of Adopting a Multiracial Identity

    Check All That Apply: The Psychological Costs and Benefits of Adopting a Multiracial Identity SPSP 2010 The Eleventh Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology Royal Pavilion 6 Friday, 2010-01-29, 09:45-11:00 PST (Local Time) Chair: Todd L. Pittinsky, Harvard University Multiracial people have always challenged the conventional notions of racial categorization, exemplified…

  • Identity & Issues for Multiracial Students and College Campuses (Pre-Conference Institute #111)

    Identity & Issues for Multiracial Students and College Campuses (Pre-Conference Institute #111) NCORE® 2010 23 Annual National Conference on Race & Enthnicity in American Higher Education National Harbor, Maryland 2010-06-01 through 2010-06-05 A three‑part, highly interactive institute designed to provide participants a greater understanding of racial identity development for multiracial people and the issues surrounding…

  • ETHN 115 – Biracial+Multiracial Iden (3 Units)

    ETHN 115 – Biracial+Multiracial Iden (3 Units) Sacramento State University Spring 2010 Examination of biracial/multiracial populations, their social histories, social experiences and social identities within various sociological and social psychological theoretical frameworks. An exploration of the relationship biracial/multiracial groups have had, and continue to have, with the larger white majority and monoracially identified minorities. Sect…

  • AAST 398M – Multi-Racial Asian Americans

    AAST 398M – Multi-Racial Asian Americans University of Maryland Spring 2010 The multiracial American population is increasing exponentially, as are available services and organizations to support it. With these shifts in mind, this class will examine multiracial America yesterday, today, and tomorrow, with an emphasis on multiracial Asian America in particular. Some questions of interest:…

  • Sixth Annual Ray Warren Multicultural Symposium (2009): Mixed: The Politics of Hybrid Identities

    Sixth Annual Ray Warren Multicultural Symposium (2009): Mixed: The Politics of Hybrid Identities Lewis and Clark College Portland, Oregon 2009-11-11 through 2009-11-13 Events “Obama and the Biracial Factor: Race, Sexuality, and the Battle for a New America” – Andrew Jolivétte (Introduced by Brenda Salas Neves, L&C student and symposium co-chair) “Secrets of a Mixed Race…

  • Dispatches from the Color Line: The Press and Multiracial America

    Dispatches from the Color Line: The Press and Multiracial America State University of New York Press July 2007 295 pages Hardcover ISBN10: 0-7914-7099-7; ISBN13: 978-0-7914-7099-2 Paperback ISBN10: 0-7914-7100-4; ISBN13: 978-0-7914-7100-5 Catherine R. Squires, Cowles Professor of Journalism, Diversity and Equality University of Minnesota Explores contemporary news media coverage of multiracial people and identities. When modern…

  • Sci fi offers surprising insights on race

    Sci fi offers surprising insights on race The Brandeis Hoot Brandeis University 2009-03-06 Marissa Lainzi Months and months of wading through red ink, volleying e-mails, coordinating, coordinating, and coordinating came to fruition for the Mixed Heritage Club on Friday night, as their much-anticipated speaker, Eric Hamako, gave the talk, “Monsters, Messiahs, or Something Else?” a…

  • Race Bending: “Mixed” Youth Practicing Strategic Racialization in California

    Race Bending: “Mixed” Youth Practicing Strategic Racialization in California Anthropology & Education Quarterly Volume 35 Issue 1 (March 2004) Pages 30-52 DOI: 10.1525/aeq.2004.35.1.30 Mica Pollock, Associate Professor of Education Harvard University As more U.S. youth claim “mixed” heritages, some adults are proposing to erase race words altogether from the nation’s inequality analysis. Yet such proposals, as…

  • The Inheritability of Identity: Children’s Understanding of the Cultural Biology of Race

    The Inheritability of Identity: Children’s Understanding of the Cultural Biology of Race Child Development Volume 66 Issue 5 (October 1995) Pages 1418 – 1437 DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.1995.tb00943.x Lawrence A. Hirschfeld, Professor, Anthropology & Psychology Eugene Lang College, The New School for Liberal Arts 4 experiments explored adult and grade school children’s beliefs about inheritability of identity,…