Category: United States

  • MALUNGU: The African Origin of the American Melungeons Eclectica Magazine July/August 2001 Tim Hashaw Introduction They settled in Virginia one year before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock. They sparked a major conflict between the Engllish Crown and American colonies one hundred and fifty years before the American Revolution. They lived free in the South…

  • What Does Race Have to Do with Ugly Betty? An Analysis of Privilege and Postracial(?) Representations on a Television Sitcom Television & New Media Volume 10, Number 6 (November 2009) pages 521-535 DOI: 10.1177/1527476409340906 Jennifer Esposito, Associate Professor of Research, Measurement & Statistics Georgia State University, Atlanta This article examines ABC’s television comedy Ugly Betty,…

  • Race, Multirace, and Racial Heterogeneity of Friends Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, TBA New York, New York City 2007-08-11 27 pages Bethany Hashiguchi Are biracial youth more likely to be in racially heterogeneous friendship networks than single race youth, and do they act as catalysts for decreased social distance?…

  • Determinants of Multiracial Identification and Their Effects on Poverty Estimtates among US Children Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association Hilton San Francisco & Renaissance Parc 55 Hotel San Francisco, California 2004-08-14 21 pages Anthony Daniel Perez, Assistant Professor Chapel Hill Department of Sociology University of North Carolina This project examines…

  • The Multiple Race Population: Is it Increasing or Decreasing? Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association Montreal Convention Center Montreal, Quebec, Canada 2006-08-11 15 pages Reynolds Farley, Research Professor Emeritus Population Studies Center and Sociology Department University of Michigan A vibrant social movement developed in the 1990s, argued that many Americans…

  • Revisiting The Hollow Hope: The U.S. Supreme Court and the Repeal of Interracial Marriage Restrictions Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association Atlanta Hilton Hotel Atlanta, Georgia 2003-08-13 21 pages Nancy Martin This paper outlines a research proposal for the analysis of the state-by-state repeal of interracial marriage restrictions, and particularly…

  • Race-ing and (E)race-ing the Child: Interracial Families Negotiate Racial Identification for their Multiracial Children Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association Marriott Hotel, Loews Philadelphia Hotel Philadelphia, PA 2005-08-12 18 pages David L. Brunsma, Professor of Sociology Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University In this paper, a nationally-representative sample of kindergarten-aged…

  • Moving Beyond the Black-White Color Line? Immigration, Diversity, and Multiracial Identification in the United States Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association Hilton San Francisco & Renaissance Parc 55 Hotel San Francisco, CA 2004-08-14 Jennifer Lee This paper explores theory and evidence about immigration, race/ethnicity, intermarriage, and multiracial identification, and assesses…

  • A Practical Approach to Using Multiple-Race Response Data: A Bridging Method for Public-Use Microdata September 2006 Carolyn A. Liebler, Assistant Professor Department of Sociology and Minnesota Population Center University of Minnesota Andrew Halpern-Manners Department of Sociology and Minnesota Population Center University of Minnesota This project was begun while the first author was funded by “IPUMS-Redesign”…

  • Homelands and Indigenous Identities in a Multiracial Era Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association Annual Meeting Sheraton Boston and the Boston Marriott Copley Place Boston, Massachusetts 2008-07-31 27 pages Carolyn A. Liebler, Assistant Professor of Sociology University of Minnesota Although multiple-race responses are now allowed on federal forms like the…