Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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- You were either Black or white. To claim whiteness as a mixed child was to deny and hide Blackness. Our families understood that the world we were growing into would seek to denigrate this part of us and we would need a community that was made up, always and already, of all shades of Blackness.
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Examining Health Disparities Through the Lens of Mixed Race Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association Marriott Hotel, Loews Philadelphia Hotel Philadelphia, PA 2005-08-12 Cathy J. Tashiro, Associate Professor Nursing Program University of Washington, Tacoma Debates are occurring about the relative contribution of genetic vs. social factors to racial health…
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5 Shades of Pink: A Coerced Identity In cooperation with The Graduate Association of Rhetoric and Performance Studies. A Graduate Thesis Performance Exploring Biracial Identity in the 19th Century. Monroe Lecture Center Theater California Avenue, South Campus Hofstra University 2009-03-19 19:30 (Local Time) by Melissa J. Edwards Hofstra University This performance explores the influences of…
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Performing Bi- and Multi-Racial Identity Paper presented at the annual meeting of the NCA 94th Annual Convention, TBA San Diego, California 2008-11-20 13 pages Melissa J. Edwards Hofstra University Bi or Multi Racial identity is not clearly defined within American racial terms. This performative criticism of Kristen A. Renn’s study of college age students who…
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Gaining Interactional Leverage: School Racial Compositions and Multiracial Youths Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association Hilton San Francisco & Renaissance Parc 55 Hotel San Francisco, California 2004-08-14 44 pages Simon Cheng, Associate Professor of Sociology University of Connecticut One of the most important changes in the contemporary American population is the…
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Parental Communication and Its Influence on Biracial Identity Paper presented at the annual meeting of the NCA 93rd Annual Convention, TBA Chicago, IL 2007-11-15 27 pages Carolyn Brooks The Biracial identity development process has long been overlooked in society and in research. Few models exist and those models in existence are mostly descriptive. This…
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Narrating the Racial Self: Symbolic Boundaries and the Reference Group Identification Among Biracial Black Jews Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association Marriott Hotel, Loews Philadelphia Hotel Philadelphia, PA 2005-08-12 45 pages Bruce Haynes, Associate Professor Sociology Depertment University of California at Davis Few studies of bi-racial or multiracial identity have…
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Status Maximization or Identity Theory?: A Theorectical Approach to Understanding the Racial Identification of Multiracial Adolescents Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association Marriott Hotel, Loews Philadelphia Hotel, Philadelphia, PA 2005-08-12 Matthew Oware, Associate Professor of Sociology DePauw University Previous research has found that there are multiple factors that influence the…
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Dimensions of Self-Identification among Multiracial and Multiethnic Respondents in Survey Interviews
Dimensions of Self-Identification among Multiracial and Multiethnic Respondents in Survey Interviews Research supported in part by contract HHS 0009430486 from the National Center for Health Statistics. Publication Date: 1997-12 ISSN: ISSN-0193-841X Timothy P. Johnson University of Illinois at Chicago Jared B. Jobe National Center for Health Statistics Diane O’Rourke University of Illinois at Urbana Seymour…