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  • Loving v. Virginia

    From Wikipedia: Loving v. (versus) [Commonwealth of] Virginia, 388 U.S. 1 (1967), was a landmark civil rights case in which the United States Supreme Court by a [unanimous] 9-0 vote declared [on 1967-06-12] Virginia’s anti-miscegenation statute, the “Racial Integrity Act of 1924“, unconstitutional, thereby overturning Pace v. Alabama (1883) and ending all race-based legal restrictions…

  • Portraits of the New Negro Woman: Visual and Literary Culture in the Harlem Renaissance (review)

    Portraits of the New Negro Woman: Visual and Literary Culture in the Harlem Renaissance (review) Legacy Volume 26, Number 1 (2009) pages 182-184 E-ISSN: 1534-0643 Print ISSN: 0748-4321 DOI: 10.1353/leg.0.0069 Martha Jane Nadell, Associate Professor Brooklyn College of the City University of New York Cherene Sherrard-Johnson opens her provocative and intriguing book, Portraits of the…

  • Mother’s, Father’s, or Both? Parental Gender and Parent-Child Interactions in the Racial Classification of Adolescents

    Mother’s, Father’s, or Both? Parental Gender and Parent-Child Interactions in the Racial Classification of Adolescents Jenifer L. Bratter, Assistant Professor of Sociology and Associate Director of the Institute for Urban Research Rice University Holly E. Heard Rice University Sociological Forum Volume 24, Number 3, September 2009 pages 658-688 DOI: 10.1111/j.1573-7861.2009.01124.x Research on racial identification in interracial…

  • My Choice, Your Categories: The Denial of Multiracial Identities

    Mixed-race individuals often encounter situations in which their identities are a source of tension, particularly when expressions of multiracial and biracial identity are not supported or allowed. Two studies examined the consequences of this identity denial.

  • The Browning of America and the Evasion of Social Justice (Review)

    The Browning of America and the Evasion of Social Justice (Review) by Ronald R. Sundstrom SUNY Press 2008, 190pp., $24.95 (pbk.) ISBN: 9780791475867 Notre Dame Philisophical Reviews 2009-06-29 Reviewed by Lucius T. Outlaw (Jr.) Vanderbilt University The United States is undergoing the most profound demographic changes in the country’s history so that in a few…

  • Re-Mix: Rethinking the use of ‘Hapa’ in Mixedrace Asian/Pacific Islander American Community Organizing

    Re-Mix: Rethinking the use of ‘Hapa’ in Mixedrace Asian/Pacific Islander American Community Organizing McNair Journal Fall 2005 Angela S. Taniguchi, McNair Scholar Washington State University Linda Heidenreich, Chair and Associate Professor Department of Women’s Studies Washington State University The term Hapa is Hawaiian in origin and roughly means ‘half’. Recently, many mixedrace Asian/Pacific Islanders on…

  • Dr. Maria P. P. Root Guest on Mixed Chicks Chat

    Dr. Maria P. P. Root Guest on Mixed Chicks Chat Mixed Chicks Chat (The only live weekly show about being racially and culturally mixed. Also, founders of the Mixed Roots Film & Literary Festival) Hosted by Fanshen Cox, Heidi W. Durrow Website: TalkShoe™ (Keywords: Mixed Chicks) Episode: #113 – Maria P. P. Root, Ph.D. Wednesday,…

  • When Race Matters: Racially Stigmatized Others and Perceiving Race as a Biological Construction Affect Biracial People’s Daily Well-Being

    When Race Matters: Racially Stigmatized Others and Perceiving Race as a Biological Construction Affect Biracial People’s Daily Well-Being Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin Volume 35, Number 9 (September 2009) pages 1154-1164 DOI: 10.1177/0146167209337628 Diana T. Sanchez, Associate Professor of Psychology Rutgers University Julie A. Garcia, Associate Professor of Psychology California Polytechnic State University Stigmatized group…

  • “Our Duty to Conserve”: W. E. B. Du Bois’s Philosophy of History in Context

    “Our Duty to Conserve”: W. E. B. Du Bois’s Philosophy of History in Context South Atlantic Quarterly Volume 108, Number 3 (2009) pages 519-540 DOI: 10.1215/00382876-2009-006 Robert Bernasconi, Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Philosophy Pennsylvania State University When restored to its historical context, W. E. B. Du Bois‘s “The Conservation of Races” emerges less as…

  • A New Take On A Old Idea: Do We Need Multiracial Studies?

    A New Take On A Old Idea: Do We Need Multiracial Studies? Du Bois Review: Social Science Review on Race Volume 3, Issue 2 (September 2006) pages 437-447 DOI: 10.1017/S1742058X06060280 Victor Thompson, Assistant Professor of Sociology Rider University, Lawrenceville, New Jersery Publications about multiracial identity and the multiracial population increased significantly prior to the 2000…