Category: Campus Life

  • Group provides space for ‘racial Hybrids’ The University News A Student Voice of Saint Louis University Since 1921 2011-04-14 Sean Worley Black Student Alliance, Filipino Student Association, Indian Student Association and the list of groups oriented around race goes on. Although these student groups have a noticeable presence on campus, for some students, they just…

  • Multiracial Identity Development: Understanding Choice of Racial Identity in Asian-White College Students Journal of the Indiana University Student Personnel Association 2011 pages 38-45 Ashley Viager Higher Education and Student Affairs Program Indiana University Asian-White individuals will have greater representation in higher education in coming years, and student affairs professionals must learn how these students make…

  • Blending together The Stanford Daily Stanford University 2011-05-05 Ashley Menzies These students are part of the growing country-wide phenomenon of individuals who identify themselves as “mixed race.” The number of people who check both the black and white boxes has increased by 134 percent to 1.8 million since the 2000 census, the first time it…

  • Biracial Identity and the College Social Environment: An Examination of the Effect of College Racial Composition on Black-White Biracial Students’ Racial Identity Construction and Maintenance 29th Annual SouthEastern Undergraduate Sociology Symposium 2011 Co-sponsored by Morehouse College and Emory University Departments of Sociology Emory University, February 25-26, 2011 Kristen Clayton Emory University Winner of the first…

  • More Iowans identifying as mixed race The Daily Iowan The Independent Daily Newspaper for the University of Iowa Since 1868 2011-04-19 Alison Sullivan Photo: Christy Aumer/The Daily IowanSophomore Tevin Robbins poses in the window of the second floor at the Afro-American Cultural Center on April 5. Robbins is currently majoring in psychology but has switched…

  • The Missing Box: Multiracial Student Identity Development at a Predominately White Institution University of Nebraska, Lincoln May 2011 153 pages Ashley Michelle Loudd A Thesis Presented to the Faculty of The Graduate College at the University of Nebraska In Partial Fulfillment of Requirements For the Degree of Master of Arts The purpose of this study…

  • Mixed Race on Campus: Multiracial Student Identities and Issues in Higher Education NCORE 2011 24 Annual National Conference on Race & Ethnicity in American Higher Education San Francisco, California 2011-05-31 through 2011-06-04 Thursday, 2011-06-02, 13:15–16:15 PDT (Local Time) Eric Hamako, Doctoral Candidate Social Justice Education Program University of Massachusetts, Amherst Multiracial and Mixed‑Race students are…

  • Diversity Dialogues lecture opens forum on ethnic identity Spartan Daily News@SJSU San José State University 2011-03-06 Francisco Rendon So … what are you?” Although a common question facing persons of mixed ethnic heritage, it often characterizes society’s attempt to label them, and these persons‘ struggle to fit into one culture. This question, as well as…

  • Understanding what it means to be mixed Excalibur York University’s Community Newspaper 2011-03-30 Victoria Alarcon, Sports & Health Editor People have always seen me as different. It doesn’t matter where I went, when it happened or who it was; I’ve too often come face-to-face with puzzled looks and people examining me, trying to dissect what…

  • Mixed Race Week begins with Loving Day awareness dinner Today@Colorado State Colorado State University 2011-03-30 This Friday, Apr. 1, marks the beginning of the 3rd-annual Mixed Race Week, a series of presentations and activities celebrating the multiracial and interracial community at Colorado State University. The yearly event is put on by Shades of CSU, an…