Mixed Race Studies

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  • When the Options Are Open: Racial Identification of Part-American Indian Children in Census 2000

    When the Options Are Open: Racial Identification of Part-American Indian Children in Census 2000  Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association Atlanta Hilton Hotel Atlanta, Georgia 2003-08-16 23 pages Carolyn A. Liebler, Assistant Professor of Sociology University of Minnesota I will use data on part-American Indian children in the 2000 Census 1…

  • Segregation of the Free People of Color and the Construction of Race in Antebellum New Orleans

    Segregation of the Free People of Color and the Construction of Race in Antebellum New Orleans Southeastern Geographer Volume 48, Number 1, May 2008 pages 19-37 E-ISSN: 1549-6929 Print ISSN: 0038-366X DOI: 10.1353/sgo.0.0010 Amy R. Sumpter, Instructor of Geography Georgia College and State University Louisiana and the city of New Orleans have a complicated colonial…

  • A Brief History of Census “Race”

    A Brief History of Census “Race” Knol: A unit of knowledge 2010-06-08 4 illustrations Frank W. Sweet, Independent Research Historian The U.S. federal census was founded to apportion congressional representation among the states. In order to achieve additional goals, it switched in 1850 from recording households in summary, to recording individuals in detail. It became…

  • Lone Mothers of Mixed Racial and Ethnic Children: Then and Now

    Lone Mothers of Mixed Racial and Ethnic Children: Then and Now Runnymede Trust June 2010 Chamion Caballero, Senior Research Fellow Families & Social Capital Research Group London South Bank University Rosalind Edwards, Professor in Social Policy Families & Social Capital Research Group London South Bank University Information from the UK Census indicates that parents of…

  • Mixed Race Britain: Where Next?

    Mixed Race Britain: Where Next? Runnymede Trust 2010-07-09 Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, Independent Journalist My two books on mixed race Britons, Colour of Love (1992) and Mixed Feelings (2001) were among the first non-academic explorations of racial mixing in Britain. In the nine years between the two publications, awareness had grown of the fast rising number of…

  • Neighborhood Segregation in Single-Race and Multirace America: A Census 2000 Study of Cities and Metropolitan Areas

    Neighborhood Segregation in Single-Race and Multirace America: A Census 2000 Study of Cities and Metropolitan Areas Fannie Mae Foundation 2002 45 pages William H. Frey University of Michigan and the Milken Institute Dowell Myers University of Southern California This report accompanies the release of detailed racial segregation indices for 1,246 individual U.S. cities with populations…

  • Doing Race: 21 Essays for the 21st Century

    Doing Race: 21 Essays for the 21st Century W. W. Norton and Company April 2010 590 pages 6.2 × 9.3 in Paperback ISBN: 978-0-393-93070-2 Hazel Rose Markus (Editor) Stanford University Paula M. L. Moya (Editor) Stanford University A collection of new essays, written by a team of interdisciplinary authors, that gives a comprehensive introduction to…

  • Ethical Considerations in Social Work Research with Multiracial Individuals

    Ethical Considerations in Social Work Research with Multiracial Individuals Journal of Social Work Values and Ethics Volume 7, Number 1 (2010) 10 pages Kelly F. Jackson, MSW, PhD, Assistant Professor of Social Work Arizona State University Growing diversity in the U.S. has prioritized social work’s ethical obligation to develop specialized knowledge and understanding of culture…

  • Tiger Woods: Black, white, other

    Tiger Woods: Black, white, other The Guardian 2010-05-29 Gary Younge, Feature Writer and Columnist Before he was engulfed in a sex scandal Tiger Woods was a poster boy for a multiracial America. Gary Younge on the real legacy of golf’s fallen hero On 13 April 1997 Tiger Woods putted his way to golfing history in…