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  • The term “race,” the way it is defined in forms, does not exist; the term “racism” is a reality

    The term “race,” the way it is defined in forms, does not exist; the term “racism” is a reality University of Memphis Colloge of Arts & Sciences Archive (from an article in La Prensa Latina) 2004-03-08 Marcela Mendoza, Adjunct Instructor & Courtesy Research Associate Department of Anthropology University of Oregon The term “race” as defined…

  • Multiracal In America

    Multiracal In America Ebony Magazine May 2011 Adam Serwer In The Mix: Being Biracial in America When President Barack Obama checked “Black” on his census form last April, it was an actual news story. The Associated Press subhed [sub-headline] was lined with implicit anguish: “President Ticks One Box Concerning Racial Heritage on U.S. Census Form,…

  • As the mixed-race population grows, the stigma of the past fades

    As the mixed-race population grows, the stigma of the past fades jcOnline.com (Journal and Courier) Lafayette – West Lafayette, Indiana 2011-05-01 Taya Flores Gerald and Susan Thomas experienced a hurtful racial climate in Greater Lafayette when they dated during the 1970s. A drive-by verbal assault in Lafayette early in their marriage is one Gerald still…

  • Shady’s Back

    Shady’s Back New Matilda Surry Hills NSW, Australia 2011-05-02 Jennifer Mills As Obama is called to prove his place of birth, Indigenous Australians are being asked to account for their origins too. Not black enough, not white enough: Jennifer Mills on public anxiety about biracial identity The release of Obama’s birth certificate by the White…

  • Book Review: Multiracial Americans and Social Class: The Influence of Social Class on Racial Identity

    Nonetheless, correctly and jointly, these articles recognize that we live in a society dominated and dictated by white supremacy. To understand multiracial Americans, we must place individuals with this identity within this context. Additionally, this collection does what no other has: It includes in this recognition the role that class can and does play when…

  • 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

    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…

  • Blackness and Race Mixture: The Dynamics of Racial Identity in Colombia

    Drawing on extensive anthropological fieldwork, Peter Wade shows how the concept of “blackness” and discrimination are deeply embedded in different social levels and contexts—from region to neighborhood, and from politics and economics to housing, marriage, music, and personal identity.

  • The Triracial Experience in a Poor Appalachian Community: How Social Identity Shapes the School Lives of Rural Minorities

    The Triracial Experience in a Poor Appalachian Community: How Social Identity Shapes the School Lives of Rural Minorities Ohio University June 2005 176 pages Stephanie Diane Starcher A dissertation presented to the faculty of the College of Education of Ohio University In partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree Doctor of Education This study…

  • How race becomes biology: Embodiment of social inequality

    How race becomes biology: Embodiment of social inequality American Journal of Physical Anthropology Special Issue: Race Reconciled: How Biological Anthropologists View Human Variation Volume 139, Issue 1 (May 2009) pages 47–57 DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.20983 Clarence C. Gravlee, Associate Professor of Anthropology University of Florida, Gainesville The current debate over racial inequalities in health is arguably the…

  • Growing Up Mixed, Blended In The New American Family

    Growing Up Mixed, Blended In The New American Family National Public Radio Tell Me More 2011-03-29 Michel Martin, Host New census figures show that the number of mixed-race Americans has grown by nearly 50 percent in the last ten years. And that rise in number is most pronounced in the South. Census data also reveals…