Mixed Race Studies

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  • Arnold K. Ho & Dr. Jim Sidanius to be Featured Guests on Mixed Chicks Chat

    Arnold K. Ho & Dr. Jim Sidanius to be Featured Guests 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 and Heidi W. Durrow Website: TalkShoe™ (Keywords: Mixed Chicks) Episode: #188 – Arnold…

  • Immigration, Intermarriage, and the Challenges of Measuring Racial/Ethnic Identities

    Immigration, Intermarriage, and the Challenges of Measuring Racial/Ethnic Identities American Journal of Public Health Volume 90, Number 11 (November 2000) pages 1735-1737 DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.90.11.1735 Mary C. Waters, M. E. Zukerman Professor of Sociology Harvard University This commentary reviews recent demographic trends in immigration and intermarriage that contribute to the complexity of measuring race and ethnicity.…

  • Race: I’m Just Who I am

    Race: I’m Just Who I am Time Magazine 1997-05-05 Jack E. White, Washington Tamala M. Edwards, Washington Elaine Lafferty, Los Angeles Sylvester Monoroe, Los Angeles Victoria Rainert, New York His nickname notwithstanding, professional golfer Frank (“Fuzzy”) Zoeller saw Tiger Woods quite clearly. He gazed upon the new king of professional golf, through whose veins runs…

  • In the Eye of the Beholder: Observed Race and Observer Characteristics

    In the Eye of the Beholder: Observed Race and Observer Characteristics PSC Research Report Population Studies Center at the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michgan Report No. 02-522 August 2002 36 pages David R. Harris, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Human Services Policy U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Deputy Provost and…

  • Ties on the fringes of identity

    Ties on the fringes of identity Social Science Research Volume 33, Issue 4 (December 2004) Pages 702-723 DOI: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2003.10.002 Carolyn A. Liebler, Assistant Professor of Sociology University of Minnesota I use data on part-American Indian children in the 1990 Census 5% PUMS to assess my hypotheses that thick racial ties within the family constrain racial…

  • Review of Spencer, Jon Michael, The New Colored People: The Mixed-Race Movement in America

    Review of Spencer, Jon Michael, The New Colored People: The Mixed-Race Movement in America H-Net Reviews January 1998 Richard L. Hughes The Census, Race, and… Amid a racial climate which includes a presidential advisory board on race and a discussion of slavery within the popular media, there lies an increasingly prominent dialogue on race in…

  • Evidence for hypodescent and racial hierarchy in the categorization and perception of biracial individuals.

    Evidence for hypodescent and racial hierarchy in the categorization and perception of biracial individuals. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology Published online: 2010-11-22 DOI: 10.1037/a0021562 Arnold K. Ho Department of Psychology Harvard University Jim Sidanius, Professor of Psychology and African and African American Studies Harvard University Daniel T. Levin, Professor of Psychology and Director of…

  • Changing Family Structures in America [Project Description]

    Changing Family Structures in America [Project Description] US 2010: Discover America in a New Century 2010 Zhenchao Qian, Professor of Sociology Ohio State University The US 2010 research project examines changes in American societ in the recent past.  Directed by sociologist John Logan, US 2010 is funded by the Russell Sage Foundation and Brown University. Qian…

  • Racial and Ethnic Intermarriage in the United States [Interview with Daniel T. Lichter]

    Racial and Ethnic Intermarriage in the United States [Interview with Daniel T. Lichter] Population Reference Bureau 2010-05-20 Questions and Answers with: Daniel T. Lichter, Professor of Policy Analysis and Management and Sociology Cornell University Donghui Yu: Could you please tell us some features of Asian American(partucularly Chinese American)’s intermarriage with other race? Thanks. Daniel T.…

  • Racial Identity’s Gray Area

    Racial Identity’s Gray Area The Wall Street Journal 2008-06-12 June Kronholz The Definition of Whiteness Continues to Shift When Barack Obama, whose mother was white, identifies himself as black, and when Bill Richardson, whose father was white, identifies himself as Hispanic, who is white? The U.S. Census Bureau says the country will be majority-minority in…