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  • Positioning American Japanese in the Context of Japanese and Okinawan Nationalism and Ethnicity

    Positioning American Japanese in the Context of Japanese and Okinawan Nationalism and Ethnicity Stanford Journal of Asian American Studies Volume II (October 2009) 18 pages Stephanie Otani Stanford University have the right… Not to justify my existence in this world. Not to keep the races separate within me. Not to be responsible for people’s discomfort…

  • Social Origins of the Brandywine Population

    Social Origins of the Brandywine Population Phylon (1960-) Vollume 24, Number 4 (4th Qtr., 1963) pages 369-378 Thomas J. Harte Catholic University of America ALL RACIAL ISOLATES present problems of unknown or mysterious origins. [C. A.] Weslager notes the lack of specific information for the Nanticokes of Delaware and for the Moors as well.  There…

  • SOCY 57: Identity and Social Interaction of Multiracial Americans

    SOCY 57: Identity and Social Interaction of Multiracial Americans Dartmouth College Department of Sociology Upper Division Currently being taught as of Spring 2011 Melissa R. Herman, Assistant Professor of Sociology The 2000 Census revealed that nearly 4% of youth and 2% of adult Americans belong to more than one racial category. What are the social,…

  • Passage to identity is still a struggle

    Passage to identity is still a struggle Kansas City Star 2010-12-17 Commentary by: Jeneé Osterheldt I’ve always known I wasn’t white like my mama. Even as a little girl, I could feel adults stare as we passed by. I was different. But was I black like my daddy? It took me much of my young…

  • White/Minority Multiraciality: An Exploration of Sociopolitical Consciousness Development

    White/Minority Multiraciality: An Exploration of Sociopolitical Consciousness Development California State University, Sacramento Spring 2009 118 pages Melody Marie Antillon Hazzard Thesis submitted in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree of Master of Social Work at California State University, Sacramento There is contention in multiracial studies as to whether multiracial people perpetuate or challenge…

  • Color outside the lines

    Color outside the lines Columbia Missourian 2006-06-11 Sara Fernández Cendon The boundaries between traditional racial categories shift as more people identify themselves as multiracial. The term adds another dimension to the complex issue of race in America. Some say Tiger Woods started it all. After winning the Masters Tournament in 1997, the golf star described…

  • Brief History: Loving Day

    Brief History: Loving Day Time Magazine 2010-06-11 Christopher Shay In February 1961, Barack Obama’s parents did something that was illegal in 22 states and that 96% of the population disapproved of: they got married. In fact, interracial marriage, sex and cohabitation would remain illegal in much of the U.S. for another six years. Then on…

  • Mixing Races: From Scientific Racism to Modern Evolutionary Ideas

    This book explores changing American views of race mixing in the twentieth century, showing how new scientific ideas transformed accepted notions of race and how those ideas played out on college campuses in the 1960s.

  • who and what you are

    who and what you are Contexts Volume 8, Number 4 (Fall 2009) Pages 64–65 DOI: 10.1525/ctx.2009.8.4.64 Sangyoub Park, Assistant Professor of Sociology Washburn University Barack Obama’s presidency and changes in how the U.S. Census tracks race underline the importance of the social construction of race and ethnicity in the United States. Changes in our racial…

  • Blurred Borders for Some but not “Others”: Racialization, “Flexible Ethnicity,” Gender, and Third-Generation Mexican American Identity

    Blurred Borders for Some but not “Others”: Racialization, “Flexible Ethnicity,” Gender, and Third-Generation Mexican American Identity Sociological Perspectives Volume 53, Number 1 (Spring 2010) Pages 45–72 DOI: 10.1525/sop.2010.53.1.45 Jessica M. Vasquez, Assistant Professor of Sociology University of Kansas How are the lives of middle-class third-generation Mexican Americans both racialized and gendered? Third-generation Mexican Americans in…