Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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A unique book offering both a research overview and practical advice for its readers, this text allows students to gain a solid understanding of the research that has been generated on several important issues surrounding multiracial families, including intimate relations, family dynamics, transracial adoptions, and other topics of personal and scholarly interest.
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Multiracial Identity [Movie] to be screened at the Portland, Maine International Film Festival Portland, Maine International Film Festival Saturday, 2010-08-21, 12:00 – 13:30 EDT (Local Time) Space Gallery 538 Congress Street, Portland, Maine 04101 Phone: 207.828.5600 Year: 2010 Director: Brian Chinhema Writer: Brian Chinhema Producer: Brian Chinhema (Abacus Production) Running Time: 01:22:00 Multiracial people are the fastest…
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Mixed Messages, Mixed Memories, Mixed Ethnicity: Mnemonic Heritage and Constructing Identity Through Mixed Parentage New Zealand Sociology Volume 25, Number 1 (2010) pages 75-99 Zarine L. Rocha, Research Scholar in the Department of Sociology National University of Singapore This article explores the concept of mixed ethnic identity from a social memory-based perspective. Drawing on the…
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The Changing Racial and Ethnic Composition of the US Population: Emerging American Identities Population and Development Review Volume 35, Issue 1 (March 2009) pages 1-51 DOI: 10.1111/j.1728-4457.2009.00260.x Anthony Daniel Perez, Assistant Professor of Sociology University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Charles Hirschman, Boeing International Professor of Sociology Department of Sociology and Center for Studies in…
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Biracial Utahns seeking identity Deseret News Salt Lake City, Utah 2005-03-12 Elaine Jarvik They’re biracial — equally Polynesian and white. But most prefer to think of themselves as Polynesian, says University of Utah graduate student Kawika Allen, who recently studied 84 Polynesian-Caucasian Utahns. Allen, who grew up with an Hawaiian mother and a Caucasian father,…
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This article analyzes race-targeted policy in Brazil as both a political stake and a powerful instrument in an unfolding classificatory struggle over the definition of racial boundaries.
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The Race Construct and Public Opinion: Understanding Brazilian Beliefs about Racial Inequality and Their Determinants The American Journal of Sociology Volume 108, Number 2 (September 2002) pages 406–39 Stanley R. Bailey, Associate Professor of Sociology University of California, Irvine Researchers hold that the racial democracy ideology fosters a rejection of discrimination-based explanations for racial inequality,…
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Looking in the Cultural Mirror: How understanding race and culture helps us answer the question: “Who am I?” Psychology Today 2010-07-06 Jefferson M. Fish, Ph.D. The Census and Race—Part I–Key Issues: What can science tell us about the census’s race questions? (2010-07-06) The 2010 Census is well on its way to completion. Its controversial questions…
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President Obama checks the “Black” box Evidently it’s official: Barack Obama is the nation’s first black president. Psychology Today 2010-04-04 Samantha Smithstein, Psy.D., Clinical and Forensic Psychologist and Co-Founder Pathways Institute for Impulse Control, San Francisco This week, the New York Times reported that “It is official: Barack Obama is the nation’s first black president.”…
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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…