Mixed Race Studies

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  • Under and Beyond Constraints: Resource Allocation to Young Children from Biracial Families

    Under and Beyond Constraints: Resource Allocation to Young Children from Biracial Families American Journal of Sociology Volume 112, Number 4 (January 2007) pages 1044–1094 ISSN: 0002-9602/2007/11204-0003 DOI: 10.1086/508793 Simon Cheng, Associate Professor of Sociology University of Connecticut Brian Powell, Rudy Professor of Sociology Indiana University Using data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Kindergarten Class…

  • Biracial identity and social marginality

    Biracial identity and social marginality Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal Issue Volume 7, Number 4 (August, 1990) Pages 319-337 Print ISSN: 0738-0151, Online ISSN: 1573-2797 DOI 10.1007/BF00757029 Philip M. Brown Phoebe Hart House, Portsmouth, New Hampshire This comparative analysis of classic and recent literature explores the developmental and social implications of biracial identity in…

  • A Clearer Picture of Multiracial Substance Use: Rates and Correlates of Alcohol and Tobacco Use in Multiracial Adolescents and Adults

    A Clearer Picture of Multiracial Substance Use: Rates and Correlates of Alcohol and Tobacco Use in Multiracial Adolescents and Adults Race and Social Problems Volume 2, Number 1 (March 2010) Published online: 2010-03-12 18 pages Print ISSN: 1867-1748, Online ISSN: 1867-1756 (Online) DOI: 10.1007/s12552-010-9023-1 George G. Chavez Rutgers University Diana T. Sanchez, Assistant Professor of…

  • Race Card: Corinne Bailey Rae and Zadie Smith Navigate Race and Art

    Race Card: Corinne Bailey Rae and Zadie Smith Navigate Race and Art Bitch Magazine 2010-01-21 Nadra Kareem Works by two mixed-race Brits—musician Corinne Bailey Rae and writer Zadie Smith—have recently been profiled in the New York Times. Both women navigate their collective white and Caribbean ancestry by embracing hybridity instead of relegating themselves to one…

  • ‘A Yellow-Ass Nigga’?: Hip Hop and the ‘Mixed-Race’ Experience

    ‘A Yellow-Ass Nigga’?: Hip Hop and the ‘Mixed-Race’ Experience Intermix Academic Papers February 2010 Dr. Kevin Searle Hip Hop has always engaged with the politics of ‘race’ and racism. From the Black Panther Party-inspired Marxism of acts such as The Coup and Immortal Technique, to the Nation of Islam-influenced stance of Public Enemy and Ice…

  • Telling a Tall Tale, Family-Style—Author and Cultural Historian Scott Sandage Delivers 17th Annual Levine Lecture

    Telling a Tall Tale, Family-Style—Author and Cultural Historian Scott Sandage Delivers 17th Annual Levine Lecture Rider University News Rider University, New Jersey 2008-10-16 For all his traditional academic rearing, Scott Sandage readily concedes that the revival of narrative has brought a new vitality to the discipline of history. “It was long considered unintellectual to tell…

  • Census snapshots: An evolving portrait

    Census snapshots: An evolving portrait Chicago Tribune 2010-03-14 Oscar Avila, Tribune reporter Dahleen Glanton, Tribune reporter Multiracial, gay and immigrant Americans question whether 2010 form captures country’s fast-changing makeup Look in the mirror and what do you see? When the census form arrives in mailboxes this week, the complex answers to that question will help…

  • My People Will Sleep for One Hundred Years: Story of a Métis Self

    My People Will Sleep for One Hundred Years: Story of a Métis Self University of Victoria 2004 106 pages Sylvia Rae Cottell, B.F.A. Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts in the Department of Educational Psychology and Leadership Studies…

  • Metis Identity Creation and Tactical Responses to Oppression and Racism

    Metis Identity Creation and Tactical Responses to Oppression and Racism Variegations Journal University of Victoria, Canada Volume 2 (2005) ISSN: 1708-9840 Cathy Richardson Indigenous Governance University of Victoria, Victoria, Canada As one of Canada’s founding Aboriginal people (Department of Justice Canada, 1982), the Metis exist at the periphery of the Canadian historical, cultural and social…

  • The role of Japanese as a heritage language in constructing ethnic identity among Hapa Japanese Canadian children

    The role of Japanese as a heritage language in constructing ethnic identity among Hapa Japanese Canadian children Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development Volume 30, Issue 1 (February 2009) pages 1-18 DOI: 10.1080/01434630802307874 Hiroko Noro, Professor of Pacific and Asian Studies University of Victoria, Canada Today, Japanese Canadians are marrying outside of their ethnic community…