Mixed Race Studies

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  • Framing mixed race: The face of America is changing

    Framing mixed race: The face of America is changing Contra Costa Times 2010-02-07 Jennifer Modenessi Like any proud mother, Janine Mozée sees beauty when she looks at her four children. But the Benicia resident perceives more than their physical qualities and the various shades and hues of their skin, eyes and hair. For Mozée, 46,…

  • Fulbeck inspires students to be proud of their heritage

    Fulbeck inspires students to be proud of their heritage The State Hornet The Voice of Sacramento State 2010-02-09 Jennifer Siopongco Kip Fulbeck will launch the Multi-Cultural Center’s mixed-heritage series at 7 p.m. Feb. 18 in the Sac[ramento] State’s University Union with his lecture titled “Race, Sex and Tattoos: The Kip Fulbeck Experience.”   Spring semester…

  • Ambiguity and Ambivalence in the Voting Booth and Beyond: A Social-Psychological Perspective on Racial Attitudes and Behavior in the Obama Era

    Ambiguity and Ambivalence in the Voting Booth and Beyond: A Social-Psychological Perspective on Racial Attitudes and Behavior in the Obama Era Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race Volume 6, Issue 01, March 2009 pages 71-82 DOI: 10.1017/S1742058X09090067 Destiny Peery Department of Psychology Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois Galen V. Bodenhausen, Lawyer Taylor Professor of…

  • Research Report: Black + White = Black: Hypodescent in Reflexive Categorization of Racially Ambiguous Faces

    Research Report: Black + White = Black: Hypodescent in Reflexive Categorization of Racially Ambiguous Faces Psychological Science Volume 19, Number 10 (2008) pages 973-977 Destiny Peery Department of Psychology, Northwestern University Galen V. Bodenhausen, Lawyer Taylor Professor of Psychology in the Weinberg College of Arts & Sciences Northwestern University Historically, the principle of hypodescent specified…

  • The Impossibility of Return: Black Women’s Migrations to Africa

    The Impossibility of Return: Black Women’s Migrations to Africa Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies Volume 27, Number 2, 2006 pages 54-86 E-ISSN: 1536-0334 Print ISSN: 0160-9009 DOI: 10.1353/fro.2007.0009 Piper Kendrix-Williams, Professor of African-American Studies The College of New Jersey I was on an international flight, traveling from New York to Paris, when an older…

  • Two researchers reflect on navigating multiracial identities in the research situation

    Two researchers reflect on navigating multiracial identities in the research situation International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education Volume 23, Issue 3 (June 2010) pages 259 – 281 DOI: 10.1080/09518390903196609 Erica Mohan University of British Columbia Terah T. Venzant Chambers, Professor of Education and Human Development Texas A&M University   Despite the increasing interest in…

  • Racial Identity in Balance

    Racial Identity in Balance The Chronicle of Higher Education 2004-01-07 Naomi J. Miller, Professor of English and the Study of Women and Gender; Director of Institutional Diversity and Assistant to the President Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts I consider myself multiracial. Technically, I am half Japanese, a quarter Czech, and a quarter English-Dutch. By definition, then,…

  • Race: Social Fact, Biological Fiction

    Race: Social Fact, Biological Fiction Focus on Adoption Volume 17, Number 3 June/July 2009 pages 16-17 Andrew Martindale, Assistant Professor of Anthropology University of British Columbia Andrew Martindale, an adoptive parent, and assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia, explains that the concept of race is man-made and, though…

  • Language and the Politics of Ethnicity in the Caribbean

    Language and the Politics of Ethnicity in the Caribbean Center for Research on Latin America and the Caribbean York University, Toronto, Ontario The Fourth Annual Jagan Lecture Presented at York University on 2002-03-02 George Lamming, Visiting Professor Brown University The Jagan Lectures commemorate the life and vision of the late Dr. Cheddi Jagan, Caribbean thinker,…

  • PAGE ONE — No Biological Basis For Race, Scientists Say / Distinctions prove to be skin deep

    PAGE ONE — No Biological Basis For Race, Scientists Say / Distinctions prove to be skin deep San Fransisco Gate Chronicle 1998-02-23 Charles Petit, Chronicle Science Writer This is one of a series of articles in “About Race,” a year-long public journalism project in which The Chronicle, KRON-TV, BayTV and KQED-FM are examining various aspects…