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  • Black and White and Read All Over: If you’re mixed-race, they never stop asking ‘What are you?’

    Black and White and Read All Over: If you’re mixed-race, they never stop asking ‘What are you?’ Village Voice Tuesday, 2006-01-24   Naomi Pabst, Assistant Professor of African American Studies and American Studies Yale University It’s back in the ’90s in San Francisco. I’m undergoing a wisdom tooth extraction, hovering happily in nitrous oxide–land, when…

  • The Mulatto In The United States: Including A Study Of The Role Of Mixed-Blood Races Throughout The World

    An historical study of the role of the mulatto in American society, with a discussion of the mixing of races in other parts of the world. Edward Byron Reuter (1880-1946) received his doctoral degree in sociology from the University of Chicago in 1919 for this dissertation. He served (in 1933) as the 22nd President of…

  • From Black to Biracial: Transforming Racial Identity Among Americans

    From Black to Biracial: Transforming Racial Identity Among Americans Praeger Publishers an imprint of Greenwood Publishing Group 1998 160 pages Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 Paperback ISBN: 0-275-96744-1; ISBN-13: 978-0-275-96744-4 Kathleen Odell Korgen, Professor of Sociology William Paterson University, Wayne, New Jersey Is a person with both a white and African American parent…

  • Claiming Place: Biracial Young Adults of the Post-Civil Rights Era

    Claiming Place: Biracial Young Adults of the Post-Civil Rights Era Praeger 2000-11-30 208 pages Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-89789-760-0 Ebook ISBN: 978-0-313-06507-1 Marion Kilson, Dean of the Graduate School Salem State College, Massachusetts Born in the 1960s, the middle-class Biracial Americans of this study are part of a transitional cohort…

  • Who Is Black? One Nation’s Definition

    Who Is Black? One Nation’s Definition Penn State Press 2001 (Originally published in 1992) 232 pages 6 x 9 ISBN 978-0-271-02172-0 F. James Davis, Professor Emeritus of Sociology Illinois State University Winner of the 1992 Outstanding Book on the Subject of Human Rights from the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Human Rights in…

  • Notes of a White Black Woman: Race, Color, Community

    Notes of a White Black Woman: Race, Color, Community Penn State Press 1995 206 pages 6 x 9 cloth: ISBN 978-0-271-01430-2 paper: ISBN 978-0-271-02124-9 Judy Scales-Trent, Floyd H. & Hilda L. Hurst Faculty Scholar, Professor Emerita State Univerisity of New York at Buffalo Law School “I remember one time in particular, after the cab I…

  • The Social Construction of Race and Ethnicity in the United States (2nd Edition)

    The Social Construction of Race and Ethnicity in the United States (2nd Edition) Prentice Hall 2001 525 pages Paperback ISBN-10: 0130283231; ISBN-13:  9780130283238 Edited By: Joan Ferrante Northern Kentucky University Prince Brown, Jr. Northern Kentucky University For undergraduate courses in race and ethnic relations. This groundbreaking collection of classic and cutting edge sociological research gives…

  • The Effects of Mixed-Race Households on Residential Segregation

    The Effects of Mixed-Race Households on Residential Segregation Journal Urban Geography Issue Volume 28, Number 6, August 16-September 30, 2007 Online Date: 2007-11-27 Pages 554-577 ISSN: 0272-3638 DOI 10.2747/0272-3638.28.6.554 Mark Ellis University of Washington Steven R. Holloway University of Georgia Richard Wright Dartmouth College Margaret East The University of Texas, Arlington This paper investigates how…

  • New Faces in a Changing America: Multiracial Identity in the 21st Century

    New Faces in a Changing America: Multiracial Identity in the 21st Century SAGE Publications, Inc. Paperback ISBN: 9780761923008 2001 432 pages Edited by Loretta I. Winters California State University, Northridge Herman L. DeBose California State University, Northridge How multiracial people identify themselves can have major consequences on their positions in their families, communities and society.…

  • Mixed Heritage – Identity, Policy and Practice

    Mixed Heritage – Identity, Policy and Practice Runnymede Trust ISBN-10: 0-9548389-6-3 ISBN-13: 978-0-9548389-6-6 EAN: 9780954838966 40 pages September 2007 Edited by Jessica Mai Sims Although they are often invisible in debates on race and ethnicity, the 2001 census reveals that the ‘Mixed’ population is the third largest ethnic category in the UK, with predictions that…