Category: Family/Parenting

  • Multiracial Daughters of Asian Immigrants: Identity and Agency Women & Therapy Volume 36,  Issue 3-4, 2013 Special Issue: Women and Immigration pages 268-285 DOI: 10.1080/02703149.2013.797776 Leilani Salvo Crane Counseling and Psychological Services University of Pennsylvania Multiracial daughters of Asian immigrants must navigate complex pathways to adulthood, self-efficacy, and self-concept. Frequently they are required by family…

  • Published in 2003, this groundbreaking, 288-page volume edited by Maria P. P. Root, Ph.D. and Matt Kelley, offers 35 chapters to assist the people who work with children to serve multiracial youth with compassion and competence.

  • “In 2004, I discovered my biological dad was African-American,” said Mr. Lee, who had been raised in a Korean family in Germany. “It had basically been a one-night stand. He ran away when he learned she was pregnant. She doesn’t even remember his name anymore.”

  • Relevance of Race: Children and the Shifting Engagement with Racial/Ethnic Identity among Second-Generation Interracially Married Asian Americans Journal of Asian American Studies Volume 16, Number 2, June 2013 pages 189-221 DOI: 10.1353/jaas.2013.0019 Kelly H. Chong, Associate Professor of Sociology University of Kansas Asian Americans have historically enjoyed one of the highest rates of intermarriage of…

  • Black-White Biracial Children’s Social Development from Kindergarten to Fifth Grade: Links with Racial Identification, Gender, and Socioeconomic Status Social Development Volume 23, Issue 1 (February 2014) pages 157–177 DOI: 10.1111/sode.12037 Annamaria Csizmadia, Assistant Professor of Human Development and Family Studies University of Connecticut, Stamford Jean M. Ispa, Professor of Human Development and Family Studies University…

  • Racial and Ethnic Identity Development in White Mothers of Biracial, Black-White Children Affilia Volume 19, Number 1 (February 2004) pages 68-84 DOI: 10.1177/0886109903260795 Margaret O’Donoghue, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Social Work New York University This article reports on a qualitative research study of the racial and ethnic identity of 11 White mothers who were married…

  • ‘Mixed Kids Are the Cutest’ Isn’t Cute? The Root 2013-04-08 Jenée Desmond-Harris, Staff Writer “I’m a Caucasian woman with a biracial child (her father is black). I live in a predominantly white community. Why is it that whenever people discover that I have a ‘mixed’ child, they always say things like, ‘Oh, he/she must be…

  • Bengali Harlem and the Lost Histories of South Asian America [Event] Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture Langston Hughes Auditorium 515 Malcolm X Boulevard New York, New York 10037-1801 2013-04-06, 17:30-20:30 EDT (Local Time) A book event with theater, film, and community forum presented by afro-latin@ forum, Asian American Writer’s Workshop and the Schomburg…

  • Darling: New & Selected Poems Bloodaxe Books 2007 224 pages Paperback ISBN: 1 85224 777 0 Jackie Kay, Professor of Creative Writing Newcastle University Humour, gender, sexuality, sensuality, identity, racism, cultural difference: when do any of these things ever come together to equal poetry? When Jackie Kay’s part of the equation. Darling brings together into…

  • Poverty at a Racial Crossroads: Poverty Among Multiracial Children of Single Mothers Journal of Marriage and Family Volume 75, Issue 2, April 2013 pages 486-502 DOI: 10.1111/jomf.12012 Jenifer L. Bratter, Associate Professor of Sociology Rice University Sarah Damaske, Assistant Professor of Labor Studies & Employment Relations Pennsylvania State University Although multiracial youth represent a growing…