Category: Family/Parenting

  • Family Portrait in Black and White: Documentary by Julia Ivanova Interfilm Productions Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada 2011 Institutional Use: Double DVD (includes 85 and 52 minute versions) Private Use: 85 minute DVD Julia Ivanova, Director Olga Nenya has 27 children. Four of them, now adults, are her biological children; the other 23 are adopted or…

  • White Mothers of Biracial Sons and Daughters in U.S. Schools:  Colliding, Colluding, and Contending with White Privilege Jennifer Little, a Ph.D. candidate in the Leadership for the Advancement of Learning and Service program at Cardinal Stritch University, is looking to build out her list of mothers to interview for her dissertation—which is titled “White Mothers…

  • Mixed-race Jewish children locate their communal comfort zone The Jewish Chronicle Online 2009-11-12 Sue Fishkoff Dafna Wu, a 48-year-old San Francisco nurse, was born to a Jewish mother and Chinese father. She was raised Jewish but looks Asian, as does her daughter, nine-year-old Amalia, whose father was also Chinese. The Hebrew School Amalia attends is…

  • Jewish multiracial families grow in numbers and commitment The Denver Post Denver, Colorado 2012-09-25 Electa Draper Three Denver mothers heading multiracial families are seeking to build on what it means to live in Jewish community. The community is changing. It’s perhaps a surprising slice of demography that shows that 16 percent of metro Denver Jewish…

  • I’m Chocolate, You’re Vanilla: Raising Healthy Black and Biracial Children in a Race-Conscious World Jossey-Bass May 2000 304 pages Paperback ISBN: 978-0-7879-5234-1 Marguerite A. Wright A child’s concept of race is quite different from that of an adult. Young children perceive skin color as magical—even changeable—and unlike adults, are incapable of understanding adult predjudices surrounding…

  • Mothers and Their Biracial Children: Growing Up Biracial in a One Race Fits All Society Cedarville University, Cedarville, Ohio November 2009 86 pages Kristin Felts-Keller A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Masters of Education This thesis is a qualitative study on the Mothers of biracial children and the…

  • New Americans: Rise of the Multiracials: A Documentary A Work-In-Progress Documentary Eli Steele, Producer With more Americans marrying across the color line today than before, it is inevitable that the racial makeup of America’s face will forever change. Of the nine million individuals that identified themselves as multiracial on the 2010 census, more than 50…

  • Two Classes, Divided by ‘I Do’ The New York Times 2012-07-15 Jason Deparle          Also see the video, “Single and Unequal” by Shayla Harris here. ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Jessica Schairer has so much in common with her boss, Chris Faulkner, that a visitor to the day care center they run might get them confused.…

  • Fostering Mixed-Race Children in Ukraine: ‘Family Portrait in Black and White’ The New York Times 2012-07-13 Neil Genzlinger, Television Critic Olga Nenya and her foster and adopted children in 2008, in front of their house in Ukraine, as seen in the documentary directed by Julia Ivanova. First Pond Entertainment “Family Portrait in Black and White,”…

  • How Do Children of Mixed Partnerships Fare in the United Kingdom? Understanding the Implications for Children of Parental Ethnic Homogamy and Heterogamy The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science Volume 643, Number 1, September 2012 pages 239-266 DOI: 10.1177/0002716212444853 Lucinda Platt, Professor of Sociology Institute of Education, University of London Many…