Mixed Race Studies

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  • ‘Of Many Colors: Portraits of Multiracial Families’ traveling exhibit bridges diverse backgrounds

    ‘Of Many Colors: Portraits of Multiracial Families’ traveling exhibit bridges diverse backgrounds Daily Bruin University of California, Los Angeles 2011-05-22 Lenika Cruz Starting this evening, UCLA will act as a home for 20 families, each with a story to tell about being multiracial Americans. While these families will not be physically present, their photographs and…

  • 6th Critical Multicultural Counselling & Psychotherapy Conference: Metissage, Mestizaje, Mixed “Race”, and Beyond

    6th Critical Multicultural Counselling & Psychotherapy Conference: Metissage, Mestizaje, Mixed “Race”, and Beyond Centre for Diversity in Counselling & Psychotherapy University of Toronto 2011-06-07 through 2011-06-08 Keynote Presentation: Contemporary Multiple Heritage Couples, Individuals, and Families: A Generation with Diverse Views and Varied Experiences. Mark Kenney, Adjunct Professor Chestnut Place College, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Kelley Kenney, Professor…

  • Growing Up Mixed, Blended In The New American Family

    Growing Up Mixed, Blended In The New American Family National Public Radio Tell Me More 2011-03-29 Michel Martin, Host New census figures show that the number of mixed-race Americans has grown by nearly 50 percent in the last ten years. And that rise in number is most pronounced in the South. Census data also reveals…

  • The Creolisation of London Kinship: Mixed African-Caribbean and White British Extended Families, 1950-2003

    The Creolisation of London Kinship: Mixed African-Caribbean and White British Extended Families, 1950-2003 Amsterdam University Press November 2010 282 pages Paperback ISBN: 978 90 8964 235 6 Elaine Bauer, Fellow at the Young Foundation; Associate Fellow at the Institute for the Study of the Americas, University of London In the last 50 years, the United…

  • Lone Mothers of Children from Mixed Racial and Ethnic Backgrounds: A Case Study

    Lone Mothers of Children from Mixed Racial and Ethnic Backgrounds: A Case Study Single Parent Action Network (SPAN) January 2010 41 pages Chamion Caballero, Senior Research Fellow London South Bank University This report draws on case study findings with 10 lone mothers of mixed racial and ethnic children to look at their everyday experiences of…

  • Communicating With Children of Interracial/Interethnic Parentage

    Communicating With Children of Interracial/Interethnic Parentage IUC Journal of Social Work Theory & Practice Issue 4 (2001/2002) Toyin Okitikpi Children of interracial/interethnic parentage are increasing in number throughout Europe yet there has been a wall of silence about how to work with such children. In this discussion the aim is not only to encourage a…

  • Mothering Children of African Descent: Hopes, Fears and Strategies of White Birth Mothers

    Mothering Children of African Descent: Hopes, Fears and Strategies of White Birth Mothers The Journal of Pan African Studies Volume 2, Number 1 (November 2007) pages 62-76 Annie Stopford, Ph.D., Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist and Adjunct Research Fellow University of Western Sydney, Sydney, Australia Introduction It is often acknowledged that African identities are “complex, contested and contingent,”…

  • Beyond The Whiteness of Whiteness: Memoir of a White Mother of Black Sons

    Beyond The Whiteness of Whiteness: Memoir of a White Mother of Black Sons Duke University Press 1996 198 pages Cloth: ISBN: 978-0-8223-1826-2 Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8223-2044-9 Jane Lazarre “I am Black,” Jane Lazarre’s son tells her. “I have a Jewish mother, but I am not ‘biracial.’ That term is meaningless to me.” She understands, she says—but…

  • 2011 Southern Arizona Asian American & Pacific Islander Conference

    2011 Southern Arizona Asian American & Pacific Islander Conference “Reach, Inspire, Connect”   Pima Community College – West Campus 2202 West Anklam Road Tucson, Arizona 85709 Saturday, 2011-03-19 from 08:00 to 14:00 MDT (Local Time) Conference Program… 09:00-09:50 –  Session “A” Workshop 4:  Mixed Race – A popular 2009 workshop returning this year.  The presenter…

  • Revisioning Black/White Multiracial Families: The Single-Parent Experience

    Revisioning Black/White Multiracial Families: The Single-Parent Experience American Sociological Association, Atlanta Hilton Hotel, Atlanta, Georgia 2003-08-16 18 pages, 5,006 words Rachel Sullivan In the literature on Black/White multiracial families, there is a significant group of families missing from most research. These are households that are lead by a single parent of a biracial child. While…