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  • White like who? The value of whiteness in British interracial families

    White like who? The value of whiteness in British interracial families Ethnicities Volume 10, Number 3 (September 2010) pages 292-312 DOI: 10.1177/1468796810372306 France Winddance Twine, Professor of Sociology University of California, Santa Barbara The value of whiteness is not fixed, rather it has contradictory and competing meanings among members of Black British interracial families. Drawing upon…

  • Interracial Families: Current Concepts and Controversies

    A unique book offering both a research overview and practical advice for its readers, this text allows students to gain a solid understanding of the research that has been generated on several important issues surrounding multiracial families, including intimate relations, family dynamics, transracial adoptions, and other topics of personal and scholarly interest.

  • Biracial Utahns seeking identity

    Biracial Utahns seeking identity Deseret News Salt Lake City, Utah 2005-03-12 Elaine Jarvik They’re biracial — equally Polynesian and white. But most prefer to think of themselves as Polynesian, says University of Utah graduate student Kawika Allen, who recently studied 84 Polynesian-Caucasian Utahns. Allen, who grew up with an Hawaiian mother and a Caucasian father,…

  • Familial Ethnic Socialization Among Adolescents of Latino and European Descent: Do Latina Mothers Exert the Most Influence?

    Familial Ethnic Socialization Among Adolescents of Latino and European Descent: Do Latina Mothers Exert the Most Influence? Journal of Family Issues Volume 27, Number 2 (February 2006) Pages 184-207 DOI: 10.1177/0192513X05279987 Andrea G. González University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Adriana J. Umaña-Taylor, Associate Professor, School of Social and Family Dynamics, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences…

  • Lone Mothers of Mixed Racial and Ethnic Children: Then and Now

    Lone Mothers of Mixed Racial and Ethnic Children: Then and Now Runnymede Trust June 2010 Chamion Caballero, Senior Research Fellow Families & Social Capital Research Group London South Bank University Rosalind Edwards, Professor in Social Policy Families & Social Capital Research Group London South Bank University Information from the UK Census indicates that parents of…

  • Meeting the Needs of Multi/Biracial Children in School and at Home

    Meeting the Needs of Multi/Biracial Children in School and at Home University of Wisconsin, Stout December 2009 62 pages Brea Cunico A Research Paper Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Master of Science Degree in Guidance and Counseling In an extension of research on marginalized populations, the present study identified and explored…

  • Multifaceted Identity of Interethnic Young People: Chameleon Identities

    Multifaceted Identity of Interethnic Young People: Chameleon Identities Ashgate Publishing May 2010 Illustrations: Includes 24 (including 5 tables) line drawings 234 x 156 mm 224 pages Hardback ISBN: 978-0-7546-7860-1 eBook ISBN: 978-0-7546-9691-9 BL Reference: 305.8’0083-dc22   Sultana Choudhry, Principal Lecturer in Psychology and Director of Child, Adolescent and Family Mental Health London Metropolitan University, UK…

  • Race in an Era of Change: A Reader

    Race in an Era of Change: A Reader Oxford University Press September 2010 544 pages ISBN13: 9780199752102 ISBN10: 0199752109 Edited By: Heather Dalmage, Professor of Sociology and Director of the Mansfield Institute Roosevelt University Barbara Katz Rothman, Professor of Sociology Baruch College of the City Univerity of New York Featuring a wide range of classic…

  • Counseling Interventions with Biracial Black/White Adolescents

    Counseling Interventions with Biracial Black/White Adolescents East Bay Therapist California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists – East Bay Chapter Jan/Feb 2005 Venita Antonia-Maria Lue, PhD, MFT Adolescence is an especially vulnerable time for many biracial individuals because identity issues become racial problems when the interracial person starts dating. All dating is potentially interracial for…

  • The President, the Professor, and the Wide Receiver

    The President, the Professor, and the Wide Receiver When the biracial U.S. President Barack Obama visits South Korea tomorrow, he will be visiting a country grappling with its prejudices about race. Foreign Policy 2009-11-17 James Card This week, U.S. President Barack Obama, the son of a black father and white mother, is making his landmark…