Mixed Race Studies

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  • Racial Identification of the Biracial Preschool Child in a Single parent Family: Implications for Study

    Racial Identification of the Biracial Preschool Child in a Single parent Family: Implications for Study Family Science Review Volume 4, Number 3 (August 1991) pages 81-92 Z. Lois Bryant, Professor of Human Development and Family Studies University of Missouri, Columbia Johnetta Wade Morrison, Professor of Human Development and Family Studies University of Missouri, Columbia This…

  • The End of the One-Drop Rule? Labeling of Multiracial Children in Black Intermarriages

    The End of the One-Drop Rule? Labeling of Multiracial Children in Black Intermarriages Sociological Forum Volume 20, Number 1 (March, 2005) pages 35-67 Print ISSN: 0884-8971, Online ISSN: 1573-7861 DOI: 10.1007/s11206-005-1897-0 Wendy D. Roth, Assistant Professor of Sociology University of British Columbia, Canada The identity choices of multiracial individuals with Black heritage have traditionally been…

  • Passing for White: Race, Religion, and the Healy Family, 1820–1920

    The remarkable saga of a mixed-race family in nineteenth-century America

  • Blended Nation: A Portrait of Mixed-Race America

    Blended Nation: A Portrait of Mixed-Race America Yes! Magazine 2010-02-10 The fear and xenophobia in the aftermath of 9/11 got Mike Tauber and Pamela Singh thinking about how race and ethnicity are based on visual cues. They began photographing a network of mixed-race friends in the spring of 2002, eventually working with organizations like Swirl,…

  • Blended Nation: Portraits and Interviews of Mixed-Race America

    Blended Nation: Portraits and Interviews of Mixed-Race America Channel Photographics 2009-08-11 140 pages 11 x 11 inches Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-9773399-2-1 Mike Tauber Pamela Singh What are you? On the 2000 U.S. Census, for the first time, multiracial individuals were allowed to indicate more than one race. Nearly seven million Americans did so. Blended Nation: Portraits…

  • Mixed Race Americans Picture A ‘Blended Nation’

    Mixed Race Americans Picture A ‘Blended Nation’ Weekend Edition Sunday National Public Radio 2009-11-08 Liane Hansen, Host The 2000 U.S. census was the first to give Americans the option to check more than one box for race. Nearly 7 million people declared themselves to be multiracial that year, a number that’s expected to shoot up…

  • Social Work Practice and Lone White Mothers of Mixed-Parentage Children

    Social Work Practice and Lone White Mothers of Mixed-Parentage Children British Journal of Social Work Volume 40, Number 2 pages 391-406 DOI:10.1093/bjsw/bcn164 Vicki Harman, Lecturer in Social Policy and Social Work Royal Holloway, University of London This paper reports on empirical research involving focus groups with social workers in order to provide insight into their…

  • The Voices Project Screening and Discussion: Multi-Racial Identities, Part 1

    The Voices Project Screening and Discussion: Multi-Racial Identities, Part 1 Oregon State University Wednesday, 2010-03-03 12:00-13:00 PST (Local Time) Memorial Union Room: Journey Room Contact: Diane Davis OSU students, staff and faculty share their experiences and challenges of being multiracial at OSU and in life. They address issues such as their identity and when they…

  • Place, scale and the racial claims made for multiracial children in the 1990 US Census

    Place, scale and the racial claims made for multiracial children in the 1990 US Census Ethnic and Racial Studies Volume 32, Issue 3 (March 2009) pages 522 – 547 Steven R. Holloway, Professor of Geography University of Georgia Richard Wright, Orvil E. Dryfoos Professor of Geography and Public Affairs and Geography Department Chair Dartmouth College…

  • Investigations: Problem behavior

    Investigations: Problem behavior University of Chicago Magazine October 2006 Volume 99, Issue 1 Lydialyle Gibson For American children, says Yoonsun Choi, assistant professor at the School of Social Service Administration, early adolescence isn’t getting any simpler. Besides the awkwardness and looming angst, there’s this: more and more youth now find themselves navigating the uncertain territory…