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  • Nikkei Heritage: Intermarriages and Hapas: An Overview – Parts 1 and 2

    Nikkei Heritage: Intermarriages and Hapas: An Overview – Parts 1 and 2 Discover Nikkei (Japanese Migrans and Their Descendants) Republished from Nikkei Heritage (The quarterly journal of the National Japanese American Historical Society) 2007-05-11 George Kitahara Kich, Senior Trial Consultant Bonora D’Andrea Rebecca Chiyoko King-O’Riain, Lecturer in Sociology National University of Ireland, Maynooth Larry Hajime…

  • Framing mixed race: The face of America is changing

    Framing mixed race: The face of America is changing Contra Costa Times 2010-02-07 Jennifer Modenessi Like any proud mother, Janine Mozée sees beauty when she looks at her four children. But the Benicia resident perceives more than their physical qualities and the various shades and hues of their skin, eyes and hair. For Mozée, 46,…

  • Racial Identity in Balance

    Racial Identity in Balance The Chronicle of Higher Education 2004-01-07 Naomi J. Miller, Professor of English and the Study of Women and Gender; Director of Institutional Diversity and Assistant to the President Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts I consider myself multiracial. Technically, I am half Japanese, a quarter Czech, and a quarter English-Dutch. By definition, then,…

  • Counseling Multiple Heritage Individuals, Couples and Families

    This book examines the strengths of and the challenges facing multiple heritage individuals, couples, and families and offers a framework for best practice counseling services and interventions specifically designed to meet their needs.

  • Blurring Racial and Ethnic Boundaries in Asian American Families: Asian American Family Patterns, 1980-2005

    Blurring Racial and Ethnic Boundaries in Asian American Families: Asian American Family Patterns, 1980-2005 Journal of Family Issues Volume 31, Number 3 (March 2010) pages 280-300 DOI: 10.1177/0192513X09350870 Danielle Antoinette Hidalgo University of California, Santa Barbara Carl L. Bankston, Professor of Sociology Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana In this work, the authors use statistics from…

  • On the Borders of Love and Power: Families and Kinship in the Intercultural American West

    On the Borders of Love and Power: Families and Kinship in the Intercultural American West Saturday, 2010-02-27, 08:15 – 16:30 CST (Local Time) Dallas Hall, McCord Auditorium, 3rd Floor Southern Methodist University 3225 University Blvd. Dallas, TX 75205 Announcing the 2009-10 Annual Public Symposium Co-sponsored by: The Center for the Southwest at the University of…

  • Mummy’s Black, Daddy’s Yellow and I’m Orange: talking with young children about racial identity

    Mummy’s Black, Daddy’s Yellow and I’m Orange: talking with young children about racial identity National Children’s Bureau Wednesday, 2010-02-24 from 09:30Z to 16:15Z Islington, Islington Overall aim This newly developed course aims to give practitioners confidence and the tools for talking with young children about racial identity. Intended learning outcomes By the end of this…

  • Reconstructing the Household: Families, Sex, and the Law in the Nineteenth-Century South

    Reconstructing the Household: Families, Sex, and the Law in the Nineteenth-Century South University of North Carolina Press March 1998 382 pages 6.125 x 9.25 8 tables, notes, bibl., index Paper ISBN  978-0-8078-4712-1 Peter W. Bardaglio, Associate Professor of History Goucher College, Baltimore, Maryland Winner of the 1996 James A. Rawley Prize, Organization of American Historians…

  • Rethinking Mestizaje: Ideology and Lived Experience

    Rethinking Mestizaje: Ideology and Lived Experience Journal of Latin American Studies 2005 Number 37, Issue 2 Pages 239–257 DOI: 10.1017/S0022216X05008990 Peter Wade, Professor of Social Anthropology University of Manchester The ideology of mestizaje (mixture) in Latin America has frequently been seen as involving a process of national homogenisation and of hiding a reality of racist…

  • Options: Racial/Ethnic Identification of Children of Intermarried Couples

    Options: Racial/Ethnic Identification of Children of Intermarried Couples Social Science Quarterly (September 2004) Volume 85, Issue 3 Pages 746 – 766 DOI: 10.1111/j.0038-4941.2004.00243.x Zhenchao Qian, Professor of Sociology Ohio State University Objective. Whites of various European ethnic backgrounds usually have weak ethnic attachment and have options to identify their ethnic identity (Waters, 1990). What about children…