Mixed Race Studies

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  • Family Values in the Old South

    Family Values in the Old South University Press of Florida 2010-01-24 264 pages 6 x 9 ISBN 13: 978-0-8130-3418-8 ISBN 10: 0-8130-3418-3 Edited by Craig Thompson Friend, Associate Professor of History North Carolina State University Anya Jabour, Professor of History University of Montana This collection of essays on family life in the nineteenth-century American South…

  • The Interracial Experience: Growing Up Black/White Racially Mixed in the United States

    The Interracial Experience: Growing Up Black/White Racially Mixed in the United States Praeger Publishers 2000-11-30 168 pages Paperback ISBN: 978-0-275-97046-8 Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-275-97046-8 eBook ISBN: 978-0-313-00033-1 Ursula M. Brown, Psychotherapist in Private Practice Montclair, New Jersey, USA The number of black-white mixed marriages increased by 504% in the last 25 years. By offering relevant demographic,…

  • The Gap Between Whites and Whiteness: Interracial Intimacy and Racial Literacy

    The Gap Between Whites and Whiteness: Interracial Intimacy and Racial Literacy Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race September 2006 Volume 3, Issue 2 pages 341-363 DOI: 10.1017/S1742058X06060231 France Winddance Twine, Professor of Sociology University of California, Santa Barbara Amy C. Steinbugler, Assistant Professor of Sociology Dickinson University How do White members of Black-White…

  • Understanding interracial relationships

    Understanding Interracial Relationships Russell House Publishing June 2009 160 pages ISBN:978-1-905541-53-9 Toyin Okitikpi, Professor University of Bedfordshire It is no longer a novelty to see people of different races and ethnicity holding hands and going about their daily lives. Between 1991 and 2001, the British population grew by 4.0 per cent, while the mixed population…

  • Young Single White Mothers with Black Children in Therapy

    Young Single White Mothers with Black Children in Therapy Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry 1996 Vol. 1, No. 1 pages 19-28 DOI: 10.1177/1359104596011003 N. J. Banks Department of Social Policy and Social Work, University of Birmingham This article describes the treatment of 16 single, white women aged 17-23 years with black mixed-parentage children within an…

  • White Mothers, Mixed-Parentage Children and Child Welfare

    White Mothers, Mixed-Parentage Children and Child Welfare British Journal of Social Work Volume 29, Number 2 (1999) pages 269-284 Ravinder Barn, Professor of Social Policy and Social Work Royal Holloway, University of London It is now well documented that the majority of mixed-parentage children who enter the public care system in Britain have a white…

  • Working with children of mixed parentage

    Working with children of mixed parentage Russell House Publishing 2005-03-01 160 Pages ISBN:978-1-903855-64-5 Edited by Toyin Okitikpi, Professor University of Bedfordshire Table of Contents Introduction: mixed responses: working with children of mixed parentage. Looking at numbers and projections: making sense of the census, emerging trends. Mulatto, marginal man, half-caste, mixed race: the one-drop rule in…

  • A Beautiful Lie: Exploring Rhinelander v. Rhinelander as a Formative Lesson on Race, Marriage, Identity, and Family

    A Beautiful Lie: Exploring Rhinelander v. Rhinelander as a Formative Lesson on Race, Marriage, Identity, and Family California Law Review Volume 95, Issue 6 (2007) pages 2393-2458 Angela Onwuachi-Willig, Professor of Law and Charles M. and Marion J. Kierscht Scholar University of Iowa College of Law During the mid-1920s, the story of the courtship, marriage,…

  • Is Parental Love Colorblind? Allocation of Resources within Mixed-Race Families (Preliminary Version)

    Is Parental Love Colorblind? Allocation of Resources within Mixed-Race Families (Preliminary Version) Prepared for the Labor and Population Workshop, Department of Economics, Yale University May, 2007 53 pages Marcos A. Rangel, Assistant Professor Harris School of Public Policy Studies University of Chicago Recent studies have shown that differences in wage-determinant skills between blacks and whites…

  • A Feminist Critique of Research on Interracial Family Identity: Implications for Family Health

    A Feminist Critique of Research on Interracial Family Identity: Implications for Family Health Journal of Family Nursing 2004 Vol. 10, No. 3 pp. 302-322 DOI: 10.1177/1074840704267189 Marcia M. Byrd, Assistant Professor of Nursing College of St. Catherine Ann W. Garwick, Associate Dean for Research, Professor and Director of Center for Child and Family Health Promotion…