Mixed Race Studies

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  • Parenting ‘mixed’ children: difference and belonging in mixed race and faith families

    Parenting ‘mixed’ children: difference and belonging in mixed race and faith families Joseph Rowntree Foundaton 2008-06-20 Chamion Caballero, Senior Research Fellow Families & Social Capital Research Group London South Bank University  Rosalind Edwards, Professor in Social Policy Families and Social Capital Research Group London South Bank University Shuby Puthussery, Senior Research Fellow Family and Parenting…

  • The House at the End of the Road: The Story of Three Generations of an Interracial Family in the American South

    In 1914, in defiance of his middle-class landowning family, a young white man named James Morgan Richardson married a light-skinned black woman named Edna Howell. Over more than twenty years of marriage, they formed a strong family and built a house at the end of a winding sandy road in South Alabama, a place where…

  • Claiming Place: Biracial Young Adults of the Post-Civil Rights Era

    Claiming Place: Biracial Young Adults of the Post-Civil Rights Era Praeger 2000-11-30 208 pages Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-89789-760-0 Ebook ISBN: 978-0-313-06507-1 Marion Kilson, Dean of the Graduate School Salem State College, Massachusetts Born in the 1960s, the middle-class Biracial Americans of this study are part of a transitional cohort…

  • Mixed Heritage – Identity, Policy and Practice

    Mixed Heritage – Identity, Policy and Practice Runnymede Trust ISBN-10: 0-9548389-6-3 ISBN-13: 978-0-9548389-6-6 EAN: 9780954838966 40 pages September 2007 Edited by Jessica Mai Sims Although they are often invisible in debates on race and ethnicity, the 2001 census reveals that the ‘Mixed’ population is the third largest ethnic category in the UK, with predictions that…

  • Rethinking ‘Mixed Race’

    Rethinking ‘Mixed Race’ Pluto Press an imprint of MacMillan May 2001 5.5 x 8.25 inches, 208 pages, 4 figures ISBN: 978-0-7453-1567-6 ISBN10: 0-7453-1567-4 Edited by David Parker, Lecturer and Faculty of Social Sciences School of Sociology and Social Policy University of Nottingham Miri Song, Professor of Sociology University of Kent One of the fastest growing…

  • Raising Biracial Children

    Raising Biracial Children AltaMira Press an Imprint of Rowman & Littlefield Publishing November 2005 208pp Cloth: 0-7591-0900-1 / 978-0-7591-0900-1 Paper 0-7591-0901-X / 978-0-7591-0901-8 Kerry Ann Rockquemore University of Illinois Tracey A. Laszloffy   As the multiracial population in the United States continues to rise, new models for our understanding of mixed-race children and how their conception…

  • Is That Your Child? Mothers Talk about Rearing Biracial Children

    Is That Your Child? Mothers Talk about Rearing Biracial Children Lexington Books (an imprint of Rowman & Littlefield) October 2008 146 pages Hardback ISBN: 978-0-7391-2763-6 Paperback ISBN: 978-0-7391-2764-3 eBook ISBN: 978-0-7391-3208-1 By Marion Kilson and Florence Ladd “Is That Your Child?” is a question that countless mothers of biracial children encounter whether they are African…

  • Mixed Messages: Multiracial Identities in the “Color-Blind” Era

    Mixed Messages: Multiracial Identities in the “Color-Blind” Era Lynne Rienner Publishers 2006 405 pages Hardcover: ISBN: 978-1-58826-372-8 Paperback: ISBN: 978-1-58826-398-8 Edited by David L. Brunsma, Professor of Sociology Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University The experiences and voices of multiracial individuals are challenging current categories of race, profoundly altering the meaning of racial identity and…

  • How Understanding Interracial Families Contributes to Our Understanding of Race and Family

    How Understanding Interracial Families Contributes to Our Understanding of Race and Family Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association Montreal Convention Center Montreal, Quebec, Canada 2006-08-11 22 pages Jessica Mills In family sociology, racial differences have long been viewed as a defining feature of family life. Yet, the treatment of the…

  • Race-ing and (E)race-ing the Child: Interracial Families Negotiate Racial Identification for their Multiracial Children

    Race-ing and (E)race-ing the Child: Interracial Families Negotiate Racial Identification for their Multiracial Children Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association Marriott Hotel, Loews Philadelphia Hotel Philadelphia, PA 2005-08-12 18 pages David L. Brunsma, Professor of Sociology Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University In this paper, a nationally-representative sample of kindergarten-aged…