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  • Multiethnic Children, Youth, and Families: Emerging Challenges to the Behavioral Sciences and Public Policy

    Multiethnic Children, Youth, and Families: Emerging Challenges to the Behavioral Sciences and Public Policy Family Relations: Interdisciplinary Journal of Applied Family Studies Volume 62, Issue 1 (February 2013) (Special Issue on Multiethnic Families) pages 1–4 DOI: 10.1111/j.1741-3729.2012.00760.x Hamilton I. McCubbin University of Hawaii, Manoa Laurie “Lali” D. McCubbin, Associate Professor of Educational Leadership and Counseling…

  • Mixed-race youth feel less cohesion with mothers, but greater independence

    Mixed-race youth feel less cohesion with mothers, but greater independence University of Michigan News Service 2013-02-26 Contact: Jared Wadley ANN ARBOR—Multiethnic and mixed-race youth feel less satisfied with their moms—but more independent—compared to other youth, according to a new University of Michigan study. U-M researcher Elma Lorenzo-Blanco and colleagues compared parenting and family-related experiences between…

  • Parenting, Family Processes, Relationships, and Parental Support in Multiracial and Multiethnic Families: An Exploratory Study of Youth Perceptions

    Parenting, Family Processes, Relationships, and Parental Support in Multiracial and Multiethnic Families: An Exploratory Study of Youth Perceptions Family Relations: Interdisciplinary Journal of Applied Family Studies Volume 62, Issue 1 (February 2013) (Special Issue on Multiethnic Families) pages 125–139 DOI: 10.1111/j.1741-3729.2012.00751.x Elma I. Lorenzo-Blanco Departments of Psychology and Women’s Studies University of Michigan, Ann Arbor…

  • Parenting in Multiracial Families

    Parenting in Multiracial Families 2013-01-20 My name is Chloe Jhangiani and I am a second year master’s social work student conducting research for my thesis at Smith College School for Social Work. I am recruiting multiracial adults with racial heritage from two or more racial groups to participate on a study about how their parents…

  • The Pedagogy of the Meaning of Racism: Reconciling a Discordant Discourse

    The Pedagogy of the Meaning of Racism: Reconciling a Discordant Discourse Social Work: A Journal of the National Association of Social Workers Volume 57, Issue 3 (July 2012) pages 225-234 DOI: 10.1093/sw/sws009 Carlos Hoyt, Jr., MSW, LICSW, Associate Dean of Students Phillips Academy Andover, Andover, Massachusetts Racism is a term on which a great deal…

  • Triple Jeopardy: Family Stresses and Subsequent Divorce Following the Adoption of Racially and Ethnically Mixed Children

    Triple Jeopardy: Family Stresses and Subsequent Divorce Following the Adoption of Racially and Ethnically Mixed Children Journal of Divorce Volume 4, Issue 4, 1982 pages 43-55 DOI: 10.1300/J279v04n04_03 Perihan Aral Rosenthal, MD The adoption of racially, ethnically, or culturally different older children creates a stressful process of integration for both the children and parents. If…

  • On adoption, race does matter

    On adoption, race does matter The Guardian 2012-12-21 Oona King Like Michael Gove, I used to believe a loving family was all. But I’ve heard from too many black adoptees who are struggling with their identity “My social worker is racist,” said a softly-spoken 10-year-old white boy. “She says I shouldn’t stay with my foster…

  • A Sad Case of Amalgamation

    A Sad Case of Amalgamation The Brooklyn Daily Eagle Volume 19, Number 211 1860-09-05 page 1, column 6 Source: Brooklyn Public Library’s Brooklyn Collection The reporter of the Philadelphia Press has been around among the colored folks of Philadelphia, and In the course of his peregrination he met with the following case of practical amalgamation:…

  • Dr. Yaba Blay Explores ‘One-Drop’ Rule [VIDEO]

    Dr. Yaba Blay Explores ‘One-Drop’ Rule [VIDEO] NewsOne: For Black America 2012-12-14 Jeff Mays Remember when President Barack Obama won in 2008 and pundits started asking if the United States was post-racial because we had a Black man in the White House?   Well, people like Dr. Yaba Blay (pictured) knew better.   Blay, an…

  • Association of Contextual Factors with Drug Use and Binge Drinking among White, Native American, and Mixed-Race Adolescents in the General Population

    Association of Contextual Factors with Drug Use and Binge Drinking among White, Native American, and Mixed-Race Adolescents in the General Population Journal of Youth and Adolescence Volume 41, Issue 11 (November 2012) pages 1426-1441 DOI: 10.1007/s10964-012-9789-0 Hsing-Jung Chen Department of Social Work Fu-Jen Catholic University, New Taipei City, Taiwan Sundari Balan, Postdoctoral Research Associate Department of…