Mixed Race Studies

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  • The Life Narrative of a Mixed-Race Man in Recovery from Addiction: A Case-Based Psychosocial Approach to Researching Drugs, ‘Race’ and Ethnicity

    The Life Narrative of a Mixed-Race Man in Recovery from Addiction: A Case-Based Psychosocial Approach to Researching Drugs, ‘Race’ and Ethnicity Journal of Social Work Practice: Psychotherapeutic Approaches in Health, Welfare and the Community Published online: 2012-12-06 DOI: 10.1080/02650533.2012.745841 Alastair Roy, Senior Lecturer Psychosocial Research Unit, School of Social Work University of Central Lancashire This…

  • What Can We Learn about White Privilege and Racism from the Experiences of White Mothers Parenting Biracial Children?

    What Can We Learn about White Privilege and Racism from the Experiences of White Mothers Parenting Biracial Children? Wilfrid Laurier University 2008 175 pages Shannon Cushing A THESIS Submitted to the Department of Psychology in partial fulfillment of the requirements for Master of Arts Degree in Community Psychology Despite progress in the movement toward anti-racism,…

  • Learning to be different: A white mother of biracial children experiences racism

    Learning to be different: A white mother of biracial children experiences racism University of St. Thomas (Minnesota) December 2004 194 pages Publication Number: AAT 3154007 ISBN: 9780496146376 Jennifer Ann Greer Johnson A Dissertation Submitted to the Education Faculty of the University of St. Thomas in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements of the Degree Doctor of…

  • Multiracial youths show similar vulnerability to peer pressure as whites

    Multiracial youths show similar vulnerability to peer pressure as whites University of Washington News 2012-07-10 Molly McElroy Researchers who studied a large sample of middle- and high-school students in Washington state found that mixed-race adolescents are more similar to their white counterparts than previously believed.   Experts have thought that multiracial adolescents, the fastest growing…

  • Family Portrait in Black and White [Tanasse Review]

    Family Portrait in Black and White [Tanasse Review] Educational Media Review Online 2012-09-24 Distributed by Interfilm Productions Inc., 304-1515 West Hastings St., Vancouver, BC V6G 3G6, Canada; 604-638-8920 Produced by Boris Ivanov Directed by Julia Ivanova DVD, color, 85 min. and 52 min. versions Sr. High-General Adult Adoption, Adolescence, Children, Child Development, Parenting, Area Studies,…

  • Family Portrait in Black and White: A Talk With Julia Ivanova

    Family Portrait in Black and White: A Talk With Julia Ivanova The Huffington Post The Blog 2012-07-12 E. Nina Rothe, Global Culture Explorer The upcoming documentary by Julia Ivanova, titled Family Portrait in Black and White features a Ukrainian foster mother, Olga, and her brood of 27 foster kids. Ranging in ages between grade schoolers…

  • Family Portrait in Black and White: Documentary by Julia Ivanova

    Family Portrait in Black and White: Documentary by Julia Ivanova Interfilm Productions Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada 2011 Institutional Use: Double DVD (includes 85 and 52 minute versions) Private Use: 85 minute DVD Julia Ivanova, Director Olga Nenya has 27 children. Four of them, now adults, are her biological children; the other 23 are adopted or…

  • “No more kiyams”: Métis women break the silence of child sexual abuse

    “No more kiyams”: Métis women break the silence of child sexual abuse University of Victoria,  British Columbia, Canada 2004 146 pages Lauralyn Houle A Thesis Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of MASTER OF SOCIAL WORK In the Faculty of Human and Social Development “No more kiyams” Métis women break the…

  • More male and mixed-race health visitors wanted

    More male and mixed-race health visitors wanted Nursing Times Harborough, Leicestershire, United Kingdom 2012-08-16 Steve Ford, Deputy News Editor The Department of Health says it is seeking to attract more men and people from mixed ethnic backgrounds into health visiting, as part of the national recruitment drive. The overwhelming majority of health visitors are white,…

  • Racing to Justice: Transforming Our Conceptions of Self and Other to Build an Inclusive Society

    Racing to Justice: Transforming Our Conceptions of Self and Other to Build an Inclusive Society Indiana University Press 2012-08-16 336 pages 6 x 9 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-253-00629-5 john a. powell, Professor of Law; Director Haas Diversity Research Center University of California, Berkeley Foreword by: David R. Roediger, Kendrick Babcock Professor of History and African American…