Mixed Race Studies

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  • Global Families: A History of Asian International Adoption in America

    Global Families: A History of Asian International Adoption in America New York University Press October 2013 244 pages 17 halftones Cloth ISBN: 9780814717226 Paper ISBN: 9781479892174 Catherine Ceniza Choy, Professor of Ethnic Studies University of California, Berkeley In the last fifty years, transnational adoption—specifically, the adoption of Asian children—has exploded in popularity as an alternative…

  • Changes in racial categorization over time and health status: an examination of multiracial young adults in the USA

    Changes in racial categorization over time and health status: an examination of multiracial young adults in the USA Ethnicity & Health Published online: 2015-06-08 DOI: 10.1080/13557858.2015.1042431 Karen M. Tabb, Assistant Professor of Social Work University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Objective: Multiracial (two or more races) American health related to racial stability over the life course is…

  • Esther Cepeda: The complexities of race and ethnicity

    Esther Cepeda: The complexities of race and ethnicity GazetteXtra Janesville, Wisconsin 2015-10-17 Esther Cepeda, Columnist Washington Post Writers Group CHICAGO Our society gives a lot of lip service to the importance of diversity in fields such as science, medicine and technology because multicultural people bring unique viewpoints, varied life experiences and new ideas. Rarely do…

  • Health Care, Research Failing to Adapt to U.S.’s Growing Multiracial Population

    Health Care, Research Failing to Adapt to U.S.’s Growing Multiracial Population School of Social Work University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign 2015-10-12 Data collection methods in research and health care settings have lagged behind in adapting to the rapidly growing population of multiracials, according to studies led by social work professor Karen M. Tabb Dina Multiracial people…

  • Disparities in Health Services Use Among Multiracial American Young Adults

    Disparities in Health Services Use Among Multiracial American Young Adults Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health First online: 2015-09-29 8 pages DOI: 10.1007/s10903-015-0289-7 Karen M. Tabb, Assistant Professor of Social Work University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Christopher R. Larrison, Associate Professor of Social Work University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Shinwoo Choi School of Social Work University of…

  • No, Native Americans aren’t genetically more susceptible to alcoholism

    No, Native Americans aren’t genetically more susceptible to alcoholism The Verge 2015-10-02 Maia Szalavitz Time to retire the ‘firewater‘ fairytale When Jessica Elm, a citizen of the Oneida Tribe of Indians of Wisconsin, was studying for her master’s degree in social work, she frequently heard about how genes were responsible for the high risk of…

  • Locating queer-mixed experiences: Narratives of geography and migration

    Locating queer-mixed experiences: Narratives of geography and migration Qualitative Social Work Volume 14, Number 5 (September 2015) pages 651-669 DOI: 10.1177/1473325014561250 Kimberly D. Hudson School of Social Work University of Washington Gita R. Mehrotra, Assistant Professor of Social Work Portland State University, Portland, Oregon Social work scholarship concerned with mixed-race and queer identities is growing…

  • Mixed Race Irish: ‘We were the dust to be swept away’

    Mother and Baby Homes Commission of Investigation urged to confront the racism endured by children taken into care and abused because they had a non-white parent

  • Who am I? Who do you think I am? Stability of racial/ethnic self-identification among youth in foster care and concordance with agency categorization

    Who am I? Who do you think I am? Stability of racial/ethnic self-identification among youth in foster care and concordance with agency categorization Children and Youth Services Review Volume 56, September 2015 pages 61–67 DOI: 10.1016/j.childyouth.2015.06.011 Jessica Schmidt Regional Research Institute for Human Services Portland State University, Portland, Oregon Shanti Dubey Regional Research Institute for…

  • What It Really Means To Be Transracial And Black

    What It Really Means To Be Transracial And Black The Huffington Post 2015-07-08 Zeba Blay Photo by Luke Ratan It’s been weeks since the nation became obsessed with — then subsequently forgot about — Rachel Dolezal. In choosing to identify as a black woman, Dolezal introduced the concept of being transethnic or “transracial” into the…