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  • Social Work Practice and Lone White Mothers of Mixed-Parentage Children

    Social Work Practice and Lone White Mothers of Mixed-Parentage Children British Journal of Social Work Volume 40, Number 2 pages 391-406 DOI:10.1093/bjsw/bcn164 Vicki Harman, Lecturer in Social Policy and Social Work Royal Holloway, University of London This paper reports on empirical research involving focus groups with social workers in order to provide insight into their…

  • “There’s No One as Irish as Barack O’Bama”: The Policy and Politics of American Multiracialism

    “There’s No One as Irish as Barack O’Bama”: The Policy and Politics of American Multiracialism Weatherhead Center for International Affairs Harvard University February 2010 Working Paper 68 pages Jennifer Hochschild, Henry LaBarre Jayne Professor of Government and Professor of African and African American Studies Harvard University Vesla Weaver, Assistant Professor The Woodrow Wilson Department of…

  • Multiracial no longer boxed in by the Census

    Multiracial no longer boxed in by the Census USA Today 2010-03-02 Haya El Nasser Jennifer Harvey was raised by her white mother and white stepfather in what she calls “a Caucasian world.” Harvey never met her father but she knew he was black and Cuban. That made her Hispanic, white and black. “Blacks think I’m…

  • NPR’s All Things Considered Interview with Heidi W. Durrow

    NPR’s All Things Considered Interview with Heidi W. Durrow All Things Considered National Public Radio 2010-03-02, 21:00 to 23:00Z Heidi W. Durrow Heidi W. Durrow, author of the new Bellwether Prize winning novel, The Girl Who Fell from the Sky, is scheduled to be interviewed on National Public Radio’s All Things Considered today (Tuesday, March 2, 2010 between…

  • Lewis Explores Race During Unity Month

    Lewis Explores Race During Unity Month The Emory Wheel Volume 91, Number 22 2009-11-13 page 3 Pooja Dhruv, Staff Writer Elliott Lewis, former television news reporter and author of Fade: My Journeys in Multiracial America, discussed current American racial issues during his keynote address for Unity Month on Wednesday. According to College sophomores Yan Chen…

  • The Race Against Race [Book review of “What Comes Naturally: Miscegenation Law and the Making of Race in America”]

    The Race Against Race [Book review of “What Comes Naturally: Miscegenation Law and the Making of Race in America”] The New Republic 2010-01-29 Richard Posner “What Comes Naturally: Miscegenation Law and the Making of Race in America” by Peggy Pascoe “Three Generations, No Imbeciles: Eugenics, the Supreme Court, and Buck v. Bell” by Paul A.…

  • The Bluest Eye [Review of The Girl Who Fell from the Sky]

    The Bluest Eye [Review of The Girl Who Fell from the Sky] The New York Times 2010-02-25 Louisa Thomas, Contributing Editor Newsweek Magazine The Girl Who Fell from the Sky. By Heidi W. Durrow. (Chapel Hill, North Carolina: Algonquin Books, 2010. 264 pages. Cloth ISBN-13: 9781565126800) There’s a reason many great social justice novels are…

  • The Voices Project Screening and Discussion: Multi-Racial Identities, Part 1

    The Voices Project Screening and Discussion: Multi-Racial Identities, Part 1 Oregon State University Wednesday, 2010-03-03 12:00-13:00 PST (Local Time) Memorial Union Room: Journey Room Contact: Diane Davis OSU students, staff and faculty share their experiences and challenges of being multiracial at OSU and in life. They address issues such as their identity and when they…

  • Dominic Mhiripiri ’12: Please. Mr. Obama is not black

    Dominic Mhiripiri ’12: Please. Mr. Obama is not black The Brown Daily Herald 2010-02-03 Dominic Mhiripiri, Opinions Columnist Recently, the United States marked the first anniversary of Barack Obama’s historic ascent to the apex of American politics. For a candidate who electrified a whole generation of American youth and whose promise gave the whole world…

  • “Remarkable” Mixed-Race Family in 20th Century Is Subject of Book Discussion [with Book Signing by the Author]

    “Remarkable” Mixed-Race Family in 20th Century Is Subject of Book Discussion [with Book Signing by the Author] James Madison Building Dining Room A, Sixth Floor, J 101 Independence Aveune, SE Washington, DC 2010-03-03, 12:30 EST (Local Time) Webcast Time: 00:59:24 Adele Logan Alexander, Professor of History George Washington University “Parallel Worlds” Focuses on “the Enduring (In)significance…