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  • Mummy’s Black, Daddy’s Yellow and I’m Orange: talking with young children about racial identity

    Mummy’s Black, Daddy’s Yellow and I’m Orange: talking with young children about racial identity National Children’s Bureau Wednesday, 2010-02-24 from 09:30Z to 16:15Z Islington, Islington Overall aim This newly developed course aims to give practitioners confidence and the tools for talking with young children about racial identity. Intended learning outcomes By the end of this…

  • Reloaded: Representing Asian Women Beyond Hollywood

    Reloaded: Representing Asian Women Beyond Hollywood Thursday, 2010-01-28, 16:00-17:30 PST (Local Time) University of California, Berkeley Center for Race & Gender 691 Barrows Hall Elaine H. Kim, Professor of Asian American Studies University of California, Berkeley Join Prof. Elaine Kim for a screening and discussion of the new 30 minute documentary film, Reloaded: Representing Asian…

  • What are you? For multiracial students, declaring an identity can be complicated

    What are you? For multiracial students, declaring an identity can be complicated Princeton Alumni Weekly Princeton University 2010-01-13 Issue Maya Rock (Class of 2002) In my first few weeks at Princeton, I became accustomed to fielding questions: What’s your background? Where are your parents from? And the strikingly ­existential: What are you?   What the questioners…

  • The Future of Ethnicity Classifications

    The Future of Ethnicity Classifications  Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies Volume 35, Issue 9 November 2009 pages 1417 – 1435 DOI: 10.1080/13691830903125901 Peter J. Aspinall, Senior Research Fellow Centre for Health Services Studies (CHSS) University of Kent In the first decade of the twenty-first century, ‘diversity’ has emerged as a key value in its…

  • Multiracial Identity and the U.S. Census

    Multiracial Identity and the U.S. Census ProQuest Discovery Guides January 2010 Tyrone Nagai, Supervising Editor of Social Sciences ProQuest Introduction: What is Multiracial Identity?   Back on April 23, 1997, 21-year-old golfer Tiger Woods made headlines on the Oprah Winfrey Show when he described his racial background as “Cablinasian,” an abbreviation representing his “Caucasian,” “Black,”…

  • Racially Socializing Biracial Youth: A Cultural Ecological Study of Parental Influences on Racial Identity

    Racially Socializing Biracial Youth: A Cultural Ecological Study of Parental Influences on Racial Identity 2009 Alethea Rollins University of North Carolina, Greensboro Advisor: Andrea G. Hunter, Associate Professor, Human Development and Family Studies University of North Carolina, Greensboro A Dissertation Submitted to the Faculty of The Graduate School at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro…

  • Communicative Correlates of Satisfaction, Family Identity, and Group Salience in Multiracial/Ethnic Families

    Communicative Correlates of Satisfaction, Family Identity, and Group Salience in Multiracial/Ethnic Families Journal of Marriage and Family Volume 71, Issue 4 Pages 819-832 Published Online: 2009-10-23 DOI: 10.1111/j.1741-3737.2009.00637.x Jordan Soliz, Assistant Professor of Communication Studies University of Nebraska, Lincoln Allison R. Thorson, Assistant Professor, Communication Studies University of San Francisco Christine E. Rittenour, Assistant Professor…

  • Freedom School: Which box do I check?

    Freedom School: Which box do I check? Ursinus College, Collegeville, Pennsylvania Olin 101 Tuesday 2010-01-26, 19:00-20:00 EST (Local Time) Speaker: Fernando Jones, Class of 2010   An informal discussion on Mixed-Race identity as we see it in educational and social structures. For more information, click here.

  • Re-SEAing SouthEast Asian American Studies. Memories & Visions: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow.

    Re-SEAing SouthEast Asian American Studies. Memories & Visions: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow. San Francisco State University 2011-03-10 through 2011-03-11 The third tri-annual interdisciplinary Southeast Asians in the Diaspora conference will take place at San Francisco State University. The San Francisco Bay Area is home to sizable populations of Burmese, Cambodian, Filipino, Hmong, Indonesian, Lao, Malaysian,…

  • IndiVisible – African-Native American Lives in the Americas

    IndiVisible – African-Native American Lives in the Americas National Museum of the American Indian 4th Street and Independence Avenue, SW Washington, DC 2009-11-09 through 2010-05-31 Comanche family, early 1900s Here is a family from the Comanche Nation located in southwestern Oklahoma. The elder man in Comanche traditional clothing is Ta-Ten-e-quer. His wife, Ta-Tat-ty, also wears…