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  • Participants Needed for a Paid Research Study: Up to $100

    Participants Needed for a Paid Research Study: Up to $100 Dominique Callahan University of California, Los Angeles 2025-03-10 Hello! My name is Dominique, and I am a graduate student at UCLA. I am currently recruiting participants for my dissertation, which explores how Black parents talk to their biracial Black-White children about race and racial identity…

  • In Kamala Harris’s Blackness, I See My Own

    The Hollywood pitch goes something like this: Put racially ambiguous Black people in the public eye — Kamala, Meghan, Barack. Have them declare themselves Black. Count down the minutes before the world erupts into outrage, distress and suspicion. People scream their confusion and doubt, accusing the figures of lying about who they really are. It…

  • Contested Bodies: Pregnancy, Childrearing, and Slavery in Jamaica

    Contested Bodies: Pregnancy, Childrearing, and Slavery in Jamaica University of Pennsylvania Press June 2017 328 Pages 6.00 x 9.00 in, 10 illus. Hardcover ISBN: 9780812249187 Paperback ISBN: 9780812224603 eBook ISBN: Sasha Turner, Associate Professor of History The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland It is often thought that slaveholders only began to show an interest in…

  • On Turning Black

    On Turning Black The New York Times 2024-08-01 Esau McCaulley, Contributing Opinion Writer Illustration by The New York Times; Photo: Erin Schaff/The New York Times During his interview before the National Association of Black Journalists this week, Donald Trump was asked if he would call upon his fellow Republicans to refrain from labeling Vice President…

  • Should Harris Talk Much About Her Racial Identity? Many Voters Say No.

    Even as Trump plays up racial divisions, many Americans said they would rather not dwell on race or identity. “We can all see that you’re Black.”

  • Why Kamala Harris’ biracial identity upsets Donald Trump so much

    Acknowledging the existence of multiracial identities completely scrambles Trump’s stereotypes.

  • The Lesser-Known Side of Harris’s Identity: Asian American

    The Lesser-Known Side of Harris’s Identity: Asian American The New York Times 2024-07-28 Amy Qin Kamala Harris spoke during the virtual Asian Pacific American Heritage Month Unity Summit in 2021. Erin Scott for The New York Times Some Asian American leaders are rooting for Kamala Harris to become the first Asian American president. But she…

  • Mixed Desis: Stories of Multiracial South Asians

    Embark on an inspiring journey through the captivating narratives of “Mixed Desis,” a book creating community for and gathering the voices of mixed-race individuals, interracial families, and multiracial family researchers. Within these pages, you’ll find the heartfelt stories of trailblazers who dared to defy convention in their pursuit of love and life.

  • Multiracial Generations: (Mis)Identification & Socialization Experiences of Interminority Multiracials and Half-White Multiracials

    We found that phenotypically ambiguous Multiracials were the most likely to experience misidentification. Interminority Multiracials were more likely to be misperceived as a higher-status ethnoracial group and half-White Multiracials were more likely to be misperceived as a lower-status ethnoracial group. Moreover, phenotypically ambiguous Multiracials reported a marginally higher proportion of non-coracial friends. Furthermore, interminority Multiracials…

  • Populations, individuals, and biological race

    Populations, individuals, and biological race Biology and Philosophy Volume 39, article number 10, (2024) 24 pages DOI: 10.1007/s10539-024-09946-0 M.A. Diamond-Hunter, Teaching Associate Department of History and Philosophy of Science Research Associate, Sidney Sussex College University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom In this paper, I plan to show that the use of a specific population concept—Millstein’s…