Category: Media Archive

  • Multiracial Teens Launch A ‘Latte Rebellion’ Tell Me More National Public Radio 2011-07-15 Michel Martin, Host “You’re half Chinese and half European, I’m half Indian, a quarter Mexican and a quarter Irish. We’re mixed up. We’re not really one or the other ethnically. We’re like human lattes.” So explains Asha, the main character in Sarah…

  • ‘In The Blink Of An Eye,’ A Change In Racial Identity All Things Considered National Public Radio 2011-07-07 Michele Norris, Host Michael Sidney Fosberg grew up thinking he was white. His mother is white. His stepfather is white. And while he never met his biological father, the assumption was that he was white too. But…

  • Robeson County Native Writes Book on Lumbee Indians The Pilot Southern Pines, North Carolina 2010-06-16 Kay Grismer “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.” The Native Americans who have lived along the Lumber River in Robeson County for generations may have been given names…

  • REPORTER AT LARGE about the Jackson Whites; history and origin of a primitive race living in the Ramapo Mountains. They are a mixture of three races, the white, the Negro, & the American Indians.

  • Ramapough Mountain People: “The Jackson Whites”: A Pathfinder and Annotated Bibliography 1995 Randy D. Ralph Introduction: My parents moved the family way, way out in the country, after my baby brother was born, to a little tract house in the middle of the Preakness Valley in Passaic County, New Jersey. The valley was open and…

  • Methodology and Measurement in the Study of Multiracial Americans: Identity, Classification, and Perceptions Sociology Compass Volume 5, Issue 7 (July 2011) pages 607–617 DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-9020.2011.00388.x Melissa R. Herman, Assistant Professor of Sociology Dartmouth College This article lays out some of the methodological issues in doing research on multiracial people (those whose immediate and/or distant ancestors come…

  • Race and Sociological Reason in the Republic: Inquiries on the Métis in the French Empire (1908-37) International Sociology Volume 17, Number 3 (September 2002) 361-391 DOI: 10.1177/0268580902017003002 Emmanuelle Saada, Associate Professor and Director of the Center for French and Francophone Studies Columbia University This article compares two collective surveys on the métis conducted in 1908 and…

  • Do You See What I Am? How Observers’ Backgrounds Affect Their Perceptions of Multiracial Faces Social Psychology Quarterly Volume 73, Number 1 (March 2010) pages 58-78 DOI: 10.1177/0190272510361436 Melissa R. Herman, Assistant Professor of Sociology Dartmouth College Although race is one of the most salient status characteristics in American society, many observers cannot distinguish the…

  • Oreo, Topdeck and Eminem: Hybrid identities and global media flows International Journal of Cultural Studies Volume 14, Nubmer 2 (March 2011) pages 153-172 DOI: 10.1177/1367877910387971 Jane Stadler, Senior Lecturer in Film and Media Studies University of Queensland, Australia The slang terms Oreo (someone who looks black but acts white) and Topdeck (someone who looks white…

  • How medicine is advancing beyond race CNN.com 2011-07-08 Elizabeth Landau, CNN.com Health Writer/Producer (CNN)—No matter what race you consider yourself to be, you have a unique genetic makeup. That’s why, as technology improves and researchers explore new implications of the human genome, medicine is going to become more individually tailored in a model called personalized…