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  • Are Mixed-Race Children Better Adjusted?

    Are Mixed-Race Children Better Adjusted? Time Magazine 2009-02-21 John Cloud Americans like answers in black and white, a cultural trait we confirmed last year when the biracial man running for President was routinely called “black”. The flattening of Barack Obama’s complex racial background shouldn’t have been surprising. Many multiracial historical figures in the U.S. have…

  • Mitsawokett to Bloomsbury: Archaeology and History of a Native-American Descendant Community in Central Delaware

    Mitsawokett to Bloomsbury: Archaeology and History of a Native-American Descendant Community in Central Delaware Chapter 5. A Larger Ethnic Community 2008 383 pages Delaware Department of Transportation Project 88-110-01 Federal Highway Administration Project F-NH-1003(13) Delaware Department of Transportation Archæological Series Number 154 Carolann Wicks, Secretary Original and redraft prepared by Edward F. Heite and Cara L.…

  • Facts for Families: Multiracial Children

    Facts for Families: Multiracial Children American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Number 71, October 1999 2 pages Multiracial children are one of the fastest growing segments of the U.S. population. The number of mixed-race families in America is steadily increasing, due to a rise in interracial marriages and relationships, as well as an increase…

  • The “Multiracial” Option: Social Group Identity and Changing Patterns of Racial Categorization

    The “Multiracial” Option: Social Group Identity and Changing Patterns of Racial Categorization American Politics Research Volume 39, Number 1 (January 2011) pages 176-204 DOI: 10.1177/1532673X10378845 Natalie Masuoka, Assistant Professor of Political Science Tufts University This article focuses on a new and growing trend in the United States: multiracial (or mixed race) identification. Multiracial self-identification forces…

  • Applying Self-Discrepancy Theory to Biracial Identity and Adjustment: A Proposed Study

    Applying Self-Discrepancy Theory to Biracial Identity and Adjustment: A Proposed Study Social-Personality Brown Bag Series University of California, Davis Location: Young 166 2010-11-08, 12:10-13:30 PST (Local Time) Lauren Berger Research suggests that biracials may have poorer mental health than monoracials and a recent meta-analysis (Shih & Sanchez, 2005) cites a lack of research testing potential…

  • Rhetoric and Silence in Barack Obama’s “Dreams from My Father”

    Rhetoric and Silence in Barack Obama’s “Dreams from My Father” Cultural Logic: An Electronic Journal of Marxist Theory and Practice 2009 46 pages ISSN: 1097-3087 Barbara Clare Foley, Professor of English Rutgers University, Newark, New Jersey When Barack Obama’s Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance first appeared in 1995, it was…

  • Choosing Race: Multiracial Ancestry and Identification

    Choosing Race: Multiracial Ancestry and Identification Social Science Research Volume 40, Issue 2 (March 2011) pages 498–512 DOI: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2010.12.010 Aaron Gullickson, Assistant Professor of Sociology University of Oregon Ann Morning, Assistant Professor of Sociology New York University Social scientists have become increasingly interested in the racial identification choices of multiracial individuals, partly as a result…

  • The Lives of Jean Toomer: A Hunger for Wholeness

    The Lives of Jean Toomer: A Hunger for Wholeness Louisiana State University Press 1987 448 pages 6×9 Paper ISBN-13: 978-0-8071-1548-0 Cynthia Earl Kerman, Emeritus Professor of English Villa Julie College in Stevenson, Maryland Richard Eldridge Jean Toomer (1894–1967) arrived on the American literary scene in 1923 with the publication of Cane, a small, emotional book…

  • University of Vermont study examines biracial identity

    University of Vermont study examines biracial identity Burlington Free Press 2010-12-28 Tim Johnson, Free Press Staff Writer Even though he was born of a white mother and an African father, Barack Obama is commonly referred to as the first black president. That’s a sign, sociologists say, that America’s “one-drop rule”—a vestige of the United States’…

  • Scholars Say Chronicler of Black Life Passed for White

    Scholars Say Chronicler of Black Life Passed for White New York Times 2010-12-26 Felicia R. Lee Renown came to Jean Toomer with his 1923 book “Cane,” which mingled fiction, drama and poetry in a formally audacious effort to portray the complexity of black lives. But the racially mixed Toomer’s confounding efforts to defy being stuck…