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  • The importance of being “other”: A natural experiment about lived race over time

    The importance of being “other”: A natural experiment about lived race over time Social Science Research Volume 36, Issue 1 (March 2007) pages 159-174 DOI: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2005.11.002 J. Scott Brown, Associate Professor of Gerontology, Scripps Research Fellow Miami University, Oxford, Ohio Steven Hitlin, Assistant Professor of Sociology University of Iowa Glen H. Elder, Jr., Research Professor…

  • Our Changing Identities

    Our Changing Identities The New Black Magazine 2010-10-18 Adam K. Raymond On forms asking their racial or ethnic backgrounds, young people of multi-racial origin give different answers at different times. As a teenager, Cameron Clark, whose mother is white and father is black, always checked “African-American” on forms that asked about his race. “I needed…

  • Multiethnicity and Multiethnic Families: Development, Identity, and Resilience

    Multiethnicity and Multiethnic Families: Development, Identity, and Resilience Xlibris 2010 384 pages ISBN 13 Softcover: 978-1-4500-1231-7 ISBN 13 Hardcover: 978-1-4500-1232-4 ISBN 13 Ebook: 978-1-4500-0340-7 Edited By: Hamilton McCubbin, Krystal Ontai, Lisa Kehl, Laurie McCubbin, Ida Strom, Heidi Hart, Barbara DeBaryshe, Marika Ripke and Jon Matsuoka Guided by the increasing number of interracial marriages, cross-cultural adoptions…

  • Addressing Issues of Biracial Asian Americans

    Addressing Issues of Biracial Asian Americans Reflections on Shattered Windows: Promises and Prospects for Asian American Studies Washington State University Press 1988 Chapter 15, pages 111-116 Edited by: G. Y. Okihiro, S. Hune, A. A. Hansen, and J. M. Liu Stephen L. Murphy-Shigematsu Revising the Asian American Studies curriculum One of the more dramatic changes…

  • Sniffing Elephant Bones: The Poetics of Race in the Art of Ellen Gallagher

    Sniffing Elephant Bones: The Poetics of Race in the Art of Ellen Gallagher Callaloo Volume 19, Number 2, Spring 1996 E-ISSN: 1080-6512 Print ISSN: 0161-2492 pages 337-339 DOI: 10.1353/cal.1996.0074 Judith Wilson, Former Assistant Professor of African American Studies, Assistant Professor of Art History and Assistant Professor of Visual Studies University of California, Irvine What she…

  • Optical Illusions: Images of Miscegenation in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century American Art

    Optical Illusions: Images of Miscegenation in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century American Art American Art Volume 5, Number 3 (Summer, 1991) pages 88-107 Judith Wilson, Former Assistant Professor of African American Studies, Assistant Professor of Art History and Assistant Professor of Visual Studies University of California, Irvine miscegenationn. [Latin miscere to mix + genus race…]: a mixture…

  • Blaxican Identity: An Exploratory Study of Blacks/Chicanas/os in California

    Blaxican Identity: An Exploratory Study of Blacks/Chicanas/os in California National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies Annual Conference 35th Annual Conference 2008-04-01 11 pages Rebecca Romo University of California, Santa Barbara This paper explores the life experiences of Blaxicans, or multiracial individuals who are the products of unions that are composed of one biological (or…

  • Thinking and living in, out, and beyond the box: Exploring Racial and Cultural Complexity in Identity among Adoptive Multiracial Families and Persons

    Thinking and living in, out, and beyond the box: Exploring Racial and Cultural Complexity in Identity among Adoptive Multiracial Families and Persons Racial Identity and Cultural Factors in Treatment, Research, and Policy The Ninth Annual Diversity Challenge Institute for the Study and Promotion of Race and Culture Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts 2009-10-23 through 2009-10-24…

  • “A Little Yellow Bastard Boy”: Paternal Rejection, Filial Insistence, and the Triumph of African American Cultural Aesthetics in Langston Hughes’s “Mulatto”

    “A Little Yellow Bastard Boy”: Paternal Rejection, Filial Insistence, and the Triumph of African American Cultural Aesthetics in Langston Hughes’s “Mulatto” Robert Paul Lamb, Professor of English Purdue University College Literature Volume, 35, Number 2 (Spring 2008) pages 126-153 DOI: 10.1353/lit.2008.0012 When Langston Hughes published “Mulatto” in his second poetry collection, Fine Clothes to the…

  • Representing Mixed Race in Jamaica and England from the Abolition Era to the Present

    Representing Mixed Race in Jamaica and England from the Abolition Era to the Present Routledge: Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures 2010-10-21 204 pages Hardback ISBN: 978-0-415-39808-4 Sarah Salih, Professor of English University of Toronto This study considers cultural representations of “brown” people in Jamaica and England alongside the determinations of race by statute from the…