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  • Beyond borders: Multiracial identities in the shadow of blackness

    Beyond borders: Multiracial identities in the shadow of blackness 53rd Annual Conference of the Comparative and International Education Society Francis Marion Hotel Charleston South Carolina 2009-09-24 Fileve Palmer Indiana University Within the United States and South Africa the idea of multiracial identity has often been subverted beneath a collective, more powerful Black political identity. The…

  • Panel discusses race, identity

    Panel discusses race, identity Indiana Daily Student 2009-11-06 Therese Kennelly Graduate student Fileve Palmer said though her parents always talked about their diverse backgrounds with her, she still struggled to find a way to relay her identity to others. She struggled throughout her life to retain her African-American identity, while society viewed her as Puerto…

  • Race in the Race: Mixed Race Identity and Obama’s Campaign

    Race in the Race: Mixed Race Identity and Obama’s Campaign National Communications Association 95th Annual Convention Chicago Hilton & Towers, Chicago, IL 2009-11-11 15 pages Iliana Rucker University of New Mexico During Obama’s campaign, a video was created by the Los Angeles Times consisting of interviews with individuals who identify as multiracial. Three sections within…

  • Political partisanship influences perception of biracial candidates’ skin tone

    Political partisanship influences perception of biracial candidates’ skin tone Proceedings of the National Acadamy of Sciences Volume 106, Number 48 (2009-12-01) pages 20168-20173 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0905362106 Eugene M. Caruso, Assistant Professor of Behavioral Science Booth School of Business, University of Chicago Nicole L. Mead, Researcher Tilburg Institute for Behavioral Economics Research Tilburg University, The Netherlands Emily…

  • BEYOND ‘OTHER’: A special report.;More Than Identity Rides On a New Racial Category

    BEYOND ‘OTHER’: A special report.;More Than Identity Rides On a New Racial Category The New York Times 1996-07-06 Linda Mathews Edward Cooper, a Portland, Ore., businessman, is black. His wife and business partner, Barbara McIntyre, is white. Their 12-year-old son, Ethan McCooper, is, like his name, a blend of his parents, and harder to classify.…

  • Immigration’s Racial Complexity

    Immigration’s Racial Complexity The Washington Post Political Bookworm: Where tomorrow’s must-read political books are discovered today 2010-07-09 Steven E. Levingston Will today’s Latino and Asian immigrants become incorporated into American society like their European predecessors? Or will race remain a stumbling block to full assimilation? Jennifer Lee and Frank Bean explore these questions in their…

  • Sociologist links poverty and employment to racial identity

    Sociologist links poverty and employment to racial identity University of California, Irvine 2009-01-05 Laura Rico, University Communications Andrew Penner studies how social status shapes ethnicity Andrew Penner studies how perception of race can change, depending on one’s social status.Losing your job or doing jail time can affect how people perceive your racial background, according to…

  • How Social Status Shapes Race

    How Social Status Shapes Race Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Volume 105, Number 50 (2008-12-16) pages 19628-19630 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0805762105 Andrew M. Penner, Associate Professor of Sociology University of California, Irvine Aliya Saperstein, Assistant Professor of Sociology Stanford University Edited by Michael Hout, Professor of Sociology University of California, Berkeley We show that racial perceptions…

  • One Drop of Blood

    One Drop of Blood The New Yorker 1994-07-24 Lawrence Wright, Staff Writer Washington in the millennial years is a city of warring racial and ethnic groups fighting for recognition, protection, and entitlements. This war has been fought throughout the second half of the twentieth century largely by black Americans. How much this contest has widened,…

  • Making Ethnic Choices: California’s Punjabi Mexican Americans

    Discovering an unexpected compatibility, Punjabis married women of Mexican descent and these alliances inspired others as the men introduced their bachelor friends to the sisters and friends of their wives. These biethnic families developed an identity as “Hindus” but also as Americans.