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  • Changing Answers but Not Identities: A Qualitative Investigation of Race Responses in a Longitudinal Survey

    Changing Answers but Not Identities: A Qualitative Investigation of Race Responses in a Longitudinal Survey Population Association of America 2009 Annual Meeting Marriott Renaissance Center Detroit, Michigan 2009-04-16 19 pages Kelsey Poss University of Minnesota Carolyn A. Liebler, Assistant Professor of Sociology University of Minnesota Paper presented at the 2009 annual meetings of the Population…

  • Black/Irish: How do Americans understand their multiracial ancestry?

    Black/Irish: How do Americans understand their multiracial ancestry? Population Association of America 2009 Annual Meeting Marriott Renaissance Center Detroit, Michigan 2009-05-01 19 pages Aaron Gullickson, Assistant Professor of Sociology University of Oregon Ann Morning, Assistant Professor of Sociology New York University In recent years, studies examining the racial identification of mixed-race individuals on surveys and…

  • Not-Black by Default

    Not-Black by Default The Nation Diary of a Mad Law Professor 2010-04-21 Patricia J. Williams, James L. Dohr Professor of Law Columbia University Most people who appear phenotypically “black” don’t play around when the government asks them to report their race. Last week, Melissa Harris-Lacewell wrote an insightful column, “Black by Choice,” about President Obama’s…

  • The Multiracial Sheep IS the White Supremacist Fox

    A government and society that is ever ready to restrict the freedoms of Black folks now offers “freedom” from Blackness. This census and social “opt-out” for the progeny of interracial couples allows them to hope to be considered “as something entirely separate, different and apart from” what Curtis Mayfield called the “dark deep well.” The…

  • The Marital Patterns of Multiracial People in the United States: A Comparison of Asian/Whites and Black/Whites

    The Marital Patterns of Multiracial People in the United States: A Comparison of Asian/Whites and Black/Whites American Sociological Association Annual Meeting Hilton San Francisco San Francisco, California 2009-08-08 20 pages Michael Miyawaki Fordham University In this paper, I examine and compare the marital patterns of two multiracial groups—Asian/whites and black/whites—in the United States. Examining the…

  • Ethnically mixed individuals: Cultural Homelessness or Multicultural Integration?

    Ethnically mixed individuals: Cultural Homelessness or Multicultural Integration? University of North Texas May 1999 260 pages 15 tables, 6 illustrations, references, 273 titles Veronica Navarrete-Vivero, B. S. CPR University of North Texas Thesis Prepared for the Degree of Master of Science of Psychology Studies addressing racial/ethnic identity development have often overlooked the developmental cultural context.…

  • Founding Chestnut Ridge: The Origins of Central West Virginia’s Multiracial Community

    Founding Chestnut Ridge: The Origins of Central West Virginia’s Multiracial Community The Ohio State University Department of History Project Advisor: Randolph Roth, Professor of History and Sociology March 2010 140 pages Alexandra Finley The Ohio State University Senior Honors Thesis Presented in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for graduation with research distinction in History in…

  • The Long Shadow of the Civil War: Southern Dissent and Its Legacies [Review by Paul D. Escott]

    The Long Shadow of the Civil War: Southern Dissent and Its Legacies [Review by Paul D. Escott] H-Net Reviews May, 2010 3 pages Paul D. Escott, Reynolds Professor of History Wake Forest University “Few histories,” writes Victoria Bynum, “are buried faster or deeper than those of political and social dissenters” (p. 148). The Long Shadow…

  • AM Northwest KATU-TV Live Interview with Heidi W. Durrow

    AM Northwest KATU-TV Live Interview with Heidi W. Durrow AM Northwest KATU-TV (Portland, Oregon) Friday, 2010-05-21 09:00-10:00 PDT (Local time), (12:00-1300 EDT, 16:00-17:00Z) Heidi Durrow appeared on the program AM Norwthwest on KATU-TV (Portland, Oregon) to discuss her new book, The Girl Who Fell From the Sky. You may view the recorded segment below by…

  • Priming Race in Biracial Observers Affects Visual Search for Black and White Faces

    Priming Race in Biracial Observers Affects Visual Search for Black and White Faces Psychological Science Volume 17, Number 5 (2006) Pages 387-392 Joan Y. Chiao, Assistant Professor of Brain, Behavior, and Cognition; Social Psychology Northwestern University Hannah E. Heck Harvard University Ken Nakayama, Edgar Pierce Professor of Psychology Harvard University Nalini Ambady, Professor and Neubauer…