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  • Questions for Benjamin Todd Jealous: Race Matters

    Questions for Benjamin Todd Jealous: Race Matters The New York Times 2009-07-30 Deborah Solomon As the new head of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, can you tell us how your organization plans to respond to the case of Henry Louis Gates Jr., the Harvard professor who was recently arrested for disorderly…

  • Obama Census Choice: African-American

    Obama Census Choice: African-American The Huffington Post 2010-04-02 Mark S. Smith WASHINGTON — He may be the world’s foremost mixed-race leader, but when it came to the official government head count, President Barack Obama gave only one answer to the question about his ethnic background: African-American. The White House confirmed on Friday that Obama did…

  • Who are the ‘Mixed’ ethnic group?

    Who are the ‘Mixed’ ethnic group? Office for National Statistics [United Kingdom] May 2006 Ben Bradford Introduction The last fifty years have seen the emergence of some new, predominantly British-born, ethnic minorities. These are the children of inter-ethnic partnerships, primarily partnerships between people from the White British group and people from ethnic minority groups. They…

  • “… But … But I am Brown.” The Ascribed Categories of Identity: Children and Young People of Mixed Parentage

    “… But … But I am Brown.” The Ascribed Categories of Identity: Children and Young People of Mixed Parentage Child Care in Practice Volume 13, Issue 2 (April 2007) pages 83 – 94 DOI: 10.1080/13575270701201169 Annabel Goodyer, Principal Lecturer in Social Work London South Bank University Toyin Okitikpi This paper explores the concept of the…

  • 3 Questions: Melissa Nobles on the U.S. Census

    3 Questions: Melissa Nobles on the U.S. Census MIT News Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2010-04-01 Melissa Nobles, Arthur and Ruth Sloan Professor of Political Science Massachusetts Institute of Technology As America’s decennial headcount gets under way, an MIT political scientist discusses the history of race and ethnicity in the U.S. Census April 1 marks National…

  • Biracial Identity Development and Recommendations in Therapy

    Biracial Identity Development and Recommendations in Therapy Psychiatry (Edgemont) Volume 5, Number 11 (November 2008) pages 37-44 Raushanah Hud-Aleem, DO Department of Psychiatry Boonshoft School of Medicine, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio Jacqueline Countryman, MD, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry Department of Psychiatry Boonshoft School of Medicine, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio Identity development is an…

  • Racial Identity and Academic Performance: An Examination of Biracial Asian and African American Youth

    Racial Identity and Academic Performance: An Examination of Biracial Asian and African American Youth Journal of Asian American Studies Volume 2, Number 3 (October 1999) pages 223-249 E-ISSN: 1096-8598 Print ISSN: 1097-2129 DOI: 10.1353/jaas.1999.0023 Grace Kao, Professor of Sociology, Education, and Asian American Studies University of Pennsylvania In the last three decades since the last…

  • Multiracialism In America – Jane Junn

    Multiracialism In America – Jane Junn New Century Foundation New York, New York 2008-08-05 Length: 00:04:04 Jane Junn, Associate Professor of Political Science at Rutgers University Rutgers University Political scientist Jane Junn examines shifting views on racial categorization in the United States. Junn notes the increasingly common use of the “Multiracial” designation on the U.S.…

  • Policies of Racial Classification and the Politics of Racial Inequality

    Policies of Racial Classification and the Politics of Racial Inequality In Suzanne Mettler, Joe Soss, and Jacob Hacker (eds.). Remaking America: Democracy and Public Policy in an Age of Inequality Russell Sage Foundation November 2007 41 pages Jennifer L. Hochschild, Henry LaBarre Jayne Professor of Government and Professor of African and African American Studies Harvard…

  • Home on the Range: Kids, Visual Culture, and Cognitive Equity

    Home on the Range: Kids, Visual Culture, and Cognitive Equity Cultural Studies Critical Methodologies Volume 9, Number 2 (April 2009) pages 141-148 DOI: 10.1177/1532708608326606 Lorna Roth, Associate Professor of Communication Studies Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada This essay focuses on Binney and Smith’s creation and marketing of Crayola fleshtone art products from the late 1950s…