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  • The Tragic Black Buck: Racial Masquerading in the American Literary Imagination

    The Tragic Black Buck: Racial Masquerading in the American Literary Imagination Peter Lang Publishing Group 2004 198 pages ISBN: 978-0-8204-6206-6 Carlyle Van Thompson, Acting Dean, School of Liberal Arts and Education Medgar Evers College, the City University of New York The Tragic Black Buck examines the phenomenon, often paradoxical, of black males passing for white…

  • Census and Consensus? A Historical Examination of the US Census Racial Terminology Used for American Residents of African Ancestry

    Census and Consensus? A Historical Examination of the US Census Racial Terminology Used for American Residents of African Ancestry Peter Lang Publishing Group 2005-07-31 232 pages 20.6 x 14.7 x 1.5 cm US-ISBN: 978-0-8204-7667-4 Iman Makeba Laversuch, Lecturer University of Cologne, Germany Colored, Black, Negro, Mulatto, Quadroon, Octoroon, African American. This book provides an in-depth…

  • The Monochrome Society: Americanness and the unsung agreement across racial lines

    The Monochrome Society: Americanness and the unsung agreement across racial lines Policy Review Hoover Institution Stanford University Feburary & March 2001 Amitai Etzioni Various demographers and other social scientists have been predicting for years that the end of the white majority in the United States is near, and that there will be a majority of…

  • How to really be accurate on ‘race’ on the Census

    How to really be accurate on ‘race’ on the Census The American Thinker 2010-03-17 James Lewis Not many people like to fill in the “race” category on the Census, because we know perfectly well that it comes from the Left, which has found another way to slice and dice the American people, to set us…

  • The age of Obama: The changing place of minorities in British and American society

    The age of Obama: The changing place of minorities in British and American society Manchester University Press 2010-04-01 192 pages 234x156mm Hardback ISBN: 9780719082771; Paperback ISBN: 9780719082788 Tom Clark, Columnist The Guardian Robert D. Putnam, and Isabel Malkin Professor of Public Policy Harvard University Edward Fieldhouse, Professor of Social and Political Science and Director of…

  • Homelands and Indigenous Identities in a Multiracial Era

    Homelands and Indigenous Identities in a Multiracial Era Social Science Research Article In Press, Accepment Manuscript Online: 2010-02-17 Carolyn A. Liebler, Assistant Professor Department of Sociology and Minnesota Population Center University of Minnesota Although multiple race responses are now allowed on federal censuses and surveys, most interracially married single-race parents report a single race for…

  • Beyond Black and White: A film by Nisma Zaman

    Beyond Black and White: A film by Nisma Zaman Women Make Movies 1994 28 minutes Color, 16mm/DVD Order No. W99431 Beyond Black and White is a personal exploration of the filmmaker’s bicultural heritage (Caucasian and Asian/Begali) in which she relates her experiences to those of five other women from various biracial backgrounds. In lively interviews…

  • Blood, Race, and National Identity: Scientific and Popular Discourses

    Blood, Race, and National Identity: Scientific and Popular Discourses Journal of Medical Humanities Volume 23, Numbers 3-4 (December, 2002) Pages 171-186 Print ISSN: 1041-3545; Online ISSN: 1573-3645 DOI: 10.1023/A:1016890117447 Allyson Polsky McCabe, Lecturer in English Yale University This essay examines the symbolic significance of blood in the twentieth century and its role in determining the…

  • Meeting the Needs of Multiracial and Multiethnic Children in Early Childhood Settings

    Meeting the Needs of Multiracial and Multiethnic Children in Early Childhood Settings Early Childhood Education Journal Issue Volume 26, Number 1 (September, 1998) Pages 7-11 Print ISSN 1082-3301; Online ISSN: 1573-1707 DOI 10.1023/A:1022974423276 Francis Wardle Early childhood programs have been in the forefront of implementing a multiracial curriculum. Early childhood educators need to extend these…

  • Examining Ethnic Identity and Self-Esteem Among Biracial and Monoracial Adolescents

    Examining Ethnic Identity and Self-Esteem Among Biracial and Monoracial Adolescents Journal of Youth and Adolescence Volume 33, Number 2 (April, 2004) pages 123-132 Print ISSN: 0047-2891; Online ISSN: 1573-6601 DOI: 10.1023/B:JOYO.0000013424.93635.68 Jeana R. Bracey University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Mayra Y. Bámaca University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Adriana J. Umaña-Taylor Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium The psychological…