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  • Race – The Power of an Illusion

    Race – The Power of an Illusion California Newsreel – Film and video for social change since 1968 2003 3 Episodes, 56 minutes each DVD and VHS The division of the world’s peoples into distinct groups – “red,” “black,” “white” or “yellow” peoples – has became so deeply imbedded in our psyches, so widely accepted, many…

  • Race and Reification in Science

    Race and Reification in Science Science Magazine Volume 307 2005-02-18 pages 1050-1051 Troy Duster, Professor of Sociology New York University Alfred North Whitehead warned many years ago about “the fallacy of misplaced concreteness” (1), by which he meant the tendency to assume that categories of thought coincide with the obdurate character of the empirical world.…

  • Race in a Genetic World

    “I am an African American,” says Duana Fullwiley, “but in parts of Africa, I am white.” To do fieldwork as a medical anthropologist in Senegal, she says, “I take a plane to France, a seven- to eight-hour ride. My race changes as I cross the Atlantic. There, I say, ‘Je suis noire,’ and they say,…

  • Pathways to Permanence for Black, Asian and Mixed Ethnicity Children: Delemmas, Decision-Making and Outcomes

    Pathways to Permanence for Black, Asian and Mixed Ethnicity Children: Delemmas, Decision-Making and Outcomes Research Brief DCSF-RBX-13-08 October 2008 8 pages Julie Selwyn Hadley Centre for Adoption and Foster Care Studies University of Bristol P. Harris Hadley Centre for Adoption and Foster Care Studies University of Bristol David Quinton Hadley Centre for Adoption and Foster…

  • Vulnerable Multiracial Families and Early Years Services: Concerns, Challenges and Opportunities

    Vulnerable Multiracial Families and Early Years Services: Concerns, Challenges and Opportunities Children & Society Volume 10, Issue 4 (December 1996) Pages 305 – 316 DOI: 10.1111/j.1099-0860.1996.tb00598.x Margaret Boushel Department of Social Work and Social Care University of Sussex In Britain, very young mixed-parentage children are more likely to receive state care than any other children.…

  • Building Kinship and Community: Relational Processes of Bicultural Identity Among Adult Multiracial Adoptees

    Building Kinship and Community: Relational Processes of Bicultural Identity Among Adult Multiracial Adoptees Family Process Volume 49, Issue 1 (March 2010) pages 26-42 DOI: 10.1111/j.1545-5300.2010.01306.x Gina Miranda Samuels, Associate Professor School of Social Service Administration University of Chicago This study uses the case of transracially adopted multiracial adults to highlight an alternative family context and…

  • Deconstructing Binary Race and Sex Categories: A Comparison of the Multiracial and Transgendered Experience

    Deconstructing Binary Race and Sex Categories: A Comparison of the Multiracial and Transgendered Experience San Diego Law Review Volume 39, Number 3 (2002) pages 917-942 Julie A. Greenberg, Professor of Law Thomas Jefferson School of Law, San Diego This Article explores the potential difficulties that exist as legal institutions develop a classification of transgendered people,…

  • Marcia Dawkins to be Featured Guest on Mixed Chicks Chat

    Marcia Dawkins to be Featured Guest on Mixed Chicks Chat Mixed Chicks Chat (The only live weekly show about being racially and culturally mixed. Also, founders of the Mixed Roots Film & Literary Festival) Hosted by Fanshen Cox and Heidi W. Durrow Website: TalkShoe™ (Keywords: Mixed Chicks) Episode: #153 – Marcia Dawkins When: Wednesday, 2010-05-19…

  • Communication, Race, and Family: Exploring Communication in Black, White, and Biracial Families

    Communication, Race, and Family: Exploring Communication in Black, White, and Biracial Families Routledge 1999-08-01 Pages: 264 Trim Size: 6 x 9 Hardback ISBN: 978-0-8058-2938-9 Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8058-2939-6 Edited by: Thomas J. Socha Rhunette C. Diggs This groundbreaking volume explores how family communication influences the perennial and controversial topic of race. In assembling this collection, editors…

  • The Idea of Race in Latin America, 1870-1940

    The Idea of Race in Latin America, 1870-1940 University of Texas Press 1990 143 pages 10 b&w illus. 6 x 9 in. ISBN: 978-0-292-73857-7 Edited by Richard Graham, Emeritus Frances Higginbotham Nalle Centennial Professor of History University of Texas, Austin With chapters by Thomas E. Skidmore, Aline Helg, and Alan Knight From the mid-nineteenth century…