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  • Mapping Race through Admixture

    Mapping Race through Admixture The International Journal of Technology, Knowledge and Society Volume 4, Issue 4 (2008) pages 79-84 Catherine Bliss, Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Race and Science Studies Department of Africana Studies Brown University Mapping Admixture Linkage Disequilibrium (MALD) is a technology that separates genomic ancestral lineages to identify disease genes. In the…

  • Researching Mixed Heritage: Professors Study Racial Identification Questions

    Researching Mixed Heritage: Professors Study Racial Identification Questions inside California State University, Fullerton 2009-11-02 Mikel Hogan, Anthropologist, Chair and Professor of Human Services California State University, Fullerton H. Rika Houston, Professor of Marketing California State University, Los Angeles Although racial identification has been a part of the U.S. Census policy since its inception, neither race…

  • Changing the stereotypes

    Changing the stereotypes The Daily University of Washington 2010-02-25 Kristen Steenbeeke Sophomores Gabbie Duncalf and Fitsum Misgano were taking a class about mixed race when they first learned about the organization Mixed. After hearing that the group — which caters specifically to mixed-race students but is open to anyone — was lacking officers, they decided…

  • Biracial Identity: Beyond Black and White

    Biracial Identity: Beyond Black and White The Boston College Chronicle 2003-02-13 Volume 11, Number 11 Sean Smith, Chronicle Editor Sociologist’s expertise built on experience, not just scholarly inquiry The man in the next seat had been eyeing her furtively for a while, so Asst. Prof. Kerry Ann Rockquemore (Sociology) figured it was only a matter…

  • Passing for White: Race, Religion, and the Healy Family, 1820–1920

    The remarkable saga of a mixed-race family in nineteenth-century America

  • Malaga Island: A Brief History

    Malaga Island: A Brief History Compiled by the Students of ES 203 Service Learning Project Bowdoin College 2003 Adrienne Heflich Anna Troyansky Samantha Farrell Malaga Island is located in Casco Bay, near the mouth of the New Meadows River, and is roughly a half-mile long by a quarter-mile wide in size. It sits approximately one…

  • RACE: Are We So Different?

    RACE: Are We So Different? A Project of the American Anthropological Association 2007 We expect people to look different. And why not? Like a fingerprint, each person is unique. Every person represents a one-of-a-kind, combination of their parents’, grandparents’ and family’s ancestry. And every person experiences life somewhat differently than others. Differences… they’re a cause…

  • Blended Nation: Portraits and Interviews of Mixed-Race America

    Blended Nation: Portraits and Interviews of Mixed-Race America Channel Photographics 2009-08-11 140 pages 11 x 11 inches Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-9773399-2-1 Mike Tauber Pamela Singh What are you? On the 2000 U.S. Census, for the first time, multiracial individuals were allowed to indicate more than one race. Nearly seven million Americans did so. Blended Nation: Portraits…

  • Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy

    Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy Clarion Books an Imprint of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2004-05-24 224 pages Trim Size: 5.50 x 8.25 Hardcover ISBN-13/EAN: 9780618439294 ; $15.00 Hardcover ISBN-10: 0618439293 Gary D. Schmidt, Professor of English Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Michigan Winner of the Newbery Honor and Printz Honor. It only takes a few hours…

  • Malaga Island: A Story Best Left Untold

    Malaga Island: A Story Best Left Untold WMPG-FM (Portland, Maine) and The Salt Institute 2009 Rob Rosenthal, Radio Producer Kate Philbrick, Photographer WMPG-FM, in collaboration with the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies, announces the premier of “Malaga Island: A Story Best Left Untold”, a radio and photo documentary recounting this infamous event and its impact on several…