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  • Is Parental Love Colorblind? Allocation of Resources within Mixed-Race Families (Preliminary Version)

    Is Parental Love Colorblind? Allocation of Resources within Mixed-Race Families (Preliminary Version) Prepared for the Labor and Population Workshop, Department of Economics, Yale University May, 2007 53 pages Marcos A. Rangel, Assistant Professor Harris School of Public Policy Studies University of Chicago Recent studies have shown that differences in wage-determinant skills between blacks and whites…

  • Conversation with Rev. Dr. Frederick J. Streets

    Conversation with Rev. Dr. Frederick J. Streets The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance & Abolition Yale University 1990-02-02 Frederick J. Streets, University Chaplain and Senior Pastor Church of Christ, Yale University A conversation with Rev. Dr. Frederick J. Streets, University Chaplain and Senior Pastor of the Church of Christ, Yale University.…

  • Negotiating Ethnic Boundaries: Multiethnic Mexican Americans and Ethnic Identity in the United States

    Negotiating Ethnic Boundaries: Multiethnic Mexican Americans and Ethnic Identity in the United States Ethnicities Volume 4, Number  1 (March 2004) pages 75-97 DOI: 10.1177/1468796804040329 Tomás R. Jiménez, Assistant Professor of Sociology Stanford University This article examines the ethnic identity of the offspring of Mexican/white (non-Hispanic) intermarriages, or multiethnic Mexican Americans, using 20 in-depth interviews with…

  • A Feminist Critique of Research on Interracial Family Identity: Implications for Family Health

    A Feminist Critique of Research on Interracial Family Identity: Implications for Family Health Journal of Family Nursing 2004 Vol. 10, No. 3 pp. 302-322 DOI: 10.1177/1074840704267189 Marcia M. Byrd, Assistant Professor of Nursing College of St. Catherine Ann W. Garwick, Associate Dean for Research, Professor and Director of Center for Child and Family Health Promotion…

  • Africans and Native Americans: The Language of Race and the Evolution of Red-Black Peoples (Second Edition)

    Africans and Native Americans: The Language of Race and the Evolution of Red-Black Peoples (Second Edition) University of Illinois Press 1993 Paper: 978-0-252-06321-3 352 pages Jack D. Forbes, Professor Emeritus. Native American Studies and Anthropology University of California, Davis This volume will revise the way we look at the modern populations of Latin America and…

  • Black Europe and the African Diaspora

    Black Europe and the African Diaspora University of Illinois Press 2009 368 pages 6 x 9 in.  15 black & white photographs, 1 map Cloth: ISBN 978-0-252-03467-1 Paper: ISBN 978-0-252-07657-2 Edited by Darlene Clark Hine, Board of Trustees Professor of African American Studies Northwestern University Trica Danielle Keaton, Associate Professor of African American and Diaspora…

  • On Being Amorphous: Autoethnography, Genealogy, and a Multiracial Identity

    On Being Amorphous: Autoethnography, Genealogy, and a Multiracial Identity Qualitative Inquiry Volume 9, Number 1 (2003) pages 20-48 DOI: 10.1177/1077800402239338 Sarah N. Gatson, Associate Professor of Sociology Texas A&M University The article is a sociologically informed approach to understanding the author’s own place and identity. Questions of personal identity serve to highlight larger insights about…

  • Hapa Girl: A Memoir

    Hapa Girl: A Memoir Temple University Press March 2007 232 pages 5.5×8.25, 12 halftones Paper EAN: 978-1-59213-616-2 (ISBN: 1592136168) Cloth EAN: 978-1-59213-615-5 (ISBN: 159213615X May-lee Chai Named one of the Notable Books in the Kiriyama Prize, 2008 Honorable Mention at the Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Awards, 2007 A vivid depiction of the racism suffered by…

  • Mixed Ancestry Racial/Ethnic Identity Development (MAREID) Model

    Mixed Ancestry Racial/Ethnic Identity Development (MAREID) Model Wellesley Centers for Women 2003 Peony Fhagen-Smith, Assistant Professor of Psychology Wheaton College, Norton Massachusetts To date no theoretical work on racial/ethnic identity development adequately provides a framework for explaining current empirical findings concerning racial/ethnic identification among mixed ancestry youth. This paper reviews current research on the mixed…

  • Examining Mixed-Ancestry Identity in Adolescents

    Examining Mixed-Ancestry Identity in Adolescents Wellesley Centers for Women Research & Action Report Fall/Winter 2008 Two years ago, scholars at the Wellesley Centers for Women (WCW) launched a study of racial and ethnic identification among adolescents of mixed ancestry. The reasons for pursuing the research were several. Most literature about ethnic/racial self-identification patterns derived from…