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  • I Define My Own Identity: Pacific Articulations of ‘Race’ and ‘Culture’on the Internet

    I Define My Own Identity: Pacific Articulations of ‘Race’ and ‘Culture’on the Internet Ethnicities Vol. 3, No. 4 pp. 465-490 (2003) DOI: 10.1177/1468796803003004002 Marianne I. Franklin University of Amsterdam Most of the participants in the internet discussion forums, the Kava Bowl and the Kamehameha Roundtable, herald from the South Pacific islands of Tonga and Samoa.…

  • Crossing racial lines: geographies of mixed-race partnering and multiraciality in the United States

    Crossing racial lines: geographies of mixed-race partnering and multiraciality in the United States Progress in Human Geography Vol. 27, No. 4 pp. 457-474 (2003) DOI: 10.1191/0309132503ph444oa Richard Wright Department of Geography Dartmouth College Serin Houston Department of Geography Dartmouth College Mark Ellis Department of Geography and Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology University of…

  • Philosophical aspects of the ‘AAA Statement on “Race”’

    Philosophical aspects of the ‘AAA Statement on “Race”’ Anthropological Theory Volume 1, Number 4 (December 2001) pages 445-465 DOI: 10.1177/14634990122228836 Naomi Zack, Professor of Philosophy University of Oregon I apply philosophical analysis to the ‘AAA Statement on “Race”’ (American Anthropological Association, 1998) and the commentary on its earlier draft published in the Anthropology Newsletter (1997).…

  • Australian Mixed Race

    Australian Mixed Race European Journal of Cultural Studies Volume 7, Number 2 (May 2004) pages 177-199 DOI: 10.1177/1367549404042493 Maureen Perkins, Associate Professor of History, Anthropology and Sociology Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia This article argues against the case for colour-blindness as a fundamental principle of liberal policy and recommends more colour consciousness rather than less.…

  • The Hairstons: An American Family in Black and White (review)

    It was with joy and fear that I finished Henry Wiencek’s breathtaking saga, “The Hairstons: An American Family in Black and White.” Joy, in that I was introduced to such a compelling cast of characters, set within riveting contexts, drawn with insight and erudition, illuminated by vivid, narrative that pulls the reader toward the important…

  • The Hairstons: An American Family in Black and White

    The Hairstons: An American Family in Black and White St. Martin’s Press an imprint of Macmillan February 1999 ISBN: 978-0-312-25393-6 ISBN10: 0-312-25393-1 6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches 400 pages, Plus 16-page b&w photo insert Henry Wiencek Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award The Hairstons is the extraordinary story of the largest family in America,…

  • Pure Beauty: Judging Race in Japanese American Beauty Pageants

    In “Pure Beauty,” Rebecca Chiyoko King-O’Riain tackles this question by studying a cultural institution: Japanese American community beauty pageants in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle, and Honolulu. King-O’Riain employs rich ethnographic fieldwork to discover how these pageants seek to maintain racial and ethnic purity amid shifting notions of cultural identity.

  • Mestizaje: Critical Uses of Race in Chicano Culture

    Mestizaje: Critical Uses of Race in Chicano Culture University of Minnesota Press 2006 272 pages 15 halftones; 5 7⁄8 x 9 Paper ISBN: 0-8166-4595-7 Paper ISBN-13: 978-0-8166-4595-4 Cloth ISBN: 0-8166-4594-9 Cloth ISBN-13: 978-0-8166-4594-7 Rafael Pérez-Torres, Professor and Chair of English University of California, Los Angeles A major reassessment of how mixed-race identity affects Chicano culture and…

  • Brown Babies in Britain

    Brown Babies in Britain Radcliffe Quarterly Winter 2007 Dean’s Lecture Series Julia Hanna When white British women met black servicemen during World War II, mixed-race children sometimes resulted from their relationships. In her November 2 [2007] Dean’s Lecture, Hazel V. Carby addressed issues of race and class by drawing on scholarship and personal experience as…

  • Forced to Choose: Some Determinants of Racial Identification

    Forced to Choose: Some Determinants of Racial Identification Child Development May/June 2004 Volume 75, Number 3 Pages 730-748 Melissa Herman, Assistant Professor of Sociology Dartmouth University This paper categorizes multiracial youth (N=1,496) ages 14 to 19 and compares them with other and with monoracial youth on identity development measures.  The multiracial categories used here are…