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  • Racial Mixture and Affirmative Action: The Cases of Brazil and the United States

    Racial Mixture and Affirmative Action: The Cases of Brazil and the United States The American Historical Review Volume 108, Number 5 December 2003 Thomas E. Skidmore, Carlos Manuel de Céspedes Professor of History Emeritus Brown University For me, as a historian of Brazil, North America’s “one-drop rule” has always seemed odd. No other society in…

  • The Significance of Color Declines: A Re-Analysis of Skin Tone Differentials in Post-Civil Rights America

    The Significance of Color Declines: A Re-Analysis of Skin Tone Differentials in Post-Civil Rights America Social Forces Volume 84, Number 1 September 2005 pp. 157-180 Aaron Gullickson, Assistant Professor University of Oregon Skin tone variation within the United States’ black population has long been associated with intraracial stratification. Skin tone differentials in socioeconomic status reflect…

  • Racial Boundary Formation at the Dawn of Jim Crow: The Determinants and Effects of Black/Mulatto Occupational Differences in the United States, 1880

    Racial Boundary Formation at the Dawn of Jim Crow: The Determinants and Effects of Black/Mulatto Occupational Differences in the United States, 1880 Department Colloquium Series University of Washington, Department of Sociology Savery Hall 2009-10-06 15:30 PDT (Local Time) Aaron Gullickson, Assistant Professor University of Oregon Much of the literature within sociology regarding mixed-race populations focuses…

  • Identity and Health in the Narratives of People of Mixed Race

    Identity and Health in the Narratives of People of Mixed Race Center for the Advancement of Health Disparities Research 2nd Annual Teach-In: Health Disparities Awareness 2004-05-21 Cathy J. Tashiro, PhD, MPH, RN Nursing Program University of Washington, Tacoma …Why Study People of Mixed Race? A rapidly growing part of the population Seldom acknowledged in studies,…

  • Salt-sweat & Tears

    Salt-sweat & Tears Cinnamon Press March 2007 80 pages 21 x 14 x 0.8 cm Paperback ISBN 10: 1905614187; ISBN-13: 978-1905614189 Louisa Adjoa Parker Of Ghanaian-British descent Louisa Adjoa Parker explores issues of identity, belonging, family and relationships in raw, honest, but crafted pieces. Mulatto Girl See the mulatto girl walking down country lanes and…

  • Toward a Sociology of Racial Conceptualization for the 21st Century

    Toward a Sociology of Racial Conceptualization for the 21st Century Social Forces Volume 87, Number 3, 2009 Pages: 1167-1192 DOI: 10.1353/sof.0.0169 Ann J. Morning, Associate Professor of Sociology New York Univeristy Despite their longstanding interest in race, American sociologists have conducted little empirical research on sociodemographic patterns or longitudinal trends in “racial conceptualization” – that…

  • The multiple-race population of the United States: Issues and estimates

    The multiple-race population of the United States: Issues and estimates Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) 2000-05-23 vol. 97 no. 11 pages 6230-6235 Joshua R. Goldstein Ann J. Morning, Assistant Professor of Sociology New York University This paper presents national estimates of the population likely to identify with more than one race in…

  • A Contested Identity: An Exploration of the Competing Social and Political Discourse Concerning the Identification and Positioning of Young People of Inter-Racial Parentage

    A Contested Identity: An Exploration of the Competing Social and Political Discourse Concerning the Identification and Positioning of Young People of Inter-Racial Parentage British Journal of Social Work Volume 36, Number 8 (2006) pages 1309-1324 DOI: 10.1093/bjsw/bch390 Ravinder Barn, Professor of Social Policy and Social Work Royal Holloway, University of London Vicki Harman, Lecturer in…

  • Mixed Race Literature

    Mixed Race Literature Stanford University Press 2002 256 pages 8 illustrations Cloth Edition: ISBN-10: 0804736391; ISBN-13: 9780804736398 Paperback Edition ISBN-10: 0804736405; ISBN-13: 9780804736404 Edited by Jonathan Brennan, Professor of English Mission College, Santa Clara, California This collection presents the first scholarly attempt to map the rapidly emerging field of mixed-race literature, defined as texts written…

  • Understanding the Educational Needs of Mixed Heritage Pupils

    Understanding the Educational Needs of Mixed Heritage Pupils University of Bristol June 2004 ISBN: 1844782646 121 pages Leon Tikly, Professor in Education and Deputy Director of Research University of Bristol Chamion Caballero, Senior Research Fellow Families & Social Capital Research Group London South Bank University Jo Haynes, Lecturer in Sociology University of Bristol John Hill…