Category: Media Archive

  • Mixed Race Organisations in the UK: Joint Statement 2009-09-13 People in Harmony in consultation with: Multiple Heritage Project MixTogether Sputnik Inheritance Project Planet Rainbow Project MOSAIC Black and Mixed Parentage Family Group Intermix Starlight Black Child Mixed Heritage Group As a coalition of mixed race organisations we seek to advance the social well being of…

  • Mixed Race in Britain: A Survey of the Preferences of Mixed Race People for Terminology and Classifications (Interim Report) Centre for Health Services Studies (CHSS) University of Kent at Canterbury July 2006 Peter Aspinall, Senior Research Fellow Centre for Health Services Studies (CHSS) University of Kent Miri Song, Professor of Sociology University of Kent Ferhana…

  • The United Colors of Family (Interview with Charmaine Wijeyesinghe) UMass Amherst, The Magazine for Alumni and Friends University of Massachusettes Summer 2007 Interviewed by Faye S. Wolfe …Tell us about your work on racial identity. For my dissertation I interviewed people who were black, white, or biracial. I came up with a model for how…

  • Racial Ideas and Gendered Intimacies: the Regulation of Interracial Relationships in North America Social & Legal Studies Volume 18, Number 3 (September 2009) DOI: 10.1177/0964663909339087 pages 353-371 Debra Thompson, Assistant Professor of Political Science Ohio University This article compares the regulation of interracial intimacies in North America, contending that anti-miscegenation laws in the United States…

  • Tilting at Windmills: The Paradox of Researching Mixed-Race Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association (New Orleans, LA,  2000-04-24 through 2000-04-28) Kristen A. Renn, Associate Professor Michigan State University This paper addresses the growing interest among social scientists in studying the experiences of so-called mixed-race (or multiracial, biracial, or mixed…

  • “What Are You?” Biracial Children in the Classroom Childhood Education Volume 84, Number 4 Summer 2008 pp.230-233 Association for Childhood Education International Traci P. Baxley, Assistant Professor College of Education Florida Atlantic University Over the last 30 years, biracial individuals have become one of the fastest growing populations in the United States. Despite this rapid…

  • In entering into the twenty-first century, one might affirm that the face of Chinese America has changed or has it? Chineseness has been constantly conceptualized through the measure of phenotype, the quantity of blood, the preservation of language, or the possession of surname.  But what happens when African American bodies and other nonwhite cultural sites…

  • Black/White Biracial Identity: The Influence of Colorblindness and the Racialization of Poor Black Americans Theory in Action Volume 2, Number 1 (January 2009) DOI: 10.3798/tia.1937-0237.08027 Kathleen Odell Korgen, Professor of Sociology William Paterson University, Wayne, New Jersey This article focuses on the influence of colorblindness, the interaction of class and culture, and the racialization of…

  • The friendship networks of multiracial adolescents Social Science Research Volume 38, Issue 2, June 2009 pages 279-295 DOI: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2008.09.002 Lincoln Quillian, Associate Professor Department of Sociology Northwestern University Rozlyn Redd Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy Columbia University, USA We investigate the friendship networks of multiracial adolescents through a comparison of the size…

  • Juggling Multiple Racial Identities: Malleable Racial Identification and Psychological Well-Being Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology Volume 15, Issue 3, July 2009 pages 243-254 DOI: 10.1037/a0014373 Diana T. Sanchez, Associate Professor of Psychology Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey Margaret Shih, Professor in Management and Organizations Anderson School of Management University of California, Los…