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  • Imperfect Unions: Staging Miscegenation in U.S. Drama and Fiction by Diana Rebekkah Paulin (Green-Rogers review)

    Imperfect Unions: Staging Miscegenation in U.S. Drama and Fiction by Diana Rebekkah Paulin (Green-Rogers review) Theatre Journal Volume 65, Number 2, May 2013 pages 304-306 DOI: 10.1353/tj.2013.0048 Martine Kei Green-Rogers, Post Doctorate Fellow University of Utah Imperfect Unions: Staging Miscegenation in U.S. Drama and Fiction by Diana Paulin is a multidisciplinary examination of how fictionalized…

  • Counseling Single Mothers of Multiple Heritage Children: What Is the Difference?

    Counseling Single Mothers of Multiple Heritage Children: What Is the Difference? The Family Journal Volume 21, Issue 4 (October 2013) pages 396-401 DOI: 10.1177/1066480713488527 Kristin Harris, MA Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, Texas Richard Henriksen, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Education Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, Texas Anthony J. Onwuegbuzie, Ph.D., Professor of Education Sam Houston…

  • Counseling Single-Parent Multiracial Families

    Counseling Single-Parent Multiracial Families The Family Journal Volume 21, Issue 4 (October 2013) pages 386-395 DOI: 10.1177/1066480713488526 Henry L. Harris, Associate Professor of Education Department of Counseling University of North Carolina, Charlotte Single-parent families represent a growing segment of the family households in the United States today and while some literature has addressed racial differences,…

  • “A Universe of Many Worlds”: An Interview with Ruth Ozeki

    “A Universe of Many Worlds”: An Interview with Ruth Ozeki MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States Volume 38, Issue 3 (September 2013) pages 160-171 DOI: 10.1093/melus/mlt028 Eleanor Ty, Professor of English and Film Studies Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada That’s what it felt like when I was growing up, like I was a…

  • A Blunt Chief Justice Unafraid to Upset Brazil’s Status

    A Blunt Chief Justice Unafraid to Upset Brazil’s Status The New York Times 2013-08-23 Simon Romero, Brazil Bureau Chief BRASÍLIA — Brazil’s highest court has long viewed itself as a bastion of manners and formality. Justices call one another “Your Excellency,” dress in billowing robes and wrap each utterance in grandiloquence, as if little had…

  • Who is an Indian?: Race, Place, and the Politics of Indigeneity in the Americas

    Who is an Indian?: Race, Place, and the Politics of Indigeneity in the Americas University of Toronto Press August 2013 272 pages Paper ISBN: 9780802095527 Cloth ISBN: 9780802098184 Edited by: Maximilian C. Forte, Associate Professor of Sociology and Anthropology Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada Who is an Indian? This is possibly the oldest question facing…

  • Research Project on “Mixed Race” Identity: Call for Participants

    Research Project on “Mixed Race” Identity: Call for Participants University of Alberta 2013-08-23 Jillian Paragg, Ph.D. Student Department of Sociology Are you of mixed racial background? Do you/have you identified as “mixed race”, “multiracial”, or with other “mixed” self-identifications (i.e. biracial, mulatto, eurasian, happa, creole etc.)? Do other people identify you as “mixed”? I am…

  • The Black Irish Onscreen: Representing Black and Mixed-Race Identities on Irish Film and Television

    This book examines the position of black and mixed-race characters in Irish film culture. By exploring key film and television productions from the 1990s to the present day, the author uncovers and interrogates concepts of Irish identity, history and nation.

  • Researching the Experiences of Multiracial People Having their Racial Group Membership Denied by Others

    Researching the Experiences of Multiracial People Having their Racial Group Membership Denied by Others University of Maryland, College Park Department of Psychology 2013-08-22 Marisa Franco, Doctoral Student Counseling Psychology Greetings! My name is Marisa Franco and I am a doctoral student in counseling psychology at the University of Maryland. I am conducting a survey examining…

  • What the ‘Mixed Kids Are Always So Beautiful’ Meme Really Means

    What the ‘Mixed Kids Are Always So Beautiful’ Meme Really Means The Huffington Post 2013-08-22 Marcia Dawkins, Clinical Assistant Professor of Communications University of Southern California, Annenberg The New York Times’ Motherlode blog recently posted a thought-provoking article called, “Mixed Kids Are Always So Beautiful.” The author’s experiences as a parent to a racially-ambiguous mixed…