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  • Beyond Race: Human Biological Diversity (Third Edition)

    Beyond Race: Human Biological Diversity (Third Edition) Cognella 2013 Joelle Presson, Affiliate Research Assistant Professor Department of Biology University of Maryland Jan Jenner University of Alabama, Birmingham Race. It’s an idea that dominates our culture and continues to generate societal tensions. But what really are human races? Are races meaningful in a biological sense? What…

  • Black Indian With a Camera: The Work of Valena Broussard Dismukes

    Black Indian With a Camera: The Work of Valena Broussard Dismukes Southeastern Oklahoma University Native American Symposium 2005-Proceedings of the Sixth Native American Symposium pages 40-46 Sarita Cannon University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign In this paper, I examine the liberatory photography of a living African-Choctaw-French American artist, Valena Broussard Dismukes. I am especially fascinated by the…

  • The Mismeasure of Man

    The Mismeasure of Man W. W. Norton & Company June 1996 (Originally published in 1981) 448 pages 5.5 × 8.3 in Paperback ISBN: 978-0-393-31425-0 Stephen Jay Gould (1941-2002), Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology and Professor of Geology Harvard University The definitive refutation to the argument of The Bell Curve. When published in 1981, The Mismeasure…

  • Race: The History of an Idea in the West

    Race: The History of an Idea in the West Johns Hopkins University Press May 1996 464 pages Paperback (on-demand) ISBN: 9780801852237 Ivan Hannaford In Race: The History of an Idea in the West Ivan Hannaford guides readers through a dangerous engagement with an idea that so permeates Western thinking that we expect to find it,…

  • Racial Theories in Context (Second Edition)

    Racial Theories in Context (Second Edition) Cognella 2013 224 pages Paperback ISBN: 978-1-60927-056-8 Edited by: Jared Sexton, Associate Professor of African American Studies and Film & Media Studies University of California, Irvine This book presents a critical framework for understanding how and why race matters — past, present, and future. The readings trace the historical…

  • What’s Black and White and Black Or White?: The Effects of Category Assignment on the Evaluation of and Memory for Multi-raced Faces

    What’s Black and White and Black Or White?: The Effects of Category Assignment on the Evaluation of and Memory for Multi-raced Faces University of Colorado 2007 85 pages ISBN: 9780549508632 Eve C. Willadsen-Jensen A thesis submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate School of the University of Colorado in partial fulfillment of the requirement for…

  • Race and Ethnic Relations in the Twenty-First Century: History, Theory, Institutions, and Policy

    Race and Ethnic Relations in the Twenty-First Century: History, Theory, Institutions, and Policy Cognella 2011 436 pages Paperback ISBN: 978-1-93555-160-7 Edited by: Rashawn Ray, Assistant Professor of Sociology University of Maryland, College Park This book examines the major theoretical and empirical approaches regarding race/ethnicity. Its goal is to continue to place race and ethnic relations…

  • Belonging nowhere and everywhere: multiracial identity development.

    Belonging nowhere and everywhere: multiracial identity development. Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic Volume 61, Number 3 (Summer 1997) pages 368-384 K. A. Deters Few therapists are trained to work with multiracial individuals. Most have little knowledge of the process of identity development in this ever-increasing population. In this article, an examination of how the social…

  • Ambiguity and the Timecourse of Racial Perception

    Ambiguity and the Timecourse of Racial Perception Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic Volume 24, Number 5 (October 2006) pages 580-606 DOI: 10.1521/soco.2006.24.5.580 Eve C. Willadsen-Jensen University of Colorado, Boulder Tiffany A. Ito, Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience University of Colorado, Boulder Two studies examined early perceptual processing and explicit racial categorization of racially ambiguous faces.…

  • Multiracial Identity Development

    Multiracial Identity Development Arlington County Public Schools Arlington County, Virginia Clarendon Education Center 2011-11-30 28 pages/ 55 slides Ms. Eleanor Lewis, M.A., CAGS, School Psychologist Arlington Public Schools Ms. Veronica Sanjines, M.A., CAG, School Psychologist Arlington Public Schools Dr. Ricia Weiner, Ph.D., School Psychologist Arlington Public Schools Special Education Parent Resource Center: Workshop Handouts View…