Category: Media Archive

  • Obama Should Talk About Being Biracial The Daily Beast 2013-01-20 David Kaufman The President identifies as black, but David Kaufman hopes that during his second term, he’ll also discuss his biracial heritage. Four years after he first entered the White House, there’s no longer anything surprising about calling Barack Obama—America’s first black president—a “transformational” leader.…

  • Obama Takes Oath in Quiet Ceremony The New York Times 2013-01-20 Brian Knowlton Doug Mills/The New York Times WASHINGTON — With only his family nearby, President Obama was sworn into office in the White House before noon on Sunday in advance of Monday’s public pomp, the private moment forced by a rare quirk of the…

  • Relationship between physical appearance, sense of belonging and exclusion, and racial/ethnic self-identification among multiracial Japanese European Americans Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology Volume 12, Issue 4, October 2006 pages 673-686 DOI: 10.1037/1099-9809.12.4.673 Julie M. AhnAllen, Staff Psychologist University Counselling Services Boston College Karen L. Suyemoto, Associate Professor of Psychology and Asian American Studies University…

  • On Raising Asian-Jewish Children The Jewish Daily Forward the sisterhood: where jewish women converse 2011-05-30 Renee Ghert-Zand The recent Forward article “Raising Children on Kugel and Kimchi, and as Jews” centered on a new study that found that many families in which one parent is Jewish and the other is Asian are raising their children…

  • In Second Inaugural Address, Can President Obama Reassure a Worried Public? The Daily Beast 2013-01-19 Evan Thomas These are gloomy times for an inauguration. In Newsweek, Evan Thomas asks: On Monday, can the president rise to the occasion with a historically inspiring message? The last Inauguration Day, Jan. 20, 2009, dawned bright and cold. More…

  • Canada’s First Nations: Time we stopped meeting like this The Economist 2013-01-19 Protests by native peoples pose awkward questions for their leaders, and for Stephen Harper’s government Back in the 18th century British and French settlers in what is now Canada secured peace with the indigenous inhabitants by negotiating treaties under which the locals agreed…

  • An Examination of Biracial College Youths’ Family Ethnic Socialization, Ethnic Identity, and Adjustment: Do Self-Identification Labels and University Context Matter? Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology 2012-08-20 DOI: 10.1037/a0029438 Aerika S. Brittian, Assistant Professor of Educational Psychology University of Illinois, Chicago Adriana J. Umaña-Taylor, Professor School of Social and Family Dynamics Arizona State University Chelsea…

  • Mixed Asian Americans and Health: Navigating Uncharted Waters Chapter in: Handbook of Asian American Health Springer 2013 pages 129-134 Print ISBN: 978-1-4614-2226-6 eBook ISBN: 978-1-4614-2227-3 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-2227-3 Edited by: Grace J. Yoo San Francisco State University   Mai-Nhung Le San Francisco State University Alan Y. Oda Azusa Pacific University, Azusa, California Chapter Author: Cathy J.…

  • Inauguration will cement ties between Obama, Martin Luther King Jr. The Washington Post 2013-01-15 Wil Haygood, Reporter President Barack Obama, with the nation and world watching, will share his Inauguration Day spotlight with a Baptist preacher from Georgia who launched a moral crusade six decades ago to wrest America from its brutal Jim Crow laws.…

  • You Don’t Know Me: Picture Books to Make Biracial and Multiracial Children Comfortable with Dual Identities Multicultural Review Volume 18, Issue 4 (Winter 2009) pages 20-24 Kena Sosa Next year, in 2010, our country will be due for round two of the census containing an option for biracial or multiracial people. This feature debuted in…