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  • Multifaceted Identity of Interethnic Young People: Chameleon Identities

    Multifaceted Identity of Interethnic Young People: Chameleon Identities Ashgate Publishing May 2010 Illustrations: Includes 24 (including 5 tables) line drawings 234 x 156 mm 224 pages Hardback ISBN: 978-0-7546-7860-1 eBook ISBN: 978-0-7546-9691-9 BL Reference: 305.8’0083-dc22   Sultana Choudhry, Principal Lecturer in Psychology and Director of Child, Adolescent and Family Mental Health London Metropolitan University, UK…

  • Uncommon Common Ground: Race and America’s Future (Revised and Updated)

    Uncommon Common Ground: Race and America’s Future (Revised and Updated) W. W. Norton & Company June 2010 288 pages 5.5 × 8.25 in Paperback ISBN 978-0-393-33685-6 by Angela Glover Blackwell Stewart Kwoh Manuel Pastor, Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity University of California, Santa Cruz With a mixed-race president, a Latino population that is now…

  • Black Female Agency and Sexual Exploitation: Quadroon Balls and Plaçage Relationships

    In 1805, a New Orleans newspaper advertisement formally defined a new social institution, the infamous Quadroon Ball, in which prostitution and plaçage–a system of concubinage–converged. These elegant balls, limited to upper-class white men and free “quadroon” women, became interracial rendezvous that provided evening entertainment and the possibility of forming sexual liaisons in exchange for financial…

  • What’s the Use of Race? Modern Governance and the Biology of Difference

    What’s the Use of Race? Modern Governance and the Biology of Difference The MIT Press May 2010 7 x 9, 296 pp., 7 illus. ISBN-10: 0-262-51424-9 ISBN-13: 978-0-262-51424-8 Edited by Ian Whitmarsh, Assistant Professor Department of Anthropology, History, and Social Medicine University of California, San Francisco David S. Jones, Associate Professor of History and Culture…

  • Mixed Chicks Chat (Second) Interview with Steve Riley, Creator of Mixed Race Studies

    Mixed Chicks Chat (Second) Interview with Steve Riley, Creator of Mixed Race Studies Mixed Chicks Chat (The only live weekly show about being racially and culturally mixed. Also, founders of the Mixed Roots Film & Literary Festival) Hosted by Fanshen Cox and Heidi W. Durrow Website: TalkShoe™ (Keywords: Mixed Chicks) Episode: #159 – Steven F. Riley…

  • The Long Journey of a Forgotten People: Métis Identities and Family Histories

    The Long Journey of a Forgotten People: Métis Identities and Family Histories Wilfrid Laurier University Press May 2007 370 pages ISBN13: 978-0-88920-523-9 Editors: Ute Lischke, Associate Professor of English and Film Studies Wilfrid Laurier University David T. McNab, Associate Professor of Indigenous Studies York University, Toronto Known as “Canada’s forgotten people,” the Métis have long…

  • Ethical Considerations in Social Work Research with Multiracial Individuals

    Ethical Considerations in Social Work Research with Multiracial Individuals Journal of Social Work Values and Ethics Volume 7, Number 1 (2010) 10 pages Kelly F. Jackson, MSW, PhD, Assistant Professor of Social Work Arizona State University Growing diversity in the U.S. has prioritized social work’s ethical obligation to develop specialized knowledge and understanding of culture…

  • Mixed-Race Women and Epistemologies of Belonging

    How is it that people know when they belong and to what they belong? This question, about the epistemology of belonging, carries a particular complexity for mixed-race women.

  • Ward Helps Biracial Youths on Journey Toward Acceptance

    Ward Helps Biracial Youths on Journey Toward Acceptance The New York Times 2009-11-09 John Branch PITTSBURGH — Steelers receiver Hines Ward surrounded himself with old friends at the dinner table on a recent Saturday night. The bond was as obvious as the look on everyone’s faces — half Korean, half something else. The shared experience…

  • Racial Identity and Self-Esteem: Problems Peculiar to Biracial Children

    Racial Identity and Self-Esteem: Problems Peculiar to Biracial Children Journal of the American Academy of Child Psychiatry Volume 24, Issue 2, (March 1985) Pages 150-153 DOI: 10.1016/S0002-7138(09)60440-4 Michael R. Lyles, M.D. Assistant Professor of Psychiatry University of Kentucky College of Medicine Antronette Yancey, M.D. University of Kentucky College of Medicine Candis Grace, M.D. University of…