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  • From Black to Biracial: Transforming Racial Identity Among Americans

    From Black to Biracial: Transforming Racial Identity Among Americans Praeger Publishers an imprint of Greenwood Publishing Group 1998 160 pages Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 Paperback ISBN: 0-275-96744-1; ISBN-13: 978-0-275-96744-4 Kathleen Odell Korgen, Professor of Sociology William Paterson University, Wayne, New Jersey Is a person with both a white and African American parent…

  • Claiming Place: Biracial Young Adults of the Post-Civil Rights Era

    Claiming Place: Biracial Young Adults of the Post-Civil Rights Era Praeger 2000-11-30 208 pages Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-89789-760-0 Ebook ISBN: 978-0-313-06507-1 Marion Kilson, Dean of the Graduate School Salem State College, Massachusetts Born in the 1960s, the middle-class Biracial Americans of this study are part of a transitional cohort…

  • Light, Bright, and Damned Near White: Biracial and Triracial Culture in America

    Light, Bright, and Damned Near White: Biracial and Triracial Culture in America Praeger Publishers an imprint of Greenwood Publishing Group 2009-03-20 168 pages Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 Hardcover ISBN: 0-275-98954-2; ISBN-13: 978-0-275-98954-5 Stephanie Rose Bird The election of America’s first biracial president brings the question dramatically to the fore. What does it…

  • Relative/Outsider: The Art and Politics of Identity Among Mixed Heritage Students

    Relative/Outsider: The Art and Politics of Identity Among Mixed Heritage Students Praeger Publishers 2001-05-30 200 pages Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 Paperback ISBN: 978-1-56750-551-1 Hardback ISBN: 978-1-56750-550-4 e-Book ISBN: 978-0-313-07598-8 DOI: 10.1336/1567505511 Kendra R. Wallace, Assistant Professor of Education University of Maryland, Baltimore The author explores the ethnic and racial identity formation among…

  • Who Is Black? One Nation’s Definition

    Who Is Black? One Nation’s Definition Penn State Press 2001 (Originally published in 1992) 232 pages 6 x 9 ISBN 978-0-271-02172-0 F. James Davis, Professor Emeritus of Sociology Illinois State University Winner of the 1992 Outstanding Book on the Subject of Human Rights from the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Human Rights in…

  • Notes of a White Black Woman: Race, Color, Community

    Notes of a White Black Woman: Race, Color, Community Penn State Press 1995 206 pages 6 x 9 cloth: ISBN 978-0-271-01430-2 paper: ISBN 978-0-271-02124-9 Judy Scales-Trent, Floyd H. & Hilda L. Hurst Faculty Scholar, Professor Emerita State Univerisity of New York at Buffalo Law School “I remember one time in particular, after the cab I…

  • The Social Construction of Race and Ethnicity in the United States (2nd Edition)

    The Social Construction of Race and Ethnicity in the United States (2nd Edition) Prentice Hall 2001 525 pages Paperback ISBN-10: 0130283231; ISBN-13:  9780130283238 Edited By: Joan Ferrante Northern Kentucky University Prince Brown, Jr. Northern Kentucky University For undergraduate courses in race and ethnic relations. This groundbreaking collection of classic and cutting edge sociological research gives…

  • Meeting the Needs of Multiethnic and Multiracial Children in Schools

    Meeting the Needs of Multiethnic and Multiracial Children in Schools Merrill an imprint of Pearson 2003-10-23 256 pages ISBN-10: 0205376088 ISBN-13:  9780205376087 Francis Wardle Red Rocks Community College, Colorado Maria I. Cruz-Janzen, Associate Professor of Multicultural Education Florida Atlantic University From one of the premiere experts on the subject comes this “crash course” for teachers…

  • Why Are People Different?: Multiracial Families in Picture Books and the Dialogue of Difference

    Why Are People Different?: Multiracial Families in Picture Books and the Dialogue of Difference The Lion and the Unicorn Volume 25, Number 3, September 2001 pages 412-426 E-ISSN: 1080-6563 Print ISSN: 0147-2593 DOI: 10.1353/uni.2001.0037 Karen Sands-O’Connor The issue of race has often been contentious in children’s literature, from controversies over Twain‘s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,…

  • Multiracial Classification on the United States Census: Myth, Reality, and Future Impact

    Multiracial Classification on the United States Census: Myth, Reality, and Future Impact Revue Européenne des Migrations Internationales Volume 21, Number 2 (2005) Pages 111-134 Ann Morning, Associate Professor of Sociology New York University The 2000 census in the United States provoked a flurry of media attention in the months leading up to it, as well…