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  • Educational Policy, Politics, and Mixed Heritage Students in the United States

    Educational Policy, Politics, and Mixed Heritage Students in the United States Journal of Social Issues Volume 65, Number 1 (March 2009) pages 165-183 DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-4560.2008.01593.x Kristen A. Renn, Professor of Higher, Adult, & Lifelong Education Michigan State University This article describes local, state, and federal policies related to collecting, aggregating, and reporting data on student…

  • How Understanding Interracial Families Contributes to Our Understanding of Race and Family

    How Understanding Interracial Families Contributes to Our Understanding of Race and Family Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association Montreal Convention Center Montreal, Quebec, Canada 2006-08-11 22 pages Jessica Mills In family sociology, racial differences have long been viewed as a defining feature of family life. Yet, the treatment of the…

  • Assimilating Blackness?: Multiple-Race Identification and African American Mate Selection

    Assimilating Blackness?: Multiple-Race Identification and African American Mate Selection Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association Hilton San Francisco & Renaissance Parc 55 Hotel San Francisco, CA 2004-08-14 23 pages Jenifer L. Bratter, Assistant Professor of Sociology and Associate Director of the Institute for Urban Research Rice University I investigate the influence…

  • Children of Perdition: Melungeons and the Struggle of Mixed America

    Children of Perdition: Melungeons and the Struggle of Mixed America Mercer University Press 2006 192 pages ISBN (paperback): 9780881460742 ISBN (hardback): 9780881460131 Tim Hashaw Some oppressed groups fought with guns, some fought in court, some exercised civil disobedience; the Melungeons, however, fought by telling folktales. Whites and blacks gave the name “children of perdition” to…

  • MALUNGU: The African Origin of the American Melungeons

    MALUNGU: The African Origin of the American Melungeons Eclectica Magazine July/August 2001 Tim Hashaw Introduction They settled in Virginia one year before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock. They sparked a major conflict between the Engllish Crown and American colonies one hundred and fifty years before the American Revolution. They lived free in the South…

  • Race, Multirace, and Racial Heterogeneity of Friends

    Race, Multirace, and Racial Heterogeneity of Friends Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, TBA New York, New York City 2007-08-11 27 pages Bethany Hashiguchi Are biracial youth more likely to be in racially heterogeneous friendship networks than single race youth, and do they act as catalysts for decreased social distance?…

  • Determinants of Multiracial Identification and Their Effects on Poverty Estimtates among US Children

    Determinants of Multiracial Identification and Their Effects on Poverty Estimtates among US Children Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association Hilton San Francisco & Renaissance Parc 55 Hotel San Francisco, California 2004-08-14 21 pages Anthony Daniel Perez, Assistant Professor Chapel Hill Department of Sociology University of North Carolina This project examines…

  • The Multiple Race Population: Is it Increasing or Decreasing?

    The Multiple Race Population: Is it Increasing or Decreasing? Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association Montreal Convention Center Montreal, Quebec, Canada 2006-08-11 15 pages Reynolds Farley, Research Professor Emeritus Population Studies Center and Sociology Department University of Michigan A vibrant social movement developed in the 1990s, argued that many Americans…

  • Multirace.com: The Promise and Pitfalls of Multiracial Cyberspace

    Multirace.com: The Promise and Pitfalls of Multiracial Cyberspace Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association Atlanta Hilton Hotel Atlanta, Georgia 2003-08-16 27  pages Erica Childs, Assistant Professor Department of Sociology Hunter College at the City University of New York Through the Internet, multiracial individuals and families, even those who have felt…

  • Revisiting The Hollow Hope: The U.S. Supreme Court and the Repeal of Interracial Marriage Restrictions

    Revisiting The Hollow Hope: The U.S. Supreme Court and the Repeal of Interracial Marriage Restrictions Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association Atlanta Hilton Hotel Atlanta, Georgia 2003-08-13 21 pages Nancy Martin This paper outlines a research proposal for the analysis of the state-by-state repeal of interracial marriage restrictions, and particularly…