Day: August 16, 2009

  • Mixed-race individuals often encounter situations in which their identities are a source of tension, particularly when expressions of multiracial and biracial identity are not supported or allowed. Two studies examined the consequences of this identity denial.

  • Hapa is a Hawaiian term used to describe a person of mixed Asian or Pacific Islander racial/ethnic heritage. Wikipedia

  • …A major deficiency in multiracial scholarship has been the lack of historical context, together with the concomitant error of viewing mixed-race identity as an exclusively recent phenomenon… Rainier Spencer, Spurious Issues: Race and Multiracial Identity Politics in the United States, 1999-08-12

  • Racing to Theory or Retheorizing Race? Understanding the Struggle to Build a Multiracial Identity Theory Journal of Social Issues 2009 Volume 65, Number 1 pp. 13–34 Kerry Ann Rockquemore, Associate Professor University of Illinois at Chicago David L. Brunsma, Professor of Sociology Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Daniel J. Delgado University of Missouri-Columbia Empirical…