Month: September 2009

  • “What Are You?” Biracial Children in the Classroom Childhood Education Volume 84, Number 4 Summer 2008 pp.230-233 Association for Childhood Education International Traci P. Baxley, Assistant Professor College of Education Florida Atlantic University Over the last 30 years, biracial individuals have become one of the fastest growing populations in the United States. Despite this rapid…

  • In entering into the twenty-first century, one might affirm that the face of Chinese America has changed or has it? Chineseness has been constantly conceptualized through the measure of phenotype, the quantity of blood, the preservation of language, or the possession of surname.  But what happens when African American bodies and other nonwhite cultural sites…

  • Black/White Biracial Identity: The Influence of Colorblindness and the Racialization of Poor Black Americans Theory in Action Volume 2, Number 1 (January 2009) DOI: 10.3798/tia.1937-0237.08027 Kathleen Odell Korgen, Professor of Sociology William Paterson University, Wayne, New Jersey This article focuses on the influence of colorblindness, the interaction of class and culture, and the racialization of…

  • Signs of Race in Poststructuralism: Toward a Transformative Theory of Race University Press of America, Inc. March 2009 176 pages 6 1/2 x 9 1/2 Hardback ISBN: 978-0-7618-4505-8 Paperback ISBN: 978-0-7618-4506-5 Robert Young, Associate Professor of English University of Alabama This book presents a class-based analysis of poststructuralism and race.  The author positions this fundamental…

  • The friendship networks of multiracial adolescents Social Science Research Volume 38, Issue 2, June 2009 pages 279-295 DOI: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2008.09.002 Lincoln Quillian, Associate Professor Department of Sociology Northwestern University Rozlyn Redd Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy Columbia University, USA We investigate the friendship networks of multiracial adolescents through a comparison of the size…

  • Juggling Multiple Racial Identities: Malleable Racial Identification and Psychological Well-Being Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology Volume 15, Issue 3, July 2009 pages 243-254 DOI: 10.1037/a0014373 Diana T. Sanchez, Associate Professor of Psychology Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey Margaret Shih, Professor in Management and Organizations Anderson School of Management University of California, Los…

  • Mixed Race Peoples in the Korean National Imaginary and Family Korean Studies Volume 32 (2008) pages 56-85 DOI: 10.1353/ks.0.0010 E-ISSN: 1529-1529; Print ISSN: 0145-840X Mary Lee, Director Pacific Policy Research Center, Honolulu, Hawaii This article discusses the production of “mixed-race” subjectivity in South Korea.  It asks: how can we understand the lived experiences and histories of…

  • Driven: Branding Derek Jeter, Redefining Race NINE: A Journal of Baseball History and Culture Volume 17, Number 2, Spring 2009 pages  70-79 E-ISSN: 1534-1844 Print ISSN: 1188-9330 DOI: 10.1353/nin.0.0041 Roberta Newman Promoting the opening of the Museum of the City of New York’s exhibit, “The Glory Days: New York Baseball, 1947-1957,” curator Ann Meyerson noted…

  • In a book-length lyric narrative inspired by history and imagination, a much celebrated poet re-creates the life of a nineteenth-century virtuoso violinist.

  • Representations of the Black Body in Mexican Visual Art: Evidence of an African Historical Presence or a Cultural Myth? Journal of Black Studies Volume 39, Number 5 (May 2009) pages 761-785 DOI: 10.1177/0021934707301474 Wendy E. Phillips, Photographer Atlanta, GA Although Africans have been present in Mexico since the time of the Afro-Atlantic slave trade, the…