Day: September 16, 2009

  • The United Colors of Family (Interview with Charmaine Wijeyesinghe) UMass Amherst, The Magazine for Alumni and Friends University of Massachusettes Summer 2007 Interviewed by Faye S. Wolfe …Tell us about your work on racial identity. For my dissertation I interviewed people who were black, white, or biracial. I came up with a model for how…

  • The Report on an Investigation into the Colour Problem in Liverpool and Other Ports or simply, The Fletcher Report of 1930 was a report sponsored by the Liverpool [England] Association for the Welfare of Half-Caste Children in December, 1927.  The report, released on 1930-06-16, was written by Muriel E. Fletcher a 1920 graduate of the University of…

  • We are, in fact, at a crucial moment in research on multiraciality.  The idea that race is socially, rather than biologically, constructed is well-accepted in academy and is gaining purchase in the larger society. Most recent research related to multiracial identity begins from the standpoint that racial categories are socially constructed and racial identity is…