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Month: October 2009

  • Perspectives and Research on the Positive and Negative Implications of Having Multiple Racial Identities

    Perspectives and Research on the Positive and Negative Implications of Having Multiple Racial Identities Psychological Bulletin Volume 131, Number 4 (June 2005) pages 569–591 DOI: 10.1037/0033-2909.131.4.569 Margaret Shih, Professor in Management and Organizations Anderson School of Management University of California, Los Angeles Diana T. Sanchez, Associate Professor of Social Psychology Rutgers University Much attention has…

  • The Social Construction of Race: Biracial Identity and Vulnerability to Stereotypes

    The Social Construction of Race: Biracial Identity and Vulnerability to Stereotypes Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology Volume 13, Number 2 (April 2007) pages 125–133 DOI: 10.1037/1099-9809.13.2.125 Margaret Shih, Assistant Professor, Organizational Psychology University of Michigan Courtney M. Bonam Stanford University Diana T. Sanchez, Associate Professor of Psychology Rutgers University Courtney Peck Harvard University Multiracial…

  • Not So Black and White: Memory for Ambiguous Group Members

    Not So Black and White: Memory for Ambiguous Group Members Journal of Personality and Social Psychology Published by The American Psychological Association 2009, Vol. 96, No. 4 795–810 0022-3514/09 DOI: 10.1037/a0013265 Kristin Pauker Tufts University Max Weisbuch Tufts University Nalini Ambady, Professor and Neubauer Faculty Fellow Tufts University Samuel R. Sommers Tufts University Reginald B.…

  • Multiracial Faces: How Categorization Affects Memory at the Boundaries of Race

    Multiracial Faces: How Categorization Affects Memory at the Boundaries of Race Journal of Social Issues Volume 65, Number 1 (March 2009) pages 69-86 DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-4560.2008.01588.x Kristin Pauker Tufts University Nalini Ambady Tufts University Monoracial and multiracial individuals are likely to have different conceptualizations of race and subsequently different approaches toward racial ambiguity.  In particular, monoracial…

  • To Disclose or Not to Disclose Biracial Identity: The Effect of Biracial Disclosure on Perceiver Evaluations and Target Responses

    To Disclose or Not to Disclose Biracial Identity: The Effect of Biracial Disclosure on Perceiver Evaluations and Target Responses Journal of Social Issues Volume 65, Number 1 (March 2009) pages 129-149 DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-4560.2008.01591.x Diana T. Sanchez, Associate Professor of Psychology Rutgers University Courtney M. Bonam Stanford University Are biracial people perceived more negatively than their…

  • Plus ça Change? Multiraciality and the Dynamics of Race Relations in the United States

    Plus ça Change? Multiraciality and the Dynamics of Race Relations in the United States Journal of Social Issues Volume 65, Number 1 (March 2009) pages 205-219 DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-4560.2008.01595.x Frank D. Bean, Chancellor’s Professor School of Social Sciences University of California, Irvine Jennifer Lee, Associate Professor, Sociology School of Social Sciences University of California, Irvine The issue…

  • Exploring Multiracial Individuals’ Comfort with Intimate Interracial Relationships

    Exploring Multiracial Individuals’ Comfort with Intimate Interracial Relationships Journal of Social Issues Volume 65, Number 1 (2009) pp. 87–103 Courtney M. Bonam Stanford University Margaret Shih, Assistant Professor, Organizational Psychology University of Michigan This article explores the relationship between a heightened awareness of race as a social construct and comfort in interracial relationships across varying…

  • Multiracial Identity Integration: Perceptions of Conflict and Distance among Multiracial Individuals

    Multiracial Identity Integration: Perceptions of Conflict and Distance among Multiracial Individuals Journal of Social Issues Vol. 65, No. 1, 2009 pp. 51–68 Chi-Ying Cheng, Assistant Professor of Psychology Singapore Management University Fiona Lee, Professor of Psychology University of Michigan This article examines how multiracial individuals negotiate their different and sometimes conflicting racial identities. Drawing from…

  • Marriage between blacks, whites and Indians…

    …Marriage between blacks, whites and Indians was legal in Virginia for most of the 17th century. Genealogist Paul Heinegg found that 99% of all mixed children in Virginia, Maryland, Delaware and the Carolinas before 1810 came from intermarriages of free blacks with whites. Cases of white masters having children by black slaves were virtually non-existence,…

  • Melungeon Origins

    …From the 1620s, in southern British colonies like Virginia, white northern Europeans intermarried with Indians.  They also intermarried with Africans who began entering the American colonies as early as 1619.  Melungeons originate from these red, white and black peoples in this period of American history.  They began forming identifiable separate mixed communities when the first…