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Month: October 2009

  • Interracialism: Black-White Intermarriage in American History, Literature, and Law

    Interracialism, or marriage between members of different races, has formed, torn apart, defined and divided our nation since its earliest history. This collection explores the primary texts of interracialism as a means of addressing core issues in our racial identity.

  • “I’m Black an’ I’m Proud”: Ruth Negga, Breakfast on Pluto, and Invisible Irelands

    “I’m Black an’ I’m Proud”: Ruth Negga, Breakfast on Pluto, and Invisible Irelands Invisible Culture: An Electronic Journal for Visible Culture Issue number 13 (Spring 2009): After Post-Colonialism University of Rochester, New York Charlotte McIvor, Lecturer in Drama National University Ireland, Galway This article examines Ethiopian-Irish actress Ruth Negga‘s performance in Neil Jordan’s 2005 Breakfast…

  • Mixed race, mixed racism and mental health

    Mixed race, mixed racism and mental health (Sponsored by the National Mental Health Development Unit) Thursday, 2009-10-29, The Kings Fund, Central London People in Harmony is offering a rare opportunity to hear from a range of experts about the impact of mental health on young people and families of mixed race. The keynote speakers will…

  • Friendship choices of multiracial adolescents: Racial homophily, blending, or amalgamation?

    Friendship choices of multiracial adolescents: Racial homophily, blending, or amalgamation? Social Science Research 2007 Number 36 pages 633-653 Jamie Mihoko Doyle Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology University of Pennsylvania Grace Kao, Professor of Sociology, Education, and Asian American Studies University of Pennsylvania Using the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health), we utilize the…

  • Are Racial Identities of Multiracials Stable? Changing Self-Identification Among Single and Multiple Race Individuals

    Are Racial Identities of Multiracials Stable? Changing Self-Identification Among Single and Multiple Race Individuals Social Psychology Quarterly Volume 70, Number 4 (December 2007) Pages 405–423 DOI: 10.1177/019027250707000409 Jamie Mihoko Doyle Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology University of Pennsylvania Grace Kao, Professor of Sociology, Education, and Asian American Studies University of Pennsylvania Using the National Longitudinal…

  • The Sociological Significance of President Barack Obama

    The Sociological Significance of President Barack Obama The American Sociological Association Mini-Symposium San Francisco, California 2009-08-08 through 2009-08-09 The historic campaign and election of Barack Obama constitutes a compelling and timely context for examining the program theme. In response, the 2009 ASA Program Committee and ASA President Patricia Hill Collins have organized a mini-symposium, a…

  • Racial Thinking in the United States: Uncompleted Independence

    Racial Thinking in the United States: Uncompleted Independence University of Notre Dame Press 2004 376 pages Cloth ISBN 10: 0-268-04103-2 Cloth ISBN 13: 978-0-268-04103-8 Paper ISBN 10: 0-268-04104-0 Paper ISBN 13: 978-0-268-04104-5 Edited by: Paul Spickard, Professor of 20th Century U.S. Social and Cultural History University of California, Santa Barbara G. Reginald Daniel, Professor of…

  • Mix-d: uk (Photography Exhibition)

    Mix-d: uk (Photography Exhibition) New Walk Museum & Art Gallery 2009-10-17 through 2009-12-31 Opening Times: Monday – Friday: 10:00 – 19:00 Saturday: 10:00 – 17:00 Sunday: 11:00 – 17:00 Closed: 24th, 25th, 26th, 31st December. Address: 53 New Walk Leicester LE1 7EA   Telephone: +44 (0)116 225 4900 Email: museums@leicester.gov.uk Looking at mixed-race identities on…

  • Raiding The Gene Pool: The Social Construction of Mixed Race

    Raiding The Gene Pool: The Social Construction of Mixed Race Pluto Press an imprint of MacMillan Publishing February 2002 ISBN: 978-0-7453-1764-9 ISBN10: 0-7453-1764-2 5.5 x 8.25 inches 224 pages Jill Olumide, Researcher Swansea University, School of Health Science High profile ‘mixed race’ stars like Tiger Woods have brought the politics of identity into the mainstream.…

  • Mixed-Race, Post-Race: Gender, New Ethnicities and Cultural Practices

    Focusing on mixed-race and inter-ethnic families, this book not only explores current understandings of ‘race’, but it shows, using innovative research techniques with children, how we come to read race.