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Month: October 2009

  • The multiple-race population of the United States: Issues and estimates

    The multiple-race population of the United States: Issues and estimates Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) 2000-05-23 vol. 97 no. 11 pages 6230-6235 Joshua R. Goldstein Ann J. Morning, Assistant Professor of Sociology New York University This paper presents national estimates of the population likely to identify with more than one race in…

  • A Contested Identity: An Exploration of the Competing Social and Political Discourse Concerning the Identification and Positioning of Young People of Inter-Racial Parentage

    A Contested Identity: An Exploration of the Competing Social and Political Discourse Concerning the Identification and Positioning of Young People of Inter-Racial Parentage British Journal of Social Work Volume 36, Number 8 (2006) pages 1309-1324 DOI: 10.1093/bjsw/bch390 Ravinder Barn, Professor of Social Policy and Social Work Royal Holloway, University of London Vicki Harman, Lecturer in…

  • Mixed Race Literature

    Mixed Race Literature Stanford University Press 2002 256 pages 8 illustrations Cloth Edition: ISBN-10: 0804736391; ISBN-13: 9780804736398 Paperback Edition ISBN-10: 0804736405; ISBN-13: 9780804736404 Edited by Jonathan Brennan, Professor of English Mission College, Santa Clara, California This collection presents the first scholarly attempt to map the rapidly emerging field of mixed-race literature, defined as texts written…

  • Understanding the Educational Needs of Mixed Heritage Pupils

    Understanding the Educational Needs of Mixed Heritage Pupils University of Bristol June 2004 ISBN: 1844782646 121 pages Leon Tikly, Professor in Education and Deputy Director of Research University of Bristol Chamion Caballero, Senior Research Fellow Families & Social Capital Research Group London South Bank University Jo Haynes, Lecturer in Sociology University of Bristol John Hill…

  • Mixed Race America and the Law: A Reader

    Mixed Race America and the Law: A Reader New York Univeristy Press 2003-02-01 512 pages ISBN: 9780814742570 Edited by: Kevin R. Johnson, Mabie-Apallas Professor of Public Interest Law and Chicano/a Studies University of California Davis For the first time in United States history, the Year 2000 census allowed people to check more than one box to identify…

  • Race mixing: Jones’ research has ties to political, sports figures

    Race mixing: Jones’ research has ties to political, sports figures Richmond Now The Faculty, Staff and Student Newspaper University of Richmond By Joan Tupponce April 2007 No one is more intrigued with news about presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama or professional golfer Tiger Woods than Dr. Suzanne W. Jones, professor of English and women, gender…

  • Race Mixing: Southern Fiction since the Sixties

    In “Race Mixing,” Suzanne Jones offers insightful and provocative readings of contemporary novels, the work of a wide range of writers—black and white, established and emerging.

  • The New Colored People: The Mixed-Race Movement in America

    Focusing specifically on mixed-race blacks, Spencer argues that the mixed-race movement in the United States would benefit from consideration of how multiracial categories have evolved in South Africa.

  • Race in another America: the significance of skin color in Brazil

    his is the most comprehensive and up-to-date book on the increasingly important and controversial subject of race relations in Brazil.

  • The New Race Question: How the Census Counts Multiracial Individuals

    The New Race Question: How the Census Counts Multiracial Individuals Russell Sage Foundation October 2002 391 pages Hardcover: ISBN-13: 978-0-87154-657-9, ISBN-10: 0-87154-657-4 Paperback: ISBN-13: 978-0-87154-658-6, ISBN-10: 0-87154-658-2 Edited by Joel Perlmann, Senior Scholar and Program Director Levy Economics Institute of Bard College Mary C. Waters, M.E. Zukerman Professor of Sociology Harvard University The change in…