Month: November 2009

  • Interracial Families and the Racial Identification of Mixed-Race Children: Evidence from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study Social Forces Volume 84, Number 2 (December 2005) pages 1131-1157 DOI: 10.1353/sof.2006.0007 David L. Brunsma, Professor of Sociology Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University In this article, a nationally-representative sample of kindergarten-aged children is used from the Early Childhood…

  • Multiraciality Reigns Supreme? Mixed-Race Japanese Americans and the Cherry Blossom Queen Pagent Amerasia Journal 1997 Volume 23, No. 1 pp. 113-128 Rebecca Chiyoko King-O’Riain, Lecturer in Sociology National University of Ireland, Maynooth The notes of the koto echo through the hall and I am mesmerized by the vision on stage.  Beautiful Japanese women dressed in…

  • The Alchemy of Mixed Race – Review Essay The Global Review of Ethnopolitics Vol. 2, no. 3-4 March/June 2003 pages 100-106 Ayo Mansaray University of Middlesex, UK Raiding the Gene Pool: The Social Construction of Mixed Race Jill Olumide Pluto Press, 2001 pp. 224 (including: foreword, notes, bibliography, index, appendix) Rethinking “Mixed Race” Parker &…

  • 50 Experiences of Racially Mixed People Racial Experiences Questionnaire 1996 Maria P. P. Root The 50 questions or comments and experiences evolved from a questionnaire I developed for a study on biracial siblings I conducted from 1996 to 1997. These questions and comments provide an introduction to the way in which race consciousness is brought…

  • ‘Toubab La!’ Literary Representations of Mixed-Race Characters in the African Diaspora Cambridge Scholars Publishing July 2007 453 pages ISBN13: 9781847182319 ISBN: 1-84718-231-3 Ginette Curry, Professor of English Florida International University The book is an examination of mixed-race characters from writers in the United States, The French and British Caribbean islands (Martinique, Guadeloupe, St. Lucia and…

  • The Blurring of the Lines: Children and Bans on Interrracial Unions and Same-Sex Marriages Fordham Law Review May 2008 Volume 76, Number 6 pages 2733-2770 Carlos A. Ball, Professor of Law and Judge Frederick Lacey Scholar Rutgers University School of Law, Newark When Richard Loving and Mildred Jeter drove from their hometown of Central Point,…

  • Visceral Cosmopolitanism: Gender, Culture and the Normalisation of Difference Berg Publishers September 2007 224 pages, bibliog., index Paperback ISBN: 9781845202439 Hardback ISBN: 9781845202422 Ebook ISBN: 9781847883438 Mica Nava, Professor of Cultural Studies University of East London Cultural theorist Mica Nava makes an original and significant contribution to the study of cosmopolitanism by exploring everyday English…

  • Biracial and Multiracial Students: New Directions for Student Services, Number 123 Jossey-Bass an imprint of John Wiley & Sons October 2008 88 pages Paperback ISBN: 978-0-470-42219-9 Edited by Kristen A. Renn, Associate Professor of Higher, Adult, and Lifelong Education Michigan State University Paul Shang, Assistant Vice President and Dean of Students University of Oregon Editors…

  • The Libertine Colony: Creolization in the Early French Caribbean Duke University Press May 2005 408 pages 19 b&w photographs Cloth ISBN: 0-8223-3453-4, ISBN13 978-0-8223-3453-8 Paperback ISBN: 0-8223-3465-8, ISBN13 978-0-8223-3465-1 Doris Garraway, Associate Professor of French Northwestern University Presenting incisive original readings of French writing about the Caribbean from the inception of colonization in the 1640s…

  • Implications of Racial Self-Identification, Racial Ancestry, and Racial Context for Depressive Symptoms, Achievement, and Self-Esteem Among Multiracial Adolescents Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association Montreal Convention Center Montreal, Quebec, Canada 2006-08-11 32 pages Melissa Herman, Assistant Professor, Sociology Dartmouth University This paper describes the impact of racial self-identification, racial ancestry,…