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Month: February 2010

  • The relationship between binge eating and weight status on depression, anxiety, and body image among a diverse college sample: A focus on Bi/Multiracial women

    The relationship between binge eating and weight status on depression, anxiety, and body image among a diverse college sample: A focus on Bi/Multiracial women Eating Behaviors Volume 11, Issue 1, January 2010 Pages 18-24 DOI: 10.1016/j.eatbeh.2009.08.003 Valentina Ivezaj Eastern Michigan University Karen K. Saules Eastern Michigan University Flora Hoodin Eastern Michigan University Kevin Alschuler Eastern…

  • Obama gives hope to multiracial families

    Obama gives hope to multiracial families The Connecticut Record-Journal 2009-01-24 George Moore Three-year-old George Garner used to introduce himself as ‘George Barack Obama’ when his mother took him to political events. For George, an energetic boy of a mixed racial background, Barack Obama’s presidency will serve as proof that he, too, can be president, said…

  • Parallel Worlds: The Remarkable Gibbs-Hunts and the Enduring (In)significance of Melanin

    When William Henry Hunt married Ida Alexander Gibbs in the spring of 1904, their wedding was a glittering Washington social event that joined an Oberlin-educated diplomat’s daughter and a Wall Street veteran who could trace his lineage to Jamestown.

  • American Mestizo: Filipinos and Antimiscegenation Laws in California

    American Mestizo: Filipinos and Antimiscegenation Laws in California University of California, Davis Law Review Volume 33, Number 44 (2000) pages 795-835 Leti Volpp, Professor of Law University of California, Berkeley This essay interprets the legal history of efforts to prohibit intermarriage between Filipino men and white women in the state of California in the 1920s…

  • The Chinese in the Caribbean

    The history of the Caribbean is a history of migrations. The peoples of the region came as conquerors and planters, slaves and indentured laborers from all parts of the globe. Each group contributed to the social fabric, culture, and commerce of the region. The Chinese diaspora has spread Chinese people and culture around the world,…

  • Mestizaje and the Mexican Mestizo Self: No hay Sangre Negra, so there is no Blackness

    Mestizaje and the Mexican Mestizo Self: No hay Sangre Negra, so there is no Blackness Southern California Interdisciplinary Law Journal Volume 15, Number 2 (Spring 2006) Pages 199-234 Taunya Lovell Banks, Jacob A. France Professor of Equality Jurisprudence and Francis & Harriet Iglehart Research Professor of Law University of Maryland School of Law Many legal…

  • The African Presence in Mexico

    The African Presence in Mexico A Symposium Presented by Callaloo – A Journal of African Diapora Arts and Letters and The Center for Africana Studies, Johns Hopkins University 2008-10-22 through 2008-10-23 Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas Sessions The Road to Blackness: A Search for Identity Within the Afro-Mexican Community (audio, photographs) Slavery and Freedom…

  • Blood Will Tell: Scientific Racism and the Legal Prohibition Against Miscegenation

    Blood Will Tell: Scientific Racism and the Legal Prohibition Against Miscegenation Michigan Journal of Race & Law University of Michigan Law School Volume 5, Issue 2 (Spring 2000) pages 560-609 Keith Edward Sealing, Dean of Students Widener Law School, Widener University Laws banning miscegenation endured in the colonies and the United States for more than…

  • Exploring the Experiences of First-Generation, Multiethnic Undergraduate College Students

    Exploring the Experiences of First-Generation, Multiethnic Undergraduate College Students The Journal of Student Affairs Student Affairs in Higher Education Colorado State University Volume 14, 2004-2005 Jody Donovan and Lehala Johnson This qualitative research paper investigates the experiences of first-generation, multiethnic undergraduate students at two public, four-year universities in the Rocky Mountain region. The existing research…

  • Mixed Race in the Age of Obama

    Mixed Race in the Age of Obama University of Chicago Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture (CSRPC) International House, Home Room 1414 East 59th Street, Chicago, IL 2010-03-05, 09:00 to 18:00 CST (Local Time) The Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture at the University of  Chicago presents a daylong…