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Month: March 2010

  • Mixed-ethnic girls and boys as similarly powerless and powerful: embodiment of attractiveness and grotesqueness

    Mixed-ethnic girls and boys as similarly powerless and powerful: embodiment of attractiveness and grotesqueness Discourse Studies Volume 11, Number 3 (June 2009) pages 329-352 DOI: 10.1177/1461445609102447 Laurel D. Kamada Tohoku University, Japan An ongoing study examining the discursive negotiation of ethnic and gendered embodied identities of adolescent girls in Japan with Japanese and `white’ mixed-parentage…

  • Social Work Practice and Lone White Mothers of Mixed-Parentage Children

    Social Work Practice and Lone White Mothers of Mixed-Parentage Children British Journal of Social Work Volume 40, Number 2 pages 391-406 DOI:10.1093/bjsw/bcn164 Vicki Harman, Lecturer in Social Policy and Social Work Royal Holloway, University of London This paper reports on empirical research involving focus groups with social workers in order to provide insight into their…

  • Race representation in this year’s Common Book

    Race representation in this year’s Common Book University of Washington News Laboratory Department of Communication December 2009 Kaetlyn Cordingley UW News Lab Each year, First Year Programs chooses a book as a means to bind the incoming freshman class together. This year’s book was Barack Obama’s “Dreams from My Father.” Coincidentally, on the same evening…

  • Mixed: An Anthology of Short Fiction on the Multiracial Experience

    With a roster of acclaimed fiction writers, Mixed shatters expectations of what it means to be multiracial.

  • “There’s No One as Irish as Barack O’Bama”: The Policy and Politics of American Multiracialism

    “There’s No One as Irish as Barack O’Bama”: The Policy and Politics of American Multiracialism Weatherhead Center for International Affairs Harvard University February 2010 Working Paper 68 pages Jennifer Hochschild, Henry LaBarre Jayne Professor of Government and Professor of African and African American Studies Harvard University Vesla Weaver, Assistant Professor The Woodrow Wilson Department of…

  • Multiracial no longer boxed in by the Census

    Multiracial no longer boxed in by the Census USA Today 2010-03-02 Haya El Nasser Jennifer Harvey was raised by her white mother and white stepfather in what she calls “a Caucasian world.” Harvey never met her father but she knew he was black and Cuban. That made her Hispanic, white and black. “Blacks think I’m…

  • Reimagining The ‘Tragic Mulatto’ [Interview with Author Heidi W. Durrow]

    Reimagining The ‘Tragic Mulatto’ [Interview with Author Heidi W. Durrow] All Things Considered National Public Radio 2010-03-02 Michele Norris, Host All Things Considered Like so many children of mixed marriages, the author Heidi Durrow has often felt like she’s had to straddle two worlds. She is the daughter of a black serviceman and a white Danish…

  • NPR’s All Things Considered Interview with Heidi W. Durrow

    NPR’s All Things Considered Interview with Heidi W. Durrow All Things Considered National Public Radio 2010-03-02, 21:00 to 23:00Z Heidi W. Durrow Heidi W. Durrow, author of the new Bellwether Prize winning novel, The Girl Who Fell from the Sky, is scheduled to be interviewed on National Public Radio’s All Things Considered today (Tuesday, March 2, 2010 between…

  • Lewis Explores Race During Unity Month

    Lewis Explores Race During Unity Month The Emory Wheel Volume 91, Number 22 2009-11-13 page 3 Pooja Dhruv, Staff Writer Elliott Lewis, former television news reporter and author of Fade: My Journeys in Multiracial America, discussed current American racial issues during his keynote address for Unity Month on Wednesday. According to College sophomores Yan Chen…

  • CU professor helps author come alive: New [Ralph] Ellison book on sale

    CU professor helps author come alive: New [Ralph] Ellison book on sale CU Independent University of Colorado 2010-02-07 Kaely Moore Adam Bradley, a CU associate professor of English, and John Callahan, a professor of humanities at Lewis and Clark College, have come together after author Ralph Ellison’s death to produce unpublished work. Ellison’s novel “Invisible…