Month: March 2010

  • The Pacific Sociological Association Annual Meeting 2010 81st Annual PSA Meeting 2010-04-08 through 2010-04-11 Marriott Oakland City Center Oakland, California Theme: Revitalizing the Sociological Imagination: Individual Troubles & Social Issues in a Turbulent World Selected programs from the Preliminary Program Guide include: Friday, 2010-04-09, 12:00-13:10 PDT (Local Time) 86) Roundtables Table 3: Mixed Race & Identity:…

  • Census Chief Apologizes for ‘Negro’ Category The New York Times 2010-03-26 Kate Phillips When Robert Groves, the director of the Census Bureau, appeared on C-Span’s “Washington Journal” program Friday morning, he found himself having to defend the racial designations on the census form… Read the entire article here.

  • The Meaning of Style: Black British Style, and the underlying political and social environment New Art Exchange Nottingham, England 2010-01-16 through 2010-04-10 Monday to Friday 10:00-19:00 BT; Saturday 10:00-17:00 BT Admission:  Free Artists: Vanley Burke (Photography) Clement Cooper (Photography) [Includes a selection of prints from the DEEP Project] Michael Forbes (Photography) Gerard Hanson (Painting /…

  • Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS) The Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS) consists of fifty-nine high-precision samples of the American population drawn from fifteen federal censuses, from the American Community Surveys of 2000-2007, and from the Puerto Rican Community Surveys of 2005-2007. Some of these samples have existed for years, and others were created…

  • Assessing Shifting Racial Boundaries: Racial Classification of Biracial Asian Children in the 2000 Census Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University 2009-12-07 77 pages Sara Megan McDonough Thesis submitted to the faculty of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in Sociology. This…

  • DEEP: A Photo-Essay by Clement Cooper Clement Cooper DEEP explores the contentious issue surrounding British Mixed-Race identity through image & oral testimony. From 1992 to 1997, Clement Cooper journeyed to and lived in several port cities throughout the UK. Locations where: Toxteth, Liverpool, St Paul’s, Bristol; Butetown, Cardiff & Manchester. Using available natural light and…

  • Double Consciousness in the Work of Helen Oyeyemi and Diana Evans Women: A Cultural Review Volume 20, Issue 3 (December 2009) pages 277-286 DOI: 10.1080/09574040903285735 Pilar Cuder-Domnguez, Associate Professor University of Huelva, Spain The first novels published by Helen Oyeyemi and Diana Evans feature twins of mixed-race parentage—a Nigerian mother and an English father—growing up…

  • The Complexities of the Visible: Mexican Women’s Experiences of Racism, Mestizaje and National Identity Goldsmiths College, University of London 2006 Monica Moreno Figueroa, Lecturer in Sociology Newcastle University, United Kingdom The thesis analyses the contemporary practices of racism in relation to discourses of mestizaje in Mexico. It focuses on the qualities of women’s experiences of…

  • Mutants, mudbloods, and futureheroes: Mixed race identity in contemporary narrative The University of New Mexico May 2008 327 pages Publication Number: AAT 3318087 ISBN: 9780549676652 Felecia Rose Caton-Garcia A Dissertation Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy American Studies The University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico At…

  • “They Call It Marriage”: the Louisiana Interracial Family and the Making of American Legitimacy Book Manuscript In Progress Diana Irene Williams, Assistant Professor of History, Law and Gender Studies University of Southern California Winner of the 2008 William Nelson Cromwell Dissertation Prize in Legal History. “They Call it Marriage” examines interracial marriage between black women…