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Month: April 2010

  • Near Black: White-to-Black Passing in American Culture

    In the United States, the notion of racial “passing” is usually associated with blacks and other minorities who seek to present themselves as part of the white majority. Yet as Baz Dreisinger demonstrates in this fascinating study, another form of this phenomenon also occurs, if less frequently, in American culture: cases in which legally white…

  • Questions for Benjamin Todd Jealous: Race Matters

    Questions for Benjamin Todd Jealous: Race Matters The New York Times 2009-07-30 Deborah Solomon As the new head of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, can you tell us how your organization plans to respond to the case of Henry Louis Gates Jr., the Harvard professor who was recently arrested for disorderly…

  • Obama Census Choice: African-American

    Obama Census Choice: African-American The Huffington Post 2010-04-02 Mark S. Smith WASHINGTON — He may be the world’s foremost mixed-race leader, but when it came to the official government head count, President Barack Obama gave only one answer to the question about his ethnic background: African-American. The White House confirmed on Friday that Obama did…

  • Who are the ‘Mixed’ ethnic group?

    Who are the ‘Mixed’ ethnic group? Office for National Statistics [United Kingdom] May 2006 Ben Bradford Introduction The last fifty years have seen the emergence of some new, predominantly British-born, ethnic minorities. These are the children of inter-ethnic partnerships, primarily partnerships between people from the White British group and people from ethnic minority groups. They…

  • Measurement Uncertainty in Racial and Ethnic Identification Among Adolescents of Mixed Ancestry: A Latent Variable Approach

    Measurement Uncertainty in Racial and Ethnic Identification Among Adolescents of Mixed Ancestry: A Latent Variable Approach Structural Equation Modeling: A Multidisciplinary Journal Volume 17, Issue 1 (January 2010) pages 110 – 133 DOI: 10.1080/10705510903439094 Allison J. Tracy Wellesley Centers for Women Sumru Erkut Wellesley Centers for Women Michelle V. Porche Wellesley Centers for Women Jo…

  • “… But … But I am Brown.” The Ascribed Categories of Identity: Children and Young People of Mixed Parentage

    “… But … But I am Brown.” The Ascribed Categories of Identity: Children and Young People of Mixed Parentage Child Care in Practice Volume 13, Issue 2 (April 2007) pages 83 – 94 DOI: 10.1080/13575270701201169 Annabel Goodyer, Principal Lecturer in Social Work London South Bank University Toyin Okitikpi This paper explores the concept of the…

  • Who Counts & Who’s Counting? 38th Annual Conference National Association for Ethnic Studies Conference

    Who Counts & Who’s Counting? 38th Annual Conference National Association for Ethnic Studies Conference National Association for Ethnic Studies, Inc. 2010-04-08 through 2010-04-10 L’Enfant Plaza Hotel Washington, D.C. Dr. Larry Shinagawa, NAES 2010 Conference Chair Our theme of “Who Counts and Who’s Counting” signals the importance of Washington, D.C. as a physical, cultural, and social…

  • 3 Questions: Melissa Nobles on the U.S. Census

    3 Questions: Melissa Nobles on the U.S. Census MIT News Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2010-04-01 Melissa Nobles, Arthur and Ruth Sloan Professor of Political Science Massachusetts Institute of Technology As America’s decennial headcount gets under way, an MIT political scientist discusses the history of race and ethnicity in the U.S. Census April 1 marks National…

  • Biracial Identity Development and Recommendations in Therapy

    Biracial Identity Development and Recommendations in Therapy Psychiatry (Edgemont) Volume 5, Number 11 (November 2008) pages 37-44 Raushanah Hud-Aleem, DO Department of Psychiatry Boonshoft School of Medicine, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio Jacqueline Countryman, MD, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry Department of Psychiatry Boonshoft School of Medicine, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio Identity development is an…

  • Biracial residents boxed in on U.S. census

    Biracial residents boxed in on U.S. census MSNBC 2010-03-31 Mara Schiavocampo, Digital Correspondent NBC Nightly News We’ve asked viewers to tell us how their community has changed since the last census. One viewer from outside Olympia, Washingtonwrote in to tell the story of how diverse her community has become. NBC’s Mara Schiavocampo reports.