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Month: June 2010

  • What Does “White” Mean? Interpreting the Choice of “Race” by Mixed Race Young People in Britain

    What Does “White” Mean? Interpreting the Choice of “Race” by Mixed Race Young People in Britain Sociological Perspectives Volume 53, Number 2 (Summer 2010) Pages 287–292 DOI: 10.1525/sop.2010.53.2.287 Miri Song, Professor of Sociology University of Kent Ferhana Hashem, Research Fellow Centre for Health Services Studies University of Kent Despite the often cited idea that racial…

  • Race in an Era of Change: A Reader

    Race in an Era of Change: A Reader Oxford University Press September 2010 544 pages ISBN13: 9780199752102 ISBN10: 0199752109 Edited By: Heather Dalmage, Professor of Sociology and Director of the Mansfield Institute Roosevelt University Barbara Katz Rothman, Professor of Sociology Baruch College of the City Univerity of New York Featuring a wide range of classic…

  • Ushering children away from a “light grey world”: Dr. Daniel Hill III and his pursuit of a respectable Black Canadian community.

    Ushering children away from a “light grey world”: Dr. Daniel Hill III and his pursuit of a respectable Black Canadian community. Ontario History 2007-03-22 Daniel R. McNeil, Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies Newcastle University, United Kingdom This paper is about Dr. Daniel Hill III, the first director of the Ontario Human Rights Agency. Paying…

  • 3rd Annual Mixed Roots Film & Literary Festival

    3rd Annual Mixed Roots Film & Literary Festival 2010-06-12 through 2010-06-13 Japanese American National Museum 69 East 1st Street Los Angeles, California The 3rd Annual Mixed Roots Film & Literary Festival will take place at the Japanese American National Museum, 369 East 1st Street, June 12-13, 2010, in downtown Los Angeles. In the Obama age,…

  • Marrying Out: One-in-Seven New U.S. Marriages is Interracial or Interethnic

    Marrying Out: One-in-Seven New U.S. Marriages is Interracial or Interethnic Pew Research Center 2010-06-04 41 pages Paul Taylor, Project Director Pew Research Center Jeffrey S. Passel, Senior Demographer Pew Research Center Wendy Wang, Research Associate Pew Research Center Jocelyn Kiley, Research Associate Pew Research Center Gabriel Velasco, Research Analyst Pew Research Center Daniel Dockterman, Research…

  • Black Women See Fewer Black Men at the Altar

    Black Women See Fewer Black Men at the Altar The New York Times 2010-06-03 Sam Roberts It is a familiar lament of single African-American women: where are the “good” black men to marry? A new study shows that more and more black men are marrying women of other races. In fact, more than 1 in…

  • Exploring the Many Facets of Mixed-Race Identity

    Exploring the Many Facets of Mixed-Race Identity Renegade South: histories of unconventional southerners 2010-05-26 Victoria E. Bynum, Moderator and Emeritus Professor of History Texas State University, San Marcos In recent weeks, The Family Origins of Vernon Dahmer, Civil Rights Activist, by Yvonne Bivins and Wilmer Watts Backstrom, published December 6, 2009 on Renegade South, has…

  • An Existential Gaze at Multiracial Self-Concept: Implications for Psychotherapy

    An Existential Gaze at Multiracial Self-Concept: Implications for Psychotherapy Journal of Humanistic Psychology Volume 50, Number 3 (July 2010) DOI: 10.1177/0022167810365909 Matthew J. Taylor, Assistant Professor of Psychology University of Missouri, St. Louis John T. Nanney Department of Psychology University of Missouri, St. Louis Multiracial self-concept is conceptualized using an existential framework. First, the authors…

  • Biracial Identity and Its Relation to Self-Esteem and Depression in Mixed Black/White Biracial Individuals

    Biracial Identity and Its Relation to Self-Esteem and Depression in Mixed Black/White Biracial Individuals Journal of Ethnic And Cultural Diversity in Social Work Volume 19, Issue 2 (April 2010) pages 109 – 126 DOI: 10.1080/15313201003771783 Elizabeth M. Lusk Department of Psychology Washburn University, Topeka, Kansas Matthew J. Taylor, Assistant Professor of Psychology University of Missouri,…

  • Real Americans [Book Review]

    Real Americans [Book Review] The Virginia Quarterly Review Spring 2009 pages 206-210 Oscar Villalon What Blood Won’t Tell: A History of Race on Trial in America, by Ariela J. Gross. Harvard University Press, October 2008. As a child, there were the Americans, and then there was us. Americans weren’t that plentiful in my grandmother’s neighborhood.…