Month: August 2010

  • Experiences and Processes Affecting Racial Identity Development: Preliminary Results From the Biracial Sibling Project Cultural Diversity & Ethnic Minority Psychology (formerly Cultural Diversity and Mental Health) Volume 4, Number 3 (August 1998) pages 237-247 DOI: 10.1037/1099-9809.4.3.237 Maria P. P. Root Examined what drives the process of racial identity development in general for persons of mixed…

  • Mixed Race/Mixed Space in Media Culture & Militarized Zones Thursday Afternoon Forum Series University of California, Berkeley 691 Barrows Hall 2010-10-07, 16:00 to 17:30 PDT (Local Time) A Critical Race Theory Approach to Understanding Cinematic Representations of the Mixed Race Experience Kevin Escudero, Ethnic Studies This presentation focuses on the developmental trajectory of the portrayal…

  • VIS409 Mixed Race Women’s Memoirs Antioch University Midwest Winter 2010 This course is designed as a multidisciplinary exploration of race, gender, and identity utilizing oral and written narratives of Black-white mixed race women from the mid-nineteenth century to the present as source material. Drawing from elements of cultural studies, African American studies, American studies, and…

  • White like who? The value of whiteness in British interracial families Ethnicities Volume 10, Number 3 (September 2010) pages 292-312 DOI: 10.1177/1468796810372306 France Winddance Twine, Professor of Sociology University of California, Santa Barbara The value of whiteness is not fixed, rather it has contradictory and competing meanings among members of Black British interracial families. Drawing upon…

  • Distributed intensities: Whiteness, mestizaje and the logics of Mexican racism Ethnicities Volume 10, Number 3, September 2010 pages 387-401 DOI: 10.1177/1468796810372305 Mónica G. Moreno Figueroa, Lecturer in Sociology Newcastle University By analysing racist moments, this article engages with debates about the existence of racism in Mexico and how whiteness, as an expression of such racism,…

  • An Illuminated Life: Belle da Costa Greene’s Journey from Prejudice to Privilege (review) Libraries & the Cultural Record Volume 45, Number 3, 2010 E-ISSN: 1932-9555 Print ISSN: 1932-4855 pages 375-377 Nena Couch, Curator and Professor of Theater Ohio State University The life of the librarian seldom is acknowledged beyond the confines of the community in…

  • Trading Races: Joseph and Marie Bunel, a Diplomat and a Merchant in Revolutionary Saint-Domingue and Philadelphia Journal of the Early Republic Volume 30, Number 3, Fall 2010 pages 351-376 E-ISSN: 1553-0620 Print ISSN: 0275-1275 Philippe R. Girard, Associate Professor of History McNeese State University, Lake Charles, Louisiana Based on extensive research in French, British, and…

  • Bicultural Identity Formation of Second-Generation Indo-Canadians Canadian Ethnic Studies Volume 40, Number 2, 2008 pages 187-199 E-ISSN: 1913-8253 Print ISSN: 0008-3496 Pavna Sodhi, Ed.D, CCC Abundant Living Counselling Group, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada This article examines the bicultural identity formation and cultural experiences internalized by second-generation Indo-Canadians in their efforts to accommodate the “best of both…

  • Sandweiss unearths a compelling tale of secret racial identity News at Princeton Princeton University 2009-12-17 Jennifer Greenstein Altmann For three decades, history professor Martha Sandweiss had wondered about a little-noticed detail in the life of Clarence King, a well-known figure in the history of the American West. King, a 19th-century geologist and author, was a…

  • The Effect of Interracial Media Portrayals on Perceptions of Multiracialism XULAneXUS: Xavier University of Louisiana’s Undergraduate Research Journal Research Manuscript Volume 5, Number 1, April 2008 9 pages Ashley E. Winston Department of Psychology The notion that context has an effect on perceptions of multiracialism was investigated. Context was manipulated in terms of exposure to…