Month: August 2010

  • Biracial Utahns seeking identity Deseret News Salt Lake City, Utah 2005-03-12 Elaine Jarvik They’re biracial — equally Polynesian and white. But most prefer to think of themselves as Polynesian, says University of Utah graduate student Kawika Allen, who recently studied 84 Polynesian-Caucasian Utahns. Allen, who grew up with an Hawaiian mother and a Caucasian father,…

  • Afro-German Biracial Identity Development Virginia Commonwealth University May 2010 75 pages Rebecca R. Hubbard A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science at Virginia Commonwealth University An increase in the biracial population has heightened our awareness of unique issues that pervade the experience of these individuals. The…

  • This article analyzes race-targeted policy in Brazil as both a political stake and a powerful instrument in an unfolding classificatory struggle over the definition of racial boundaries.

  • Birdie and Cole are the daughters of a black father and a white mother, intellectuals and activists in the Civil Rights Movement in 1970’s Boston. The sisters are so close that they have created a private language, yet to the outside world they can’t be sisters: Birdie appears to be white, while Cole is dark…

  • American novelist & memoirist Danzy Senna to speak at University of Richmond English Department 2010-2011 Writers’ Series University of Richmond Richmond, Virginia Brown-Alley Room, Weinstein Hall Wednesday, 2011-03-16 19:00 EST (Local Time) Danzy Senna is the author of two novels and a memoir that focus on issues of race, gender and cultural identity. Her debut…

  • Werner Sollors to speak at University of Richmond English Department 2010-2011 Writers’ Series University of Richmond Westhampton Living Room, Westhampton Center Richmond, Virginia 2010-09-30 16:30 EDT (Local Time) Werner Sollors, Henry B. and Anne M. Cabot Professor of English Literature and Afro American Studies; Director of the History of American Civilization Program Harvard University Werner…

  • The Race Construct and Public Opinion: Understanding Brazilian Beliefs about Racial Inequality and Their Determinants The American Journal of Sociology Volume 108, Number 2 (September 2002) pages 406–39 Stanley R. Bailey, Associate Professor of Sociology University of California, Irvine Researchers hold that the racial democracy ideology fosters a rejection of discrimination-based explanations for racial inequality,…

  • Looking in the Cultural Mirror: How understanding race and culture helps us answer the question: “Who am I?” Psychology Today 2010-07-06 Jefferson M. Fish, Ph.D. The Census and Race—Part I–Key Issues: What can science tell us about the census’s race questions? (2010-07-06) The 2010 Census is well on its way to completion. Its controversial questions…

  • President Obama checks the “Black” box Evidently it’s official: Barack Obama is the nation’s first black president. Psychology Today 2010-04-04 Samantha Smithstein, Psy.D., Clinical and Forensic Psychologist and Co-Founder Pathways Institute for Impulse Control, San Francisco This week, the New York Times reported that “It is official: Barack Obama is the nation’s first black president.”…

  • When the Options Are Open: Racial Identification of Part-American Indian Children in Census 2000  Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association Atlanta Hilton Hotel Atlanta, Georgia 2003-08-16 23 pages Carolyn A. Liebler, Assistant Professor of Sociology University of Minnesota I will use data on part-American Indian children in the 2000 Census 1…