Mixed Race Studies

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Month: August 2010

  • “What are you?” Biracial Perceptions of Persistent Identity Questions when Bodily Appearances signify Race

    “What are you?” Biracial Perceptions of Persistent Identity Questions when Bodily Appearances signify Race Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Communication Association Sheraton New York New York, New York 2005-05-26 through 2005-05-30 23 pages Erica Butcher Ohio State University This qualitative study examines the perceptions of Biracial females persistently questioned about their…

  • Black Is, Black Ain’t: Biracials, Middle-Class Blacks, and the Meaning of “The Black Community”

    Black Is, Black Ain’t: Biracials, Middle-Class Blacks, and the Meaning of “The Black Community” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association Annual Meeting Hilton San Francisco San Francisco, California 2009-08-09 46 pages Cherise A. Harris, Assistant Professor of Sociology Connecticut College Nikki Khanna Sherwin, Assistant Professor of Sociology University of Vermont…

  • Social Comparisons, Social Networks, and Racial Identity: The Case of Black-White Biracial Americans

    Social Comparisons, Social Networks, and Racial Identity: The Case of Black-White Biracial Americans Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association Annual Meeting Hilton San Francisco San Francisco, California 2009-08-08 47 pages Nikki Khanna Sherwin, Assistant Professor of Sociology University of Vermont Cathryn Johnson, Professor of Sociology and Director of Graduate Studies…

  • Biracial Identity Theory and Research Juxtaposed with Narrative Accounts of a Biracial Individual

    Biracial Identity Theory and Research Juxtaposed with Narrative Accounts of a Biracial Individual Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal Volume 27, Number 5 (October 2010) pages 355-364 DOI: 10.1007/s10560-010-0209-6 Simon Nuttgens, Professor of Psychology Athabasca University, Alberta, Canada With the increase in mixed-racial parentage in North America comes increased scholarly activity intended to bring greater understanding…

  • Claiming a Biracial Identity: Resisting Social Constructions of Race and Culture

    Claiming a Biracial Identity: Resisting Social Constructions of Race and Culture Journal of Counseling & Development Volume 77, Number 1 (Winter 1999) pages 32-35 ISSN-0748-9633 Carmen Braun Williams, Assistant Vice President for Diversity University of Colorado System In a world where socially constructed categories of race are misconstrued as biological, the author, a light-skinned “Black,”…

  • Biracial Japanese American identity: An evolving process.

    Biracial Japanese American identity: An evolving process. Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology Volume 6, Number 2, (May 2000) pages 115-133 DOI: 10.1037/1099-9809.6.2.115 J. Fuji Collins, Assistant Vice Chancellor for Student Health & Wellness – Vice Chancellor University of California, Merced Explored the complexity of biracial identity development in Japanese Americans, focusing on how Japanese…

  • Thinking outside the (black) box: Measuring black and multiracial identification on surveys

    Thinking outside the (black) box: Measuring black and multiracial identification on surveys Social Science Research Volume 36, Issue 3, September 2007 Pages 921-944 DOI: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2006.07.001  Mary E. Campbell, Associate Professor of Sociology University of Iowa To better understand the diversity of the multiracial population, compare multiracial data to single-race data, and evaluate the rigidity of…

  • Books: Eight-Anna Girl

    Books: Eight-Anna Girl Time Magazine 1954-03-29 Bhowani Junction (394 pp.)—John Masters—Viking In days gone by, when the sun never set on the British Empire, old India hands toted the white man’s burden, and Rudyard Kipling wrote about it in some 35 volumes of prose and poetry. Now that the burden has been lifted, many an…

  • Dreaming of a colour-blind S’pore

    Dreaming of a colour-blind S’pore The Straits Sunday Times 2010-08-08 page 30 Edwina Shaddick, 22 British-Chinese Edwina Shaddick, final year politics and sociology major from SMU, has a father from Swindon, England and a mother who is Chinese Singaporean. She shares how her mixed heritage has shaped her identity. The politics and sociology major from…

  • Geographies of diaspora and mixed descent: Anglo-Indians in India and Britain

    Geographies of diaspora and mixed descent: Anglo-Indians in India and Britain International Journal of Population Geography Special Issue: Geographies of Diaspora Volume 9, Issue 4 (July/August 2003) pages 281–294 DOI: 10.1002/ijpg.287 Alison Blunt, Professor of Geography Queen Mary, University of London This paper explores geographies of diaspora for Anglo-Indians (formerly known as ‘Eurasians’) through a…