Day: August 15, 2010

  • 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 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 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 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 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…

  • Fadeout for a Culture That’s Neither Indian Nor British The New York Times 2010-08-14 Mian Ridge CALCUTTA — Entering the crumbling mansion of the Lawrence D’Souza Old Age Home here is a visit to a vanishing world. Breakfast tea from a cup and saucer, Agatha Christie murder mysteries and Mills & Boon romances, a weekly…