Month: September 2010

  • Passing and Performance in the 21st Century: Black-White Biracial Americans and Passing as Black American Sociological Association Annual Meeting 2010 Regular Session: Multi-Racial Classification/Identity Atlanta Marriott Marquis Monday, 2010-08-16, 16:30-18:10 EDT (Local Time) 35 pages Session Organizer: Rebecca C. King-O’Riain, Senior Lecturer of Sociology, National University of Ireland-Maynooth  Presider: Carolyn A. Liebler, Assistant Professor of…

  • White Parents – Black Children: How Parents Contribute to the Development of their Biracial Child’s Identity American Sociological Association Annual Meeting Hilton San Francisco San Francisco, California 2009-08-09 20 pages Cristina Ortiz University of Chicago When a biracial child has one black and one white parent, society tends to identify the child as “black” or…

  • Persistence and Change in Asian Identity among Children of Intermarried Couples Sociological Perspectives Volume 38, Number 2 (Summer, 1995) pages 175-194 Rogelio Saenz, Professor of Sociology Texas A&M University Sean-Shong Hwang, Professor of Sociology University of Alabama, Birmingham Benigno E. Aguirre, Professor of Sociology and Criminal Justice University of Delaware Robert N. Anderson In recent…

  • Being between: can multiracial Americans form a cohesive anti-racist movement beyond identity politics and Tiger Woods chic? ColorLines: Race, Culture, Action 2003-06-22 Sasha Su-Ling Welland, Assistant Professor Anthropology & Women Studies University of Washington So much of being mixed race these days seems about having to explain, always answering “What are you?” for others and…

  • “Who Do You Think You’re Border Patrolling?”: Negotiating “Multiracial” Identities and “Interracial” Relationships Georgia State University 2008 348 pages Melinda Anne Mills A Dissertation Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the College of Arts and Sciences Georgia State University Research on racial border patrolling has demonstrated…

  • The Influence of K-12 Schooling on the Identity Development of Multiethnic Students University of British Columbia, Vancouver April 2010 Erica Mohan Thesis submitted in the partial fulfullment of the requirments for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Faculty of Graduate Studies (Educational Studies) This study examined the influence of K-12 schooling on the…

  • Equally Multiracial? A Study of Asian/Whites and Black/Whites American Sociological Association Annual Meeting Hilton Atlanta and Atlanta Marriott Marquis Atlanta, Georgia 2010-08-13 19 pages Hephzibah Strmic-Pawl University of Virginia In a study with 28 individuals with either Asian/White or Black/White descent I find that all the participants prefer some variation of a multiracial identity. However,…

  • Beyond borders: Multiracial identities in the shadow of blackness 53rd Annual Conference of the Comparative and International Education Society Francis Marion Hotel Charleston South Carolina 2009-09-24 Fileve Palmer Indiana University Within the United States and South Africa the idea of multiracial identity has often been subverted beneath a collective, more powerful Black political identity. The…

  • Panel discusses race, identity Indiana Daily Student 2009-11-06 Therese Kennelly Graduate student Fileve Palmer said though her parents always talked about their diverse backgrounds with her, she still struggled to find a way to relay her identity to others. She struggled throughout her life to retain her African-American identity, while society viewed her as Puerto…

  • Race in the Race: Mixed Race Identity and Obama’s Campaign National Communications Association 95th Annual Convention Chicago Hilton & Towers, Chicago, IL 2009-11-11 15 pages Iliana Rucker University of New Mexico During Obama’s campaign, a video was created by the Los Angeles Times consisting of interviews with individuals who identify as multiracial. Three sections within…