Month: October 2010

  • Colby Cosh: Obama’s family tree might have hung him from a limb National Post 2008-10-24 Colby Cosh Ever since Barack Obama won the Democratic nomination for the presidency, American political observers have been arguing endlessly over whether his race will be a net help or a hindrance to him at the polls November 4. Strangely,…

  • Inside the Color Line: Reading Biracialism in Twentieth Century American Culture State University of New York, Albany 2005 191 pages Publication ID: AAT 3181801 ISBN: 9780542221538 Habiba Ibrahim, Assistant Professor of English University of Washington A Dissertation Submitted to the University at Albany, State University of New York in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for…

  • SOCI3600 – The Multiracial Family Univeristy of North Texas Summer 2010 George Alan Yancey, Associate Professor of Sociology University of North Texas Academic study of the dynamics found in multiracial families. Important concepts in race/ethnicity studies such as assimilation, racial identity and pluralism. Other topics include passing, one-drop rule, interracial dating/marriage, bi- or multiracial identity…

  • CeCe Ridder is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Higher Education Administration at The University of Texas at Austin and is recruiting University of Texas at Austin students for a research study about Black-White Multiracial college students.  She is seeking registered students at UT Austin in the third or fourth year of study and have one parent…

  • Shades of Community and Conflict: Biracial Adults of African-American and Jewish-American Heritages The Wright Institute, Berkeley, California 1998 152 pages Publisher: Dissertation.com ISBN-10: 1581120249 ISBN-13: 9781581120240 Josyln C. Segal A dissertation submitted to the Write Institute Graduate School of Psychology in partial fulfullment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosphy in Psychology…

  • Clusters of racial identity among Black/White biracial college students: A mixed method investigation University of Michigan August 2006 197 pages Publication ID: AAT 3208292 Yvette C. Clinton A dissertation submitted in partial fulfullment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (Psychology) in the University of Michigan Historically, in the United States Black/White…

  • ‘Half-breeds,’ racial opacity, and geographies of crime: law’s search for the ‘original’ Indian Cultural Geographies Volume 17, Number 4 (October 2010) pages 487-506 DOI: 10.1177/1474474010376012 Renisa Mawani, Associate Professor of Sociology The University of British Columbia, Canada Discussions of hybridity have proliferated in cultural geography and in social and cultural theory. What has often been…

  • Grey girls: Biracial identity development and psychological adjustment among women The Wright Institute September 2008 141 pages Publication Number: AAT 3306485  Andrea Catherine Green A dissertation submitted to the Wright Institute Graduate School of Psychology, in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Psychology The purpose of this study was to…

  • Univ. changes categories for reporting race, ethnicity Diamondback Online The University of Maryland’s Independent Daily Student Newspaper 2010-10-11 Leyla Korkut Latest data expected to reflect true demographic makeup, but may reduce minority funding The university will release new demographic data this week that administrators said will more accurately convey the diversity of this university. But…

  • Builders of a Racial Bridge: Biracial College Students The Journal of Pedagogy Pluralism & Practice Lesley University, Cambridge, Massachusetts Issue 11 (Fall 2006) Atina Andrea White This study addresses issues surrounding Black/White biracial students in a multiracial student run organization at a diverse liberal arts college in Massachusetts.   The impact of the United States race…