Month: January 2011

  • The Law of the Census: How to Count, What to Count, Whom to Count, and Where to Count Them Cardozo Law Review Volume 32, Number 3 (2011) pages 756-791 Nathaniel Persily, Charles Keller Beekman Professor of Law and Professor of Political Science Columbia Law School The 2010 Census, like its predecessors, represented a momentous logistical…

  • Review of Spencer, Jon Michael, The New Colored People: The Mixed-Race Movement in America H-Net Reviews January 1998 Richard L. Hughes The Census, Race, and… Amid a racial climate which includes a presidential advisory board on race and a discussion of slavery within the popular media, there lies an increasingly prominent dialogue on race in…

  • Mixed emotions: The multiracial student experience at UC Berkeley UC Berkeley News University of California, Berkeley 2005-03-07 Bonnie Azab Powell, NewsCenter BERKELEY – “What are you?” That’s the question Robert Allen, adjunct professor of African American Studies and Ethnic Studies at UC Berkeley, writes on the chalkboard when students first file in for his “People…

  • Student director tackles ‘mixed race’ issues Daily Titan California State University, Fullerton 2009-05-17 Sean Belk From hapa to mestizo to mulatto, ‘Half ‘n’ Half’ acts out stories and history of miscegenation. Bright colorful faces peered through shadows of the low-lit set. The multi-cultural group of student actors then formed a circle, surrounding an infant, and…

  • Mixed race, mixed emotions The Arizona Republic 2005-05-13 Janie Magruder Multiracial children face challenges of identity, community Aaron Foster was 3 years old the first time the question came. “What are you?” asked the barber, out of earshot of his mother. “I’m a boy,” Aaron replied, bewildered. “No, what are you? Black? Chinese?” “I do…

  • Transgressing Boundaries: A History of the Mixed Descent Families of Maitapapa, Taieri, 1830-1940 University of Canterbury, New Zealand 2004 393 pages Angela Wanhalla, Lecturer in History University of Otago, New Zealand A thesis submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in History at the University of Canterbury This thesis…

  • What Racial Hybridity? Sexual Politics of Mixed-Race Identities in the Caribbean and the Performance of Blackness Lucayos The School of English Studies of The College of The Bahamas’ Journal of Caribbean and Postcolonial Criticism and Creative Work Volume 1 (2008) pages 90-105 Papers from the 26th West Indian Literature Conference, March 8-10, 2007 Angelique V.…

  • Evidence for hypodescent and racial hierarchy in the categorization and perception of biracial individuals. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology Published online: 2010-11-22 DOI: 10.1037/a0021562 Arnold K. Ho Department of Psychology Harvard University Jim Sidanius, Professor of Psychology and African and African American Studies Harvard University Daniel T. Levin, Professor of Psychology and Director of…

  • Changing Family Structures in America [Project Description] US 2010: Discover America in a New Century 2010 Zhenchao Qian, Professor of Sociology Ohio State University The US 2010 research project examines changes in American societ in the recent past.  Directed by sociologist John Logan, US 2010 is funded by the Russell Sage Foundation and Brown University. Qian…

  • Congenital dermoid cyst of the anterior fontanel in mestizo-mulatto children Child’s Nervous System Volume 17, Number 6 (2001) pages 353-355 DOI: 10.1007/s003810000419 Sonia Fermín Section of Neurosurgery Hospital Infancy Dr. R. Reid C, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic R. Fernández-Guerra Section of Neurosurgery Hospital Infancy Dr. R. Reid C, Santo Domingo,  Dominican Republic O. López-Camacho Section…