Month: February 2011

  • Halle Berry and Nahla: Not So Mixed, Not So Happy The Huffington Post 2011-02-09 Marcia Dawkins, Visiting Scholar Brown University As we await the results of the 2010 Census it’s tempting to think that our growing comfort with categorizing people as multiracial has erased racism and the fear of interracial relations. But in a recent…

  • Where the interracials may take us Los Angeles Times 2010-09-21 Eli Steele Of all Americans, they represent the best opportunity to end identity politics and point America back to its tradition of individualism. We may be in the midst of an interracial baby boom. A recent Pew Research Center study reported that interracial marriages rose…

  • Johanna Workman to be Featured Guest on Mixed Chicks Chat Mixed Chicks Chat (The only live weekly show about being racially and culturally mixed. Also, founders of the Mixed Roots Film & Literary Festival) Hosted by Fanshen Cox and Heidi W. Durrow Website: TalkShoe™ (Keywords: Mixed Chicks) Episode: #192-Johanna Workman When: Wednesday, 2011-02-09, 22:00Z (17:00 EST,…

  • This is who I am: Defining mixed-race identity The Seattle Times 2008-09-28 Lornet Turnbull, Seattle Times staff The story of race in the U.S. is changing, and so is the way many of us identify ourselves. That’s especially true in the Seattle area, which has a higher concentration of mixed-race people than any other metro…

  • Identifications and cultural practices of mixed-heritage youth Paper presented in the eConference on “Mixedness and Mixing: New Perspectives on Mixed-Race Britons” Commission for Racial Equality 2007-09-04 through 2007-09-06 4 pages Martyn Barrett, Professor of Psychology University of Surrey David Garbin, Research Fellow Centre for Research on Nationalism, Ethnicity and Multiculturalism University of Surrey John Eade,…

  • US, MSU see increase in multiracial students The State News East Lansing, Michigan 2011-02-02 Emily Wilkins They call her “blackbean” – half black, half Mexican. It’s a nickname embraced by Lynette Davidson, a political theory and constitutional democracy and communication sophomore and one of the 710 students at MSU who identifies with two or more…

  • Biracial identity development in minority/minority individuals: A relational model Alliant International University, San Francisco Bay May 2009 383 pages Publication Number: AAT 3358398 ISBN: 9781109176018 Michelle Grady There are a growing number of biracial individuals in America, and while some studies have examined their experiences, few have focused on the experiences of biracial minority, minority…

  • Not White Enough, Not Black Enough: Racial Identity in the South African Coloured Community [Review] H-Net Reviews May 2007 Sean H. Jacobs University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Mohamed Adhikari. Not White Enough, Not Black Enough: Racial Identity in the South African Coloured Community. Africa Series. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2005. xvii + 252 pp. Paper…

  • Multiracial People of Black-White Backgrounds needed for Dissertation on the Effects of Racial Microaggressions Hello! My name is Claire Anne (“Daanee”) Touchstone, and I am a doctoral student at Loyola Marymount University, writing a dissertation on the effects of racial microaggressions on multiracial black-white university students between the ages of 18-25. While I am most…

  • California’s Multiracial Population Public Policy Institute of California California Counts: Population Trends and Profiles Volume 6, Number 1 (August 2004) 20 pages Laura E. Hill, Associate Director and Research Fellow Public Policy Institute of California Hans P. Johnson, Editor; Director of Research and Thomas C. Sutton Chair in Policy Research Public Policy Institute of California…