Month: February 2011

  • What Being Biracial Means Today The New York Times The Opinion Pages 2011-02-05 Jordan Awan Re “Black? White? Asian? More Young Americans Choose All of the Above” (“Race Remixed” series, front page, Jan. 30): To the Editor: Oh, big deal! In 1947, as college students, we used to answer the race question with “human.” Each…

  • Revisioning Black/White Multiracial Families: The Single-Parent Experience American Sociological Association, Atlanta Hilton Hotel, Atlanta, Georgia 2003-08-16 18 pages, 5,006 words Rachel Sullivan In the literature on Black/White multiracial families, there is a significant group of families missing from most research. These are households that are lead by a single parent of a biracial child. While…

  • In Census, Young Americans Increasingly Diverse The New York Times 2011-02-04 Sabrina Tabernise WASHINGTON — Demographers sifting through new population counts released on Thursday by the Census Bureau say the data bring a pattern into sharper focus: Young Americans are far less white than older generations, a shift that demographers say creates a culture gap…

  • A Conceptual Model of Multiple Dimensions of Identity Journal of College Student Development Volume 41, Number 4 (July/August 2000) pages 405-414 Susan R. Jones, Associate Professor of Education Department of Counseling and Personnel Services University of Maryland, College Park Marylu K. McEwen, Professor Emeritus Department of Counseling and Personnel Services University of Maryland, College Park…

  • Parent and Child Influences on the Development of a Black-White Biracial Identity Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University 2009-10-07 286 pages Dana J. Stone Harris Dissertation submitted to the Faculty of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University In partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Human Development In this qualitative…

  • White Negritude: Race, Writing, and Brazilian Cultural Identity [Review] H-Net Reviews February 2010 Lorenzo Veracini Alexandra Isfahani-Hammond. White Negritude: Race, Writing, and Brazilian Cultural Identity. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. Cloth ISBN 978-1-4039-7595-9. Alexandra Isfahani-Hammond has published a persuasive outline and contextualization of Brazilian “Race Democracy” advocate Gilberto Freyre. In a forthcoming book, I argue…

  • Julianne Jennings: The mixed blood of Indians explained The Providence Journal Providence, Rhode Island 2009-01-30 Julianne Jennings Willmantic, Connecticut EUROPEAN EXPLORERS discovered a land inhabited by an agricultural people who grew corn, beans and squash and who had a sophisticated system of government that, some would argue, would later be adopted by the United States.…

  • Dr. Rainier Spencer to be Guest on MSNBC NewsNation with Tamron Hall NewsNation MSNBC TV Wednesday, 2011-02-02, 19:00-20:00Z (14:00-15:00 EST, 11:00-12:00 PST) (Recheduled due to a White House news conference on the situation in Egypt from 2011-01-31.) Tamron Hall, Host Rainier Spencer, Director and Professor of Afro-American Studies; Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies University of Nevada, Las Vegas…

  • Passing, Cultural Performance, and Individual Agency: Performative Reflections on Black Masculine Identity Cultural Studies↔Critical Methodologies Volume 4, Number 3 pages 377-404 DOI: 10.1177/1532708603259680 Bryant Keith Alexander, Acting Dean and Professor of Communication Studies California State University, Los Angeles This performative article uses the trope of “passing” as reference to crossing racial identity borders as well…

  • Changing Census, Changing America Southern Changes: The Journal of the Southern Regional Council Volume 22, Number 4 (2000) pages 24-26 Edward Still Every census is different from the last, but there are some big changes in store with Census 2000. Beginning in early March 2001, the Bureau will publish census data for each state to…