Month: July 2011

  • What about These Children? Assessing Poverty Among the ‘Hidden Population’ of Multiracial Children in Single-Mother Families University of Kentucky Center for Poverty Research Discussion Paper Series: DP 2010-09 2010 ISSN: 1936-9379 48 pages Jenifer L. Bratter, Associate Professor of Sociology Rice University Sarah Damaske, Assistant Professor of Labor Studies and Employment Relations Pennsylvania State University…

  • Manufacturing citizenship: Metapragmatic framings of language competencies in media images of mixed race men in South Korea Discourse & Society Volume 22, Number 4 (July 2011) pagesw 440-457 DOI: 10.1177/0957926510395834 Adrienne Lo, Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Asian American Studies University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Jenna Kim Department of Educational Psychology University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign This…

  • Gender Differences in Ancestral Contribution and Admixture in Venezuelan Populations Human Biology Volume 83, Number 3 (June 2011) pages 345-361 E-ISSN: 1534-6617 Print ISSN: 0018-7143 D. Castro De Guerra Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas C. Figuera Perez Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas M. H. Izaguirre Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas E. Arroyo Barahona Universidad Central…

  • Multiracial Teens Launch A ‘Latte Rebellion’ Tell Me More National Public Radio 2011-07-15 Michel Martin, Host “You’re half Chinese and half European, I’m half Indian, a quarter Mexican and a quarter Irish. We’re mixed up. We’re not really one or the other ethnically. We’re like human lattes.” So explains Asha, the main character in Sarah…

  • ‘In The Blink Of An Eye,’ A Change In Racial Identity All Things Considered National Public Radio 2011-07-07 Michele Norris, Host Michael Sidney Fosberg grew up thinking he was white. His mother is white. His stepfather is white. And while he never met his biological father, the assumption was that he was white too. But…

  • Number of multiracial people grows in Oneida County The Observer-Dispatch Utica, New York 2011-07-14 Elizabeth Cooper UTICA — Nisa Duong is part Vietnamese, part black, part American Indian and part white.   But the 19-year-old Utica resident said her racial and ethnic identity isn’t at the forefront of her mind, and if it comes up,…

  • Robeson County Native Writes Book on Lumbee Indians The Pilot Southern Pines, North Carolina 2010-06-16 Kay Grismer “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.” The Native Americans who have lived along the Lumber River in Robeson County for generations may have been given names…

  • REPORTER AT LARGE about the Jackson Whites; history and origin of a primitive race living in the Ramapo Mountains. They are a mixture of three races, the white, the Negro, & the American Indians.

  • Ramapough Mountain People: “The Jackson Whites”: A Pathfinder and Annotated Bibliography 1995 Randy D. Ralph Introduction: My parents moved the family way, way out in the country, after my baby brother was born, to a little tract house in the middle of the Preakness Valley in Passaic County, New Jersey. The valley was open and…

  • Methodology and Measurement in the Study of Multiracial Americans: Identity, Classification, and Perceptions Sociology Compass Volume 5, Issue 7 (July 2011) pages 607–617 DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-9020.2011.00388.x Melissa R. Herman, Assistant Professor of Sociology Dartmouth College This article lays out some of the methodological issues in doing research on multiracial people (those whose immediate and/or distant ancestors come…