Month: January 2012

  • Developing identity formation and self-concept in preschool-aged biracial children Early Child Development and Care Volume 111, Issue 1, 1995 (Special Issue: Focus on Caregivers) pages 141-152 DOI: 10.1080/0300443951110110 Johnetta Wade Morrison, Professor of Human Development and Family Studies University of Missouri, Columbia Eleven mothers of biracial preschool-aged children were interviewed regarding identity formation, self-concept development,…

  • Study provides first genetic evidence of long-lived African presence within Britain University of Leicester Press Release 2007-01-24 Research reveals African origins in the UK and US New research has identified the first genetic evidence of Africans having lived amongst “indigenous” British people for centuries. Their descendants, living across the UK today, were unaware of their…

  • The decline of Jamaica’s interracial households and the fall of the planter class, 1733–1823 Atlantic Studies Volume 9, Issue 1, (January, 2012)  (Special Issue: Rethinking the Fall of the Planter Class) pages 107-123 DOI: 10.1080/14788810.2012.637002 Daniel Livesay, Assistant Professor of History Drury University, Springfield, Missouri The theory of planter decline traditionally implied that social and…

  • Racial Socialization in Cross-Racial Families Journal of Black Psychology Published Online: 2011-08-03 DOI: 10.1177/0095798411416457 Cyndy R. Snyder University of California, Berkeley The purpose of this study was to investigate how multiracial people of African descent experience racism in schools and to understand how their parents or guardians prepare them to cope with incidents of racism…

  • Don’t box us in Focus Rutgers University 2008-04-09 Ashanti M. Alvarez Prompted by Barack Obama’s presidential candidacy, The New York Times recently tackled the issue of mixed-race Americans, and did so by profiling a group of students from Rutgers. I read with interest, as I myself am mixed.   Common constructs abound in this article,…

  • African and American: The Contact of Negro and Indian Science Magazine Volume 17, Number 419 (1891-02-13) pages 85-90 DOI: 10.1126/science.ns-17.419.85 The history of the negro on the continent of America has been studied from various points of view, but id every instance with regard alone to his contact with the white race. It must be,…

  • Conversation Of The Week XXII: Mixed-Race Students and The College Experience USARiseUp 2011-04-18 Amy O’Loughlin In January, The New York Times published “Black? White? Asian? More Young Americans Choose All of the Above,” a provocative and widely circulated article about college students of mixed racial and ethnic backgrounds, as well as the rise in population…

  • Racing ahead, going nowhere Very Fine Commentary 2011-04-17 Yoong Ren Yan, Editor Are we running around in circles with our policies on race? Racism is bad. What more is there to say?” It may not have been the case just 50 years ago in the time of Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King, but in…

  • Multiple Realities: Reconsidering Multiracialism in Singapore World Scientific Publishing Summer 2012 150 pages ISBN: 978-981-270-604-1; 981-270-604-6 Eugene K. B. Tan, Assistant Professor of Law Singapore Management University, Singapore How has Singapore’s multiracialism policy evolved, and how has it impacted on ethnic relations and nation-building in a secure, yet perpetually vulnerable, Singapore? This important book addresses…

  • Identity Politics in the Public Realm: Bringing Institutions Back In University of British Columbia Press 2011-10-11 308 pages Hardcover ISBN: 9780774820813    Edited by: Avigail Eisenberg, Professor of Political Science University of Victoria Will Kymlicka, Canada Research Chair in Political Philosophy Queen’s University In an age of multiculturalism and identity politics, many minority groups seek some…