Month: February 2015

  • The writer is White. Her husband is Black. And there are many people who feel entitled to accost the couple with unsolicited opinions about their biracial son.

  • Waking from Mixed Dreams Mixed Dreams: towards a radical multiracial/ethnic movement 2015-02-26 Nicole Asong Nfonoyim-Hara Let me begin, if I may, by introducing this rather belated post with the powerful words of some scholars, poets, writers, and activists to set our scene: “American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than…

  • Beautiful Aliens. Mixed Humans ~ Reflections on occupying a space of inbetweenness. Persistently grappling with identity. 2015-01-26 Natalie Armitage “What beautiful daughters you have!” It happens a lot. It is a compliment, of course it is. I have green eyes, that are pretty big, and light brown skin. My sister, has the richest auburn hair,…

  • 394. Paper Session: New Issues in Race and Identity Crossing Borders: 2015 Annual Meeting Eastern Sociological Society Millennium Broadway Hotel New York, New York 2015-02-26 through 2015-03-01 Sunday, 2015-03-01, 10:15-11:45 EST (Local Time) Presider: Vilna Bashi Treitler, Baruch College, City University of New York Blacks, Latinos, Jews and Foreigners are Taking Over: How Innumeracy About…

  • Poster Session C: C117: WHAT I REALLY THINK ABOUT MY BIRACIAL DAUGHTER! SOCIALIZATION IN BLENDED MULTIRACIAL FAMILIES The Society for Personality and Social Psychology 16th Annual Convention Long Beach Convention & Entertainment Center Long Beach, California 2015-02-26 through 2015-02-28 Friday, 2015-02-27, 12:30-14:00 PST (Local Time) Hall B Yolanda Mitchell University of Nebraska, Lincoln Roudi N.…

  • Baby Gammy and the Sexual Politics of Mixed Race Asians Multiracial Asian Families: thinking about race, families, children, and the intersection of mixed ID/Asian 2015-02-25 Sharon H. Chang A couple years ago young Thai mother Pattaramon Chanbua agreed to be a surrogate for Australian couple David and Wendy Farnell. It was a disaster. Last week…

  • Don’t Erase My Race: 4 Affirmations to Remember When Reclaiming Your Multi-Racial Identity Everyday Feminism 2015-02-24 Aliya Khan, Contributing Writer Source: “Navigating Two Different Cultures: A Pakistani Immigrant Girl’s Struggles,” The Brooklyn Ink, (May 16, 2013). I was walking across campus, on my way to class, when a white man stopped me and asked, “Are…

  • Pigmentocracies: Educational Inequality, Skin Color and Census Ethnoracial Identification in Eight Latin American Countries Research in Social Stratification and Mobility Available online: 2015-02-25 DOI: 10.1016/j.rssm.2015.02.002 Edward Telles, Professor of Sociology Princeton University René Flores University of Washington Fernando Urrea Giraldo, Professor of Sociology Universidad del Valle, Cali, Colombia Highlights We use two measures of race…

  • Our rising white-black multiracial population The Avenue / Rethinking Metropolitan America The Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C. 2015-02-23 William H. Frey, Senior Fellow, Metropolitan Policy Program The fastest growing racial group in the country is those who identify themselves as “two or more” races. Yet, perhaps most encouraging, as discussed in my book Diversity Explosion, is…

  • 235. Paper Session: Racial Dynamics of Dating & Marriage Crossing Borders: 2015 Annual Meeting Eastern Sociological Society Millennium Broadway Hotel New York, New York 2015-02-26 through 2015-03-01 Saturday, 2015-02-28, 08:30-10:30 EST (Local Time) Presider: Erica Chito-Childs, City University of New York – Hunter College The Role of Race in Dating Among Americans: How “Whiteness” Influences…