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  • Black and Yellow: Blasian Narratives

    Black and Yellow: Blasian Narratives Psychology Today 2015-04-07 Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu Ed.D. Crossing racial borders through storytelling Saturday night I went to an event called, Black and Yellow: Blasian Narratives, featuring students from Stanford joining a group from Morehouse and Spelman, two historically black colleges. The students presented both monologues and interactive storytelling. Their diversity was…

  • Race in a Baby’s Face

    Race in a Baby’s Face Psychology Today 2014-07-28 Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu, Ed.D, Psychologist and Co-founder Stanford University LifeWorks program for Integrative Learning Crawling the color line Race is supposedly something objective, even biological, that we’re ascribed at birth and marks us through our whole lives, assigning us to a group that separates us from others. But…

  • When Dad Wiped Away My Tears: Accepting a Child’s Vulnerability

    When Dad Wiped Away My Tears: Accepting a Child’s Vulnerability Psychology Today 2014-06-15 Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu Ed.D. Stanford University I thought summer camp would be endless fun. My two best friends were going and I wanted to go with them so badly I asked my dad to lie about my age so I could get in.…

  • Things to Know When Talking About Race and Genetics

      Things to Know When Talking About Race and Genetics Psychology Today 2014-05-13 Agustín Fuentes, Professor of Anthropology University of Notre Dame On May 5th, 2014, I shared the platform in a webinar debate with Nicholas Wade (former NYTimes Science Writer) about his new book “A Troublesome Inheritance – A discussion on genes, race and…

  • Four Simple Reasons Smart People Shouldn’t Believe in Races

    Four Simple Reasons Smart People Shouldn’t Believe in Races Psychology Today About Thinking: Questioning everything with a hopeful skeptic 2013-12-23 Guy P. Harrison Today is a good day to wake up and join the human species. Guess what I do almost every time race and racism are discussed in popular culture. I groan and turn…

  • Obama as Wounded Healer

    Obama as Wounded Healer Psychology Today Ideals in Question: Exploring values in psychotherapeutic culture 2013-08-02 Stephen Salter, Psy.D. Validating the context of racial trauma On July 19th, Barack Obama honored the life of Trayvon Martin by giving voice to the history of racial trauma in the African American community.  “It could have been me,” Obama…

  • What Does the Brazilian Census Tell Us About Race?

    What Does the Brazilian Census Tell Us About Race? Psychology Today 2011-12-06 Jefferson Fish, Ph.D. Problems with Brazilian and U.S. census data on race. In 2010 I posted a six-part series on the U. S. census and race (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6). In it I pointed out numerous changes in race categories and…

  • The One Drop Rule: How Black Is “Black?”

    The One Drop Rule: How Black Is “Black?” Psychology Today Blogs: In the Eye of the Beholder: The science of social perception 2011-04-07 Jason Plaks, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Psychology University of Toronto The perception of race is subjective. Many biracial people publicly identify themselves with only one race (for example, either black or white,…

  • Looking in the Cultural Mirror: How understanding race and culture helps us answer the question: “Who am I?”

    Looking in the Cultural Mirror: How understanding race and culture helps us answer the question: “Who am I?” Psychology Today 2010-07-06 Jefferson M. Fish, Ph.D. The Census and Race—Part I–Key Issues: What can science tell us about the census’s race questions? (2010-07-06) The 2010 Census is well on its way to completion. Its controversial questions…

  • President Obama checks the “Black” box; Evidently it’s official: Barack Obama is the nation’s first black president.

    President Obama checks the “Black” box Evidently it’s official: Barack Obama is the nation’s first black president. Psychology Today 2010-04-04 Samantha Smithstein, Psy.D., Clinical and Forensic Psychologist and Co-Founder Pathways Institute for Impulse Control, San Francisco This week, the New York Times reported that “It is official: Barack Obama is the nation’s first black president.”…