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  • Navigating Interracial Borders: Black-White Couples and Their Social Worlds

    Navigating Interracial Borders: Black-White Couples and Their Social Worlds Rutgers University Press 2005-05-18 264 pages Paper ISBN: 978-0-8135-3586-9 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8135-3585-2 eBook ISBN: 978-0-8135-3757-3 Erica Chito Childs, Associate Professor of Sociology Hunter College, City University of New York Is love color-blind, or at least becoming increasingly so? Today’s popular rhetoric and evidence of more interracial…

  • Families on the color-line: patrolling borders and crossing boundaries

    Families on the color-line: patrolling borders and crossing boundaries Race and Society Volume 5, Issue 2, 2002 Pages 139-161 DOI: 10.1016/j.racsoc.2004.01.001 Erica Chito-Childs, Associate Professor of Sociology Hunter College, City University of New York Multiracial couples and families are becoming increasingly more common, yet opposition to these relationships still exists even if it is often…

  • Multiracial Americans and Social Class: The Influence of Social Class on Racial Identity

    As the racial hierarchy shifts and inequality between Americans widens, it is important to understand the impact of social class on the rapidly growing multiracial population. “Multiracial Americans and Social Class” is the first book on multiracial Americans to do so and fills a noticeable void in a growing market.

  • Mixed Messages: Multiracial Identities in the “Color-Blind” Era

    Mixed Messages: Multiracial Identities in the “Color-Blind” Era Lynne Rienner Publishers 2006 405 pages Hardcover: ISBN: 978-1-58826-372-8 Paperback: ISBN: 978-1-58826-398-8 Edited by David L. Brunsma, Professor of Sociology Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University The experiences and voices of multiracial individuals are challenging current categories of race, profoundly altering the meaning of racial identity and…

  • Multirace.com: The Promise and Pitfalls of Multiracial Cyberspace

    Multirace.com: The Promise and Pitfalls of Multiracial Cyberspace Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association Atlanta Hilton Hotel Atlanta, Georgia 2003-08-16 27  pages Erica Childs, Assistant Professor Department of Sociology Hunter College at the City University of New York Through the Internet, multiracial individuals and families, even those who have felt…

  • The Politics of Multiracialism: Challenging Racial Thinking

    The Politics of Multiracialism: Challenging Racial Thinking State University of New York Press June 2004 263 pages Hardcover ISBN-10: 0-7914-6153-X; ISBN-13: 978-0-7914-6153-2 Paperback ISBN-10: 0-7914-6154-8; ISBN13: 978-0-7914-6154-9 Editor: Heather M. Dalmage, Professor of Sociology and Director Mansfield Institute for Social Justice Roosevelt University A provocative analysis of current thought and discourse on multiracialism. This is…