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  • Obama gives hope to multiracial families

    Obama gives hope to multiracial families The Connecticut Record-Journal 2009-01-24 George Moore Three-year-old George Garner used to introduce himself as ‘George Barack Obama’ when his mother took him to political events. For George, an energetic boy of a mixed racial background, Barack Obama’s presidency will serve as proof that he, too, can be president, said…

  • Will “Multiracial”: Survive to the Next Generation?: The Racial Classification of Children of Multiracial Parents

    Will “Multiracial”: Survive to the Next Generation?: The Racial Classification of Children of Multiracial Parents Social Forces Volume 86, Number 2 (December 2007) pages 821-849 DOI: 10.1353/sof.2008.0007 Jenifer L. Bratter, Assistant Professor of Sociology and Associate Director of the Institute for Urban Research Rice University Will multiracial identification resonate with future generations? Using the 2000 U.S. Census,…

  • Assimilating Blackness?: Multiple-Race Identification and African American Mate Selection

    Assimilating Blackness?: Multiple-Race Identification and African American Mate Selection Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association Hilton San Francisco & Renaissance Parc 55 Hotel San Francisco, CA 2004-08-14 23 pages Jenifer L. Bratter, Assistant Professor of Sociology and Associate Director of the Institute for Urban Research Rice University I investigate the influence…

  • Mother’s, Father’s, or Both? Parental Gender and Parent-Child Interactions in the Racial Classification of Adolescents

    Mother’s, Father’s, or Both? Parental Gender and Parent-Child Interactions in the Racial Classification of Adolescents Jenifer L. Bratter, Assistant Professor of Sociology and Associate Director of the Institute for Urban Research Rice University Holly E. Heard Rice University Sociological Forum Volume 24, Number 3, September 2009 pages 658-688 DOI: 10.1111/j.1573-7861.2009.01124.x Research on racial identification in interracial…