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  • Multiethnic Multiracial Experience (Ethnic Studies 199)

    Multiethnic Multiracial Experience (Ethnic Studies 199) University of Oregon Winter 2010 Anselmo Villanueva, Ph.D. This course will focus on the multiracial multiethnic experience in the United States, with particular emphasis on the Northwest. This course will provide students with a framework to understand this experience. The course will cover the history and background of the…

  • Soul Search

    Soul Search The Post Cork, Ireland 2010-09-05 Nadine O’Regan When poet and novelist Jackie Kay started the search for her birth parents, she didn’t realise how traumatic a journey it would be, though she doesn’t regret doing it. Jackie Kay met her birth father for the first time in a hotel room in Abuja, Nigeria,…

  • 3rd Annual Mixed Roots Film & Literary Festival

    3rd Annual Mixed Roots Film & Literary Festival 2010-06-12 through 2010-06-13 Japanese American National Museum 69 East 1st Street Los Angeles, California The 3rd Annual Mixed Roots Film & Literary Festival will take place at the Japanese American National Museum, 369 East 1st Street, June 12-13, 2010, in downtown Los Angeles. In the Obama age,…

  • Red Dust Road: An Autobiographical Journey

    ‘What makes us who we are? My adoption is a story that has happened to me. I couldn’t make it up.’

  • In Their Siblings’ Voices: White Non-Adopted Siblings Talk About Their Experiences Being Raised with Black and Biracial Brothers and Sisters

    In Their Siblings’ Voices: White Non-Adopted Siblings Talk About Their Experiences Being Raised with Black and Biracial Brothers and Sisters Columbia University Press May 2009 248 pages 5 tables Cloth ISBN: 978-0-231-14850-4 Paper ISBN: 978-0-231-14851-1 Rita J. Simon, University Professor Emerita Department of Justice, Law and Society American University, Washington, D.C. In Their Siblings’ Voices…

  • A White Side of Black Britain: The Concept of Racial Literacy

    A White Side of Black Britain: The Concept of Racial Literacy Ethnic and Racial Studies Volume 27, Issue 6 November 2004 pages 878 – 907 DOI: 10.1080/0141987042000268512 France Winddance Twine, Professor of Sociology University of California, Santa Barbara Opposition to transracial adoption on both sides of the Atlantic, has been based, in part, on the…

  • Pathways to Permanence for Black, Asian and Mixed Ethnicity Children: Delemmas, Decision-Making and Outcomes

    Pathways to Permanence for Black, Asian and Mixed Ethnicity Children: Delemmas, Decision-Making and Outcomes Research Brief DCSF-RBX-13-08 October 2008 8 pages Julie Selwyn Hadley Centre for Adoption and Foster Care Studies University of Bristol P. Harris Hadley Centre for Adoption and Foster Care Studies University of Bristol David Quinton Hadley Centre for Adoption and Foster…

  • Building Kinship and Community: Relational Processes of Bicultural Identity Among Adult Multiracial Adoptees

    Building Kinship and Community: Relational Processes of Bicultural Identity Among Adult Multiracial Adoptees Family Process Volume 49, Issue 1 (March 2010) pages 26-42 DOI: 10.1111/j.1545-5300.2010.01306.x Gina Miranda Samuels, Associate Professor School of Social Service Administration University of Chicago This study uses the case of transracially adopted multiracial adults to highlight an alternative family context and…

  • Race: Social Fact, Biological Fiction

    Race: Social Fact, Biological Fiction Focus on Adoption Volume 17, Number 3 June/July 2009 pages 16-17 Andrew Martindale, Assistant Professor of Anthropology University of British Columbia Andrew Martindale, an adoptive parent, and assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia, explains that the concept of race is man-made and, though…

  • The Politics of Biracialism [Issue]

    The Politics of Biracialism [Issue] The Black Scholar Journal of Black Studies and Research Fall 2009 (2009-09-22) Volume 39, No. 3/4 Guest Editors: Laura Chrisman, Professor of English University of Washington Habiba Ibrahim, Assistant Professor of English University of Washington Ralina Joseph, Assistant Professor of Communications University of Washington Why a biracial issue, and why now? As…