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  • Conservatives More Likely To See Vice President Harris as ‘White’ than Liberals

    As the fight for the White House heated up last year and Kamala Harris became the first woman of color on a major party ticket, California State University, Northridge researchers wondered if political ideology would influence how people perceived her biracial ancestry.

  • Donna Nicol: An Agent of Change for Africana Studies

    Donna Nicol, associate professor and chair of Africana Studies, arrived at CSUDH in fall 2017. As a faculty member, she teaches Comparative Ethnic and Global Societies. As chair, Nicol is working with her colleagues and the university administration to strengthen the program’s curriculum and bolster its presence on campus and in the region.

  • 477A Race Mixing in U.S.A. History

    477A Race Mixing in U.S.A. History California State University, Fullerton 2013-2015 History of racial mixing in the United States. Experiences of interracial families and especially their mixed race progeny. Complicates understanding of racial categories and hierarchies over time.

  • AAAS 348 (Fall 2013): Class, Race, and Gender—“Hapas, Hafus, Mestizos, and Muggles”

    AAAS 348 (Fall 2013): Class, Race, and Gender—“Hapas, Hafus, Mestizos, and Muggles” California State University, Los Angeles Asian and Asian American Studies Program Fall 2013 Michelle Har Kim HAPA (from the Hawai‘ian Dictionary, Māmaka Kaiao) Portion, fragment, part, fraction, installment; to be partial, less. (Eng. half) Cf. hapahā, hapalua, etc. Ka ’ike hapa, limited knowledge.…

  • ES 3434: Mixed Race Identities

    ES 3434: Mixed Race Identities California State University, East Bay 2012-2013 Examination of mixed race peoples—their legal and social status, U.S. Census designations, and identities from the one-drop rule to President Obama and beyond. The social science complement to ES 3430, Interracial Sex and Marriage.

  • Family Dynamics Between Arab Muslim parents, Western Parents and Their Bi-ethnic Children

    Family Dynamics Between Arab Muslim parents, Western Parents and Their Bi-ethnic Children California State University, Sacramemto Spring 2011 75 pages Yasmine Binghalib THESIS Submitted in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree of MASTER OF SCIENCE in COUNSELING (Marriage, Family and Child Counseling) Families made up of one an Arab Muslim parent, Western parent…

  • Categorization of racial/ethnic identity for racialized and marginalized biracials in the mainland United States

    Categorization of racial/ethnic identity for racialized and marginalized biracials in the mainland United States California State University, Sacramento Spring 2009 169 pages Estrella Valdez THESIS Submitted in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree of MASTER OF ARTS in SPECIAL MAJOR (Ethnic Studies) There is no singular agreed-upon understanding of what it means to…

  • Defining Mixed Race on Television: an Analysis of Barack Obama and Saturday Night Live

    Defining Mixed Race on Television: an Analysis of Barack Obama and Saturday Night Live California State University, Sacramento Fall 2011 109 pages Amanda Joy Davis THESIS Submitted in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree of MASTER OF ARTS in COMMUNICATION STUDIES This study uses a semiotic approach to textual analysis to examine social…

  • Biracial Identity Development: Understanding a Sense of Self

    Biracial Identity Development: Understanding a Sense of Self California State University, Long Beach December 2009 47 pages Ghislaine P. Dibong Presented to the Department of Social Work California State University, Long Beach In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Master of Social Work The purpose of this project was to explore the challenges…

  • Variations in Multiracial Identity Integration

    Variations in Multiracial Identity Integration California State University, Los Angeles 2012-02-10 Patricia Y. Singim The purpose of this study was to explore how multiracial people integrate their racial identities and if this integration was related to well-being. Furthermore, differences based on type of mix (half White vs. mixed with groups of color), positive interactions with…