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  • Dialogues Beyond the Master’s Map: An Invitation

    If, despite being told and trained and pressured to embrace and perform a sense of identity that represents a false construct of human differences, you defy racial reduction and seek the company of others who resist racialization, please contact me.

  • What You’ll Never Understand About Being Biracial

    Mixed-race women on what it’s like to feel black but look white.

  • Race and Ethnicity: Constancy in Change (First Edition)

    “Race and Ethnicity: Constancy in Change” uses both classic readings and new research on contemporary racial inequality to create a logical progression through the primary issues of race and ethnicity.

  • Beyond Black: Biracial Identity in America – Book Review

    Beyond Black: Biracial Identity in America – Book Review National Association of Student Personnel Administrators (NASPA) 2016-04-04 Shauna Harris Rockquemore, Kerry Ann and David L. Brunsma, Beyond Black: Biracial Identity in America (Second Edition) (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2007). Beyond Black is a groundbreaking study that used both interview and survey data of young black/white…

  • Between black and white Exploring the “Biracial” Experience

    Between black and white Exploring the “Biracial” Experience Race and Society Volume 1, Issue 2, 1998 pages 197–212 DOI: 10.1016/S1090-9524(99)80044-8 Kerry A. Rockquemore Public debate surrounding the 2000 Census has focused on the addition of a multi-racial category. Advocates of this change assume that persons of mixed-race parentage identify as “biracial” or “mixed” and will…

  • How Race-Studies Scholars Can Respond to Their Haters

    How Race-Studies Scholars Can Respond to Their Haters Vitae A service of The Chronicle of Higher Education 2014-06-27 Stacey Patton, Senior Enterprise Reporter Graduate school prepares students for a range of intellectual and professional endeavors. Unfortunately, responding to scholarly insults and academic shade-throwing isn’t one of them. But for scholars in the fields of race…

  • Despite Options on Census, Many to Check ‘Black’ Only

    Despite Options on Census, Many to Check ‘Black’ Only The New York Times 2000-02-12 Diana Jean Schemo This year’s new, racially inclusive census might have seemed tailor made for Michael Gelobter. The son of a white Jewish father and an African-Bermudan mother, Mr. Gelobter lives in Harlem with his wife, Sharron Williams, a black woman…

  • A Fresh Face On Race

    A Fresh Face On Race The Hartford Courant Hartford, Connecticut 2001-03-13 Mike Swift, Courant Staff Writer The U.S. Census Bureau’s New Approach And The Latest Population Figures Could Mark ‘The Beginning Of The End Of Racial Classification In America.’ The federal government Monday pegged the number of Americans who are of multiple races at 6.8…

  • Forced to pass and other sins against authenticity

    Forced to pass and other sins against authenticity Women & Performance: a journal of feminist theory Volume 15, Issue 1, 2005 pages 17-32 DOI: 10.1080/07407700508571486 Kerry Ann Rockquemore According to the identity commandments, passing is a sin against authenticity. Thou shall not pretend to be something that you are not. Men should not pretend to…

  • Raceless Like Me: Students at Harvard Navigate their Way Beyond the Boundaries of Race

    Raceless Like Me: Students at Harvard Navigate their Way Beyond the Boundaries of Race The Harvard Crimson Harvard University 2011-10-13 Zoe A. Y. Weinberg, Crimson Staff Writer One day last fall, Paula M. Maouyo ’14 sat in front of her laptop in Matthews trying to think of a topic for her Expos paper about racial…