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  • Social Construction of Ethnicity Versus Personal Experience: The Case of Afro-Amerasians

    Social Construction of Ethnicity Versus Personal Experience: The Case of Afro-Amerasians Journal of Comparative Family Studies Volume 29, Issue 2 (Summer 1998) pages 255-267 Teresa Kay Williams Michael C. Thornton, Professor of Afro-American Studies University of Wisconsin, Madison The article focuses on the existence of ethnic group differences in the U.S. and how the subgroup…

  • The Multiracial Experience: Racial Borders as the New Frontier

    In her bold new edited volume, The Multiracial Experience, Maria P. P. Root challenges current theoretical and political conceptualizations of race by examining the experience of mixed-race individuals.

  • Racial Thinking in the United States: Uncompleted Independence

    Racial Thinking in the United States: Uncompleted Independence University of Notre Dame Press 2004 376 pages Cloth ISBN 10: 0-268-04103-2 Cloth ISBN 13: 978-0-268-04103-8 Paper ISBN 10: 0-268-04104-0 Paper ISBN 13: 978-0-268-04104-5 Edited by: Paul Spickard, Professor of 20th Century U.S. Social and Cultural History University of California, Santa Barbara G. Reginald Daniel, Professor of…

  • The Sum of Our Parts: Mixed-Heritage Asian Americans

    With an entire section devoted to the Asian diaspora, The Sum of Our Parts suggests that questions of multiracial and multiethnic identity are surfacing around the globe. This timely and provocative collection articulates them for social scientists and students.

  • Racially Mixed People in America

    America has been the breeding ground of a “biracial baby boom” for the past 25 years. Unfortunately, there has been a dearth of information regarding how racially mixed people identify and view themselves and how they relate to one another. “Racially Mixed People in America” steadily bridges this gap and offers a comprehensive look at…

  • Policing the Borderlands: White- and Black-American Newspaper Perceptions of Multiracial Heritage and the Idea of Race, 1996–2006

    Policing the Borderlands: White- and Black-American Newspaper Perceptions of Multiracial Heritage and the Idea of Race, 1996–2006 Journal of Social Issues Volume 65, Number 1 (March 2009) pages 105-127 DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-4560.2008.01590.x Michael C. Thornton University of Wisconsin-Madison By employing a new policy of “check all that apply,” the Census Bureau accommodated a mushrooming multiracial lobby…