Proposed Session: Multiracial/ethnic familiesPosted in Europe, Family/Parenting, Live Events, New Media, Papers/Presentations, Social Science on 2009-12-15 21:27Z by Steven |
Proposed Session: Multiracial/ethnic families
XVII ISA World Congress of Sociology
Sociology on the Move
International Sociological Association
2010-07-11 through 2010-07-17
Gothenburg, Sweden
Programme Coordinators
Rudy R. Seward, Professor, Director of Graduate Studies, and Associate Chair of Sociology
University of North Texas, USA
Ria Smit, Associate Professor of Sociology
University of Johannesburg, South Africa
Organizers:
Cynthia M. Cready, Associate Professor of Sociology
University of North Texas, USA
George Yancey, Associate Professor of Sociology
University of North Texas, USA
Empirical and theoretical papers that address any aspect of multiracial/ethnic families are invited for this session. Possible topics include: attitudes toward racial/ethnic dating and intermarriage and multiracial/ethnic families; trends in racial/ethnic dating and intermarriage; individual- and community-level effects on racial/ethnic dating and intermarriage; the impact of racial/ethnic dating and intermarriage on other aspects of individual and community life; representations of multiracial/ethnic families in the media; interracial/ethnic adoption; socialization in multiracial/ethnic families; racial/ethnic identity of children from multiracial/ethnic families; identity issues among adults in multiracial/ethnic families; developmental outcomes of children from multiracial/ethnic families; theoretical and methodological approaches and challenges to the study of multiracial/ethnic families; and the interaction of social policy and multiracial/ethnic families.
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