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  • Direct-to-Consumer Racial Admixture Tests and Beliefs About Essential Racial Differences

    Direct-to-Consumer Racial Admixture Tests and Beliefs About Essential Racial Differences Social Psychology Quarterly Volume 77, Number 3 (September 2014) pages 296-318 DOI: 10.1177/0190272514529439 Jo C. Phelan, Associate Professor of Sociomedical Sciences Columbia University, New York, New York Bruce G. Link, Professor of Epidemiology and Sociomedical Sciences Columbia University, New York, New York; New York State…

  • Do You See What I Am? How Observers’ Backgrounds Affect Their Perceptions of Multiracial Faces

    Do You See What I Am? How Observers’ Backgrounds Affect Their Perceptions of Multiracial Faces Social Psychology Quarterly Volume 73, Number 1 (March 2010) pages 58-78 DOI: 10.1177/0190272510361436 Melissa R. Herman, Assistant Professor of Sociology Dartmouth College Although race is one of the most salient status characteristics in American society, many observers cannot distinguish the…

  • The Role of Reflected Appraisals in Racial Identity: The Case of Multiracial Asians

    The Role of Reflected Appraisals in Racial Identity: The Case of Multiracial Asians Social Psychology Quarterly Volume 67, Number 2 (June 2004) pages 115-131 DOI: 10.1177/019027250406700201 Nikki Khanna, Associate Professor of Sociology University of Vermont Asian Americans are one of the fastest-growing minorities in the United States and show the highest outmarriage rate; yet little…

  • Passing as Black

    Passing as Black The University of Vermont University Communications 2011-03-30 Lee Ann Cox The new dynamics of biracial identity in America There’s a rule everybody knows. Not the golden one. Since the days of slavery and Jim Crow segregation, when “one drop” of black ancestry determined the whole of who you were, black-by-default is a…

  • Passing as Black: Racial Identity Work among Biracial Americans

    Passing as Black: Racial Identity Work among Biracial Americans Social Psychology Quarterly Volume 73, Number 4 (Published online 2010-12-13) pages 380-397 DOI: 10.1177/0190272510389014 Nikki Khanna, Associate Professor of Sociology University of Vermont Cathryn Johnson, Professor of Sociology and Director of Graduate Studies Emory University Drawing on interview data with black-white biracial adults, we examine the…

  • Are Racial Identities of Multiracials Stable? Changing Self-Identification Among Single and Multiple Race Individuals

    Are Racial Identities of Multiracials Stable? Changing Self-Identification Among Single and Multiple Race Individuals Social Psychology Quarterly Volume 70, Number 4 (December 2007) Pages 405–423 DOI: 10.1177/019027250707000409 Jamie Mihoko Doyle Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology University of Pennsylvania Grace Kao, Professor of Sociology, Education, and Asian American Studies University of Pennsylvania Using the National Longitudinal…