Day: December 13, 2009

  • Race Bending: “Mixed” Youth Practicing Strategic Racialization in California Anthropology & Education Quarterly Volume 35 Issue 1 (March 2004) Pages 30-52 DOI: 10.1525/aeq.2004.35.1.30 Mica Pollock, Associate Professor of Education Harvard University As more U.S. youth claim “mixed” heritages, some adults are proposing to erase race words altogether from the nation’s inequality analysis. Yet such proposals, as…

  • The Inheritability of Identity: Children’s Understanding of the Cultural Biology of Race Child Development Volume 66 Issue 5 (October 1995) Pages 1418 – 1437 DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.1995.tb00943.x Lawrence A. Hirschfeld, Professor, Anthropology & Psychology Eugene Lang College, The New School for Liberal Arts 4 experiments explored adult and grade school children’s beliefs about inheritability of identity,…

  • A New Look at an Old Notion: Lawrence Hirchfeld Discusses Race in Society Michigan Today University of Michigan June 1996 John Woodford Talk of race is everywhere and incessant in America, the din of discourse emanating from all ranks and stations, all age groups, all creeds, all parts of the political spectrum and all manner…

  • Nobody’s Son: Notes from an American Life University of Arizona Press 1998 188 pages 5.0 x 8.0 Paper ISBN: 978-0-8165-2270-5 Luis Alberto Urrea Here’s a story about a family that comes from Tijuana and settles into the ‘hood, hoping for the American Dream. …I’m not saying it’s our story. I’m not saying it isn’t. It…

  • Feminist Readings of Native American Literature: Coming to Voice University of Arizona Press 1998 181 pages 6.0 x 9.0 Paper ISBN: 978-0-8165-1633-9 Kathleen M. Donovan, Professor and Department Head of English South Dakota State University, Brookings Who in a society can speak, and under what circumstances? These questions are at the heart of both Native…