Beyond Just Black and White: Why I was so eager to claim my biracial son for my own side

Posted in Articles, Census/Demographics, History, New Media, Social Science, United States on 2010-03-12 19:02Z by Steven

Beyond Just Black and White: Why I was so eager to claim my biracial son for my own side

Newsweek.com
2009-01-24

Raina Kelley, Weekly Columnist

When I took my newly born son from the nurse’s arms, I did the expected counting of his fingers and toes. I checked under his cap for hair and flexed his little limbs. Once confident he was whole and healthy, I began to wonder how dark his skin would get. As a black woman married to one of the world’s fairest men, I worried that our son would be so light-skinned as to appear Caucasian, and I wanted him to look black…

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The End of Black History: A Postscript to My Son

Posted in New Media, Politics/Public Policy, Social Science, United States, Videos on 2010-03-12 16:09Z by Steven

The End of Black History: A Postscript to My Son

Newsweek.com
2010-02-28
00:13:57

Raina Kelley, Weekly Columnist

In trying to understand what black history will mean to my son when he’s old enough to wonder, I went in search of the purpose of Black History Month. (Video: Raina Kelly, Jon Groat; Additional material courtesy Angelique Kidjo, Penn Museum)

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Marcia Dawkins to be Featured Guest on Mixed Chicks Chat

Posted in Communications/Media Studies, Identity Development/Psychology, Interviews, Live Events, Media Archive, Politics/Public Policy, Social Science, United States, Women on 2010-03-12 04:09Z by Steven

Marcia Dawkins to be Featured Guest on Mixed Chicks Chat

Mixed Chicks Chat (The only live weekly show about being racially and culturally mixed. Also, founders of the Mixed Roots Film & Literary Festival) Hosted by Fanshen Cox and Heidi W. Durrow
Website: TalkShoe™ (Keywords: Mixed Chicks)
Episode: #153 – Marcia Dawkins
When: Wednesday, 2010-05-19 22:00Z (18:00 EDT, 15:00 PDT)

Marcia Alesan Dawkins, Assistant Professor of Human Communication
California State University, Fullerton

Marcia Alesan Dawkins, Ph.D., is a blogger, professor and communication researcher in Los Angeles. Her interests are mixed race identification, politics, popular culture and new media. Her new book, Clearly Invisible:  Racial Passing and the Color of Cultural Identity, looks at racial passing as a viable form of communication. She lectures and consults on these issues at conferences worldwide.

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Communication, Race, and Family: Exploring Communication in Black, White, and Biracial Families

Posted in Anthologies, Books, Family/Parenting, Media Archive, Social Science, United States on 2010-03-12 03:52Z by Steven

Communication, Race, and Family: Exploring Communication in Black, White, and Biracial Families

Routledge
1999-08-01
Pages: 264
Trim Size: 6 x 9
Hardback ISBN: 978-0-8058-2938-9
Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8058-2939-6

Edited by:

Thomas J. Socha

Rhunette C. Diggs

This groundbreaking volume explores how family communication influences the perennial and controversial topic of race. In assembling this collection, editors Thomas J. Socha and Rhunette C. Diggs argue that the hope for managing America’s troubles with “race” lies not only with communicating about race at public meetings, in school, and in the media, but also—and more fundamentally—with families communicating constructively about race at home.

African-American and European-American family communication researchers come together in this volume to investigate such topics as how Black families communicate to manage the issue of racism; how Black parent-child communication is used to manage the derogation of Black children; the role of television in family communication about race; the similarities and differences between and among communication in Black, White, and biracial couples and families; and how family communication education can contribute to a brighter future for all. With the aim of developing a clearer understanding of the role that family communication plays in society’s move toward a multicultural world, this volume provides a crucial examination of how families struggle with issues of ethnic cultural diversity.

Table of Contents

  • M.K. Asante, Foreword. Preface
  • T.J. Socha, R.C. Diggs, At the Crossroads of Communication, Race, and Family: Toward Understanding Black, White, and Biracial Family Communication
  • J.L. Daniel, J.E. Daniel, African-American Childrearing: The Context of a Hot Stove
  • I.B. Ferguson, African-American Parent-Child Communication About Racial Derogation
  • S.L. Parks, Race and Electronic Media in the Lives of Four Families: An Ethnographic Study
  • R.A. Davilla, White Children’s Talk About Race and Culture: Family Communication and Intercultural Socialization
  • R.C. Diggs, African-American and European-American Adolescents’ Perceptions of Self-Esteem as Influenced by Parent and Peer Communication and Support Environments
  • M. Dainton, African-American, European-American, and Biracial Couples’ Meanings for and Experiences in Marriage. M.P. Orbe, Communicating About “Race” in Interracial Families
  • B.K. Alexander, H.P. LeBlanc, III, Cooking Gumbo–Examining Cultural Dialogue About Family: A Black-White Narrativization of Lived Experience in Southern Louisiana
  • T.J. Socha, J. Beigle, Toward Improving Life at the Crossroads: Family Communication Education and Multicultural Competence
  • K. Galvin, Epilogue: Illuminating and Evoking Issues of Race and Family Communication
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The Idea of Race in Latin America, 1870-1940

Posted in Anthologies, Anthropology, Books, Brazil, Caribbean/Latin America, History, Law, Media Archive, Mexico, Politics/Public Policy, Social Science on 2010-03-12 02:50Z by Steven

The Idea of Race in Latin America, 1870-1940

University of Texas Press
1990
143 pages
10 b&w illus.
6 x 9 in.
ISBN: 978-0-292-73857-7

Edited by

Richard Graham, Emeritus Frances Higginbotham Nalle Centennial Professor of History
University of Texas, Austin

With chapters by Thomas E. Skidmore, Aline Helg, and Alan Knight

From the mid-nineteenth century until the 1930s, many Latin American leaders faced a difficult dilemma regarding the idea of race. On the one hand, they aspired to an ever-closer connection to Europe and North America, where, during much of this period, “scientific” thought condemned nonwhite races to an inferior category. Yet, with the heterogeneous racial makeup of their societies clearly before them and a growing sense of national identity impelling consideration of national futures, Latin American leaders hesitated. What to do? Whom to believe?

Latin American political and intellectual leaders’ sometimes anguished responses to these dilemmas form the subject of The Idea of Race in Latin America. Thomas Skidmore, Aline Helg, and Alan Knight have each contributed chapters that succinctly explore various aspects of the story in Brazil, Argentina, Cuba, and Mexico. While keenly alert to the social and economic differences that distinguish one Latin American society from another, each author has also addressed common issues that Richard Graham ably draws together in a brief introduction. Written in a style that will make it accessible to the undergraduate, this book will appeal as well to the sophisticated scholar.

Table of Contents

  • Preface
  • 1. Introduction (Richard Graham)
  • 2. Racial Ideas and Social Policy in Brazil, 1870-1940 (Thomas E. Skidmore)
  • 3. Race in Argentina and Cuba, 1880-1930: Theory, Policies, and Popular Reaction (Aline Helg)
  • 4. Racism, Revolution, and Indigenismo: Mexico, 1910-1940 (Alan Knight)
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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Resolving “Other” Status: Identity Development of Biracial Individuals

Posted in Articles, Identity Development/Psychology, Media Archive on 2010-03-12 02:38Z by Steven

Resolving “Other” Status: Identity Development of Biracial Individuals

Women & Therapy
Volume 9, Issue 1 & 2 (May 1990)
pages 185 – 205
DOI: 10.1300/J015v09n01_11

Maria P. P. Root

The current paper describes the phenomenological experience of marginal socio-ethnic status for biracial individuals. A metamodel for identity resolution for individuals who struggle with other status is proposed. Subsequently, multiple strategies in the resolution of ethnic identity development are proposed among which the individual may move and maintain a positive, stable self-image.

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Racial Identification of the Biracial Preschool Child in a Single parent Family: Implications for Study

Posted in Articles, Family/Parenting, Identity Development/Psychology, Media Archive on 2010-03-12 02:28Z by Steven

Racial Identification of the Biracial Preschool Child in a Single parent Family: Implications for Study

Family Science Review
Volume 4, Number 3 (August 1991)
pages 81-92

Z. Lois Bryant, Professor of Human Development and Family Studies
University of Missouri, Columbia

Johnetta Wade Morrison, Professor of Human Development and Family Studies
University of Missouri, Columbia

This article addressess some previously unexplored factors related to the racial identity and self-concept formation of biracial preschool children of single female parents. Empirically based research literature on this population is limited although numerous authorities have emphasized the importance of self-concept and racial identity to the total development of the preschool child. The self-concepts and racial identity and attiudes of the mothers of these children, as well as the influence of the preschool setting also are addressed.

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