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The mothers of Britain's 'mixed families' are ensuring their children learn about their heritage and culture, according to a development project funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). So, even if the child’s father hails from a minority background, it will still be the mother who is responsible for teaching them about the father’s culture. "Whether it's ensuring their children know about the history and culture of their ethnic or religious group, overseeing faith...

Despite notable improvements in educational levels and opportunity during the past three decades, disadvantages associated with race still persist in Brazil, according to new research at The University of Texas at Austin. Although educational advantages for white over black and pardo (mixed-race) adolescents declined considerably in Brazil, the gap is still significant, with whites completing nearly one year more of education. Sociologist and Population Research Center affiliate Leticia...

  A new study of interracial marriages in the United States since the 1980s suggests that the racial boundary between blacks and whites continues to break down – but is not yet close to disappearing. Marriages between African Americans and whites increased rapidly between 1980 and 2008, outpacing the rate of unions between whites and other ethnic and racial groups, including Latinos, Asian Americans and American Indians. Still, the total number of marriages between blacks and...

Multiracial adults' responses on medical forms could give misimpressionsWhat race best describes your background? That one question, which appears on most paperwork for health care, could leave entire groups of people underserved and contribute to racial health disparities, according to new research from Rice University published in the current issue of the journal Demography.Medical forms that ask patients to identify a single race can alter patterns of racial health disparities because some...

CHICAGO, April 6, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- For their annual conference, "Tipping Point? When Minority Families Become the Majority," the Council on Contemporary Families has collected some of the most important--though often under-reported--new findings about diversity in American family life. For the full report, visit http://www.contemporaryfamilies.org/all/unconventional-wisdom-issue-4.html. The "Tipping Point" in the status of "minority" families is...

Hispanic and Asian Populations Grew Fastest During the Decade WASHINGTON, March 24, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The U.S. Census Bureau released today the second in a series of 2010 Census briefs, Overview of Race and Hispanic Origin: 2010, which looks at our nation's changing racial and ethnic diversity and provides a snapshot of the racial and Hispanic origin composition of the United States. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20090226/CENSUSLOGO) The examination of racial and...

Study examines the new dynamics of racial identity in AmericaIn a country with Jim Crow segregation laws and the "one-drop rule" determining who was black and therefore where and what a person was permitted to be, it's easy to see why those who plausibly could, might pass as white. But new research published in the December issue of Social Psychology Quarterly shows that black-white biracial adults now exercise considerable control over how they identify and the authors find "a...

(Ivanhoe Newswire) "“ What ethnic group do most people consider President Barack Obama, Tiger Woods and Halle Berry to fall under?  The centuries-old "one-drop rule" assigning minority status to mixed-race individuals appears to live on in our modern-day perception. So say Harvard University psychologists, who've established that we still tend to see biracials not as equal members of both parent groups, but as belonging more to their minority parent group."Many...

People consistently view biracials as members of their lower-status parent groupThe centuries-old "one-drop rule" assigning minority status to mixed-race individuals appears to live on in our modern-day perception and categorization of people like Barack Obama, Tiger Woods, and Halle Berry.So say Harvard University psychologists, who've found that we still tend to see biracials not as equal members of both parent groups, but as belonging more to their minority parent group. Their...

While many people who are adopted by members of another race still identify as black or mixed race, many lack the community and cultural connections with others who share those same identities. New research in the journal Family Process suggests that adopted children of mixed race need early and ongoing experiences within the cultural communities of their origin, and with other multiracial adopted persons, to help them to build healthy cultural identities.The labels black, biracial,...