Blaxican Identity: An Exploratory Study of Blacks/Chicanas/os in California

Abstract: This paper explores the racial/ethnic identities of multiracial Black-Mexicans or ‘Blaxicans.’ In- depth interviews with 12 Blaxican individuals in California reveal how they negotiate distinct cultural systems to accomplish multiracial identities. I argue that choosing, accomplishing, and asserting a Blaxican identity challenges the dominant monoracial discourse in the United States, in particular among African American and Chicana/o communities. That is, Blaxican respondents are held accountable by African Americans and Chicanas/os/Mexicans to monoracial notions of ‘authenticity.’ The process whereby Blaxicans move between these monoracial spaces to create multiracial identities illustrates crucial aspects of the social construction of race/ethnicity in the United States

Stable limits for empirical processes on vapnik-cervonenk is classes of functions

Alexander' s (1987) central limit theorem for empirical processes on Vapnik-Cervonenkis classes of functions is extended to the case with non-Gaussian stable limits. The corresponding weak laws of large numbers are also established

The central limit theorem for empirical processess on V-C classes: a majorizing measure approach

Alexander (1987) gave necessary and sufficient conditions for the central limit theorem for empirical processes on Vapnik-Cervonenkis classes of functions. In this paper we present a different version of his result using Talagrand's analytic characterization of pregaussianness (the majorizing measure condition). Our proof can be directly extended to give the corresponding result in the non-gaussian stable case

A rate of convergence in clustering analysis

We present a result about stochastic boundedness of stable empirical processes on Vapnik-Cervonenkis classes of functions and we apply it to obtain a rate of convergence for the approximation between the sample and the populational variation in the k-centroids problem in clustering analysis

New stochastic approach to the renormalization of the supersymmetric \phi^4 with ultrametric

We present a new real space renormalization-group map, on the space of probabilities, to study the renormalization of the SUSY \phi^4. In our approach we use the random walk representation on a lattice labeled by an ultrametric space. Our method can be extended to any \phi^n. New stochastic meaning is given to the parameters involved in the flow of the map and results are provided.Comment: 17 pages, Latex 2e, to appear in Int. Jour. of Mod. Phys.