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  • The Pleasures of Taxonomy: Casta Paintings, Classification, and Colonialism The William and Mary Quarterly Volume 73, Number 3, July 2016, 3rd series pages 427-466 Rebecca Earle, Professor School of Comparative American Studies University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom A new model for thinking about the socioracial categories depicted in casta paintings (remarkable eighteenth-century Spanish American…

  • From White to Yellow: The Japanese in European Racial Thought, 1300-1735 McGill-Queen’s University Press November 2014 712 Pages, 6 x 9 32 b&w photos ISBN: 9780773544550 Rotem Kowner, Professor Department of Asian Studies University of Haifa, Mount Carmel, Haifa, Israel An examination of the evolution of European racial views of the Japanese. When Europeans first…

  • Michaela Angela Davis Strips Down For The “What’s Underneath Project,” Talks Racism, Insecurities Madame Noire 2016-08-22 Brande Victorian, Managing Editor Michaela Angela Davis has long been everything and then some to us, and our opinion of the writer, culture critique, and activist has only skyrocketed after watching her strip down for StyleLikeU’s highly regarded “What’s…

  • ‘War Brides of Japan’ To Take Focus in New Documentary NBC News 2016-08-10 Frances Kai-Hwa Wang Journalist and filmmaker Yayoi Lena Winfrey is looking for more Japanese “war brides” to interview as she completes the filming for her feature-length documentary film, “War Brides of Japan.” With many of these women in their mid-80s, Winfrey said…

  • Raising My Black Son Brian, Child: the magazine for thinking mothers 2016-08-09 Suanne Schafer Twenty years ago, I adopted an interracial child—I’ll call him M—thinking a mother’s love could overcome all barriers, even racial ones. Twenty years later, I’m not sure I did my son any favors. I’m a white mom trying to figure out…

  • Skin Color Still Plays Big Role In Ethnically Diverse Brazil All Things Considered National Public Radio 2013-09-19 Audie Cornish, Host Melissa Block visits a historic section of Rio de Janeiro that pays homage to Afro-Brazilian history and the many slaves that came ashore there. She talks with Brazilian filmmaker Joel Zito Araujo about what it…

  • The Effects of School Desegregation on Mixed-Race Births The National Bureau of Economic Research NBER Working Paper No. 22480 Issued in August 2016 47 pages DOI: 10.3386/w22480 Nora Gordon, Associate Professor McCourt School of Public Policy Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. Sarah Reber, Associate Professor of Public Policy Luskin School of Public Affairs University of California, Los…

  • ‘Blasian Narratives’ struggles with the question: Black enough? Asian enough? Kore Asian Media 2016-08-16 Tae Hong “Blasian Narratives” performs inside Stanford Theatre. (Harrison Troung/Courtesy photo) Teaching third graders in an underserved area of Brooklyn, Cenisa Gavin often looks out at her mostly black and Latino students and is reminded of the failings of her own…

  • The face of change: Census racial categories aren’t so black and white The Dallas Morning News 2016-08-19 Jill Cowan, Staff Writer Gloria Fortner, 13, says she values all of the influences of her parentage. Her father, Bruce Fortner, is a black pastor, and her mother, Florencia Velasco Fortner, is a Mexican immigrant who heads a…

  • “I identify as a black woman” Kings Review King’s College, Cambridge 2016-08-09 Tanisha Spratt Department of Sociology Cambridge University Rachel Dolezal poses with her interracial family in 2013 Source: Facebook. In the United States race transcends physicality. A black person can look physically white but identify as black if he or she is supported by…