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  • I Am the Blood of the Conqueror; I Am the Blood of the Conquered

    I Am the Blood of the Conqueror; I Am the Blood of the Conquered Christina Torres: Teacher. Runner. Writer. 2015-10-12 Christina Torres, Middle and high school English and Drama Teacher University Laboratory School, Honolulu, Hawaii I didn’t know the true extent of Columbus’s reign of horror until a few months ago. Sitting in a Nashville…

  • Trevor Noah Says He’s Not a Political Progressive. He’d Be Funnier If He Were.

    Trevor Noah Says He’s Not a Political Progressive. He’d Be Funnier If He Were. The Nation 2015-10-09 Katie Halper (The Daily Show with Trevor Noah / Brad Barket) The new Daily Show host doesn’t have much to say, which leaves him making jokes about tramp stamps and body weight. Unlike Jon Stewart, Trevor Noah doesn’t…

  • A resurgence of black identity in Brazil? Evidence from an analysis of recent censuses

    A resurgence of black identity in Brazil? Evidence from an analysis of recent censuses Demographic Research Volume 32 Article 59 (2015-06-18) pages 1603-1630 DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2015.32.59 Vítor Miranda Population Studies Center University of Pennsylvania Background: The second half of the 20th century brought a sharp increase in the number of people self-identifying as “brown” in the…

  • Tap Roots (1948): A Review of the first “Free State of Jones” movie

    Tap Roots (1948): A Review of the first “Free State of Jones” movie Renegade South: Histories of Unconventional Southerners 2015-10-11 Vikki Bynum, Emeritus Professor of History Texas State University, San Marcos As we await the release of The Free State of Jones, I thought it might be fun to visit an earlier movie similarly inspired…

  • The Criminal Justice System and the Racialization of Perceptions

    The Criminal Justice System and the Racialization of Perceptions The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science Volume 651, Number 1 (January 2014) pages 104-121 DOI: 10.1177/0002716213503097 Aliya Saperstein, Assistant Professor of Sociology Stanford University Andrew M. Penner, Associate Professor of Sociology University of California, Irvine Jessica M. Kizer Department of Sociology…

  • Patterns of Racial and Educational Assortative Mating in Brazil

    Patterns of Racial and Educational Assortative Mating in Brazil Demography June 2014, Volume 51, Issue 3 pages 835-856 DOI: 10.1007/s13524-014-0300-2 Aaron Gullickson, Associate Professor of Sociology University of Oregon Florencia Torche, Professor of Sociology New York University Exchange of racial for educational status has been documented for black/white marriages in the United States. Exchange may…

  • Disentangling the Effects of Racial Self-identification and Classification by Others: The Case of Arrest

    Disentangling the Effects of Racial Self-identification and Classification by Others: The Case of Arrest Demography June 2015, Volume 52, Issue 3 pages 1017-1024 DOI: 10.1007/s13524-015-0394-1 Andrew M. Penner, Associate Professor of Sociology University of California, Irvine Aliya Saperstein, Assistant Professor of Sociology Stanford University Scholars of race have stressed the importance of thinking about race…

  • Race, color, and income inequality across the Americas

    Race, color, and income inequality across the Americas Demographic Research Volume 31 Article 24 (2014-09-19) pages 735-756 DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2014.31.24 Stanley Bailey, Associate Professor of Sociology University of California, Irvine Aliya Saperstein, Assistant Professor of Sociology Stanford University Andrew Penner, Associate Professor of Sociology University of California, Irvine Background: Racial inequality in the U.S. is typically…

  • We organized a student pow-wow and some of the attendees had clearly studied at the Grey Owl School of Indian fakery.

    But the longer I spent at that university, the more of them I ran into. People who confused having an “interest” in Indigenous culture with “going full redface.” We organized a student pow-wow and some of the attendees had clearly studied at the Grey Owl School of Indian fakery. They showed up with feathers in…

  • Mapping Amerindian Captivity in Colonial Mosquitia

    Mapping Amerindian Captivity in Colonial Mosquitia Journal of Latin American Geography Volume 14, Number 3, October 2015 pages 35-65 Karl Offen, Associate Professor of Environmental Studies Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio In 1764, Spanish colonel Luis Diez Navarro mapped the racially diverse British settlement at Black River on what is today the coast of northeastern Honduras.…