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  • 687.8: The Apple Does NOT Fall FAR from the Tree: Offspring of Interracial Marriages in Brazil XVIII ISA World Congress of Sociology: Facing an Unequal Word: Challenges for Global Sociology International Sociological Association Yokohama, Japan 2014-07-13 through 2014-07-19 Wednesday, 2014-07-16, 09:54 JST (Local Time) Room: Booth 54 Kaizô Iwakami Beltrão Ebape, FGV, Rio de Janeiro,…

  • JS-44.12: A Global Look at Mixed Marriage XVIII ISA World Congress of Sociology: Facing an Unequal Word: Challenges for Global Sociology International Sociological Association Yokohama, Japan 2014-07-13 through 2014-07-19 Wednesday, 2014-07-16, 18:00 JST (Local Time) Room: 315 Erica Chito Childs, Sociology Hunter College, City University of New York Mapping attitudes toward intermarriage—who is and who…

  • “If I had a son, he’d look like Trayvon”: Troubling the Visual Optics of Race Flow Volume 17, Issue 9 (2013-03-28) Isabel Molina-Guzmán, Associate Professor of Media and Cinema Studies; Associate Professor of Latina/o Studies; Associate Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign On February 26, 2013, the one year anniversary of…

  • After Tiananmen Square, New Lives On A New Continent Tell Me More National Public Radio 2014-06-04 Michel Martin, Host After the democracy protests were crushed in 1989, many thought China would turn inward. Instead, a million Chinese citizens moved to Africa. Howard French discusses his book China’s Second Continent. MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: I’m Michel Martin,…

  • Race, Romance, and Rebellion: Literatures of the Americas in the Nineteenth Century University of Virginia Press October 2013 224 pages 6 x 9 Cloth ISBN: 9780813934884 Paper ISBN: 9780813934891 Ebook ISBN: 9780813934907 Colleen C. O’Brien, Associate Professor of English University of South Carolina, Upstate As in many literatures of the New World grappling with issues…

  • “I don’t think we have any full-blooded Māori,” Dr. [Tīmoti] Kāretu said. “But it is not a problem. As long as you have a Māori (ancestor), you are Māori. It’s left to the individual to identify with their Māori or European.” K. C. Cole, “Chickasaw and Māori Celebrate Similarities, Language and Culture,” Indian Country Today…

  • Elliot Rodger at the Sometimes Troubling Intersection of Race and Gender Diverse: Issues In Higher Education 2014-06-04 Elwood Watson, Professor of History, African American Studies, and Gender Studies East Tennessee State University Many have now heard of Elliot Rodger, the self-hating, misogynistic 22-year-old man who shot more than a dozen people and murdered six in…

  • On My Upcoming Trip to Indian Country Indian Country Today Media Network 2014-06-05 Barack Obama, President of the United States Six years ago, I made my first trip to Indian country. I visited the Crow Nation in Montana—an experience I’ll never forget. I left with a new Crow name, an adoptive Crow family, and an…

  • Pinpointing Another Reason That More Hispanics Are Identifying as White The New York Times 2014-06-02 Nate Cohn Recently, I wrote about new research that showed that a net 1.2 million Hispanics changed their racial identification from “some other race” to “white” between the 2000 and 2010 censuses. Manuel Pastor, a professor at the University of…

  • Are Latinos Really Turning White? Latino Voices The Huffington Post 2014-05-29 Manuel Pastor, Professor of Sociology and American Studies University of Southern California Writing for The New York Times, Nate Cohn recently reported that more Hispanics are identifying as white. The piece—which even includes a cute graphic in which a (presumably Latino) man steps from…