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  • Latina/o Healing Practices: Mestizo and Indigenous Perspectives Routledge 2008-05-19 360 pages Hardback ISBN: 978-0-415-95420-4 Edited by: Brian McNeill, Professor and director of training for the Counseling Psychology Program Washington State University Joseph M. Cervantes, Professor in the Department of Counseling California State University, Fullerton This edited volume focuses on the role of traditional or indigenous…

  • In China, mixed marriages can be a labor of love The Christian Science Monitor 2013-09-21 Yepoka Yeebo, Contributor In one major Chinese city, marriages between Chinese and Africans are on the rise. In a country known for monoculture, it isn’t easy. GUANGZHOU, China The restaurant that Joey and Ugo Okonkwo own was packed on a…

  • Lecture by Nayland Blake California College of the Arts Timken Lecture Hall, San Francisco Campus Graduate Studies Lectue Series 2012-11-27, 19:00 PST Nayland Blake’s mixed-media work in sculpture and installation has been variously described as disturbing, provocative, elusive, tormented, sinister, hysterical, brutal, and tender. Often incorporating themes of masochism, it also manifests two other major…

  • Faculty-Alumnus David Huffman’s “Out of Bounds” at SFAC Gallery a “SHIFT” Toward Dialogue About Race in America California College of the Arts Featured News 2011-09-14 Jim Norrena Alumnus David Huffman (MFA 1998), who is a recently tenured assistant professor in CCA’s undergraduate Painting/Drawing Program and Graduate Program in Fine Arts, is one of three featured…

  • A CD collection featuring the best-selling audiobooks, The Audacity of Hope and Dreams from My Father from Grammy® award-winning author, Barack Obama.

  • This comprehensive and timely reader covers the range of topics that have been at the center of these debates including critical race theory, multiracial feminism, mixed race, whiteness, citizenship and globalization.

  • Call for Papers – ‘Skin Tone, “Colourism” and “Passing”’ University of Leeds School of Sociology and Social Policy Centre for Ethnicity and Racism Studies Leeds, West Yorkshire, England 2013-09-11 Peter Edwards The Race in the Americas (RITA) group, in partnership with the Centre for Ethnicity and Racism Studies (CERS), seeks abstract submissions on the theme of…

  • Purchasing Whiteness in Colonial Latin America Not Even Past: “The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” —William Faulkner Department of History University of Texas at Austin 2013-09-18 Ann Twinam, Professor of History University of Texas, Austin The castas, or mixed race populations, suffered numerous forms of discrimination in colonial Latin America, but in…

  • Throughout the twentieth century, the post-revolutionary Mexican State had used mestizaje as a symbol of national unity and social integration. By the end of the millennium, however, Mexico had gone from a PRI-dominated, economically protectionist nation to a more democratic, economically globalizing one.

  • Not Just Color: Whiteness, nation, and status in Latin America Hispanic American Historical Review Volume 93, Number 3 (August 2013) pages 411-449 DOI: 10.1215/00182168-2210858 Edward Telles, Professor of Sociology Princeton University René Flores Princeton University In this study we use statistical analysis of nationally representative surveys from the 2010 AmericasBarometer to examine how color, nationality, and…