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  • I’m a kosher burrito, says new mixed-race LA mayor

    I’m a kosher burrito, says new mixed-race LA mayor The Jewish Chronicle Online London, England 2013-05-30 Tom Tugend Eric Garcetti, the first Jewish mayor elected by Los Angeles voters, jokingly refers to himself as a “kosher burrito”, the latter word referring to a popular Mexican dish. The son of a Jewish mother and a father…

  • This Is The Mixed-Race Cheerios Ad All The Idiots Are Complaining About

    This Is The Mixed-Race Cheerios Ad All The Idiots Are Complaining About Business Insider Advertising 2013-05-30 Judith Grey A new commercial for Cheerios featuring a mixed-race family has become a target for idiots on the internet. The anodyne spot features a Caucasian mother, an African-American father and their biracial daughter, but contains no overt messaging,…

  • Why We Need to Talk About Race in Adoption

    Why We Need to Talk About Race in Adoption Bitch Magazine 2013-05-29 Nicole Callahan Two years ago, on vacation in the Great Smoky Mountains, I saw a white couple at a restaurant with their Asian daughter. Though her father told her to quit staring, I felt the girl’s eyes on me all through the meal.…

  • Black woman rises to leadership in Daughters of the American Revolution

    Black woman rises to leadership in Daughters of the American Revolution theGrio 2013-05-26 Donovan X. Ramsey This month, Autier Allen-Craft was elected to the position of regent in the Norwalk–Village Green chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) in Connecticut. Allen-Craft, a black woman, says the organization has come a long way since…

  • The United States of Mestizo

    The United States of Mestizo John F. Blair, Publisher 2013-01-01 48 pages 4¼ x 5½ 978-1-58838-288-7 ebook ISBN: 978-1-60306-200-8 Ilan Stavans, Lewis-Sebring Professor in Latin American and Latino Culture Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts This powerful manifesto attests to the fundamental changes the nation has undergone in the last half-century. Ilan Stavans meditates on the way…

  • Fannie Barrier Williams: Crossing the Borders of Region and Race

    Fannie Barrier Williams: Crossing the Borders of Region and Race University of Illinois Press 2014 288 pages 6.125 x 9.25 in. 5 black & white photographs Cloth ISBN: 978-0-252-03811-2 Paper ISBN: 978-0-252-07959-7 Wanda A. Hendricks, Associate Professor of History University of South Carolina The biography of a key activist of the Progressive Era Born shortly…

  • Kings for Three Days: The Play of Race and Gender in an Afro-Ecuadorian Festival

    Kings for Three Days: The Play of Race and Gender in an Afro-Ecuadorian Festival University of Illinois Press May 2013 216 pages 6 x 9 in. 16 black & white photographs, 3 maps Cloth ISBN: 978-0-252-03751-1 Paper ISBN: 978-0-252-07901-6 Jean Muteba Rahier, Associate Professor of Anthropology and African & African Diaspora Studies Florida International University…

  • Seeing Race in Modern America

    Seeing Race in Modern America University of North Carolina Press November 2013 Approx. 264 pages 6.125 x 9.25 10 color plates., 97 halftones, notes, index Cloth ISBN: 978-1-4696-1068-9 Matthew Pratt Guterl, Professor of Africana Studies and American Studies Brown University In this fiercely urgent book, Matthew Pratt Guterl focuses on how and why we come…

  • A “Mulatto Escape Hatch” in the United States? Examining Evidence of Racial and Social Mobility During the Jim Crow Era

    A “Mulatto Escape Hatch” in the United States? Examining Evidence of Racial and Social Mobility During the Jim Crow Era Demography Published Online: 2013-04-20 DOI: 10.1007/s13524-013-0210-8 Aliya Saperstein, Assistant Professor of Sociology Stanford University Aaron Gullickson, Associate Professor of Sociology University of Oregon Racial distinctions in the United States have long been characterized as uniquely rigid…

  • Looking the Part: Social Status Cues Shape Race Perception

    Looking the Part: Social Status Cues Shape Race Perception PLoS ONE Volume 6, Issue 9: e25107 Published: 2011-09-26 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0025107 Jonathan B. Freemam,  Assistant Professor of Psychological & Brain Sciences Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire Andrew M. Penner, Associate Professor of Sociology University of California, Irvine Aliya Saperstein, Assistant Professor of Sociology Stanford University Matthias Scheutz,…