Category: Articles

  • NASA Facility Dedicated to Mathematician Katherine Johnson Space.com 2016-05-05 Sarah Lewin, Staff Writer Katherine Johnson, pictured here at NASA’s Langley Research Center, where she worked as a “computer” and mathematician from 1953 to 1986. Langley dedicated a computing facility to Johnson in a ceremony today (May 5). Credit: NASA NASA honored 97-year-old mathematician Katherine Johnson…

  • Japan’s Under-Researched Visible Minorities: Applying Critical Race Theory to Racialization Dynamics in a Non-White Society Washington University Global Studies Law Review Volume 14, Issue 4: Global Perspectives on Colorism (Symposium Edition) (2015) pages 695-723 Debito Arudou Critical Race Theory (CRT), an analytical framework grounded in American legal academia, uncovers power relationships between a racialized enfranchised…

  • Between places and spaces The McGill Daily Montreal, Quebec, Canada 2016-03-21 Francesca Humi Articulating my identity as a mixed-race woman “Who are you?” I am a woman of colour. No, I’m a mixed-race woman of colour. My identity is constantly gendered and racialized. While I have come to be very comfortable with my gender identity…

  • Barack Obama and Immigrant Blackness: A Catalyst for Structural Change The International Journal of Diversity in Organizations, Communities and Nations: Annual Review Volume 12 (2012) pages 33-42 Kirin Wachter-Grene, Acting Instructor of Literature New York University This essay builds upon an argument I make in my article “Beyond the Binary: Obama’s Hybridity and Post-Racialization” to…

  • Racialized Lives: Ethnic Mixing and Mixed Ethnicity in Britain New Left Project 2015-03-06 Karis Campion, Doctoral Researcher and Graduate Teaching Assistant Department of Sociology University of Manchester Racialization has had a deeply personal impact on the lives of people in Britain, but history shows us it can be challenged. In Racism, Class and the Racialized Outsider,…

  • The Misuse of Race in Medical Diagnosis Pediatrics: Official Journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics May 2004, Volume 113 / Issue 5 Richard S. Garcia I am a 39-year-old Hispanic male born in Stockton, Calif, to a mother who—after many years of unwise eating—has recently been diagnosed with diabetes and to a father I…

  • Maria on Bhowani Junction Archive to Blockbuster 2016-08-11 Maria Kaladeen, Associate Fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies University of London The happiness I feel in encountering old movies about dual-heritage characters and communities is inevitably marred by the regurgitation of tired and offensive stereotypes about these individuals. The 1956 film Bhowani Junction, based on John…

  • The Cherokee Diaspora: An Indigenous History of Migration, Resettlement, and Identity by Gregory D. Smithers (review) Journal of Interdisciplinary History Volume 47, Number 2, Autumn 2016 pages 241-242 Tyler Boulware, Associate Professor of History West Virginia University The Cherokee Diaspora: An Indigenous History of Migration, Resettlement, and Identity. By Gregory D. Smithers (New Haven, Yale…

  • Studies consistently show that attractiveness is racialized, and in a racial hierarchy that privileges whites at the expense of blacks, white phenotypic characteristics are deemed more attractive than black phenotypic characteristics. This study seeks to examine whether the racialized nature of attractiveness is based on more than just appearance.

  • Beauty is in the Ear of the Beholder Too Duke Research Blog Duke University 2016-08-10 Eric Ferreri Just the suggestion that an African-American person is of mixed-race heritage makes that person more attractive to others, research from Duke University concludes. This holds true even if the people in question aren’t actually of multiracial heritage, according…