Category: Articles

  • Leading Aircraftwoman in the WAAF and one of the first black women to join the British Armed Forces The Independent 2015-04-06 Stephen Bourne Lilian Bader (1918-2015) Bader trained as an instrument repairer, became a Leading Aircraftwoman and soon gained the rank of Acting Corporal. I first met Lilian Bader at the Imperial War Museum in…

  • Brazilian television slowly confronts country’s deeply entrenched race issues The Guardian 2015-10-07 Bruce Douglas Rio de Janeiro Mister Brau features a black couple known as Brazil’s Jay Z and Beyoncé in the lead roles – an unprecedented move in a country whose majority black population has long been sidelined in its leading leisure-time industry In…

  • Changes in racial categorization over time and health status: an examination of multiracial young adults in the USA Ethnicity & Health Published online: 2015-06-08 DOI: 10.1080/13557858.2015.1042431 Karen M. Tabb, Assistant Professor of Social Work University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Objective: Multiracial (two or more races) American health related to racial stability over the life course is…

  • Esther Cepeda: The complexities of race and ethnicity GazetteXtra Janesville, Wisconsin 2015-10-17 Esther Cepeda, Columnist Washington Post Writers Group CHICAGO Our society gives a lot of lip service to the importance of diversity in fields such as science, medicine and technology because multicultural people bring unique viewpoints, varied life experiences and new ideas. Rarely do…

  • Historian Broadens Narrative of Slavery in the Americas Fordham News: The Latest From Fordham University 2015-10-16 Patrick Verel Photograph by Patrick Verel In the United States, the Civil War, the Emancipation Proclamation, and the Underground Railroad loom so large in the understandings of slavery that most Americans can almost be excused for thinking it’s a…

  • How I Found My Way to Hapa The Mash-Up Americans 2010-10-06 Tanya Tarr Being mixed race can make people look at you like you’re a unicorn. We’re the changing face of America! We have a racial passport to anywhere! We can also grow up confused, and challenged on our identity on every front. Is half…

  • Why Today’s GOP Crackup Is the Final Unraveling of Nixon’s ‘Southern Strategy’ The Nation 2015-10-12 William Greider Tea Party rebels are exposing the deep rifts between country-club elites and social-issue hard-liners. Fresh chatter among Washington insiders is not about whether the Republican Party will win in 2016 but whether it will survive. Donald Trump —…

  • What Constitutes Intermarriage for Multiracial People in Britain? The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science Volume 662, Number 1, November 2015 pages 94-111 DOI: 10.1177/0002716215595387 Miri Song, Professor of Sociology University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent, United Kingdom Intermarriage is of great interest to analysts because a group’s tendency to partner across…

  • 2015’s headlines and cultural events have confronted us with the malleability of racial, gender, sexual and reputational lines. Who do we think we are?

  • Boxes and Mixed Race Problems SophiaandStuff 2015-07-29 Sophia Leonie “Oh” the hairdresser paused “Your hair is very curly”. “Yes” I gritted my teeth, water dripping down my neck “I said it was”. The consultation earlier that week, it seemed, had meant nothing. “It’s OK” she went on “I’m sure we’ll be able to manage”. Trapped…