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  • Musician’s life brings more than passing interest in passing

    Musician’s life brings more than passing interest in passing San Francisco Chronicle 2015-07-28 Leah Garchik, Features Columnist As colleagues at KGO-TV, Eric Christensen and John Turner — Eric was a sports producer, John a news editor/arts producer — shared a passion for exotic cultural phenomena. Retired, they’ve combined know-how with that passion to make the…

  • I Am the Blood of the Conqueror; I Am the Blood of the Conquered

    I Am the Blood of the Conqueror; I Am the Blood of the Conquered Christina Torres: Teacher. Runner. Writer. 2015-10-12 Christina Torres, Middle and high school English and Drama Teacher University Laboratory School, Honolulu, Hawaii I didn’t know the true extent of Columbus’s reign of horror until a few months ago. Sitting in a Nashville…

  • Trevor Noah Says He’s Not a Political Progressive. He’d Be Funnier If He Were.

    Trevor Noah Says He’s Not a Political Progressive. He’d Be Funnier If He Were. The Nation 2015-10-09 Katie Halper (The Daily Show with Trevor Noah / Brad Barket) The new Daily Show host doesn’t have much to say, which leaves him making jokes about tramp stamps and body weight. Unlike Jon Stewart, Trevor Noah doesn’t…

  • A resurgence of black identity in Brazil? Evidence from an analysis of recent censuses

    A resurgence of black identity in Brazil? Evidence from an analysis of recent censuses Demographic Research Volume 32 Article 59 (2015-06-18) pages 1603-1630 DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2015.32.59 Vítor Miranda Population Studies Center University of Pennsylvania Background: The second half of the 20th century brought a sharp increase in the number of people self-identifying as “brown” in the…

  • Tap Roots (1948): A Review of the first “Free State of Jones” movie

    Tap Roots (1948): A Review of the first “Free State of Jones” movie Renegade South: Histories of Unconventional Southerners 2015-10-11 Vikki Bynum, Emeritus Professor of History Texas State University, San Marcos As we await the release of The Free State of Jones, I thought it might be fun to visit an earlier movie similarly inspired…

  • The Criminal Justice System and the Racialization of Perceptions

    The Criminal Justice System and the Racialization of Perceptions The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science Volume 651, Number 1 (January 2014) pages 104-121 DOI: 10.1177/0002716213503097 Aliya Saperstein, Assistant Professor of Sociology Stanford University Andrew M. Penner, Associate Professor of Sociology University of California, Irvine Jessica M. Kizer Department of Sociology…

  • Disentangling the Effects of Racial Self-identification and Classification by Others: The Case of Arrest

    Disentangling the Effects of Racial Self-identification and Classification by Others: The Case of Arrest Demography June 2015, Volume 52, Issue 3 pages 1017-1024 DOI: 10.1007/s13524-015-0394-1 Andrew M. Penner, Associate Professor of Sociology University of California, Irvine Aliya Saperstein, Assistant Professor of Sociology Stanford University Scholars of race have stressed the importance of thinking about race…

  • Race, color, and income inequality across the Americas

    Race, color, and income inequality across the Americas Demographic Research Volume 31 Article 24 (2014-09-19) pages 735-756 DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2014.31.24 Stanley Bailey, Associate Professor of Sociology University of California, Irvine Aliya Saperstein, Assistant Professor of Sociology Stanford University Andrew Penner, Associate Professor of Sociology University of California, Irvine Background: Racial inequality in the U.S. is typically…

  • Mapping Amerindian Captivity in Colonial Mosquitia

    Mapping Amerindian Captivity in Colonial Mosquitia Journal of Latin American Geography Volume 14, Number 3, October 2015 pages 35-65 Karl Offen, Associate Professor of Environmental Studies Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio In 1764, Spanish colonel Luis Diez Navarro mapped the racially diverse British settlement at Black River on what is today the coast of northeastern Honduras.…

  • The Persistent Problem of Colorism: Skin Tone, Status, and Inequality

    The Persistent Problem of Colorism: Skin Tone, Status, and Inequality Sociology Compass Volume 1, Issue 1 (September 2007) pages 237-254 DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-9020.2007.00006.x Margaret Hunter, Mary S. Metz Professorship for Excellence and Creativity in Teaching Professor of Sociology Mills College, Oakland, California Colorism is a persistent problem for people of color in the USA. Colorism, or…