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  • That’s What She Said: Red-face

    I had no idea that we could switch races whenever we felt like it. I’ve stupidly been Cree just because I emerged from a Cree v-jay-jay. So, for the rest of the month, I’m choosing to be Tibetan. Since this morning, I’ve already sherpa’d six people up Diefenbaker Hill. (I really should have chosen a…

  • Does It Matter If Black + White Equals Black or Multiracial?

    Does It Matter If Black + White Equals Black or Multiracial? Northwestern University News Evanston, Illinois 2008-10-17 Pat Vaughan Tremmel, Associate Director and Social Sciences Editor According to a new Northwestern study, racial characterizations do matter. EVANSTON, Ill. — “Is Barack Obama Black or Biracial?” a recent CNN.com headline asks. The question of whether Obama…

  • Rewriting the History of American Sociology

    Rewriting the History of American Sociology Northwestern University News Evanston, Illinois 2015-08-26 Hilary Hurd Anyaso, Law and Social Sciences Editor Groundbreaking book argues W.E.B. Du Bois is primary founder of modern sociology EVANSTON, Ill. — In his groundbreaking new book, Northwestern University’s Aldon Morris has done no less than rewrite the history of sociology by…

  • Conservatives Are Missing the Point of Black Lives Matter

    Conservatives Are Missing the Point of Black Lives Matter The Atlantic 2015-08-26 Adrienne Green, Editorial Fellow Courtesy of Shaun King Those that questioned Shaun King about his race think that it’s relevant to the movement. They’re wrong. Shaun King, a prominent figure in the Black Lives Matter movement, responded last week to accusations published by…

  • The family who never knew their father

    Our story about the forced repatriation of Chinese sailors who had been recruited for the Merchant Navy during World War Two told of the devastation for those families left behind. Barbara Janecek shared her own tale in response.

  • Inconsistency within Expressed and Observed Racial Identifications: Implications for Mental Health Status

    Inconsistency within Expressed and Observed Racial Identifications: Implications for Mental Health Status Sociological Perspectives Published online before print 2015-08-29 DOI: 10.1177/0731121415602133 Whitney N. Laster Pirtle, Assistant Professor of Sociology University of California, Merced Tony N. Brown, Associate Professor of Sociology Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee The present study extends previous work on distress that arises from…

  • High Yellow

    High Yellow Poetry Foundation October 2014 Hannah Lowe Errol drives me to Treasure Beach It’s an old story, the terrible storm swerving the dark country roads the ship going down, half the sailors I think about what you will be, your mix drowned, half swimming the white, black, Chinese, and your father’s slate waves, spat…

  • One woman’s quest to uncover her heritage

    One woman’s quest to uncover her heritage The Today Show 2007-11-12 Bliss Broyard writes about her journey to discover her hidden black roots Bliss Broyard grew up a “Wasp” in Connecticut with her mother, father and brother. For 23 years she was white, but it wasn’t until her father was on his deathbed that she…

  • Times Fluid, Mobile and Ambivalent: Constructing Racial & Personal Identity in James McBride’s The Color of Water

    Times Fluid, Mobile and Ambivalent: Constructing Racial & Personal Identity in James McBride’s The Color of Water International Journal of Applied Linguistics and English Literature Volume 4, Number 5 (2015) pages 63-71 DOI: 10.7575/aiac.ijalel.v.4n.5p.63 Yuan-Chin Chang Department of Applied English Studies China University of Technology, Wunshan District, Taipei City 116, Taiwan James McBride’s memoir The…

  • Priming Race: Does the Mind Inhibit Categorization by Race at Encoding or Recall?

    Priming Race: Does the Mind Inhibit Categorization by Race at Encoding or Recall? Social Psychological and Personality Science Published online before print: 2015-08-27 DOI: 10.1177/1948550615602934 David Pietraszewski Center for Adaptive Rationality Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany Recent research shows that racial categorization can be reduced by contexts in which race does not…