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  • Bleach in the Rainbow: Latin Ethnicity and Preference for Whiteness

    In contrast, research reported in this article indicates strong similarities in the construction and the operation race the entire Americas. Genotype, or African ancestry, is shown to matter in Latin America; phenotype, or appearance, is shown to matter in the United States.

  • Colin Kaepernick’s New Children’s Book Encourages Black Children To Embrace Their Identities

    Colin Kaepernick’s “I Color Myself Different” is a new children’s book based on the football player’s true and inspiring journey as a child learning the value of embracing and celebrating their Black identity “through the power of radical self-love” and knowing their inherent worth.

  • June Shagaloff Alexander, School Desegregation Leader, Dies at 93

    She helped Thurgood Marshall prepare for his Supreme Court fight and later took on de facto school segregation across the North and West.

  • For Colin Kaepernick, Writing Is Another Form of Activism

    For Colin Kaepernick, Writing Is Another Form of Activism Publishers Weekly 2022-03-29 Nathalie op de Beeck, Associate Professor of English Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma, Washington Colin Kaepernick, at 34, presides over a multimedia platform for Black and brown people’s empowerment. In 2016, inspired by civil rights heroes, the then-San Francisco 49ers quarterback rocked the NFL…

  • Special Issue “Multiracial Identities and Experiences in/under White Supremacy”

    Special Issue “Multiracial Identities and Experiences in/under White Supremacy” Social SciencesVolume 11, Number 2, Special Issue “Multiracial Identities and Experiences in/under White Supremacy”Published 2022-02-21 Guest Editors: David L. Brunsma, Professor of SociologyVirginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia Jennifer Sims, Assistant Professor of SociologyUniversity of Alabama, Huntsville Dear Colleagues, Social scientific scholarship on Multiracial experiences and processes of…

  • Trailblazer with Amandla Stenberg

    Ever since her breakout role in “The Hunger Games,” Amandla Stenberg’s career has gone from strength to strength. Here, the actor talks to Micha Frazer-Carroll about her involvement in the Black Lives Matter movement, how the pandemic has made her re-evaluate her life and why she’s keenly exploring other creative avenues

  • One More Census Takeaway: The End of an Era of Counting the Nation?

    Some experts are arguing that it’s time for the census to aggressively make use of government data and other sources to augment its own decennial count.

  • Nitasha Tamar Sharma: Hawai’i Is My Haven: Race and Indigeneity in the Black Pacific

    Nitasha Tamar Sharma: Hawai’i Is My Haven: Race and Indigeneity in the Black Pacific New Books Network 2022-03-30 Hawai’i Is My Haven: Race and Indigeneity in the Black Pacific (Duke UP, 2021) maps the context and contours of Black life in the Hawaiian Islands. This ethnography emerges from a decade of fieldwork with both Hawaiʻi-raised…

  • Performance and Identity in Adrian Piper’s Work

    Performance and Identity in Adrian Piper’s Work InMedia: The French Journal of Media Studies Volume 8, Number 2 (2020) DOI: 10.4000/inmedia.2754 17 pages Antonia Rigaud, Associate Professor of American Studies Sorbonne Nouvelle University, Paris France Lorna Simpson Head On Ice #3 2016 Ink and screenprint on gessoed fiberglass Unique 67 x 50 x 1 3/8…

  • A vigorous examination of ‘Mr. NAACP,’ who passed as White

    When Walter White joined the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People’s New York staff in 1918, he had a thin record of civil rights activism. But he quickly made himself into the association’s indispensable man, particularly skilled at communicating the terror of racial violence to White audiences.