Category: Articles

  • “What are you?”: Mixed race responses to the racial gaze Ethnicities Published online before print 2015-12-16 DOI: 10.1177/1468796815621938 Jillian Paragg Department of Sociology University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada Mixed race scholarship considers the deployment of the term “mixed race” as an identification and theorizes that the operation of the external racial gaze is signaled through…

  • Yara Shahidi, the Iranian-American Star of ‘Black-ish,’ Is Breaking Stereotypes On & Off Screen Muftah 2016-06-03 Alex Shams Over the last two years, the hit ABC sitcom “Black-ish” has deftly explored issues of race, class, and gender in the United States through the eyes of an upper-middle class, African-American family. The show has received rave…

  • The Racism-Race Reification Process: A Mesolevel Political Economic Framework for Understanding Racial Health Disparities Sociology of Race and Ethnicity Published online before print 2016-02-08 DOI: 10.1177/2332649215626936 Abigail A. Sewell, Assistant Professor of Sociology Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia The author makes the argument that many racial disparities in health are rooted in political economic processes that…

  • Essential Measures: Ancestry, Race, and Social Difference American Behavioral Scientist April 2016, Volume 60, Number 4 pages 498-518 DOI: 10.1177/0002764215613398 Aaron Gullickson, Associate Professor of Sociology University of Oregon Race and ancestry are both popularly viewed in the United States as different but intertwined reflections on a person’s essentialized identity that answer the question of…

  • Inside The Five-Day Stretch When Obama Found His Voice On Race FiveThirtyEight 2016-05-26 The number of Americans “greatly worried” about race relations hit an all-time low, 13 percent, the year after President Obama took office. Last month, Gallup recorded the opposite, an all-time high of 35 percent. As Obama prepares to leave office, the conversation…

  • You Can’t Go from Zero to ‘The Daily Show’: The Playboy Interview with Trevor Noah Playboy 2016-05-19 David Hochman, Contributing Editor Has there ever been a more auspicious moment to chase after clown cars on the road to the White House? Since bravely taking over for Jon Stewart as host of The Daily Show last…

  • Large Abroad | London poet laureate Raymond Antrobus staying true to Jamaican roots The Gleaner Kingston, Jamaica 2016-06-13 Andre Poyser Raymond Antrobus Raymond Antrobus continues to be in strong contention to be named Young Poet Laureate for London – a position awarded annually to a poet age 21-30 living in the United Kingdom capital. Antrobus,…

  • When Guido Menzio sat down on a regional jet for a short flight from Philadelphia to Syracuse, New York, he certainly couldn’t have guessed what was going to happen. The 40-year-old economist was profiled as a terror suspect for being focused too intently on a math problem.

  • Race isn’t biologically real. That doesn’t mean racism doesn’t exist. Vox 2016-06-11 Victoria M. Massie The first step to fixing a problem is acknowledging it exists. And in the latest episode of MTV’s Decoded, host Franchesca Ramsey breaks down exactly why being colorblind to someone’s race not only doesn’t fix racism but, if anything, she…

  • What You Didn’t Know About Loving v. Virginia TIME 2016-06-10 Arica L. Coleman The landmark civil rights Supreme Court case—which made it illegal to ban interracial marriage—was about more than black and white When the Supreme Court heard arguments in the case Loving v. the Commonwealth of Virginia, defendants Richard and Mildred Loving chose not…