Category: Articles

  • Can a Dress Shirt Be Racist? Backchannel 2016-03-31 Moises Velasquez-Manoff Illustration by Michael Marsicano A startup finds that asking for certain data improves the fit of its clothes — and lands the company in a cultural minefield In 2008, an entrepreneur named Seph Skerritt was frustrated with the way he shopped for clothes. Then a student at…

  • Obama praises wife Michelle’s curves as he sits down with prima ballerina Misty Copeland for interview about body image and growing up black in America The Daily Mail London, United Kingdom 2016-03-14 The president and ballerina interviewed each other for TIME magazine Copeland is the first ever African American to be named the principal dancer…

  • Fear of Small Numbers: «Brown Babies» in Postwar Italy Contemporanea Volume XVIII, Number 4, October-December 2015 pages 537-568 DOI: 10.1409/81438 Silvana Patriarca, Professor of History Fordham University: The Jesuit University of New York By drawing in an interdisciplinary fashion on a variety of different sources (some of them archives only recently made available to the…

  • Professor Silvana Patriarca is a faculty member in the Fordham University History department and specializes in modern Italian history. She is currently exploring the interaction between ideas of nation and “race” and working on a book about the history of racism in post-World War II Italy. Her new book will focus on “mixed-race” children born…

  • “We Called That Touch” Boston Review 2016-03-28 Ed Pavlić, Professor of English and Creative Writing University of Georgia Race and the Intimate Tangle of American Experience It might seem to you that I am white. Then again, depending upon how and where we meet—and upon things in your life I know nothing about—it might seem…

  • On Jerusalem Walls, Artist Memorializes Hebrew Israelite Rabbi from Harlem The Assimilator: Intermarrying high and low culture Forward 2016-03-31 Sam Kestenbaum, Staff Writer Wikicommons / Solomon Souza / YouTube When Rabbi Mordecai Herman would visit the Lower East Side of the 1920s, then teeming with Jewish immigrants from Europe, he cut an intriguing figure. He…

  • Construction and initial validation of the Multiracial Experiences Measure (MEM) Journal of Counseling Psychology Volume 63, Issue 2, March 2016 pages 198-209 DOI: 10.1037/cou0000117 Hyung Chol Yoo, Associate Professor of Asian Pacific American Studies Arizona State University Kelly F. Jackson, Associate Professor of Social Work Arizona State University, Phoenix Rudy P. Guevarra Jr., Asian Pacific…

  • Study finds mixed-race individuals are fastest-growing demographic group, most discriminated against The Daily Targum: Serving the Rutgers community since 1869. Independent since 1980. 2016-03-31 Samantha Karas The fastest growing racial group in the United States is mixed-race individuals, but they are also the ones experiencing increasing amounts of prejudice from white people, according to a…

  • ‘A black president, yay’: 106-year-old finally meets the Obamas, dances like a schoolgirl The Washington Post 2016-02-22 Michael E. Miller, Morning Mix Reporter Virginia McLaurin’s life isn’t easy. Last winter, she battled bedbugs in her D.C. apartment. This year, snowstorm “Snowzilla” trapped her inside for several days. She also happens to be almost 107 years…

  • Whites living in areas where they are less exposed to those of other races have a harder time categorizing mixed-race individuals than do Whites with greater interracial exposure, a condition that is associated with greater prejudice against mixed-race individuals, a new experimental study shows.