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  • Latina/o Whitening? Which Latina/os Self-Classify as White and Report Being Perceived as White by Other Americans?

    Latina/o Whitening? Which Latina/os Self-Classify as White and Report Being Perceived as White by Other Americans? Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race Volume 12, Issue 01, Spring 2015 pages 119-136 DOI: 10.1017/S1742058X14000241 Nicholas Vargas, Assistant Professor of Sociology; Latino Studies University of Florida Some scholars argue that Latina/os in the United States may…

  • Latinos May Be More Educated, Wealthier: Here’s Why We Don’t Know It

    U.S. Latinos may be more educated and have higher earnings than what current numbers suggest, and new research explores why.

  • Trevor Noah Blasts Ben Carson for Claiming President Obama Was ‘Raised White’

    Trevor Noah Blasts Ben Carson for Claiming President Obama Was ‘Raised White’ The Daily Beast 2016-02-25 Matt Wilstein, Entertainment Writer ‘The Daily Show’ host hits back at the low-in-the-polls neurosurgeon for claiming Obama can’t relate to the ‘experience of black Americans.’ Believe it or not, Ben Carson is still running for president. And this week,…

  • Did Obama Inspire A Big Debate On Identity? You Weighed In

    Did Obama Inspire A Big Debate On Identity? You Weighed In Code Switch: Frontiers of Race, Culture and Ethnicity National Public Radio 2016-02-23 Leah Donnella Laurie Avocado/Flickr Creative Commons Last week, Code Switch raised the curtain on “The Obama Effect,” our quest to understand what the nation’s first black president has to do with the…

  • America Is Obsessed With Identity. Thanks, Obama?

    America Is Obsessed With Identity. Thanks, Obama? Code Switch: Frontiers of Race, Culture and Ethnicity National Public Radio 2016-02-17 Alicia Montgomery Annette Elizabeth Allen for NPR When Barack Obama won the presidency in 2008, there was a lot of talk about “The Obama Effect”: how the nation’s first black president signaled a new era of…

  • Author, 18, from Williamsburg examines race through his family’s eyes in book

    Author, 18, from Williamsburg examines race through his family’s eyes in book The Virginia Gazette Williamsburg, Virginia 2016-02-16 Heather Bridges, Contact Reporter Canaan Kennedy, 18, is a freshman at Virginia Commonwealth University who grew up in Williamsburg. He recently published a book, his first, on family members’ experiences with race. (Heather Bridges / The Virginia…

  • The Forgotten Amerasians

    Unwanted in their mothers’ country and unwelcome in their fathers’ homeland, Filipino Amerasians are still in search of a home.

  • A Critical and Comprehensive Sociological Theory of Race and Racism

    A Critical and Comprehensive Sociological Theory of Race and Racism Sociology of Race and Ethnicity Published online before print 2016-02-23 DOI: 10.1177/2332649216632242 Tanya Golash-Boza, Associate Professor of Sociology University of California, Merced This article contests the contention that sociology lacks a sound theoretical approach to the study of race and racism, instead arguing that a…

  • Michigan in Color: Authenticity

    In an article for the National Review late last year, senior editor Jonah Goldberg discussed the (now former) popularity of Ben Carson amongst the GOP. He said “ … most analysis of Carson’s popularity from pundits focuses on his likable personality and his sincere Christian faith. But it’s intriguingly rare to hear people talk about…

  • Mixed Kids Aren’t Going to Save the World

    Mixed Kids Aren’t Going to Save the World Leah and Black History Month 2016-02-16 Leah Anneli I have a Black father and a white mother. I’m mixed. I’m not a unicorn. I think there are some misconceptions about who mixed race people are and what function we serve in society. Let’s unpack those. We’re not…