Category: Articles

  • Photography in Economies of Demonstration: The Idea of the Jews as a Mixed-Race People Jewish Social Studies Volume 20, Number 1, Fall 2013 pages 150-183 DOI: 10.1353/jss.2013.0015 Amos Morris-Reich, Director of the Bucerius Institute Department of Jewish History University of Haifa, Israel Photographs played an important role in the development of the idea of the…

  • In Japan’s Okinawa, saving indigenous languages is about more than words The Washington Post 2014-11-29 Anna Fifield, Tokyo Bureau Chief NISHIHARA, Japan — Rising in turn at their wooden desks, the students giggled, squirmed or shuffled as they introduced themselves, some practically in a whisper. “Waa naamee ya — yaibiin . . . (My name is . . . ).” One…

  • Smoking Trajectories Among Monoracial and Biracial Black Adolescents and Young Adults Journal of Drug Issues Volume 45, Number 1 (January 2015) pages 22-37 DOI: 10.1177/0022042614542511 Trenette T. Clark, Assistant Professor of Social Work University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Anh B. Nguyen, Cancer Prevention Fellow Science of Research and Technology Branch (SRTB) Behavioral Research Program…

  • Obama Plans Meetings on Ferguson Unrest at the White House The New York Times 2014-11-30 Julie Hirschfeld Davis, White House Reporter WASHINGTON — President Obama is planning a day of meetings at the White House on Monday to respond to the unrest in Ferguson, Mo., and racially tinged anger across the country after a grand…

  • ‘Pelo Malo’ Director Mariana Rondon: Why Her Movie Hits A Nerve NBC News 2014-11-19 Sandra Guzman For Latinos born with Afro-textured, curly hair or kinky hair – referred to as pelo malo or “bad hair” in Latin America and the Caribbean – their experiences can be quite intense and in many cases negative, as an…

  • Mixed: Multiracial College Students Tell Their Life Stories ed. by Andrew Garrod, Robert Kilkenny, Christina Gomez (review) Journal of College Student Development Volume 55, Number 8, November 2014 pages 856-858 DOI: 10.1353/csd.2014.0077 Jessica C. Harris Andrew Garrod, Christina Gómez, and Robert Kilkenny, Mixed: Multiracial College Students Tell Their Life Stories (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2013)…

  • Latino Life: Are We Tolerant Of Our Own Hispanic Diversity? NBC News 2014-08-02 Raul A. Reyes Being Latino means being part of a rich, diverse culture. Or does it? Some Latinos feel removed from their peers because of their skin color, language ability, or mixed-race heritage. Others have faced criticism for holding political views at…

  • What white people need to know, and do, after Ferguson The Washington Post 2014-11-28 Sally Kohn Benefiting from white privilege is automatic. Defending white privilege is a choice. In the days before the grand jury’s decision in Ferguson, when Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon decided to impose a pre-emptive state of emergency, a white relative posted…

  • The Census Is Still Trying To Find The Best Way To Track Race In America FiveThirtyEight New York, New York 2014-11-26 Ben Casselman, Chief Economics Writer At FiveThirtyEight, we use census data all the time to track demographic and social trends, from the aging of the U.S. population to the decline in marriage and shifts…

  • In Northern Ireland, a Wave of Immigrants Is Met With Fists The New York Times 2014-11-28 Douglas Dalby BELFAST, Northern Ireland — More than 16 years after the Good Friday peace deal brought real hope that Protestants and Roman Catholics could live together in relative harmony, Northern Ireland is being racked by another wave of…