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  • Divergence or Convergence in the U.S. and Brazil: Understanding Race Relations Through White Family Reactions to Black-White Interracial Couples

    Divergence or Convergence in the U.S. and Brazil: Understanding Race Relations Through White Family Reactions to Black-White Interracial Couples Qualitative Sociology March 2014, Volume 37, Issue 1 pages 93-115 DOI: 10.1007/s11133-013-9268-2 Chinyere Osuji, Assistant Professor of Sociology Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Camden Different approaches to race mixture in the U.S. and Brazil…

  • Racial ‘Boundary-policing’: Perceptions of Black-White Interracial Couples in Los Angeles and Rio de Janeiro

    Racial ‘Boundary-policing’: Perceptions of Black-White Interracial Couples in Los Angeles and Rio de Janeiro Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race Volume 10 / Issue 01 / Spring 2013 pages 179-203 DOI: 10.1017/S1742058X13000118 Chinyere K. Osuji, Assistant Professor of Sociology Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Camden As people who cross racial boundaries…

  • Confronting whitening in an era of black consciousness: racial ideology and black-white interracial marriages in Rio de Janeiro

    Confronting whitening in an era of black consciousness: racial ideology and black-white interracial marriages in Rio de Janeiro Ethnic and Racial Studies Volume 36, Issue 10, 2013 Special Issue: Rethinking Race, Racism, Identity, and Ideology in Latin America pages 1490-1506 DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2013.783926 Chinyere Osuji, Assistant Professor of Sociology Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey,…

  • What’s Your Mix?

    What’s Your Mix? Mixed Roots Stories 2014-10-07 Lill Salole Oslo, Norway ”Where are you from”? That feeling. When you don´t easily fit into any clean, closed categories. When your looks don´t match people´s expectations and definitions, and the answer is messy. Confusing. Ambiguous. Sometimes even deemed as politically incorrect and provoking. Like being part black,…

  • Identity In Pieces: When You Don’t Know Where You Count

    Identity In Pieces: When You Don’t Know Where You Count The Aerogram: A curated take on South Asian art, literature, life and news 2014-10-01 Jaya Saxena Queens, New York Last summer, I wore a pink and yellow sari to my cousin’s wedding. As my Indian family lingered in the hotel lobby, dressed up and waiting…

  • When Racism Was a Science

    When Racism Was a Science The New York Times 2014-10-13 Joshua A. Krisch ‘Haunted Files: The Eugenics Record Office’ Recreates a Dark Time in a Laboratory’s Past An old stucco house stands atop a grassy hill overlooking the Long Island Sound. Less than a mile down the road, the renowned Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory bustles…

  • Legacy of the President’s Mother

    Legacy of the President’s Mother Mālamalama, The Magazine of the University of Hawaiʻi System January 2009 (2009-01-14) Paula Bender Honolulu, Hawaiʻi Stanley Ann Dunham The candidacy and election of President Barack Obama drew international eyes to the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, where his parents met. But among some at the university, it is Obama’s…

  • Is race genetic?

    Advances in genealogy and DNA analysis tell surprising and disturbing stories about the heritage we think we know

  • SANDS OF TIME: American Beach nears 80-year anniversary

    SANDS OF TIME: American Beach nears 80-year anniversary The Florida Times-Union Jacksonville, Florida 2014-10-13 Alec Newell The extended family of Zephaniah Kingsley, Anna Jai, and their descendants have been major players in shaping the history of Northeast Florida during three colonial periods, American territorial times, Florida statehood and on into the 20th century. Between Lake…

  • Raven-Symoné, Oprah, and What it Means to be (African) American

    Raven-Symoné, Oprah, and What it Means to be (African) American The Huffington Post Black Voices 2014-10-13 A. B. Wilkinson, Assistant Professor of History University of Nevada, Las Vegas Last week entertainer Raven-Symoné appeared on Oprah: Where Are They Now? and proudly stated that she was in “an amazing, happy relationship” with a woman, yet what…