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  • The complicity cost of racial inclusion

    The complicity cost of racial inclusion Al Jazeera America 2014-08-24 Julia Carrie Wong Oakland, California When Brook Soso, a new Asian-American character in the second season of “Orange Is the New Black,” arrives at the federal prison in Litchfield, New York, a fellow inmate named Lorna Morello provides her with a toothbrush and bar of…

  • On My Mixed Experience with “White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack”

    I have this peculiar, twofold, scrambled-egg relationship with “White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack,” the oft-quoted, seminal article written by Peggy McIntosh in the late 1980s.

  • How Racism Creeps Into Medicine

    How Racism Creeps Into Medicine The Atlantic 2014-08-29 Hamza Shaban Washington, D.C. The history of a medical instrument reveals the dubious science of racial difference. In 1864, the year before the Civil War ended, a massive study was launched to quantify the bodies of Union soldiers. One key finding in what would become a 613-page…

  • I’m black, my brother’s white … and he’s a cop who shot a black man on duty

    I’m black, my brother’s white … and he’s a cop who shot a black man on duty The Guardian 204-08-25 Zach Stafford, Writer Chicago, Illinois I never thought that my brother would be one of those police officers. He was supposed to be different because of me My white brother loved black people more than…

  • Direct-to-Consumer Racial Admixture Tests and Beliefs About Essential Racial Differences

    Direct-to-Consumer Racial Admixture Tests and Beliefs About Essential Racial Differences Social Psychology Quarterly Volume 77, Number 3 (September 2014) pages 296-318 DOI: 10.1177/0190272514529439 Jo C. Phelan, Associate Professor of Sociomedical Sciences Columbia University, New York, New York Bruce G. Link, Professor of Epidemiology and Sociomedical Sciences Columbia University, New York, New York; New York State…

  • Land of the cosmic race: race mixture, racism, and blackness in Mexico [Villarreal Review]

    Land of the cosmic race: race mixture, racism, and blackness in Mexico [Villarreal Review] Ethnic and Racial Studies Volume 37, Issue 10, 2014 Special Issue: Ethnic and Racial Studies Review pages 1989-1991 DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2014.920094 Andrés Villarreal, Professor of Sociology University of Maryland, College Park Land of the cosmic race: race mixture, racism, and blackness in…

  • Race and the Genetic Revolution: Science, Myth and Culture [Hauskeller Review]

    Race and the Genetic Revolution: Science, Myth and Culture [Hauskeller Review] Ethnic and Racial Studies Volume 37, Issue 10, 2014 Special Issue: Ethnic and Racial Studies Review pages 1946-1948 DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2013.870348 Christine Hauskeller, Senior Lecturer of Sociology, Philosophy and Anthropology University of Exeter, United Kingdom Race and the genetic revolution: science, myth and culture, edited…

  • Paint the White House black: Barack Obama and the meaning of race in America [Haltinner Review]

    Paint the White House black: Barack Obama and the meaning of race in America [Haltinner Review] Ethnic and Racial Studies Volume 37, Issue 10, 2014 Special Issue: Ethnic and Racial Studies Review pages 1938-1941 DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2013.871314 Kristin Haltinner, Assistant Professor of Sociology and Anthropology University of Idaho Paint the White House black: Barack Obama and…

  • The biopolitics of mixing: Thai multiracialities and haunted ascendancies [England Review]

    The biopolitics of mixing: Thai multiracialities and haunted ascendancies [England Review] Ethnic and Racial Studies Volume 37, Issue 10, 2014 Special Issue: Ethnic and Racial Studies Review pages 1923-1926 DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2014.925129 Sara England, Associate Professor of Anthropology Soka University of America, Aliso Viejo, California The biopolitics of mixing: Thai multiracialities and haunted ascendancies, by Jinthana…

  • Race statistics: how to get from where we are to where we should be: a rejoinder

    Race statistics: how to get from where we are to where we should be: a rejoinder Ethnic and Racial Studies Volume 37, Issue 10, 2014 Special Issue: Ethnic and Racial Studies Review pages 1852-1856 DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2014.932413 Kenneth Prewitt, Carnegie Professor of Public Affairs Columbia University America’s race statistics are inadequate to the policy challenges of…