Category: Articles

  • The Census Can’t Fit Latinos Into A Race Box And It’s Causing More Confusion The Huffington Post 2014-05-22 Roque Planas, Editor Pew revealed the findings of a study this month that shows some 2.5 million U.S. Latinos changed their race category from “some other race” to “white” between the 2000 and 2010 censuses. The news…

  • Mixed Feelings North by Northwestern Northwestern University’s leading independent online publication Evanston, Illinois 2014-05-22 Sarah Turbin, Class 0f 2016 Medill School of Journalism There’s no question quite like it. “What are you?” has trailed behind me my whole life, tapping me on the shoulder with a different lilt to its tone each time: curious, doubtful,…

  • Radmilla’s Voice: Music Genre, Blood Quantum, and Belonging on the Navajo Nation Cultural Anthropology Volume 29, Issu3 2 (May 2014) pages 385-410 DOI: 10.14506/ca29.2.11 Kristina Jacobsen-Bia, Assistant Professor of Music University of New Mexico Window Rock, Navajo Nation, Arizona, September 1997. A young woman butchers a sheep as the crowd at the Navajo Nation Fairgrounds…

  • Parents’ Nightmare: Futile Race to Stop Killings The New York Times 2014-05-25 Adam Nagourney It was Friday evening when the parents of Elliot O. Rodger clicked open the 140-page manifesto emailed to them from their son and learned of his plans for mass murder and suicide. Frightened and alarmed, they called 911 and then raced…

  • Imitation of Life, one of the classic narratives of racial passing, originated as a 1933 novel by Jewish writer Fannie Hurst, but it is perhaps best known as the 1959 melodrama directed by Douglas Sirk inducing finale of the Sirk film, the prodigal black daughter, who has crossed the color line and passed for white, returns home…

  • This is my story (Part 1) briankamanzi 2014-03-14 Brian Kamanzi My name is Brian, in 1990 I was born to a South African Indian mother and a Ugandan father in Mthatha, a small city located in the hilly region of what is still often referred to as the Transkei in the heart of the Eastern…

  •   Millions of Americans changed their racial or ethnic identity from one census to the next Pew Research Center 2014-05-05 D’Vera Cohn, Senior Writer Social & Demographic Trends Project Millions of Americans counted in the 2000 census changed their race or Hispanic-origin categories when they filled out their 2010 census forms, according to new research…

  • The Origins of “Privilege” The New Yorker 2014-05-13 Joshua Rothman, Archive Editor The idea of “privilege”—that some people benefit from unearned, and largely unacknowledged, advantages, even when those advantages aren’t discriminatory —has a pretty long history. In the nineteen-thirties, W. E. B. Du Bois wrote about the “psychological wage” that enabled poor whites to feel…

  • Technologies of Belonging: The Absent Presence of Race in Europe Science Technology Human Values Volume 39, Number 4 (July 2014) pages 459-467 DOI: 10.1177/0162243914531149 Amade M’charek, Associate Professor of Anthropology University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands Katharina Schramm, Lecturer Institute for Social Anthropology Martin Luther Universität, Halle-Wittenberg, Germany David Skinner, Research Convener; Reader in Sociology Anglia…

  • But your hair is so beautiful… Black Women of Brazil 2014-05-08 Stephanie Paes (orginally published on 2013-06-12 as “Mas seu cabelo é tão bonito…” in Falando sem permissão) I know that it is. And only I understand the time I needed to take account of this (1). My hair is crespo (curly/kinky). It has gone…