Category: Articles

  • On race, the US is not as improved as some would have us believe The Guardian 2014-04-20 Gary Younge Despite the legacy of civil rights, some doors remain firmly closed. And across the US, schools are resegregating At the march on Washington in August 1963, where Martin Luther King made his “I have a dream…

  • Josephine Baker’s Rainbow Tribe Slate 2014-04-18 Rebecca Onion To prove that racial harmony was possible, the dancer adopted 12 children from around the globe—and charged admission to watch them coexist. Beginning in 1953, almost 30 years after her first successful performances on the Paris stage, the singer and dancer Josephine Baker adopted 12 children from…

  • An Afropean Journey Africa is a Country 2014-03-21 Johny Pitts A few years ago, on a snowy January evening, a stranger mistook me for someone he had seen the previous week, aboard an evening train heading to Frankfurt. The moment lasted seconds, but our brief encounter would serve as a catalyst for what became a…

  • Abuse of Modernity: Japanese Biological Determinism and Identity Management in Colonial Korea Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review Number 10, March 2014 26 pages Mark Caprio Rikkyo University, Ikebukuro, Tokyo, Japan Medical researcher Kubo Takeshi’s contributions to professional publications, such as Chōsen igakkai zasshi (The Korean medical journal), and more popular magazines, such as…

  • Michael David Kwan, Things That Must Not Be Forgotten: A Childhood in Wartime China, reviewed by Yuxin Ma International Journal of China Studies Volume 4, Number 1, April 2013 pages 169-171 Yuxin Ma, Associate Professor of East Asian History University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky Michael David Kwan, Things That Must Not Be Forgotten: A Childhood…

  • The Influences Affecting and the Influential Effects of Multiracials: Multiracialism and Stratification Sociology Compass Volume 8, Issue 1 (January 2014) pages 63-77 DOI: 10.1111/soc4.12100 Hephzibah V. Strmic-Pawl, Assistant Professor of Sociology Coastal Carolina University, Conway, South Carolina Early research on multiracials documents the existence of a newly emergent population, those who identify with more than…

  • Witnesses to History: Children’s Views of Race and the 2008 United States Presidential Election Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy Volume 13, Issue 1 (December 2013) pages 186–210 DOI: 10.1111/j.1530-2415.2012.01303.x Meagan M. Patterson, Associate Professor of Psychology University of Kansas Erin Pahlke, Assistant Professor of Psychology Whitman College, Walla Walla, Washington Rebecca S. Bigler,…

  • Validity of Infant Race/Ethnicity from Birth Certificates in the Context of U.S. Demographic Change Health Services Research Volume 49, Issue 1 (February 2014) pages 249–267 DOI: 10.1111/1475-6773.12083 Lisa Reyes Mason, Assistant Professor of Social Work University of Tennessee, Knoxville Yunju Nam, Associate Professor of Social Work State University of New York, Buffalo Youngmi Kim, Assistant…

  • Complicating Race or Reproducing Whiteness? Heidi Durrow and The Girl Who Fell From the Sky Gino Michael Pellegrini: Education, Race, Multiraciality, Class & Solidarity 2014-04-13 Gino Michael Pellegrini, Adjunct Assistant Professor of English Pierce College, Woodland Hills, California [This is an excerpt from a paper (currently being revised) that I presented last month at the…

  • Pilot Episode The Source Weekly Bend, Oregon 2014-03-20 Brianna Brey Jason Graham (The Source Weekly) The Lot’s new open mic calls on Bend’s creative types “Calling ALL local musicians, artist and hacks,” reads the event listing for Bend’s newest open mic night, an free-for-all gathering on Wednesday nights at The Lot. “Sing a tune, read…