Category: Articles

  • UCLA receiver Thomas Duarte proud of biracial heritage Los Angeles Daily News 2013-11-25 Jack Wang, Staff Reporter The smell hits him three or four blocks away. Thomas Duarte is coming back from a run around his Orange County neighborhood, and the day is hot enough that the windows of his house have been cracked open.…

  • The Symbolic Power of Color: Constructions of Race, Skin-Color, and Identity in Brazil Humanity & Society Volume 35, Numbers 1-2 (February 2011) pages 62-99 DOI: 10.1177/016059761103500104 Marcia L. Mikulak, Associate Professor of Anthropology University of North Dakota Some current cultural anthropologists define race as a social construct, yet explorations of the socio-historical constructions that give…

  • Book review: The Black Irish Onscreen: Representing Black and Mixed-Race Identities on Irish Film and Television Film Ireland Temple Bar, Dublin, Ireland 2013-11-19 Sarah Griffin Zélie Asava, The Black Irish Onscreen: Representing Black and Mixed-Race Identities on Irish Film and Television (Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Wien: Peter Lang, 2013) Sarah…

  • Changing Space, Making Race: Distance, Nostalgia, and the Folklorization of Blackness in Puerto Rico Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power Volume 9,  Issue 3, 2002 pages 281-304 DOI: 10.1080/10702890213969 Isar Godreau Institute of Interdisciplinary Research University of Puerto Rico, Cayey In this article, I critique some of the discursive terms in which blackness is…

  • Race in Biological and Biomedical Research Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Medicine Volume 3, Issue 11 (November 2013) 10 pages DOI: 10.1101/cshperspect.a008573 Richard S. Cooper, Anthony B. Traub Professor of Community and Family Medicine Loyola University Medical School The concept of race has had a significant influence on research in human biology since the early…

  • Revolutionizing Romance: Interracial Couples in Contemporary Cuba [Williams Review] Association for Feminist Anthropology Book Reviews 2012-12-21 Erica Lorraine Williams, Assistant Professor of Anthropology Spelman College, Atlanta, Georgia Nadine T. Fernandez, Revolutionizing Romance: Interracial Couples in Contemporary Cuba (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2010) In this insightful and well-written ethnography, Nadine Fernandez explores a central paradox:…

  • A Racial Paradise? Race and Race Mixture in Henry Louis Gates’ Brazil Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies Volume 8,  Issue 1, 2013 pages 88-91 DOI: 10.1080/17442222.2013.768464 Chinyere Osuji, Assistant Professor of Sociology Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Camden In this documentary, Henry Louis Gates explores the extent to which the notion of…

  • Carlton Mackey: Conversations beyond color Emory Profile Emory News Center 2013-11-22 Kimber Williams As director of Emory’s Ethics and the Arts program — and a lifelong photographer and filmmaker — Carlton Mackey is used to exploring the questions that intrigue him through an artist’s lens.  So as he prepared to become a father for the…

  • Many Rivers to Cross: From Black Power to the Black President The Root 2013-11-26 Peniel E. Joseph, Professor of History Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts In the sixth and final installment of his PBS series, Henry Louis Gates Jr. leads us from the black power movement to the historic election of Barack Obama. Americans have notoriously…

  • Hello World: How Nike Sold Tiger Woods The Margins (After 1989) Asian American Writer’s Workshop 2012-08-02 Hiram Perez, Assistant Professor of English Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York How did a multinational corporation like Nike appeal to diverse markets without violating the principle of colorblindness that became increasingly and insidiously sacrosanct in the U.S. in the…