Category: Articles

  • Review: The United States of the United Races: A Utopian History of Racial Mixing The College Dropout: Book blog and occasional wisdom on paleo, making money, and life 2013-10-10 Charles Franklin The United States of the United Races: A Utopian History of Racial Mixing by Greg Carter My rating: 4 of 5 stars Pros: Historical…

  • Bringing Black History Home CUNY Newswire The City University of New York 2011-04-15 Antoinette Martignoni, left, and her granddaughter Greta Blau hold a family Bible that contains the name of their ancestor, Dr. James McCune Smith, the nation’s first African American physician at Martignoni’s home in Fairfield, Conn., Thursday, Sept. 23, 2010. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill)…

  • Forced to pass and other sins against authenticity Women & Performance: a journal of feminist theory Volume 15, Issue 1, 2005 pages 17-32 DOI: 10.1080/07407700508571486 Kerry Ann Rockquemore According to the identity commandments, passing is a sin against authenticity. Thou shall not pretend to be something that you are not. Men should not pretend to…

  • Clearly Invisible Racial Passing and the Color of Cultural Identity by Marcia Alesan Dawkins, and: The Souls of Mixed Folk: Race, Politics and Aesthetics in the New Millennium by Michele Elam (review) Philip Roth Studies Volume 9, Number 2, Fall 2013 pages 99-103 DOI: 10.1353/prs.2013.0024 Donavan L. Ramon Rutgers University Marcia Alesan Dawkins, Clearly Invisible:…

  • Garcetti, New Los Angeles Mayor, Reflects Changing City The New York Times 2013-10-07 Jennifer Medina LOS ANGELES — He is Jewish. He is Latino. He can break dance and play jazz piano. He speaks nearly impeccable Spanish. He has talked longingly about growing his own vegetables and maybe even raising his own chickens. He lives…

  • Is race erased? Decoding race from patterns of neural activity when skin color is not diagnostic of group boundaries Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience Volume 8, Issue 7 (October 2013) pages 750-755 DOI: 10.1093/scan/nss063 Kyle G. Ratner Department of Psychology New York University Christian Kaul Department of Psychology and Center for Neural Science New York…

  • Chinese Cubans: A Transnational History by Kathleen López (review) Journal of Latin American Geography Volume 12, Number 3, 2013 pages 234-236 DOI: 10.1353/lag.2013.0049 Joseph L. Scarpaci, Professor Emeritus of Geography Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Kathleen López, Chinese Cubans: A Transnational History (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2013) The new millennium cast…

  • In‐and‐out‐of‐race: The story of Noble Johnson Women & Performance: a journal of feminist theory Volume 15, Issue 1, 2005 pages 33-52 DOI: 10.1080/07407700508571487 Jane Gaines, Professor of Film Studies Columbia University School of the Arts Noble Johnson’s story is a very American story, a story more typical than we have historically wanted to admit. It…

  • Professor discusses covert racism The Dartmouth Dartmouth College Hanover, New Hampshire 2013-09-27 Bryn Morgan Though racism is more covert today, blacks are subject to the same prejudice as they were in the 1960s, Duke University sociology professor Eduardo Bonilla-Silva argued in a lecture on Thursday. Bonilla-Silva said a new form of racism has emerged, replacing…

  • A Reply By Rev. S. P. Richardson D. D. to a Sermon By Dr. Talmage, Preached in Brooklyn, N.Y. March 3rd, on “The United States, Immigration Ethology, and the Amalgamation of All the Races.