Category: Articles

  • Faculty-Alumnus David Huffman’s “Out of Bounds” at SFAC Gallery a “SHIFT” Toward Dialogue About Race in America California College of the Arts Featured News 2011-09-14 Jim Norrena Alumnus David Huffman (MFA 1998), who is a recently tenured assistant professor in CCA’s undergraduate Painting/Drawing Program and Graduate Program in Fine Arts, is one of three featured…

  • Purchasing Whiteness in Colonial Latin America Not Even Past: “The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” —William Faulkner Department of History University of Texas at Austin 2013-09-18 Ann Twinam, Professor of History University of Texas, Austin The castas, or mixed race populations, suffered numerous forms of discrimination in colonial Latin America, but in…

  • Not Just Color: Whiteness, nation, and status in Latin America Hispanic American Historical Review Volume 93, Number 3 (August 2013) pages 411-449 DOI: 10.1215/00182168-2210858 Edward Telles, Professor of Sociology Princeton University René Flores Princeton University In this study we use statistical analysis of nationally representative surveys from the 2010 AmericasBarometer to examine how color, nationality, and…

  • Overseas adoptions rise — for black American children Cable News Network (CNN) 2013-09-17 Sophie Brown Editor’s note: In this series, CNN investigates international adoption, hearing from families, children and key experts on its decline, and whether the trend could — or should — be reversed. (CNN) — Elisa van Meurs grew up with a Polish…

  • ‘It’s not written on their skin like it is ours’: Greek letter organizations in the age of the multicultural imperative Ethnicities Volume 13, Number 5 (October 2013) pages 519-543 DOI: 10.1177/1468796812471127 Joanna S. Hunter, Assistant Professor of Sociology Radford University, Radford, Virginia Matthew W. Hughey, Associate Professor of Sociology University of Connecticut Today’s students wrestle…

  • Esther J. Cepeda: Debate grows over Hispanics and the 2020 Census San Jose Mercury News San Jose, California 2013-09-07 Esther J. Cepeda, Columnist The Washington Post CHICAGO—A debate is raging about whether the U.S. Census Bureau should offer Hispanics the option of identifying themselves as a separate race in the 2020 count. But let’s instead…

  • Vietnam Legacy: Finding G.I. Fathers, and Children Left Behind The New York Times 2013-09-16 James Dao, Military and Veterans Affairs Reporter SALTILLO, Miss. — Soon after he departed Vietnam in 1970, Specialist James Copeland received a letter from his Vietnamese girlfriend. She was pregnant, she wrote, and he was the father. He re-enlisted, hoping to…

  • Mixed emotions: Reflections on researching racial mixing and mixedness Emotion, Space and Society Volume 11, May 2014 pages 79–88 DOI: 10.1016/j.emospa.2013.07.002 Chamion Cabellero, Senior Research Fellow Social Capital Research Group London South Bank University Researching racial and ethnic issues can involve entering a highly emotive terrain and the subject of ‘mixed race’ is no exception.…

  • “It’s Only Other People Who Make Me Feel Black”: Acculturation, Identity, and Agency in a Multicultural Community Political Psychology Published online: 2013-02-18 DOI: 10.1111/pops.12020 Caroline Howarth, Senior Lecturer in Social Psychology London School of Economics, United Kingdom Wolfgang Wagner, Professor of Psychology Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria University of the Basque Country, San Sebastián, Spain…

  • Don’t miss Hapa-Palooza 2013: Celebrate mixed ethnicity and third culture in Vancouver Vancouver Observer Vancouver, British Columbia 2013-09-13 Jordan Yerman Celebrate the whole you with literature, film, art, and dance. This is Hapa-Palooza. The third annual Hapa-Palooza Festival kicks off on September 18, once again bringing three days of art and culture to Vancouver. Focusing…