Category: Articles

  • About Biracials Learning About African-American Culture or B.L.A.A.C. Biracials Learning About African-American Culture or B.L.A.A.C. 2013-06-18 Zebulon Miletsky, Assistant Professor of Africana Studies Stony Brook University, State University of New York The idea for this blog came from several discussions with students and young people who come from mixed-race backgrounds, especially so-called “white and black”…

  • Empathetic eye Agência FAPESP: News Agency of the Sao Paulo Research Foundation 2011-06-08 Fábio de Castro Agência FAPESP – In 1865, an expedition led by Swiss natural scientist Louis Agassiz (1807-1873) of Harvard University travelled around Brazil for 15 months to study the country. Among the voluntary collectors that participated in the expedition was a…

  • Obama rodeo clown incident illustrates nation’s continued racial divide The Washington Post 2013-08-15 Philip Rucker SEDALIA, Mo. — As some people at the Missouri State Fair see it, the rodeo incident last weekend in which a ringleader taunted a clown wearing a mask of President Obama and played with his lips as a bull charged…

  • Japanese migration to Brazil was part of a peaceful expansionist policy Agência FAPESP: News Agency of the Sao Paulo Research Foundation 2012-07-25 Elton Alisson USP historian Shozo Motoyama makes the above assertion in a study on the first stage of Japanese immigration to Brazil, which covers the process of cultural integration Agência FAPESP – Japanese…

  • Masculinity and whiteness in the construction of the Brazilian Republic Agência FAPESP: News Agency of the São Paulo Research Foundation 2013-06-12 José Tadeu Arantes Sexual discipline and whitening of the population were the guidelines of the conservative modernization promoted by the elite, affirms study Agência FAPESP – Masculinity and whiteness were the ideals of the…

  • A big fish or a small pond? Framing effects in percentages Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes Volume 122, Issue 2, November 2013 pages 190–199 DOI: 10.1016/j.obhdp.2013.07.003 Meng Li, Assistant Professor Department of Health and Behavioral Sciences University of Colorado Denver Gretchen B. Chapman, Professor of Psychology Rutgers University This paper presents three studies that…

  • Frizzly Studies: Negotiating the Invisible Lines of Race Common Knowledge Volume 19, Number 3 (Fall 2013) pages 518-529 DOI: 10.1215/0961754X-2281810 Daniel J. Sharfstein, Professor of Law Vanderbilt University Beginning with the assumption that race is a conceptual blur, this contribution to the Common Knowledge symposium “Fuzzy Studies” argues that race conflates what is plain to…

  • UMASS Recognizes Growing Interdisciplinary Study of Black Germans in Academia Diverse: Issues in Higher Education 2013-08-12 Jamal Watson AMHERST, Mass.—In an effort to recognize a relatively young academic discipline that many in the academy have never heard of before, nearly a hundred students and scholars gathered at Amherst College over the weekend to discuss their…

  • More than a “Passing” Sophistication: Dress, Film Regulation, and the Color Line in 1930s American Films WSQ: Women’s Studies Quarterly Volume 41, Numbers 1 & 2, Spring/Summer 2013 pages 60-86 DOI: 10.1353/wsq.2013.0048 Ellen Scott, Assistant Professor of Media Studies Queens College, City University of New York When we think of African American representations of 1930s…

  • Keeping Pictures, Keeping House: Harriet and Louisa Jacobs, Fanny Fern, and the Unverifiable History of Seeing the Mulatta ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance Volume 59, Number 2, 2013 (No. 231 O.S.) pages 262-290 DOI: 10.1353/esq.2013.0022 Michael A. Chaney, Associate Professor of English Dartmouth College Daguerreotype of Louise Jacobs. From the Fanny Fern and…