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  • White Privilege: A Multimedia Analysis

    White Privilege: A Multimedia Analysis The Sociological Cinema: teaching & learning sociology through video 2013-07-08 Paul Dean, Assistant Professor of Sociology and Anthropology Ohio Wesleyan University White privilege refers to the unearned advantages that whites receive because of their skin color. It includes a vast array of concrete advantages varying from institutional settings (systemic discrimination…

  • Zimmerman, Whiteness and Latinos

    Zimmerman, Whiteness and Latinos ABC News/Univision 2013-07-18 Leticia Alvarado, Assistant Professor of American Studies Brown University Saturday night bore a particularly saturated darkness, tinged by the news of George Zimmerman’s acquittal of all charges in connection to the death of not-yet-man-not-quite-child Trayvon Martin. A range of single-word status updates overtook my various social media feeds…

  • Fighting the ‘White Man’s War’

    Fighting the ‘White Man’s War’ The New York Times 2013-07-19 Aaron Barnhart and Diane Eickhoff The Battle of Honey Springs was one of the only Civil War engagements where the majority of the combatants were non-white. Three miles down a gravel road near Rentiesville, Okla., sits a portable building that, for now, serves as the…

  • This is the speech we’ve been waiting for

    This is the speech we’ve been waiting for Politico 2013-07-19 Anthea Butler, Associate Professor of Religion University of Pennsylvania President Obama’s surprise remarks Friday about Trayvon Martin, race in America and the Zimmerman trial will be remembered far longer than his “race” speech in March 2008 in Philadelphia. That speech, entitled “A More Perfect Union,”…

  • Remarks by the President on Trayvon Martin

    Remarks by the President on Trayvon Martin The White House Office of the Press Secretary James S. Brady Press Briefing Room 2013-07-19, 17:33Z (13:33 EDT) Barack H. Obama, President of the United States I wanted to come out here, first of all, to tell you that Jay is prepared for all your questions and is very…

  • In Wake of Zimmerman Verdict, Obama Makes Extensive Statement on Race in America [with video]

    In Wake of Zimmerman Verdict, Obama Makes Extensive Statement on Race in America [with video] The New York Times 2013-07-19 Mark Landler, White House Correspondent Michael D. Shear, White House Correspondent WASHINGTON — President Obama, making a surprise appearance on Friday in the White House briefing room to address the verdict in the Trayvon Martin…

  • Perceiving a Presidency in Black (and White): Four Years Later

    Perceiving a Presidency in Black (and White): Four Years Later Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy First published online: 2013-06-25 DOI: 10.1111/asap.12018 Sarah E. Gaither Tufts University Leigh S. Wilton Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey Danielle M. Young Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey When Barack Obama became the “first Black President”…

  • Relevance of Race: Children and the Shifting Engagement with Racial/Ethnic Identity among Second-Generation Interracially Married Asian Americans

    Relevance of Race: Children and the Shifting Engagement with Racial/Ethnic Identity among Second-Generation Interracially Married Asian Americans Journal of Asian American Studies Volume 16, Number 2, June 2013 pages 189-221 DOI: 10.1353/jaas.2013.0019 Kelly H. Chong, Associate Professor of Sociology University of Kansas Asian Americans have historically enjoyed one of the highest rates of intermarriage of…

  • Obama Made in Kenya: Appropriating the American Dream in Kogelo

    Obama Made in Kenya: Appropriating the American Dream in Kogelo Africa Today Volume 59, Number 4, Summer 2013 pages 68-90 DOI: 10.1353/at.2013.0027 Karin van Bemmel Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium In November 2008, millions of Kenyan citizens expressed their happiness about the election of Barack Obama as President of the United States. Four years later, people…

  • Black And Jewish And Read All Over

    Black And Jewish And Read All Over The Jewish Week 2013-07-16 Julie Wiener She may currently live on the Upper East Side, but Simone Weichselbaum, 31, remains a Brooklyn girl. Raised in Williamsburg and Crown Heights by her Ashkenazi Jewish dad (who freelances for The Jewish Week) and Jamaican mom, Weichselbaum, a Park East Day…