Category: Articles

  • Raceless Like Me: Students at Harvard Navigate their Way Beyond the Boundaries of Race The Harvard Crimson Harvard University 2011-10-13 Zoe A. Y. Weinberg, Crimson Staff Writer One day last fall, Paula M. Maouyo ’14 sat in front of her laptop in Matthews trying to think of a topic for her Expos paper about racial…

  • Fade To Black: Racelessness In The Age of Obama A. Little Bit of Enlightenment 2009-10-09 Anita Little The new 21st century epithet of racelessness, which most associate with the positive qualities of a post-race society, can actually be a guise for a much more sinister motivation. The tendency of society to assign the quality of…

  • Refusing to Identify by Race The New York Times 2013-07-11 Carlos Hoyt Andover, Massachusetts Re “Has ‘Caucasian’ Lost Its Meaning?” (news analysis, Sunday Review, July 7 [2013]): I recently completed a doctoral study at the Simmons School of Social Work about people who are commonly ascribed to the black/African-American, biracial or multiracial categories, but who…

  • Race and ethnicity II: Skin and other intimacies Progress in Human Geography Volume 37, Number 4  (August 2013) pages 578-586 DOI: 10.1177/0309132512465719 Patricia L. Price, Professor of Geography Florida International University The intimate turn in geography has centralized approaches to race and ethnicity which foreground bodily encounters. The quirky spatialities of intimacy, involving not just…

  • I Am What I Say I Am Time Magazine 2001-03-18 Lise Funderburg According to Russell (my personal trainer by night, a lawyer by day, and a philosopher by disposition), I have white calves. Not white as in pasty, but as in Caucasian. My calves are–how to put it?–substantial, and their shape not only pegs me…

  • Afro-Rebel (Or Why I am not an Afropolitan) Black Girl Dancing at Lughnasa 2013-07-09 Emma Dabiri, Teaching Fellow Africa Department, School of African and Oriental Studies, London Visual Sociology Ph.D. Researcher, Goldsmiths University of London The following is from a discussion I recently took part in ‘Fantasy or Reality? Afropolitan Narratives of the 21st Century’…

  • Dwayne Johnson – ‘Race Shifter’ In A Post Racial World? Shadow and Act: On Cinema Of The African Diaspora 2013-03-27 Sergio Mims, Staff Writer We all know that there’s been a lot of talk about how we are all now living in a “post-racial” society. Though I think, most of us will respond to that…

  • New class: The Multiracial Experience The Portland State Vanguard Portland, Oregon 2013-01-16 Gwen Shaw The eye of the storm. That’s what Black Studies professor Ethan Johnson calls the Northwest, when it comes to multiracialism. “The Northwest has some of the highest rates, within the black community in particular, of marrying outside of their race—in the…

  • Quiting India: the Anglo-Indian Culture of Migration sites: a Journal of Social Anthropology and Cultural Studies Volume 4, Number 2 (2007) pages 32-56 DOI: 10.11157/sites-vol4iss2id73 Robyn Andrews, Lecturer, Social Anthropology Programme Massey University In my work with the Anglo-Indians in Calcutta I was reminded of Caplan’s (1995) comment that Anglo-Indians had a ‘culture of emigration’,…

  • Anglo-Indians: Is their culture dying out? BBC News Magazine 2013-01-03 Kris Griffiths A product of the British Empire, with a mixture of Western and Indian names, customs and complexions, 2,000 Anglo-Indians are to attend a reunion in Calcutta. But their communities in both the UK and the subcontinent are disappearing, writes Anglo-Indian Kris Griffiths. Southall…