Category: Articles

  • Bicultural Identity Negotiation, Conflicts, and Intergroup Communication Strategies Journal of Intercultural Communication Research Volume 42,  Issue 2, 2013 pages 112-134 DOI: 10.1080/17475759.2013.785973 Adrian Toomey California State University, Fullerton Tenzin Dorjee, Assistant Professor of Human Communications Studies California State University, Fullerton Stella Ting-Toomey, Professor of Human Communications Studies California State University, Fullerton This qualitative study explores…

  • I’m a kosher burrito, says new mixed-race LA mayor The Jewish Chronicle Online London, England 2013-05-30 Tom Tugend Eric Garcetti, the first Jewish mayor elected by Los Angeles voters, jokingly refers to himself as a “kosher burrito”, the latter word referring to a popular Mexican dish. The son of a Jewish mother and a father…

  • This Is The Mixed-Race Cheerios Ad All The Idiots Are Complaining About Business Insider Advertising 2013-05-30 Judith Grey A new commercial for Cheerios featuring a mixed-race family has become a target for idiots on the internet. The anodyne spot features a Caucasian mother, an African-American father and their biracial daughter, but contains no overt messaging,…

  • Why We Need to Talk About Race in Adoption Bitch Magazine 2013-05-29 Nicole Callahan Two years ago, on vacation in the Great Smoky Mountains, I saw a white couple at a restaurant with their Asian daughter. Though her father told her to quit staring, I felt the girl’s eyes on me all through the meal.…

  • Black woman rises to leadership in Daughters of the American Revolution theGrio 2013-05-26 Donovan X. Ramsey This month, Autier Allen-Craft was elected to the position of regent in the Norwalk–Village Green chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) in Connecticut. Allen-Craft, a black woman, says the organization has come a long way since…

  • A “Mulatto Escape Hatch” in the United States? Examining Evidence of Racial and Social Mobility During the Jim Crow Era Demography Published Online: 2013-04-20 DOI: 10.1007/s13524-013-0210-8 Aliya Saperstein, Assistant Professor of Sociology Stanford University Aaron Gullickson, Associate Professor of Sociology University of Oregon Racial distinctions in the United States have long been characterized as uniquely rigid…

  • Looking the Part: Social Status Cues Shape Race Perception PLoS ONE Volume 6, Issue 9: e25107 Published: 2011-09-26 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0025107 Jonathan B. Freemam,  Assistant Professor of Psychological & Brain Sciences Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire Andrew M. Penner, Associate Professor of Sociology University of California, Irvine Aliya Saperstein, Assistant Professor of Sociology Stanford University Matthias Scheutz,…

  • Remembering Crispus Attucks and the forgotten black soldiers of the American Revolution The Grio 2013-05-27 Ronda Racha Penrice Crispus Attucks. (Library of Congress) Memorial Day may be more about barbecues and blowout sales than honoring our deceased veterans these days, but there are many reasons for African-Americans in particular to take pause. Starting with the…

  • The Forgotten Amerasians The New York Times 2013-05-27 Christopher M. Lapinig Yale University NEW HAVEN — THE Senate Judiciary Committee approved an immigration reform bill last week that would gradually make citizenship possible for as many as 11 million undocumented immigrants. The bill is widely described as sweeping in scope. In fact, it is not…

  • Casta Paintings: Images of Race in Eighteenth-Century Mexico by Ilona Katzew; Imagining Identity in New Spain: Race, Lineage, and the Colonial Body in Portraiture and Casta Paintings by Magali M. Carrera The Art Bulletin Volume 88, Number 1 (March, 2006) pages 185-189 Thomas B.F. Cummins, Dumbarton Oaks Professor of Pre-Columbian and Colonial Art Harvard University…