Category: Articles

  • Latino racial choices: the effects of skin colour and discrimination on Latinos’ and Latinas’ racial self-identifications Ethnic and Racial Studies Volume 31, Issue 5, 2008 pages 899-934 DOI: 10.1080/01419870701568858 Tanya Golash-Boza, Associate Professor of Sociology University of California, Merced William Darity, Jr., Arts & Sciences Professor of Public Policy, African and African American Studies, and…

  • “My dad is samurai”: Positioning of race and ethnicity surrounding a transnational Colombian Japanese high school student Linguistics and Education Available Online: 2013-05-22 DOI: 10.1016/j.linged.2013.03.002 Satoko Shao-Kobayashi Chiba University, Japan Highlights Racial hierarchies in different countries impact transnational students’ positioning in local contexts. Participants Other coethnics by using various labels to destigmatize their own minority…

  • Breaking the Color Barrier: Regina Andrews and the New York Public Library Libraries & the Cultural Record Volume 42, Number 4, 2007 pages 409-421 DOI: 10.1353/lac.2007.0068 Ethelene Whitmire, Associate Professor of Library & Information Studies University of Wisconsin, Madison Chicago native Regina Anderson Andrews (1901–93) was a librarian in the New York Public Library (NYPL)…

  • South Korea’s multiculturalism Al Jazeera The Stream 2013-05-21 How is the nation dealing with its growing diversity? A multi-cultural, multi-ethnic society is an emerging reality that is leading to a lot of racial and social discord in South Korea. Faced with an aging population and an influx of migrant wives, many are clinging to their…

  • LAAPFF 2013: Mix-cultural Asians Find Their Roots 8Asians 2013-05-20 Shako Liu One common theme that has been echoing in some of the documentaries presented in Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival is that mix-raced Asians either in the states or in an Asian country, or Asian immigrants are trying to find out who they are…

  • The Limits of Literary Realism: Of One Blood’s Post-Racial Fantasy by Pauline Hopkins Callaloo Volume 36, Number 1, Winter 2013 pages 158-177 DOI: 10.1353/cal.2013.0049 Melissa Asher Daniels, Assistant Professor of English University of Alabama, Birmingham Fiction is of great value to any people as a preserver of manners and customs—€”religious, political and social. It is…

  • A Conversation with Lawrence Hill Callaloo Volume 36, Number 1, Winter 2013 pages 5-26 DOI: 10.1353/cal.2013.0072 Winfried Siemerling, Professor of English University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada When Paul Gilroy in The Black Atlantic offered an alternative account of modernity that placed transnational, black transatlantic lives and cultures at the center, Canada was not on his…

  • The Place in Between: An Interview with Esi Edugyan Callaloo Volume 36, Number 1, Winter 2013 pages 46-51 DOI: 10.1353/cal.2013.0070 Maaza Mengiste Esi Edugyan’s 2011 Man Booker Prize finalist, Half-Blood Blues, opens with the lines, “Chip told us not to go out. Said, don’t you boys tempt the devil.” It is 1940 in Nazi-occupied Paris…

  • Jean Toomer: The Fluidity of Racial Identity Face to Face: A blog from the National Portrait Gallery Smithsonian Institution 2012-07-20 Elizabeth Brevard, Intern Catalog of American Portraits National Portrait Gallery Jean Toomer / Marjorie Content / Gelatin silver print, c. 1934 / National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution ©Susan L. Sandberg An author, philosopher, and spiritual…

  • Bullying Pulpit: Racism, Barack Obama and the Selective Call for Personal Responsibility Tim Wise, Antiracist Essayist, Author and Educator 2013-05-19 Tim Wise Sometimes, white privilege isn’t about stuff. It’s not always about better opportunities, or more money, or even greater access to those things than people of color. Sometimes, white privilege is as simple as…