Category: Articles

  • Mestizaje nacional: una historia “negra” por contar / National miscegenation: a “negro” history yet to be told Memoria y Sociedad Volume 14, Number 29 (2010) pages 91-105 Diana Catalina Zapata-Cortés Historiadora de la Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia This work analyzes the “negro” representation in the projects of folklore diffusion that spread in the…

  • Boa Aparência (Good Appearance): How Colorism Plays Out in Latin America 50shadesofblack.com | Fueling Conversation 2012-10-08 Dash Harris In.a.Dash.Media “Go to the banks and you’ll see how racist, this country is.” This was a sentiment expressed ad nauseam in my interviews about how colorism drives societal treatment. Interviewees in every country I visited for the…

  • Hue & Phenotype: Colorism… Even More Complex 50shadesofblack.com | Fueling Conversation 2012-09-21 Dash Harris In.a.Dash.Media I have interviewed over 100 people for this docu-series and recently I’ve come across more and more interviewees who ask me about my background. I’ve had a handful of Caribbeans ask me if I were ‘dougla,’ a person of Indian…

  • Bolivia’s Census Omits ‘Mestizo’ as Category The New York Times 2012-11-21 The Associated Press LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — Bolivia is under a virtual curfew as census-takers count and classify the landlocked Andean nation’s population in its first census in 11 years. Stirring controversy was the government decision not to include “mestizo” as a category…

  • Perspectives and Research on the Concept of Race within the Framework of Multiracial Identity Interpersona: An International Journal on Personal Relationships Volume 5, Issue 2 (December 2011) pages 168-203 Katherine Aumer, Assistant Professor of Psychology Hawai’i Pacific University Elaine Hatfield, Professor of Psychology University of Hawai‘i, Manoa William Swann, Professor of Social and Personality Psychology…

  • Becoming Yellow: A Short History of Racial Thinking (review) Journal of World History Volume 23, Number 3, September 2012 pages 676-680 DOI: 10.1353/jwh.2012.0064 Magnus Fiskesjö, Associate Professor of Anthropology Cornell University Michael Keevak has given us a wonderful, even riveting, deep-historical account of how people in Asia (particularly East Asia) came to be seen as…

  • Mixed-race teens talk about identity The Mash: For teens, by teens 2012-11-15 Kaylah Sosa Homewood-Flossmoor High School, Flossmoor, Illinois Chris Pieper Whitney Young Magnet High School, Chicago, Illinois Megan Fu Buffalo Grove, Buffalo Grove, Illinois Rosemary Anguiano Whitney Young Magnet High School, Chicago, Illinois The Mash is a weekly newspaper and Web site that is…

  • A few questions from CMRS 2012 Two or More: Mixed thoughts about the Census NAC 2012-11-18 Eric Hamako Eric Hamako is one of 32 members of the United States Census Bureau’s National Advisory Committee (NAC) on Race, Ethnic, and Other Populations, 2012-2014. This blog is intended to 1) share updates and Eric’s perspectives on the…

  • College applications force mixed-race teens to color outside the lines The Mash: For teens, by teens 2012-11-15 Steffie Drucker Niles North High School, Skokie, Illinois Josh Kalamotousakis John F. Kennedy High School, Chicago, Illinois The Mash is a weekly newspaper and Web site that is here to serve you, the Chicago-area teenager. The paper is…

  • The New Colored People: The Mixed Race Movement in America (Book Review) Mixed American Life 2012-11-15 Charles T. Franklin The New Colored People: The Mixed Race Movement in America by Jon Michael Spencer (1997) makes the argument that the US multi-cultural movement, like other movements in the past, is something that we need to pay…