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  • Scholars fix gaze on changing racial landscape

    Scholars fix gaze on changing racial landscape Chicago Tribune 2012-10-29 Dawn Turner Trice Laura Kina, 39, is half Asian-American and half white. Her husband is Jewish, and her stepdaughter is half Hispanic. Her family, including her fair-skinned, blue-eyed biological daughter, lives near Devon Avenue in the heart of Chicago’s Indian and Pakistani community. Kina, who’s…

  • The Price of a Black President

    The Price of a Black President The New York Times 2012-10-27 Frederick C. Harris, Professor of Political Science;  Director of the Institute for Research in African-American Studies; Director of the Center on African-American Politics and Society Columbia University WHEN African-Americans go to the polls next week, they are likely to support Barack Obama at a…

  • Anatole Broyard’s Kafka Was the Rage: A Greenwich Village Memoir

    Anatole Broyard’s Kafka Was the Rage: A Greenwich Village Memoir Journal of American Ethnic History Volume 32, Number 1 (Fall 2012) pages 95-100 DOI: 10.5406/jamerethnhist.32.1.0095 Greg Carter, Associate Professor of History University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee I DESIGNED MY FIRST COURSE, Mixed Race Identity in American Culture, an elective surveying the history of racial mixing in…

  • Race, Religion, and Law in Colonial India. Trials of an Interracial Family [Review]

    Race, Religion, and Law in Colonial India. Trials of an Interracial Family [Review] Reviews in History: Covering books and digital resources across all fields of history October 2012 Peter Robb, Research Professor of the History of India School of Oriental and African Studies University of London Race, Religion, and Law in Colonial India. Trials of…

  • Spirometry, Measurement, and Race in the Nineteenth Century

    Spirometry, Measurement, and Race in the Nineteenth Century Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences Volume 60, Number 2, April 2005 pages 135-169 Lundy Braun, Royce Family Professor in Teaching Excellence and Professor of Medical Science and Africana Studies Brown University Race correction is a common practice in contemporary pulmonary medicine that involves…

  • Beyond Confronting the Myth of Racial Democracy: The Role of Afro-Brazilian Women Scholars and Activists

    Beyond Confronting the Myth of Racial Democracy: The Role of Afro-Brazilian Women Scholars and Activists Gettysburg College Faculty Publications Paper 1 (November 2007) 55 pages Nathalie Lebon, Assistant Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania This paper offers a synopsis of the current scholarship mapping the social and economic exclusion of…

  • Multiracial youths show similar vulnerability to peer pressure as whites

    Multiracial youths show similar vulnerability to peer pressure as whites University of Washington News 2012-07-10 Molly McElroy Researchers who studied a large sample of middle- and high-school students in Washington state found that mixed-race adolescents are more similar to their white counterparts than previously believed.   Experts have thought that multiracial adolescents, the fastest growing…

  • Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Whiteness: A Revolution of Identity Politics in America

    Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Whiteness: A Revolution of Identity Politics in America Columbia Journal of Race and Law Volume 2, Issue 1 (2012) pages 149-166 Andrés Acebo An enduring motif in American political history reflects the nation’s slow progression towards inclusion of a once disenfranchised populace. In the annals of its jurisprudence, the…

  • Ocular Anthropomorphisms: Eugenics and Primatology at the Threshold of the “Almost Human”

    Ocular Anthropomorphisms: Eugenics and Primatology at the Threshold of the “Almost Human” Social Text Volume 30, Number 3 112 pages 97-121 DOI: 10.1215/01642472-1597350 Megan H. Glick, Assistant Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies and Africana Studies Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania From the moment Charles Darwin proposed Africa as the site of human origins, scientists and…

  • The Race to Progress: Census Taking and Nation Making in Brazil (1870–1920)

    The Race to Progress: Census Taking and Nation Making in Brazil (1870–1920) Hispanic American Historical Review Volume 89, Number 3 (2009) pages 435-470 DOI: 10.1215/00182168-2009-002 Mara Loveman, Associate Professor of Sociology University of Wisconsin, Madison From the mid-nineteenth century, central statistics agencies contributed to nation-state building through their dual mission of producing statistical description and…