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  • Race Finished: Book Review

    Race Finished: Book Review American Scientist April-May, 2012 Jan Sapp, Professor of Biology and History York University, Toronto Race?: Debunking a Scientific Myth. Ian Tattersall and Rob DeSalle. xviii + 226 pp. Texas A&M University Press, 2011. Race and the Genetic Revolution: Science, Myth, and Culture. Edited by Sheldon Krimsky and Kathleen Sloan. xiv +…

  • The Biologistical Construction of Race: ‘Admixture’ Technology and the New Genetic Medicine

    The Biologistical Construction of Race: ‘Admixture’ Technology and the New Genetic Medicine Social Studies of Science Volume 38, Number 5 (2008) pages 695-735 DOI: 10.1177/0306312708090796 Duana Fullwiley, Associate Professor of African and African American Studies and of Medical Anthropology Harvard University This paper presents an ethnographic case study of the use of race in two…

  • Afro Latinos: everywhere, yet invisible

    Afro Latinos: everywhere, yet invisible Our Weekly 2011-10-06 Cynthia Griffin Struggles with self-image, assimilation mirror Black American experience Last year, during a discussion on increasing the number of African Americans in Major League Baseball, Angel’s centerfielder Torii Hunter in a USA Today interview called the dark-skinned Latino baseball players “imposters” and said they are not…

  • Racist Tendencies Common in Too Many Tribes

    Racist Tendencies Common in Too Many Tribes Indian Country Today Media Network 2012-05-23 Cedric Sunray, MOWA Band of Choctaw Indians Alabama, USA Last month’s racially motivated killings in Oklahoma, perpetrated by Cherokee Indian Jake England and his white roommate against members of North Tulsa’s black community, once again bring to light the prejudicial tendencies held…

  • Representing the Race: The Creation of the Civil Rights Lawyer

    Representing the Race: The Creation of the Civil Rights Lawyer Harvard University Press April 2012 352 pages 6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches; 20 halftones Hardcover ISBN: 9780674046870 Kenneth W. Mack, Professor of Law Harvard University ” Representing the Race tells the story of an enduring paradox of American race relations, through the prism of a collective…

  • Feeling Is Believing: Why Obama’s Hair Matters

    Feeling Is Believing: Why Obama’s Hair Matters Racialicious 2012-05-30 Danielle Fuentes Morgan It’s a question President Obama has undoubtedly been asked before. It’s almost a universal African American experience, except this time it was asked under different circumstances and for a different reason. “Can I touch your hair?” The photo of this moment, three-years-old at…

  • Cape Verdean identity in a land of Black and White

    Cape Verdean identity in a land of Black and White Ethnicities Volume 12, Number 3 pages 354-379 DOI: 10.1177/1468796811419599 Gene A. Fisher, Professor Emerita of Sociology University of Massachusetts, Amherst Suzanne Model, Professor Emerita of Sociology University of Massachusetts, Amherst Cape Verde is an island group off the African coast with a history of slavery.…

  • Jared Sexton, Amalgamation Schemes: Antiblackness and the Critique of Multiracialism [Comer Review]

    Jared Sexton, Amalgamation Schemes: Antiblackness and the Critique of Multiracialism [Comer Review] Black Diaspora Review Volume 3, Number 1 (2012) pages 52-53 Nandi Comer Indiana University, Bloomington Amalgamation Schemes: Antiblackness and the Critique of Multiracialism. By Jared Sexton. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2008. 345 pp. “It’s proud to be able to say that… The…

  • Barack Obama’s Dreams from My Father and African American Literature

    Barack Obama’s Dreams from My Father and African American Literature European Journal of American Studies 1, 2011, Varia Document 6 DOI: 10.4000/ejas.9232 Daniel Stein Georg-August-Universität Göttingen This article provides a series of close readings of Barack Obama’s autobiography Dreams from My Father. It places the narrative within the history of African American literature and rhetoric…

  • University of Missouri Press to Shut Down in July

    University of Missouri Press to Shut Down in July Riverfront Times St. Louis, Missouri 2012-05-25 Aimee Levitt The Post-Dispatch was not the only publishing institution in Missouri to have a bad week. Yesterday morning, Tim Wolfe, the president of the University of Missouri system, announced plans to shut down the University of Missouri Press.  The…