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  • Affirmative action backed in largely black Brazil

    Affirmative action backed in largely black Brazil Associated Press 2012-05-04 Bradley Brooks SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil’s top court has backed sweeping affirmative action programs used in more than 1,000 universities across this nation, which has more blacks than any country outside Africa yet where a severe gap in education equality between races persists. The…

  • 4 Years Later, Race Is Still Issue for Some Voters

    4 Years Later, Race Is Still Issue for Some Voters The New York Times 2012-05-03 Sabrina Tavernise STEUBENVILLE, Ohio — This is the land of die-hard Democrats — mill workers, coal miners and union members. They have voted party line for generations, forming a reliable constituency for just about any Democrat who decides to run…

  • The Historiography of Métis Land Dispersal, 1870-1890

    The Historiography of Métis Land Dispersal, 1870-1890 Manitoba History Number 30, Autumn 1995 Brad Milne History Department University of Manitoba The Manitoba Act of 1870 provided substantial land grants to the Métis at Red River. Section 31 set aside 1.4 million acres of land for distribution among the children of Métis heads of families residing…

  • The Forgotten Diaspora

    The Forgotten Diaspora The Official Gateway to Scotland 2008 Geoff Palmer, Professor Emeritus in the School of Life Sciences Heriot-Watt University I was born in Jamaica in 1940, the largest British island in the Caribbean. I emigrated to London in 1955 to join my mother and earn a living. She had emigrated in 1948. In…

  • Through a Glass Darkly: The Persistence of Race in Education Research & Scholarship

    Through a Glass Darkly: The Persistence of Race in Education Research & Scholarship Educational Researcher Volume 41, Number 4 (May 2012) Pages 115-120 DOI: 10.3102/0013189X12440743 Gloria Ladson-Billings, Professor of Curriculum and Instruction and Educational Policy Studies University of Wisconsin, Madison Although education researchers understand that race is a problematic concept of spurious value, the concept…

  • A Classic Study of the History of Caribbean Women

    A Classic Study of the History of Caribbean Women H-Caribbean Reviews, H-Net Reviews December 2008 Barbara Bush Lucille Mathurin Mair. A Historical Study of Women in Jamaica, 1655-1844. Kingston: University of the West Indies Press, 2006. 496 pp. $60.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-976-640-166-5; (paper), ISBN 978-976-640-178-8. I first encountered Lucille Mathurin Mair’s work during the 1970s…

  • Cultural Inversion and the One-Drop Rule: An Essay on Biology, Racial Classification, and the Rhetoric of Racial Transcendence

    In this article, my thesis is simple. If racial caste has been upended by changes in legal rules that created a hierarchical racial structure, its demise also has been hastened by the use of symbols, a strategy of cultural inversion with respect to the meaning of race.

  • BLACK, TRIGUEÑO, WHITE…? Shifting Racial Identification among Puerto Ricans

    BLACK, TRIGUEÑO, WHITE…? Shifting Racial Identification among Puerto Ricans Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race Volume 2, Issue 2 (2005) pages 267-285 DOI: 10.1017/S1742058X05050186 Carlos Vargas-Ramos, Research Associate Center for Puerto Rican Studies Hunter College, City University of New York The use of U.S.-oriented racial categories in the 2000 decennial census conducted by…

  • Authors Probe Roots of U.S. Far Right

    A bumper crop of works on influential early 20th century American racists, fascists and eugenicists has been hitting the bookshelves in 2009. Two of the most interesting are on Madison Grant (1865-1937), perhaps the most important conservationist of his time and so pernicious a racist and anti-Semite that he helped inspire Hitler’s policies, and Lawrence…

  • Brazil’s top court backs racial quotas in universities

    Brazil’s top court backs racial quotas in universities The Australian 2012-05-01 BRAZIL’s Supreme Court has ruled unanimously that racial quotas used in universities are constitutional and are meant to redress inequalities stemming from centuries of slavery. The ruling issued by the 10-member court concerned the case of the University of Brasilia which in 2004 set…