Category: Articles

  • Half and Half The Cornell Daily Sun Ithaca, New York 2012-03-28 Rebecca Lee Just about the only thing I am looking forward to about graduation is finally being able to meet all of my best friends’ parents.  In high school, we knew our friends’ parents almost as well as our own, calling them by their…

  • Facts of Blackness: Brazil is not Quite the United States… and Racial Politics in Brazil? Social Identities: Journal for the Study of Race, Nation and Culture Volume 4, Issue 2, 1998 pages 201-234 DOI: 10.1080/13504639851807 Denise Ferreira Da Silva, Professor in Ethics Queen Mary University of London Studies of racial subordination in Brazil usually stress…

  • From blanqueamiento to reindigenización: Paradoxes of mestizaje and multiculturalism in contemporary Colombia European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies Number 80, (April 2006) Constructing Ethnic Labels pages 5-23 Margarita Chaves, Researcher Instituto Colombiano de Antropología e Historia (ICANH), Bogotá Marta Zambrano, Associate Professor of Historical Anthropology Universidad Nacional Colombia, Bogotá During the past two…

  • Colonial Peru, the Caste System, and the “Purity” of Blood South Americana: The History and Culture of the World’s Most Exotic Continent 2012-03-20 David Gaughran It was the Spaniards who gave the world the notion that an aristocrat’s blood is not red but blue. The Spanish nobility started taking shape around the ninth century in…

  • The Prophetic Voice and the Face of the Other in Barack Obama’s “A More Perfect Union” Address, March 18, 2008 Rhetoric & Public Affairs Volume 12, Number 2, Summer 2009 pp. 167-194 DOI: 10.1353/rap.0.0101 David A. Frank, Professor of Rhetoric Robert D. Clark Honors College University of Oregon Barack Obama’s address of March 18, 2008,…

  • The Race of a More Perfect Union: James Baldwin, Segregated Memory and the Presidential Race Theory & Event Volume 15, Issue 1 (March 2012) DOI: 10.1353/tae.2012.0010 P.J. Brendese, Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science Haverford College The 2008 U.S. presidential race dramatized the connection between America’s segregated memory and its segregated polity. This essay makes…

  • Daniel Sharfstein wins 2012 J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize Vanderbilt Law School News Vanderbilt University 2012-03-16 Daniel Sharfstein, associate professor of law, has won the 2012 J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize for his sensitive account of the fine line people of mixed race have tread in the United States since the nation’s beginning, The Invisible…

  • “Teachable Moments”: The Use of Child-Centered Arguments in the Same-Sex Marriage Debate California Law Review Volume 98, Issue 1 (February 2010) pages 121-158 Ruth Butterfield Isaacson, Associate Leland, Parachini, Steinberg, Matzger & Melnick LLP, San Francisco Child-centered arguments have played a central role in debates over expanding marriage rights throughout history. Opponents of interracial marriage…

  • Why race still matters Dædalus Volume 134, Number 1 (Winter 2005) Pages 102-116 DOI: 10.1162/0011526053124460 Ian Hacking, Professor of Philosphy University of Toronto Why has race mattered in so many times and places? Why does it still matter? Put more precisely, why has there been such a pervasive tendency to apply the category of race…

  • Black people ‘least satisfied of UK population’ BBC News 2012-02-28 Black and mixed-ethnic Britons are less satisfied with their lives on average than the UK population as a whole, a survey suggests. Some 80,000 people across the UK, polled by the Office for National Statistics, produced an average life satisfaction rating of 7.4 out of…