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  • Foucault, Bakhtin, Ethnomethodology: Accounting for Hybridity in Talk-in-Interaction

    Foucault, Bakhtin, Ethnomethodology: Accounting for Hybridity in Talk-in-Interaction Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung / Forum: Qualitative Social Research Volume 8, Number 2, Article 10 May 2007 18 pages Shirley Anne Tate, Senior Lecturer and Director of Studies Centre for Interdisciplinary Gender Studies University of Leeds Theorising hybridity within Postcolonial Studies is often done at a level which…

  • Racism and skin colour: the many shades of prejudice

    Racism and skin colour: the many shades of prejudice The Guardian 2011-10-04 Bim Adewunmi Deeply entrenched attitudes towards colour, and the increasing promotion of skin-lightening products, are placing a ‘horrible burden’ on dark-skinned women Next week, at the international black film festival in Nashville, Bill Duke and D Channsin Berry will premiere their new documentary,…

  • Were the riots about race?

    Were the riots about race? The Guardian 2011-12-08 Reading the Riots: Investigating England’s summer of disorder In partnership with the London School of Economics Supported by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation and the Open Society Foundations Hugh Muir, Diary Editor Yemisi Adegoke, Freelance Journalist Some commentators were quick to call them ‘race riots’, but the true…

  • Born Along the Racial Fault Line

    Born Along the Racial Fault Line The New York Times 2011-11-06 Janet Maslin My Long Trip Home: A Family Memoir By Mark Whitaker. Illustrated. 357 pages. Simon & Schuster. As a social studies major in his junior year at Harvard, Mark Whitaker attended a debate on the subject of ethnicity. One participant was the chairman…

  • Obama and the complexities of identity

    Obama and the complexities of identity The San Diego Union-Tribune 2008-06-19 Bey-Ling Sha, Professor of Journalism and Media Studies San Diego State University In a recent commentary titled “What He Overcame,” Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson described Barack Obama as a “young, black, first-term senator.” In her campaign-suspension speech, Hillary Clinton said, “Could an African-American…

  • Race Mixture and Physical Disharmonies

    Race Mixture and Physical Disharmonies Science Magazine Volume 71, Number 1850 (1930-06-13) pages 603-606 DOI: 10.1126/science.71.1850.603 W. E. Castle (1867-1962) Bussey Institution, Harvard Professor H. S. Jennings in his recent book on “The Biological Basis of Human Nature” devotes a chapter to the subject of race mixture and its consequences. Considering first the purely physical…

  • Psychology Major Publishes Analysis of Racial Dynamics in the Wizarding World

    Psychology Major Publishes Analysis of Racial Dynamics in the Wizarding World James Madison University, Harrisonburg, Virginia Department of Psychology 2011-10-20 Jordan Pye When a fan asked her about the political allegories in her book series, Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling said, “I wanted Harry to leave our world and find exactly the same problems in…

  • Results of Inbreeding on Norfolk Island

    Results of Inbreeding on Norfolk Island Science  Magazine Volume 65, Number 1693 (1927-06-10) page x DOI: 10.1126/science.65.1693.0x-s Providing the original stock is sound, inbreeding among human beings results in no deterioration, physical or mental. Nor does mixture of widely differing races produce an inferior type.  Such are the conclusions of Dr. Harry L. Shapiro, ethnologist…

  • Race as a Social Construct in Head and Neck Cancer Outcomes

    Race as a Social Construct in Head and Neck Cancer Outcomes Otolaryngology—Head Neck Surgery Volume 144, Number 3 (March 2011) pages 381-389 DOI: 10.1177/0194599810393884 Maria J. Worsham, PhD Department of Otolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, Michigan George Divine, PhD Biostatistics and Research Epidemiology Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, Michigan Rick A.…

  • Living the Multiracial Experience: Shifting Racial Expressions, Resisting Race, and Seeking Community

    Living the Multiracial Experience: Shifting Racial Expressions, Resisting Race, and Seeking Community Qualitative Social Work Volume 11, Number 1 (January 2012) pages 42-60 DOI: 10.1177/1473325010375646 Kelly Faye Jackson, Assistant Professor of Social Work Arizona State University The growing presence and visibility of mixed race persons in the US demands that social workers critically examine and…