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Post-race? Nation, Inheritance and the Contradictory Performativity of Race in Barack Obama’s ‘A More Perfect Union’ Speech

2011-07-31

Post-race? Nation, Inheritance and the Contradictory Performativity of Race in Barack Obama’s ‘A More Perfect Union’ Speech thirdspace: a journal of feminist theory & culture Volume 10, Number 1 (2011) 18 pages Bridget Byrne, Senior Lecturer in Social Sciences University of Manchester This article takes the speech that Barack Obama made in his campaign for…
Does Gates DNA Data Make Black Indians an Urban Legend? Or Does Eating Out of the Same Pot Still Matter?

2011-07-31

Does Gates DNA Data Make Black Indians an Urban Legend? Or Does Eating Out of the Same Pot Still Matter? Indian Voices July/August 2011 page 7 Phil Wilkes Fixico I am Phil Wilkes Fixico a Seminole Maroon Descendant who was featured in the Smithsonian Institution’s book and exhibit entitled “IndiVisible” African-Native American Lives. My personal…
Identity Politics: The Ambiguity of Race and the “End of Racism”

2011-07-30

Identity Politics: The Ambiguity of Race and the “End of Racism” The Atlanta Post 2011-07-11 Ezinne Adibe Professor and author Kwasi Konadu discusses identity politics and what it means to be African One hundred years from now what weight will race and/or ethnicity have on our understanding of identity? Are we moving towards a society…
The Clamorgans: One Family’s History of Race in America [Review: Eubanks]

2011-07-30

The Clamorgans: One Family’s History of Race in America [Review: Eubanks] The Washington Independent Review of Books 2011-07-04 W. Ralph Eubanks, Director of Publishing at the Library of Congress Author of Ever Is a Long Time and The House at the End of the Road Julie Winch, The Clamorgans: One Family’s History of Race in…
The Influence of Race and Ethnicity on Substance Use and Negative Activity Involvement among Monoracial and Multiracial Adolescents of the Southwest

2011-07-30

The Influence of Race and Ethnicity on Substance Use and Negative Activity Involvement among Monoracial and Multiracial Adolescents of the Southwest Journal of Drug Education Volume 39, Number 2 (2009) Pages 195-210 Kelly Faye Jackson, Assistant Professor of Social Work Arizona State University, Phoenix Craig W. LeCroy, Professor of Social Work Arizona State University, Phoenix…
Identifying Interventions to Improve the Retention of Biracial Students: A Case Study

2011-07-30

Identifying Interventions to Improve the Retention of Biracial Students: A Case Study Journal of College Student Retention: Research, Theory and Practice Volume 5, Number 4 (2003-2004) pages 349-363 Nicole Sands Johnson & Wales University, Colorado John H. Schuh, Distinguished Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies Iowa State University Biracial students represent a growing number…
Racial Taxonomy in Genomics

2011-07-29

Racial Taxonomy in Genomics Social Science & Medicine Volume 73, Issue 7, October 2011 pages 1019–1027 DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2011.07.003 Catherine Bliss, Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Race and Science Studies Department of Africana Studies Brown University This article examines the reflexive, biosocial nature of genomic meaning making around race, drawing on discourse analysis of 732 articles…
Environmental Influences on the Development of Female College Students Who Identify as Multiracial/Biracial-Bisexual/Pansexual

2011-07-29

Environmental Influences on the Development of Female College Students Who Identify as Multiracial/Biracial-Bisexual/Pansexual Journal of College Student Development Volume 52, Number 4 (July/August 2011) pages 440-455 E-ISSN: 1543-3382 Print ISSN: 0897-5264 Alissa R. King, Instructor in Social Sciences Iowa Central Community College Using Renn’s (2000, 2004) ecology of college student development model as a theoretical…
Behavioral Health in Multiracial Adolescents: The Role of Hispanic/Latino Ethnicity

2011-07-29

Behavioral Health in Multiracial Adolescents: The Role of Hispanic/Latino Ethnicity Public Health Reports Volume 121 (March–April 2006) pages 169-174 Arthur L. Whaley Hogg Foundation for Mental Health University of Texas, Austin Kimberly Francis Hogg Foundation for Mental Health University of Texas, Austin SYNOPSIS Objectives. The purpose of the present study was twofold: (1) to determine…
Talking About Brazil with Lilia Schwarcz

2011-07-27

Talking About Brazil with Lilia Schwarcz The New York Review of Books 2010-08-17 Robert Darnton, Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor of History Harvard University On a recent trip to Brazil, I struck up a conversation with Lilia Moritz Schwarcz, one of Brazil’s finest historians and anthropologists. The talk turned to the two subjects she has…

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