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  • Panel discusses race, identity

    Panel discusses race, identity Indiana Daily Student 2009-11-06 Therese Kennelly Graduate student Fileve Palmer said though her parents always talked about their diverse backgrounds with her, she still struggled to find a way to relay her identity to others. She struggled throughout her life to retain her African-American identity, while society viewed her as Puerto…

  • Political partisanship influences perception of biracial candidates’ skin tone

    Political partisanship influences perception of biracial candidates’ skin tone Proceedings of the National Acadamy of Sciences Volume 106, Number 48 (2009-12-01) pages 20168-20173 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0905362106 Eugene M. Caruso, Assistant Professor of Behavioral Science Booth School of Business, University of Chicago Nicole L. Mead, Researcher Tilburg Institute for Behavioral Economics Research Tilburg University, The Netherlands Emily…

  • BEYOND ‘OTHER’: A special report.;More Than Identity Rides On a New Racial Category

    BEYOND ‘OTHER’: A special report.;More Than Identity Rides On a New Racial Category The New York Times 1996-07-06 Linda Mathews Edward Cooper, a Portland, Ore., businessman, is black. His wife and business partner, Barbara McIntyre, is white. Their 12-year-old son, Ethan McCooper, is, like his name, a blend of his parents, and harder to classify.…

  • Immigration’s Racial Complexity

    Immigration’s Racial Complexity The Washington Post Political Bookworm: Where tomorrow’s must-read political books are discovered today 2010-07-09 Steven E. Levingston Will today’s Latino and Asian immigrants become incorporated into American society like their European predecessors? Or will race remain a stumbling block to full assimilation? Jennifer Lee and Frank Bean explore these questions in their…

  • Sociologist links poverty and employment to racial identity

    Sociologist links poverty and employment to racial identity University of California, Irvine 2009-01-05 Laura Rico, University Communications Andrew Penner studies how social status shapes ethnicity Andrew Penner studies how perception of race can change, depending on one’s social status.Losing your job or doing jail time can affect how people perceive your racial background, according to…

  • How Social Status Shapes Race

    How Social Status Shapes Race Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Volume 105, Number 50 (2008-12-16) pages 19628-19630 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0805762105 Andrew M. Penner, Associate Professor of Sociology University of California, Irvine Aliya Saperstein, Assistant Professor of Sociology Stanford University Edited by Michael Hout, Professor of Sociology University of California, Berkeley We show that racial perceptions…

  • One Drop of Blood

    One Drop of Blood The New Yorker 1994-07-24 Lawrence Wright, Staff Writer Washington in the millennial years is a city of warring racial and ethnic groups fighting for recognition, protection, and entitlements. This war has been fought throughout the second half of the twentieth century largely by black Americans. How much this contest has widened,…

  • White Negro Communities: Too White To Be Black And Too Black To Be White

    White Negro Communities: Too White To Be Black And Too Black To Be White Johnathon Odell: Discovering Our Stories 2010-07-25 John Odell Yvonne Bivins had to make a choice very few Americans have forced upon them.  She could live as a black woman or a white woman. Yvonne’s ancestry is enmeshed with the Knights of…

  • “A Fascinating Interracial Experiment Station”: Remapping the Orient-Occident Divide in Hawai’i

    “A Fascinating Interracial Experiment Station”: Remapping the Orient-Occident Divide in Hawai’i American Studies Volume 49, Number 3/4, Fall/Winter 2008 pages 87-109 E-ISSN: 2153-6856 Print ISSN: 0026-3079 Shelley Sang-Hee Lee, Assistant Professor of Comparative American Studies and History Oberlin College Rick Baldoz, Visiting Assistant Professor of Sociology Oberlin College Introduction During the 1920s and 1930s, American…

  • Family Matters in the Fiction of Charles W. Chesnutt

    Family Matters in the Fiction of Charles W. Chesnutt The Southern Literary Journal Volume 33, Number 2, Spring 2001 pages 30-43 E-ISSN: 1534-1461 Print ISSN: 0038-4291 DOI: 10.1353/slj.2001.0012 William M. Ramsey, Professor of English Francis Marion University Writing fiction one hundred years ago, Charles W. Chesnutt believed that America’s racial future was best embodied in…